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Yeah this happens/is normal. As it was explained to me in the various SSHRC application workshops I've been to, applications should be legible and make a case to people who are not specific subject experts in your area. I am in a very niche, understudied, and oft discounted (because it is feminized) area of my field, which has made it a real uphill battle for people to take my research seriously. I wasn't successful in my app last year and had only one person in my field (who wasn't even close to my research niche) on my committee (I'm also on committee 3). This year, I had several colleagues in other social sciences and humanities fields, as well as non-academic friends and family, read my application for clarity and to make sure I wasn't using jargon, writing for too niche an audience, or being too overly academic, and my app was successful! Obviously this wasn't the only change I made, but I think being really clear about how your specific niche is not just important in your field but also how your findings can be important to other fields in the social sciences/the Canadian public more broadly goes a long way.

You can hold a DF at an international institution but not a CGS-D, so you can accept it! And students who are awarded CGS-Ds but have ended up at an international school just have their funding transformed into a GF.

Probably just means that they haven't uploaded your results to the portal yet. Or the result has been uploaded but is hidden until they uniformly release everybody's results (hopefully but not guaranteed) on April 30. I wouldn't worry about it too much!

This is likely a winner from last year's competition. SSHRC doesn't announce the winners of a year until the following year (so 2024 award winners won't be announced until 2025, etc.) and I believe schools aren't allowed to post about them until the recipients list has been made public.

That's huge! Massive congrats 🎉

Was it for comms? I spoke a colleague who was accepted to their program last year and said they do not have interviews. It also says on their website FAQs that they don't start reviewing applications until February, so I wouldn't worry about it for now.

Hi all! I'm anxiously waiting (haven't heard anything back yet) but it's nice to commiserate with some fellow Comms PHD applicants. I've applied to Cornell, Penn, USC, UVA Media Studies, UIC, the University of Toronto iSchool, and Concordia. I can also confirm that neither Annenberg school (USC and Penn) does interviews. Keeping my fingers and toes crossed and rooting for all of you to get into your top schools!