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I'm also sorry for your disappointment. Given the date of your letter suggests that it is not of the same batch as the letter that are sent out after the adjudication. Better luck next year. A good thing about this for you SMF is that the budget for CIHR is almost double that of SSHRC so there is a lot more $$$ to go around. That is if you are into the silver lining thing.. If not i can only empathize and share your frustration (hugs).

p.s. no one else got a super duper secret amazing special letter yet....?

Hhahaha, i get the sense that regardless of whether we get a SSHRC or not we'll be celebrating being rid of the anxiety.

It already has been a long wait and it its showing, how many of us overreact at any mention of the word sshrc. I bet this could not possibly be healthy for us. prozac here i come ... p.s. for some reason i got a hunch about this friday for a tweet from, they that shall remain unnamed... though if i must be honest, i have been having this same hunch every friday for the past 2 weeks. lol

And pray tell, what form has said attestation taken?

This is a brilliant question, to which i'd also love a real response!!!

The issue of someone hearing earlier than someone else is that it starts provoking questions of fairness and bias! i suppose telling someone earlier by itself is not particularly disturbing. What is disturbing is the possibility that this is only a symptom of those people being unfairly promoted for and as a result have received funding! a) this is not a small amount we are talking about there isnt enough for everyone, so it is quite the zero sum game... I guess this is in a way representative of the shroud of secrecy that surrounds the competition. Perhaps, if there was more transparency as to what is being done, how it is done, on what grounds it is being done, and when it is actually being done, we may be less apprehensive, and or anxious about the outcomes of the process!!! But hey, maybe that's just my "lefty" views on life clouding my judgement....?

Well, if it is a trolling escapade, it is a rather poorly chosen one! This is not exactly off-topic neither is this a very challenging environment for eliciting emotional responses, particularly on this topic!!!! If it is news coming from someone on the adjudication committee: a) why is it in a letter format (and not word of mouth) it would be beyond unprofessional!!!! - as in we all want to/need to know, and we all are patiently or impatiently are waiting. So to think that a member of the adjudication committee would let an applicant know in advance of the official release of the results would put in question the fairness of the competition itself! So if Dot and Raq are being honest and are indeed receiving genuine info I think there may be some cause to have their posts/accounts forwarded to someone at SSHRC who deals with questions of integrity and investigations. I dont know about you girls/guys but i rather not have any doubt as to whether someone got preferential treatment (received funding) as a result of having a relationship (of any kind) with a member of the committee!!!???

Ditto Nerd_For_Life

That's disappointing.... But given what's at stake, I dont really feel like a dick... maybe a bit naive, and overly optimistic. Ahh, well, the wait continues... Good luck all. May the SSHRC gods bless you

Does anyone know of any interesting/good/bountiful funding sources for EU related research if you are a Canadian at a Canadian University? Cheers.

Ditto, on the needing of closure...!!!!

BIG CONGRATS Dotlock! All the best in spending it!

Ok... here is a question for the knowing... What's up with this... : Individuals who apply through a Canadian university for either a master’s scholarship or a doctoral award will first receive notice of the results of their application through their university’s faculty of graduate studies or equivalent. http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/policies-politiques/f_notification-b_avis-eng.aspx Does that mean that the admin knows the results before we do? And if so, how early...?

hahaha,...It is refreshing to see that no only iPhone releases can garner some speculative attention. haha, here is an interesting phd project: commodity production and the effects of speculation anxiety on the consumer. Do i see a SSHRC proposal in there...? any takers?

not quite sure all of these fit in the same category... Once you have a tenure track position, while grant applications may be frustrating, at least your standard of living will no longer depend on the outcome... but hey, that's just my impression, and perhaps my materialist concerns are rather pedestrian...

Ditto...!

I'm pretty sure that at this point in your academic carer they no longer look at udergrad marks. So you may be in the clear from that perspective:)

ditto

Sorry mate, i think it's just mail

haha, i also have papers to write, but the wait seems to be the distraction from the papers rather than the other way around and my book has not yet arrived, but i am hopeful. ps. which city are you in Nerd_For_Life?

i desperately hope you may be wrong

Late March, now that would have been amazing!!! Tough last year it was early May... sigh!

Mail guy came by, bearing no news I'm in Ottawa. At least one more quiet weekend to do some work.....

Thanks, I guess, we'll know sooner or later. Its not like they can keep it to themselves for ever...