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Social Sciences and HumanitiesResearch Council of Canada

Conseil de recherches ensciences humaines du Canada

Building Talent / Cultiver le talent

CAGS / ACES 4 nov 2013

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SSHRC News / Nouvelles du CRSH

• Impact Awards / Prix Impacts• Storytellers / J’ai une histoire à raconter• Future Challenge Areas /

Domaines des défis de demain• Digging into Data /

Au coeur des données numériques• Digital scholarship / La recherche numérique• Aboriginal Research / Recherche autochtone

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Current Talent projects

• Postdocs

• Guidelines for Effective Research Training / Directives à la formation en rechereche

• Partnered Research Training /Partenariat de formation en recherche

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Strategic dimensions / Volets stratégiques

• Collaboration builds Talent /

Talent par la voie de collaboration

• The Impact of Talent / L’impact du Talent

• Cross-border Talent / Talent transfrontière

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Collaboration builds Talent / Talent par la voie de collaboration:

“SSHRC must work in close collaboration with research institutions and other organizations that have a stake in the future of Canada’s higher education and innovation system.”

SSHRC’s Strategic Plan for 2013-16

Plan stratégique du CRSH pour 2013-2016

« Le CRSH doit travailler de concert avec les établissements de recherche et les autres organisations qui sont concernés par l’évolution des systèmes canadiens d’éducation supérieure et d’innovation. »

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Collaboration builds Talent / Talent par la voie de collaboration:

among federal granting agencies / parmi les organismes subventionnaires fédéraux

with universities

avec les chercheurs

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SSHRC Grants & Scholarships / Subventions et bourses du CRSH, 2012-13

51% Talent

39% Insight / Savoir

10% Connection / Connexion

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Collaboration builds Talent / Talent par la voie de collaboration:

In-kind contributions to Talent

In 2012:• 153 committee members read av. 60 apps each• 80 universities co-deliver, minimum of 4

employees each = 320 staff• 6,093 Doc & MA apps evaluated by universities =

243 committee members• assessment reports from university profs =

22,855

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Collaboration builds Talent / Talent par la voie de collaboration:

Changes to SSHRC postdoc programming

In place:• Worth $40,500 annually• Apply up to 2 years after completion of a PhD• Previous postdoc recipients ineligible• evaluation criteria grouped under Challenge,

Feasibility, Capability

Being discussed:• Research training plans• Co-delivery with universities

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CAPS-SSHRC collaboration

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CAPS-SSHRC collaboration

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CAPS-SSHRC collaboration

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Collaboration builds Talent / Talent par la voie de collaboration:

Guidelines for Effective Research Training

1. Build both academic (research and teaching) competencies and general professional skills, including knowledge mobilization, transferable to a variety of professional settings

2. Include international opportunities when possible and applicable

3. Include specified and effective mentoring and institutional support

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The Impact of Talent / L’impact du Talent:

“Knowledge and understanding about human thought and behaviour are critical to helping Canada and the world address current and future challenges. “

SSHRC’s Strategic Plan for 2013-16

Plan stratégique du CRSH pour 2013-2016

« Le CRSH a un rôle important à jouer pour aider le Canada et le reste du monde à surmonter les défis d’aujourd’hui et de demain. »

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2013 Talent Award Winner Hadley FriedlandUniversity of Alberta

“Friedland’s master’s thesis, which explores how Wetiko legal principles might apply today to child victimization and intimate violence in aboriginal communities, is already required course reading…”

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SSHRC Impact Awards / Prix Impacts du CRSH

• Gold Medal / Medaille d’or ($100,000)• Talent Award / Prix Talent ($50,000)• Insight Award / Prix Savoir ($50,000)• Connection Award / Prix Connexion ($50,000)• Partnership Award / Prix Partenariat ($50,000)

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SSHRC Impact Awards / Prix Impacts du CRSH

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The Impact of Talent / L’impact du Talent:

Dr Darrell Bricker

Then / Au commencement: SSHRC Doctoral Fellow Political ScienceCarleton University

Now / Maintentant: CEO, Ipsos Public Affairs

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Dr Virginie SoulierCommunication socialeTrois-Rivières

Dr Kate CairnsSociologyU of T

Alice Wilson Awards 2013 / La Bourse Alice Wilson 2013 Royal Society / La Société royale

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The Impact of Talent / L’impact du Talent:

Date: 15 jan 2014

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The Impact of Talent / L’impact du Talent:Future Challenge Areas / Domaines des défis de demain

1. Learning, higher education /

Apprentissage, enseignement supérieure

2. Energy & natural resources /

Ressources naturelles et d’énergie

3. Aboriginal Peoples / Peuples autochtones

4. Global peak population /

Population mondiale maximale

5. Emerging technologies / Nouvelles technologies

6. Interconnected global landscape /

Un monde interconnecté

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Cross-border Talent / Talent transfrontière:

“SSHRC must be responsive to the changing research enterprise and the changing context for research.”

SSHRC’s Strategic Plan for 2013-16

Plan stratégique du CRSH pour 2013-2016

« CRSH doit s’adapter aux changements qui concernent la recherche et l’environnement de recherche. »

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Cross-border Talent / Talent transfrontière:

“ Learning to lead and manage across boundaries:

• Cross-campus• Cross-sector• Global engagement ”

- Chad Gaffield

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Cross-border Talent / Talent transfrontière:

Digital scholarship / La recherche numérique

• Capitalizing on Big Data: Toward a Policy Framework for Advancing Digital Scholarship in Canada

• SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR, CFI, Genome Canada

• Comments by Dec 16 2013

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Cross-border Talent / Talent transfrontière:

Partnered Research Training /Partenariat de formation en recherche

• Assess relative value of indirect support• Up to 2.5 mil, 4-7 yrs• Broad partnerships • Training across academic and non-academic

settings• $1.9 million p.a. earmarked first few years• $20K LOI (Feb 15 2014)

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Cross-border Talent / Talent transfrontière:

Digging into Data / Au coeur des données numériques

• Canada, Netherlands, UK, US

• how "big data" changes the research landscape for the humanities and social sciences

• social sciences, humanities, library, archival, information, computer, mathematical, and statistical science communities on large-scale data analysis and its potential applications

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Cross-border Talent / Talent transfrontière:

Aboriginal Research / Rechereche autochtone

“Aboriginal research builds on traditions of thought and experience developed among, and in partnership with, First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples in Canada, as well as indigenous peoples in other parts of the world.”

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Going forward / Aller de l’avant

• Planning outside [ & still inside ] the box

• Compétences transportables

• Cross-border engagement /

Engagement transfrontalière

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Going forward / Aller de l’avant

• Planning outside [ & still inside ] the box

• Compétences transportables

• Cross-border engagement /

Engagement transfrontalier