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  1. Hooray! SSHRC CGS ($35k/yr for three years)! woohooo! I'm in Vancouver. So happy. I was having serious doubts about success after re-reading my application, which I don't recommend doing days before the letter is supposed to arrive! Here are my stats: -2nd yr in program, 2nd time applying (I'm at the 16 month mark) -Unsuccessfully waitlisted last yr. with a score of 16.8 -GPA 4.03 -One book review accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal at time of application, plus a few non-peer reviewed publications -No conferences -Several internal scholarships/awards -SSHRC recipient for my Masters -One other major external award at time of application -score this year 19.9 Congrats to all the other successful applicants! For those who didn't win - I feel your pain as I remember the disappointment last year, but try again! P.S. someone wanted specs on the envelope - it's a beige government letter sized envelope with SSHRC's info in the return address. exactly the same as last year's waitlist letter, but a couple of mm thicker due to all the good news!
  2. damn. all of this new insider info is making me hope SSHRC will actually meet its deadline this year. i wasn't going to do that this time. thanks for the SSHRC gossip all - it would be great if everything actually goes as advertised.
  3. I hate to rain on the parade folks, but for last year's PhD SSHRC competition some of us were told "mid-April", or "end of April" by SSHRC staff only to get letters in the mail by end of May. Let's hope things have changed this year but for my part I'm not holding my breath. If I'm pleasantly surprised, great, but I won't start pestering SSHRC or expecting results until at least the first week of May. Hopefully I'm wrong but I doubt much has changed. I lost a lot of confidence in the SSHRC bureaucracy when I somehow moved from 4 to 8 on the waitlist and nobody could explain why. A SSHRC staff member actually told me that for my sub-committee I had a pretty good chance in 4th place and should keep hoping, but when the magic transformation from 4 to 8 occurred sometime around October, all hopes were lost. My fingers are crossed that the extra year honing my application has paid off and I can avoid the waitlist trauma this year!!
  4. I was notified by email today that my application will be forwarded (SFU).
  5. ureal. congrats sshrchopeful! glad to hear your waiting wasn't for nothing. what a great surprise.
  6. This must be a departmental thing. In my department it's not really done to go outside your supervisor's advice for funding applications unless you've formed your committee already - but even then I'd be hesitant to run it by the others more than once. Other grad students? No problem.
  7. Just wait until you get it down to three words over 2 pages - that's when it gets super annoying.
  8. SSHRC application submitted! woohoo! @StrangeLight: ugh...just thinking about getting that kind of response at this point in the application process makes me feel ill...but that's just because my deadline was today. sounds like your department's internal deadline is later than mine (i hope!).
  9. Ok thanks for your thoughts StrangeLight and Canuck. I have removed the 'submitted - yet to be accepted' category from my application. Instead, I suggested to one of my referees (who also happens to be co-author) that it might be good to include something about the publication in their letter of appraisal.
  10. Glad to see you're still checking in on us Canuck...helps us deal with the separation anxiety from our break with the 2010 thread. Along similar lines, I'm wondering if it's ok to list an article recently submitted for review? SSHRC guidelines give three options: refereed contributions, other refereed contributions, non-refereed contributions and forthcoming contributions. 'Forthcoming contributions' clearly requests only items formally accepted for publication. Buuut, since I'm a little weak on the publications end, I figured it was okay to add another category 'refereed contributions (recently submitted - yet to be accepted)'. I can't see any harm in this, at worst they'll ignore it, at best it will help a little. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
  11. Yes, I will second StrangeLight's comments Ziz. Judging by the fact that you are studying Political Theory, I suspect the SSHRC committee will expect to see more than just a page of sources. If you haven't really delved into the literature much because you haven't yet started your degree it may be more difficult to do this. I would talk to your supervisor for help. Your supervisor might even provide you with a more comprehensive bibliography related to your topic. In my case, I'm a year into my program and my bibliography could easily be 10 pages long. I've cut it down to six and am struggling to weed out the remaining references without under-representing certain aspects of my proposed research. I think the format StrangeLight suggests is a good one - but, really? StrangeLIght, you think we need to duplicate our 'works cited' in the bib.? I guess if you got that from a winning proposal, it's hard to argue against. Sigh. that's an additional page of refs I'll need to cut.
  12. SSHRC 2011 proposal version #3, revision #umpteen is off to the supervisor for feedback. Fingers crossed he likes it better this time. I was nowhere near this diligent last year, guess that's why I was only waitlisted. Amuna, I think you are right about the whitespace. I did a test recently with some colleagues with all three versions of my proposal to see which one they liked best. They consistently chose the one that is more succinct and has the most whitespace, even though in my opinion it is the one with the most holes. unfortunately it was also most similar to the one that didn't win last year, so I won't be using that little test as my decision-making criteria! Now, how to get more whitespace into the current incarnation....?
  13. Oops! Amuna, I referred to you as 'she' without actually knowing how you self-identify gender-wise. My bad. Hope I got it right! Apologies if I didn't.
  14. Hi StrangeLight - I've applied to SSHRC twice, once for my Masters (successful) and once for PhD (waitlisted). Both times I just set all my margins to 3/4" (including header and footer) and put my name in the top right as a header. Are you applying for Masters or PhD? I can't remember what SSHRC tells you for Masters, but for the PhD application you have to give your Program of Study in two pages, that should include the usual in-text referencing where applicable, followed by a max. 5 page bibliography. SSHRC asks that your references from the Program of Study are clearly indicated in the 5 pages, which is what Amuna is referring to when she says put your citations first, then your general bibliography. I format all my references following APA referencing style, no endnotes/footnotes. Hope that helps!
  15. FYI: I just started a new 'SSHRC 2011' thread for us waitlisters who are planning to re-apply or who have already re-applied. See you there!
  16. Anyone who applied to SSHRC for the 2011 competition, weclome! Masters Scholarships, CGS, or Doctoral Fellowships will be discussed here. Last year's waitlisters just started getting offers on the SSHRC 2010 thread so it seemed like a good time to start a new topic for those of us who weren't so fortunate and had to re-apply. For new applicants, you'll find this thread useful for discussion and wild speculation about the weird world of the SSHRC awards process, and as an outlet for obsessive checking and re-checking this spring to see if other students' notification letters arrived before yours. To all who have their 2011 applications in already - congrats! Let the waiting begin. To those of you at schools with later deadlines (like me), good luck with your proposals over the next couple of weeks!
  17. yes congrats to both of you. i can hardly believe something actually moved. the way sshrc handled this was so strange! alas, since my waitlist position magically changed from 'slightly hopeful' to 'not a chance' i am now putting all my energies into the next competition. perhaps i'll see some of you waitlisters on the SSHRC 2011 thread (is there one yet? i haven't checked)...but hopefully you all get good news instead!
  18. I wonder if that explains why I moved from 4 to 7 on the waitlist?
  19. my PO just responded. it appears she made a mistake in May when she told me i was 4th on the waitlist, and again in June when she told me i had a 'small chance of being offered an award'. i am actually 7th on the waitlist. seems pretty sketchy to me. but at least now i know for sure i'm out of the running and don't have to be on the edge of my seat waiting for an email. onward to the next SSHRC application. my school's deadline is Nov. 5th, lots of time to crank last year's application up a notch or two.
  20. looks like there will be no word from my PO today. doesn't it seem odd that someone's position on the waitlist can get worse? hoping it's an error. in better news, my laptop broke...but i had 7 days of AppleCare left! nice.
  21. I finally decided to email my program officer about a week ago to probe about the hold and/or to find out if my position (#4) on the waitlist had changed. yesterday I got a response saying she was still working on my request, then today she emailed me to say there was no movement yet and I am still #7 on the 'alternates' list. (!) #7? I have no idea how I went from #4 (with a "small chance of being offered a grant" - her words) to #7. I didn't realize we could drop on the waitlist! I quickly emailed back and she said she'd look into it for me. I'll keep you posted when she responds.
  22. hooray! great news! thanks Phalène.
  23. yup, i'm with Phalene. still clinging to the last tendrils of hope, but i started filling out a new SSHRC application for the next round.
  24. Out of curiosity, can someone tell me why a student would decline a CGS but accept an SDF? Something to do with out-of-country rules?
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