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Hi everyone, Congrats to all those successful! You worked hard and deserve it!! Last night I wrote to the SSHRC officer who told me 400 awards would be offered this competition asking her to clarify the discrepancy. She replied to me saying I was confused and that her estimate was for total awards across the tri-council agencies. I’ve followed up with the email thread where she did indeed say 400 specifically for SSHRC and asked for some accountability and transparency. I’ve heard others were quoted 400 awards too. If you were I’d consider writing to SSHRC to ask for clarification. It’s not clear to me what happened with the influx of funding from the 2024 budget - on the bottom of the decision letter it says more awards were given out that align with the research Impact+ areas without context or numbers.

Shocked that only 247 awards were offered. A SSHRC officer told me they expected to offer 400 awards! The higher number of applicants is likely due to opening eligibility re non citizenship. Update: Not Offered for Committee 2A. Weighted Score: 9.29

Hi everyone, I have been actively checking this forum and just echoing everyone how nice the support/community has been! I was able to ignore thinking about the results since I was distracted by my dissertation being due last week. However, I am now impatiently waiting with the rest of you which led me to do a deep dive into some of the previous years threads and I am worried I have now made a mistake. A couple years ago some people didn't receive the email to login into SSHRC extranet and when they did the results were there. So my impatient self thought it would be a good idea to make an extranet account using the same email I applied to SSHRC and login (shocker no results). I am now worried that somehow my results will be delayed due to making an account. Should I email SSHRC or just wait and see what happens?

3. I am pretty sure we still qualify for the May 1st installment, we'll obviously just have a delay getting funds.

Yeah, I think that's a huge oversight that needs to be addressed in the committee structure of SSHRC. Most "social science" approaches to cultural studies can easily fit into the more traditional disciplines like sociology, anthro, etc. But for those of us who mobilize more humanities-based approaches to cultural studies (psychoanalysis, aesthetics, lit/poetry, etc) it can be quite confounding to properly situate our work within any single committee. We need our own inter/transdisciplinary committee!

2043 applied. 860 awards.

Yes, I was hesitant to reapply to this committee after being rejected last year, but my research really doesn't fit neatly into any one category. I am firmly rooted in the "humanities" camp of WGS so decided to gear my SOP towards committe 1.

Exactly! It's a huge crapshoot. I should note, however, that when I applied originally, I geared my SOP explicitly towards English programs. This marked a major shift in my (inter)disciplinary training in WGS. I was not admitted to any English/Lit PhD programs and was not awarded the SSHRC, but did end up at one of the best WGS PhD programs in the world. And hence, I think it is this fact of being firmly situated in a program when you apply - especially true for interdisciplinary programs, I think - along with the letter from a current supervisor that really pushed my application up a notch this year.

Got a CGS. Will be turning down for Doctoral Fellowship as I am in the NJ, USA. Score of 14.8, committee 1, 1st year PhD at US school. Was Change of reference from last year (rejected with score of 10.8) with some minor tweaks to SOP. Good luck everyone!

Read through the SSHRC thread you posted in: we hear by snail mail and no one in the U.S. has heard yet (since letters were just mailed out Friday).

See activation of payment here: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/Guides-Guides/TriRTA-TriBFR_eng.asp You will need a signature of a supervisor and someone else from the school (grad director, awards officer, etc). Good news is funds will be by direct deposit!

seems like they always mail them out on Fridays, likely to avoid replying to emails until Monday.

Gah, don't get my hopes up! If this is indeed the case there is a chance that some of us in the states would hear before the end of the week!

You can update your address though to make sure your letter comes to the US rather than to a Canadian address...

No.