Internal Grants
STM supports its researchers by offering the following internal grants:
The Seed Grant provides support for faculty in the development of new research projects that are intended to be submitted for funding by external granting agencies (e.g., Tri-Agency funding); it can also provide assistance to faculty in research projects likely to result in publication, but which do not lend themselves to requests for major funding grants, including conference presentations.
Award Amount: up to $2,000
The DARA grant supports faculty research within STM’s distinctive program areas, which include Catholic Studies; Social Justice and the Common Good; Peace Studies; Ukrainian Studies; Philosophy; Religion and Culture; Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies; and Community Service Learning.
Award Amount: up to $2,000
The purpose of the Research Grant is two-fold: 1) to encourage faculty to apply for external research funding by offering funds for applications that have been underfunded or denied funding; 2) to support larger projects that are beyond the extent of the Seed/DARA Grants but don’t lend themselves to external funding.
Award Amount: up to $5,000
STM offers two grants to offset the costs associated with publications:
Article Preparation Fund
Prior to submission, modest grants are awarded to cover costs related to the preparation of a peer-reviewed book/monograph manuscript, journal article, or book chapter for publication.
Award Amount: up to $2,000
Article Subvention Fund
In order to be eligible in this category you must have confirmation from the publisher that the work has been accepted for publication. The committee will consider applications to this fund to assist with publication costs for books, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other scholarly and creative works. The criteria for each of these categories are detailed in the application for the fund.
Award Amount: up to $5,000
External Grants
SSHRC
The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) promotes and supports postsecondary-based research and research training in the humanities and social sciences. It offers funding through three programs: Talent, Insight, and Connection. View upcoming deadlines for SSHRC funding opportunities.
CIHR
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the Canadian federal funding agency that funds health research. It has numerous funding initiatives and programs that fund four pillars of health research: biomedical; clinical; health systems services; and population health. View current and future funding opportunities from CIHR.
NSERC
The Natural Science and Research Council of Canada (NSERC) supports university students in their advanced studies, promotes and supports discovery research, and fosters innovation by encouraging Canadian companies to participate and invest in postsecondary research projects. It provides funding to professors through its Discover, Innovate, and Research Tools and Instruments and Infrastructure programs.
New Frontiers in Research Fund
The New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) is a new Tri-Agency initiative that will invest $275 million over the next five years to fund international, interdisciplinary, fast-breaking and high-risk research. The NFRF funds three streams of research: Exploration, Transformation, and International. Exploration generates opportunities for Canada to build strength in high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research. Transformation provides large-scale support for Canada to build strength and leadership in interdisciplinary and transformative research. International enhances opportunities for Canadian researchers to participate in research with international partners.
SHRF
The Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (SHRF) funds projects in health research and innovation in Saskatchewan. Funding opportunities are posted throughout the year. View information on current and upcoming opportunities here.
Acfas – The Francophone Association for the Advancement of Sciences/Association francophone pour le savoir
Research Cooperation in the Canadian Francophonie Program/Programme de coopération en recherche dans la francophonie canadienne
This program aims to encourage research collaborations between two French-speaking researchers (or teams) from different provinces or from a province and a territory, by offering mobility grants of up to $5,000 per year. Research teams from all provinces and territories can be hosts, and researchers from New Brunswick, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Université de Saint-Boniface can be guest researchers. The current call for applications is open until September 10th, 2023.
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
From their website: “The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute is a binational organization that promotes understanding between India and Canada through academic activities and exchanges.” The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute offers a wide range of funding opportunities each year for students and faculty to partner with academic institutions in India.
Trudeau Foundation Fellowships
Each year the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation funds five fellowships for researchers and professors in the humanities and social sciences. They encourage applications from academics at all career levels, from ECR to established professors, who are innovative in their teaching and research, and have experience with community-based projects.
Expanded Reason Awards
The Expanded Reason Awards are offered annually by the University Francisco de Vitoria in collaboration with the Vatican Foundation Joseph Ratzinger – Benedict XVI. The awards “recognize and encourage innovation in scientific research and the academic programs of those professors or researchers who make a dialogue from their particular science with philosophy and/or theology.”
Fulbright Awards
Traditional Fulbright Awards are open to Canadian scholars in all fields. Fellowships of one semester or one year allow scholars at all career stages to conduct teaching and research at any university in the United States. Fulbright Canada particularly encourages applications from scholars working on contemporary issues relevant to Canada, the United States and the relationship between the two countries
Gerda Henkel Foundation
The Gerda Henkel Foundation concentrates its support on the historical humanities, mainly on history, archaeology, the history of art and other disciplines with a historical component. It offers research grants through the general research grant programme. For a number of years it has funded special programmes around issues of relevance to contemporary life and the future, including Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements; Lost Cities. Perception of and living with abandoned cities in the cultures of the world; and Democracy as Utopia, Experience and Threat.
Wellcome Foundation Open Research Fund
From their website: “This funding supports researchers to develop and test innovative ways of making health research open, accessible and reusable.” The Open Research Fund is open to teams of up to 6 health researchers from anywhere in the world and offers grants up to £50,000.
Bodleian Libraries
The Bodleian Libraries Visiting Fellows Programme offers several short-term fellowships. Some fellowships are open to any subject but there are others that focus on scholars working on subjects such as early modern history, Persian Arts of the Book, and music.
The Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. offers a large number of short and long-term fellowships. The collection at the Folger includes 60,000 manuscripts from the 15th-21st centuries; over 80,000 printed books from England and continental Europe between 1475-1800; and the Folger performance history collection, which houses playbills, promptbooks, films and recordings, and costumes and props from Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean productions.
Houghton Library Visiting Fellowships, Harvard University
Houghton Library Visiting Fellowships support scholars at all stages of their careers. The library particularly welcomes proposals that reexamine its collections through a global lens and/or demonstrate how the holdings of a rare book and manuscript library can contribute to discourse around contemporary social, political, and cultural issues. Fellows receive a $3,600 stipend and are expected to be in residence at Houghton for at least four weeks within their fellowship year (July through June), though these do not have to be consecutive weeks. Applications for the 2020-2021 academic year are due Friday, January 17, 2020.
The Huntington Library
The Huntington Library offers short and long-term fellowships for scholars who wish to use the library’s resources. The fellowships include awards for Early Career Researchers, non-tenure faculty and non-traditional scholars, and travel scholarships to partner libraries in the UK and Ireland. The Huntington’s collection strengths include medieval manuscripts, particularly Middle English literature, 18th- and 19th-century American history, Renaissance poetry, Victorian literature and the pre-Raphaelites, as well as Renaissance exploration and cartography.
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
The Kluge Center offers twelve fellowships each year for scholars to study for four-eleven months at the Library of Congress. The Fellowship is open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences with special consideration given to those whose projects demonstrate relevance to the challenges facing democracies in the 21st century. The Fellowship is open to scholars whose PhD was awarded within the past seven years. Applications are due July 15.
The Lewis Walpole Library
The Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University funds four-week visiting fellowships and two-week travel grants to support research in the Library’s rich collections of eighteenth-century materials (mainly British). The library is a research centre for eighteenth-century studies, particularly for the study of Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill. Its holdings include eighteenth-century British prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, paintings, and decorative arts. Applications for visiting fellowships open in the first week of November and are due in early January.
National Humanities Center
The National Humanities Center in North Carolina offers fellowships for advanced studies in the humanities. The Center offers open fellowships in any humanities discipline as well as fellowships for environmental studies, English literature, art history, Asian studies, theology, and for early-career female philosophers.
Newberry Library
The Newberry Library in Chicago offers short- and long-term fellowships for scholars whose work draws on the strengths of the library’s holdings. The Library's core collections include American history and culture; medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies; and religion. Applications are due in November and December each year. For more information about their general and topic-specific fellowships click here.
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Each spring the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscripts Studies at the University of Pennsylvania accepts applications for its short-term visiting research fellowships. Fellows will have access to the SIMS collection of pre-modern manuscripts, as well as the pre-modern manuscript collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and other special collections in the Philadelphia area.
Ethics
STM requires all research conducted by its faculty members to conform to the highest ethical standards.
Any research or study conducted at STM or undertaken by STM faculty that involve human subjects must be reviewed and approved by the USask Research Ethics Board (REB) before the research project commences. Further, all STM faculty must follow the USask Responsible Conduct of Research policy. For more information on ethics approval please see STM's Responsible Conduct of Research document.
Consistent with these requirements, faculty are advised to consult the following resources:
Indigenous Research
The following links are resources for researchers engaged in Indigenous Research. SSHRC defines Indigenous Research as:
Research in any field or discipline that is conducted by, grounded in or engaged with First Nations, Inuit, Métis or other Indigenous nations, communities, societies or individuals, and their wisdom, cultures, experiences or knowledge systems, as expressed in their dynamic forms, past and present. Indigenous research can embrace the intellectual, physical, emotional and/or spiritual dimensions of knowledge in creative and interconnected relationships with people, places and the natural environment.
All research involving Indigenous peoples must be undertaken in accordance with the second edition of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, and, in particular, Chapter 9: Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI)
The following guides and policies contain information on best practices for incorporating EDI considerations into grant applications and information on USask's policies for EDI.