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From Granting Council toKnowledge Council:
Renewing the social sciencesand humanities in Canada
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Part I:
Who We Are: Facts and Figures
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SSHRC’s Mandate
> Promote and support research and research training in the social sciences and humanities
> Provide advice to the Minister of Industry
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SSHRC’s ProgramsResearch Base> Standard Research Grants (SRG)
> Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI)
Targeted
> Initiative on the New Economy (INE)> Strategic Themes> Joint Initiatives> Research Development Initiatives (RDI)> Community-University Research
Alliances (CURA)
Research Communication
and Institutions
> Conferences and Congresses
> Research and Transfer Journals
> SSHRC Institutional Grants (SIG)
> Aid to Small Universities (ASU)
> Aid to Scholarly Publications
Training
> Doctoral Fellowships
> Postdoctoral Fellowships
> Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS)• Master’s component
• PhD component
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SSHRC’s Base Budget, 2003-04 = $197M*
*Excludes Canada Research Chairs program and Indirect costs program
Communications & Institutionals
6%
NCE$11.3MINE
$18.1M
Operational $16.4M
Strategic Areas & Innov. Funds
$19.0M
CGS$14.2M Research
Training$36.6M
Research Base $70.0M
$197M
35%
19%
7%
10%
9%
6% 8%
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SSHRC's grants and scholarships budget by program cluster 1999-2000 to 2003-2004
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10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
60,000
70,000
80,000
Research Base Research Training(Includes CGS)
Strategics(Includes INE)
Research Communications
InstitutionalSupport
1999 - 2000 2000 - 2001 2001 - 2002 2002 - 2003 2003 - 2004 $000
CGS
INE INE
INE
INE 2001-2002 INE 2002-2003 INE 2003-2004
CGS 2003-2004
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A huge peer review machinery:
> Over 3500 research submissions/year (not incl. fellowships)
> Over 3000 applications for Ph.D. support
> 500 applications for post-docs
> 9000 external assessors
> 40 adjudication committees
> 300 committee members
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A growing human sciences community:
> Faculty – There are 18,000 full-time social sciences and humanities faculty in more than 90 Canadian universities. 54% of all faculty is in the human sciences.
> Graduate students – 39,800 (or 58%) of all Canadian full-time graduate students are in the social sciences and humanities.
> Serious increase expected -- Consensus on rising university enrolment at all levels; number of faculty also growing tremendously (21,600 faculty needed just in human sciences).
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A varied human sciences community:
Proportion of full-time faculty in Proportion of full-time graduate students in SSHRC’s mandate, 2000-2001 SSHRC’s mandate, 1999-2000 100% (33,864) 54% (18,178 in SSH) 58% (39,800 in SSH)
Source: Statistics Canada – faculty and graduate students data.
3.8% Law
12.3% Commerce 28.8% Humanities
6.7% Fine Arts
14.4% Education
34.0% Social Sciences (excludes law and commerce)
1.9% Law
15.8% Education
22.9% Humanities
100% (68,628)
4.0% Fine Arts
20.2% Commerce
35.2% Social Sciences (excludes law and commerce)
SSH 54%
NSE 29%
Hlth 10%
NSE 32%
Hlth 17%
SSH 58%
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A community with varied interests:
Arts, Culture, Humanities: $17.0 -
23%
Environment (incl. Sustainability, Nat'l
Resources, Agriculture): $3.2 -
4%
Law, Justice, Security: $3.5 - 5%
Social Issues and Policy (Canadian Families, Health
Care, Housing): $9.8 - 13%
Education (incl. Life-Long and Language Learning, Literacy):
$16.0 - 22%
New Economy (incl Eco & Regional Development,
Innovation, Finance) $13.6 - 19%
Globalization (incl. Multiculturalism, Int'l Relations, Trade,
Politics and Governance): $10.0 -
14%
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Trends:
> Team work, networking
> Problem-oriented interdisciplinary research
> Partnerships with clients (communities,
governments)
> Greater involvement of students in research
> Development of collective tools
> Digitization: transforming how we do research
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Serving new communities:
> In last 5 years, SSHRC has opened up some programs to researchers in community and not-for-profit organizations.
> Very high demand for SSHRC’s program for research in fine arts disciplines.
> New joint initiatives developed and funded by SSHRC and other organizations (including government departments) in support of targeted research.
> New support for Aboriginal research agenda, with active participation of Aboriginal researchers and experts.
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What is SSHRC’s future?
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New world, New needs
Forces of change include:
> A radically new world
> A new research environment
> A new university landscape
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Huge demand for human sciences knowledge:
> Need to understand world trends
> Need to understand new problems (e.g. new economic disparities, governance and ethics challenges, socio-political, ethnic and cultural fault lines)
> Need for HS knowledge on every vital policy issue (e.g. restructuring of the labour force; sustainable development linguistic duality; First Nations).
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Huge pressures on SSHRC
> Applications to SSHRC’s key Standard Research Grants program rose 44% over last 5 years. This year’s growth is over 18%.
> SSHRC now supports around 25 per cent of faculty members in human sciences, up from 15 per cent five years ago.
> Recurring problem of projects that are approved but not funded; larger proportion of those in smaller universities.
> Growing demand for SSHRC to bridge with government.
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SSHRC’s core values:
> Research excellence
> Competitive funding
> Inclusiveness and openness
> Innovative continuity
> Accountability
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Transformation: reaching beyond
2 additional core values for SSHRC:
> Interactive engagement
> Maximum knowledge impact
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Sustained interactive connection: From this…
> geographically scattered research effort
> disciplinary silos
> disconnected from use
> fragmented knowledge-building
> Isolated research agendas
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Sustained interactive connection: To this…
> ongoing connections across geography, institutions, and sectors
> integrated across disciplines
> integrated with decision-making, policy and practice
> synergistic research agendas
> fully connected to the world
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Maximum knowledge impact: From happenstance…
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Maximum knowledge impact: To permanent interfaces…
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Key questions: Inventing new structures/programs/ approaches> “Confederations of learning”
> More formal Institutes
> Knowledge mobilization units in universities
> Web-facilitated communities of practice
> A clearinghouse for advanced expertise
> Exchange/mobility programs
> Enriched and connected post-secondary training environments
> A Human Sciences Foundation
> Scholarly-based journals for lay audiences
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Key questions: Improving current SSHRC programs
> Smaller “operating” grants to more people?
> Larger “research” grants to fewer people?
> Special support for young scholars?
> Promote greater relevance, synergy and impact of strategic grants?
> Different/new support for research communications?
> New or different support to institutions?
> Development of more collective tools for research?
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CURA
SSHRC Today
GraduateTrainingPh.D.
M.A.
Institutional Capacity-building
ResearchBase
Targeted
Research Communication
Initiative on the New Economy
Major Collaborative Research Initiatives
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Clearinghouse for expertise
Mobilityincentives
Knowledge mobilization
Confederations of Learning
Research support------------
Research training
Policy-relevant institutes
Institute on aboriginals
Institute on sustainable development
Institute on the new economy
SSHRC Tomorrow
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Questions for discussion
> Basic goals and values: To what extent does the new vision resonate with your sense of what Canada requires? How engage proactively?
> New programs and approaches: Advantages and disadvantages of proposed adaptive structures? Alternatives?
> Improving current programs: Reactions and priorities?
> Increasing linkages and knowledge flows outside universities: Best partners? Respective roles of SSHRC, universities, disciplines, NGOs, government departments…?
> Next steps: Which new structures first? And sequence and priorities thereafter?
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How did we get here?
> Phase I (Oct.-April 2003): decision to act
> Phase 2 (May-Sept. 2003): taking stock of political constraints
> Phase 3 (Oct.-Dec. 2003): SSHRC Council takes action
> Phase 4 (Jan. 2004): Deliberative consultation
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The transformation process:
> January: SSHRC meeting with campus representatives
> February-April: Consultation on university campuses and with partners
> March: National meeting – heads of scholarly associations
> June: Open meeting - Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
> Then… synthesis, Council discussion, over to the government
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Key messages
> A real consultation
> Not a zero-sum game
> Need external voices
> A culture change
> Speak with one voice
> We are building a success