Special Events

R11(b) - 2025 CPSA Panel: Inside the Black Box of SSHRC Grant Applications - The SSHRC IG & IDG: Perspectives from the Political Science & Public Administration Panel

Date: Jun 4 | Time: 10:15am to 11:45am | Location:

SSHRC applications can feel to applicants like a lottery, a popularity contest, or a black box with unknown internal mechanisms. Peer reviewers, however, don't tend to have the same perception. This panel brings together a freelance grants editor with former IG and IDG peer reviewers from the Political Science and Public Administration panel who will share their experiences, perceptions, and expectations. At Tri-Council, the different disciplinary panels tend to have distinct expectations and cultures, even when the evaluation criteria are consistent across a competition: a reviewer in the fine arts or the business and management committee will have different expectations for the applications they read than will a political science reviewer. So, do political science and public admin researchers need to develop innovative public-facing knowledge mobilization plans? Should we all become podcasters? And, does an application asking for a low dollar figure have a better chance of being funded than an application with a high budget ask? Is anyone reading that long list of references? Is writing about EDI important, given that it isn't part of the evaluation criteria? Bring your questions for this Q-and-A session about SSHRC's major research project funding programs, as the bulk of the time in this panel will be dedicated to answering questions from the room.

Participants:
Isabelle Côté (2025 Programme Committee Co-Chair - Memorial University)
Letitia Henville (Writing Short is Hard)
Mireille Paquet (Concordia University)
Erin Tolley (Carleton University)