SPARC is offering the following resources to researchers submitting applications to the September 15, 2012 CIHR Operating Grant and New Investigator Salary Award competitions:
- Operating Grant Information Session
- New Investigator Salary Award Workshop
- Internal Review
Please see below for full details, and feel free to share this email with interested colleagues. My apologies for any duplication.
Cheers,
Christy
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1. CIHR Operating Grant Information Session
When: Thursday, May 24 from 9 A.M. to 12 P.M.
Where: UBC Point Grey campus (location TBD)
Who: UBC faculty preparing new grants, resubmissions or renewals for the September 15 competition – new faculty, new-to-CIHR faculty (e.g., SSHRC researchers considering a migration to CIHR) and faculty interested in a CIHR refresher – as well as grant facilitators, grant writers and other research support staff
To register: http://research.ubc.ca/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=61
Co-hosted with the Faculty of Medicine
2. CIHR New Investigator Salary Award Workshop
When: Tuesday, May 29 from 9 A.M. to 12 P.M.
Where: UBC Point Grey campus (location TBD)
Who: UBC faculty preparing new applications or resubmissions for the September 15 competition
To register: http://research.ubc.ca/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=62
3. SPARC Internal Review (IR)
IR Registration Deadline: Monday, July 23, 2012
- Submit IR application form (attached or you can download it at http://research.ubc.ca/sparc/internal-review-forms) and one-page research summary to christy.mctait@ubc.ca (or sparc.ir@ubc.ca).
IR Submission Deadline: Monday, August 13, 2012
- Summary of Research Proposal: 1 full page
- Research Proposal: 11 or 13 pages
- Summary of Progress: 1 full page
- For Resubmissions only:
- Response to Reviews: 2 full pages
- CIHR Reviews, plus including score and rank details
The onus is on the researcher to register and submit all of the required documents by the deadlines outlined above. Researchers who fail to meet the requirements may be ineligible to receive IR.
Why is SPARC getting strict on IR deadlines and requirements?
- To enhance quality of service for researchers who are able to meet our requirements;
- To focus our energies, as well as those of our generous internal reviewers, where the impact will be greatest (e.g., new faculty submissions and highly ranked resubmissions); and
- To manage limited resources in a realistic, transparent and sustainable way.
Complementary Services
For Faculty of Medicine (FoM) Grant Development (GD), please contact:
- UBC, Point Grey: Elizabeth Cheu
Tel: 604-822-2327 Email: echeu@medd.med.ubc.ca
- SPARC IR and FoM GD deadlines are the same.
Grant Development – CFRI only
CFRI applicants should contact the Research & Technology Development Office as soon as possible to discuss proposal development/review and deadlines. Contacts include:
- Dr. Dawn McArthur, Head, Research & Technology Development; dmcarthur@cfri.ca
- Dr. Tamara English, Senior Research Development Facilitator; tenglish@cfri.ca
