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They don’t like the chrome app on any mobile devices, it seems. I could log into the site on chrome on my iPad, but couldn’t see the docs. I’m really sorry you are feeling so burned-out. It seems that people on this forum have gotten it on their third try. Multiple people have told me that getting postdocs was harder for them than getting TT jobs. There are so few postdoc fellowships and an overwhelming number of applicants. Sending you lots of warmth and good thoughts!

These are all very useful pieces of info. Thank you! What is timely completion for SSHRC? US soc PhDs on average take 8 years. I’m finishing a few months early by that metric (lol), despite three major life/ health setbacks. I’ll remember to include this letter next time. You may still get an offer in December as people decline! Some major UK postdoc apps have deadlines coming up and most US postdoc competitions haven’t released results yet, so it’s very possible that people will drop out of SSHRC postdoc later.

Thanks for the encouraging comments. Depending on what else happens this year, I probably will try again. I really like my life in London, so I’m not super-sad to not move to Toronto without my partner and dogs.

Congrats on those who got an offer! I got denied and was especially dinged on the feasibility score. I would love to know the scores of the winners. The PDF award notice gives significantly less information than the CGS-D, so I have no idea what rank I am and how rankings correspond to scores.

The extranet is completely separate from the application portal. You will get an email from SSHRC that will link to the extranet and give your user name. You will have to click on the link to reset your password in order to log in and view the decision letter.

I’m so glad we’ll find out on a Friday. It’s gonna be a lost weekend no matter what the outcome, hahaha!

100% agree about all of this. You will have unrestricted time to do the things that take a lot of time like getting pubs out and applying for grants. You can use the time to get a head-start on your tenure file. Some incoming faculty in my elite US department used this strategy so that they could take mat leave a year or two into the tt job and not feel like they were going to fall behind because they wanted to start a family. (This is horrendous, I know.)

My guess is that some people will decline. Some people may not want to move or get other offers.

Yeah, these were the two options given to me when I won the SSHRC doctoral award and was already on an internal fellowship. I asked to defer it to September of next year and was told it was not possible. I ended up deferring SSHRC for one semester, taking up the internal fellowship for only half its term, and then switching to SSHRC in January.

This is my first application cycle and I also chose committee 3. I’ve only applied to five postdocs this application cycle: SSHRC (Toronto), Pomona, NYU, British Academy (Cambridge), and Edinburgh. Hope things work out for all of us.

Just got off the waitlist from last year!!! I was number 6 on the waitlist.

I agree with the previous poster. I am "diverse" by various metrics and am close to a few people with lifelong diabetes. Chronic diabetes is a serious issue that you have needed to manage. The goal of diversity-based fellowships is to reward you for overcoming a significant adversity and to somewhat ease the unfair burden on you of having to navigate the ablist, sexist, racist, etc., academy. So I'd say you definitely qualify for general diversity-based fellowships or fellowships specifically geared towards disabled students.

I’m on an internal fellowship too, which is paid via direct deposit in monthly installments. If I end up getting SSHRC, the university HR would deposit a smaller amount each month and I’d keep the SSHRC money. If I were you, I would ask around discretely about the ramifications of not declaring an award. Maybe ask trustworthy graduate students from your department who are no longer at the institution? I personally don’t see a huge problem with not giving more money to private institutions with endowments many times larger than the GDP of most countries. I wouldn’t do it because I study difference and punishment and know that I can’t afford to take those kinds of risks. Plus, my school has a record of being litigious against students.

You can still put on your CV that you were an alternate and declined to be considered for the award.

At my very rich, private institution, we have to inform the department and the graduate school when we win awards. There’s a cap on how much we can earn per year (1.xx times our regular stipend amount). The school lets us keep the award, but reduces the stipend amount so that we don’t go over the max amount.