In March 2021, Canada’s federal granting agencies — the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) — launched the Tri-Agency Research Data Management (RDM) Policy. One of the policy requirements is that applicants to certain funding…
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Peer review, despite its flaws, is one of the most important pillars of the scientific process. So preprint servers, which make scientific papers that have yet to be reviewed or published available online, have been slow to catch on in many fields. But then came the pandemic. “COVID changed everything,” says Jim Handman, executive director…
Four experts will address the question “What does social justice mean for you today, and how can research help advance it to forge the future you want?” They will share their knowledge in climate activism, social justice learning, queer and gender difference, and health and wellbeing. Join us from 3 to 4:30 p.m. EDT on May 16 Register today for a #PromisingFutureNow We…
As Ukrainian universities resume online teaching, experts say longer-term solutions must avoid brain drain and look to post-war recovery Help for Ukrainian students and academics should also support the reconstruction of the higher education system when hostilities cease, university leaders said. Ukrainian universities are switching focus from the survival of staff and students to the…
The Canada Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) is pleased to announce the members of the Indigenous Leadership Circle in Research (Leadership Circle). This group will advise the presidents of Canada’s three federal research funding agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council—and the Canada Foundation…
Commitments for reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people have been getting more attention since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its final report in 2015. The commission documented testimony from over 6,500 residential school survivors and their families – capturing a picture of the trauma and harm those schools inflicted, and the enduring legacy…
Universities are reacting to the invasion in a range of ways, and some could affect the study of Russia and Ukraine for both scholars and students. The Kremlin’s war on Ukraine has evoked such strong reaction in Canadian academia that scholars may remove the word “Russian” from at least one program title. That’s just one…
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Higher Ed are Ramping Up Targeted Hiring
June 3rd, 2022University job postings seldom get noticed by the public. But this spring, Quebec politicians, the National Post and even Fox News took umbrage at advertisements for Canada Research Chair (CRC) positions at Université Laval, the University of Toronto and others that stipulated only women, visible minorities, Indigenous people and people with disabilities should apply. A Queen’s University posting for an engineering chair…