Dialogue - eNewsletter of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (April 2025)

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eNewsletter of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

April 2025

Introducing the 2025 Storytellers Challenge finalists

From over 160 high-quality submissions, SSHRC is pleased to introduce the finalists for the 2025 Storytellers Challenge. Each of our finalists is conveying social sciences and humanities research in their own innovative way to describe how it transforms the lives of Canadians and people around the world for the better.

HEADLINE NEWS

The latest from SSHRC and its partners

Call for First Nations, Inuit and Métis participants in Compliance Oversight Committee

Canada’s three federal research funding agencies are inviting First Nations, Inuit and Métis individuals to join the Compliance Oversight Committee to support the Tri-Agency Policy on Indigenous Citizenship and Membership Affirmation.

In Conversation With Jean-Marc Narbonne

Watch the latest edition of In Conversation With, organized in partnership with The Conversation Canada. Titled “Democracy’s Challenge Across Time,” this event features Jean-Marc Narbonne, winner of SSHRC’s 2024 Impact Award Gold Medal. Narbonne is professor of philosophy and Canada Research Chair in Critical Antiquity and Emerging Modernity at Université Laval.

SSHRC to sponsor Big Thinking lecture at Congress 2025 to help shape an equitable future with artificial intelligence

Collaborative, inclusive approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are at the forefront of an upcoming Big Thinking lecture at Congress, sponsored by SSHRC. Taking place on June 1, this event will address practices for inclusive learning and more in a world using AI. We hope to see you there!

FUNDING FOCUS

Application deadlines, program updates, application tips and more

Upcoming deadlines—get your applications in now

Competitions close soon for:

Compliance Oversight Committee (April 22, 2025)

Connection Grants (May 1, 2025)

Destination Horizon Grants (May 22, 2025)

2026 Canada Excellence Research Chairs competition (March 18, 2026)

See Upcoming Deadlines.

Funding tip of the month: Merit review—the heart of SSHRC’s research funding system

A robust merit review process is key to SSHRC’s mission, forming the heart of our granting process. SSHRC reviewers complete training to help eliminate unconscious bias, with clearly defined principles and roles to help ensure fair and accurate recommendations. SSHRC is constantly seeking reviewers who represent the diversity in the social sciences and humanities research community. Find out more and get involved!

Spotlight

Featured stories and articles

Canada leading the way in gender and sexuality research

Three Canada 150 Research Chairs are combining their expertise on the scientific, political and social implications of sex and gender to create safer, more inclusive ways to conceptualize, measure and explore people’s experience of gender and sexuality. Sari van Anders, Judith Mank and Shireen Hassim are taking a holistic approach, examining the impact actions and stimuli have on gender development, and the many, many ways to be male or female, both in humans and in broader nature.

Canada 150 Research Chairs Program brings cutting-edge research talent home

Having built impressive research resumés spanning Europe and the United States, Jennifer Welsh, Canada 150 Research Chair (C150) in Global Governance and Security at McGill University, and Azim Shariff, C150 in Moral Psychology at The University of British Columbia, are just two of the Canadian researchers who’ve brought their ambitions and engaging approaches to the social sciences home as part of the C150 program. Each has had a profound impact, with Welsh establishing McGill’s new Max Bell School of Public Policy, and Shariff establishing the Centre for Applied Moral Psychology.