ArkyBarky

It is not! You have to keep asking them until they tell you. I kept emailing them for 2 weeks until someone finally answered and told me I am at rank 18. They are secretive and lack transparancy.. but it is our right to know our rank. 

That's amazing! Did you find out which rank you were here? There's still the possibility to get an alternate, but taking a full time position would be way better. 

I am not sure where I ranked. I was about half a point over the "approved for funding" cutoff in a group that had a cutoff around 15.00. I imagine I was close, but I am not sure. 
I only applied to TT positions for practice and to get into the habit--and landed a US R1 and a Canadian dream school ABD! Of course, I would be turning the SSHRC money down if it were offered to me and instead making the postdoc project my inaugural research plan.
Edit: I should say I was committee 6. 

Dang, Phon, you killed it! Well done!

Hey everyone,
I see many people are hearing back from SSHRC this year and some are wondering about the waitlist. I wrote this post a few years ago about the waitlist based on several email exchanges I had with a SSHRC officer and I see it's been getting some traction. 
Well, unfortunately the post was wrong in some ways because that SSHRC officer provided me with inaccurate information. I know this because I was eventually forwarded to a more senior SSHRC official who corrected their colleague's statements. Specifically, this part was wrong: "In the event that funding becomes available, offers will be made on the basis of the rank of each application in the competition overall." The more senior SSHRC official clarified that offers are made to the next highest ranking application within the same committee. That was a huge difference for me, as I would've been the next highest ranked application overall, but because no one ahead of me in my committee declined the award, I never received an offer. It seems I can't go back and edit the post, so I wanted to correct the record here.
Now, I'll share the story of how the rest of my situation played out for anyone interested, especially those feeling down in the dumps about their rejections... Later that year, I managed to cobble together enough funding and sessional teaching gigs to tide me over for another year and apply to SSHRC again, with a similar proposal but a substantially improved CV and I ended up... scoring even lower! 
I was absolutely gutted. I was frustrated by the ranking process and the way things were handled administratively. I was upset at seeing proposals that clearly should've fallen under the umbrella of CIHR receive SSHRC funding. I was unhappy with seeing that some of the previous year's reviewers for my committee had fewer and less impactful research outputs in their 30+ years in academia than I had in my < 10 years... I felt a lot of stress, strain, and frustration over what is essentially peanuts in funding. 
But, as weird as this will sound, I'm now thankful for it! Just a couple months after the 2nd SSHRC rejection, a posting came up for a postdoc position that was a little outside of my core expertise,  but I thought I might be able to make it work. The supervisor was open to the position being fully remote and it paid about the same amount as a Banting award, plus benefits! I was surprised to get the position very soon after applying. With the livable wage, I haven't had to do any sessional teaching, which has been great. I've ended up loving the position and the work that I do... I've certainly become a better scientist because of the experience and I've also massively broadened my professional network. And I can honestly say my supervisor (a Canada Research Chair) has been impressed with my skillset and valued my work. I'm sure we'll keep collaborating for years to come. 
A few months after starting my new postdoc, I was interviewed for a sweet faculty position at a well-ranked school overseas. I ended up receiving an offer and deferring because my partner and I ended up having a baby. By virtue of being an internal postdoc, I was able to take parental leave while receiving a salary top-up...! (I don't believe SSHRC or even Banting award winners receive any support like that.) Additionally, working remotely has been hugely beneficial for raising a baby. In a few months, we'll be leaving Canada to start my new faculty position and we're really looking forward to our new life overseas. I never would've expected all this around the time of my SSHRC rejection, but things probably couldn't have worked out better for me.
Now, everyone's situation is different. But I share my story to illustrate that even if you feel absolutely devastated, life goes on. And sometimes, not getting such (minimal) funding leads to opportunities that set you down an even better path. Also, don't take SSHRC rankings too personally... they're comparing apples and oranges and pears and doing so quite superficially. For me, I put a lot more stock into feedback I've received from other experts in my field (e.g., those who've read my work, those who've hired me, those who seek me out for collaboration) than a SSHRC committee of "expert generalists". Not getting SSHRC certainly didn't spell the end of my academic career and it might not spell the end of yours either. 
I hope my story helps bring some of you a bit of needed hope and perspective. Wishing each of you, the very best. 

Well, based on posts here, I checked the extranet without having received an email, and I got funded at an institution abroad! Thanks to the people who posted. Who knows when the email will come...
I'll follow others in posting some details, just in case others can benefit in future years.
My profile: ABD (year 5). CGS-D award that ends in April + $50,000 in several other smaller awards (including OGS). At the time of application, I listed 5 refereed contributions out of 7 (four proceedings and one article), 4 conference presentations out of 28 (three conference presentations and one workshop given at a conference), 3 of 6 refereed contributions (two invited talks and one workshop at a summer school), and one forthcoming article that I submitted a few days before the application.
I got a 17/18 in committee 4B, the cutoff for being recommended for funding was 15.56, and they funded 15/68 proposals
 
 
 

Is anyone having problems signing on? I've never signed onto Extranet this is a different site than the one we applied for. Do not have a password that works, and my email is invalid when I click forgot password. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Hopping on here to say that, although SSHRC does look at things like publications and previous SSHRC awards, those are not prerequisites and, at least in theory, reviewers should be assessing each application more holistically. Reviewers do vary, and the more cynical ones may attempt to use quantity of publications as an "easy" way to assess an application without much further thought – but a strong, compelling proposal should still get their attention and, if you have good reviewers, their fair consideration.
...still stressing about my own application, of course! Since finishing my doctorate I took a position as a research grants officer in a small university, where I review and submit professors' SSHRC applications. This job has given me two great insights: 1) even tenured, exceptionally well-published, previous SSHRC awardee professors strike out with SSHRC reviewers all the time, and 2) SSHRC doesn't tell research offices anything useful, so even from my semi-insider perspective I have no clue when we'll hear about this.😅

Hello everyone,
I am wishing all of you the best luck. 
This is my first time applying and I am newly in research without publications. Although I think my research proposal is good, but based on my impression, I am not going to score very high for the SSHRC system. I applied SSHRC doctoral scholarships and didn’t even pass the faculty level of evaluations. Based on my impression, the chances of winning this scholarship are higher for those who had succeeded in SSHRC doctoral level scholarships with many publications. 
 
I know everyone is patiently waiting for the results these days, and I have to be honest that my application this time will determine whether I stay in Canada or go back to my home country. 

Saying I have no expectations is just untrue, but based on my years of experiences living and studying in Canada, I am really not confident (disappointed to be honest). I am not having much luck here in my studies and I hope people in my field have better learning experiences. 
 
We all know the hot research topics are having the highest chances. And this is very much the last chance that I have here in Canada. Last year, I was determined to apply this scholarship many times, but I am not that ambitious now. 
 
Wishing you all the best and keep going for the research you love and care. 
 
Sleep well too. 

I just sent an email to SSHRC asking about a timeline for results and received this response:
The results of the Postdoctoral Fellowships competition will be sentelectronically via the SSHRC extranet. We anticipate that the results will be available by the end of February 2024.  You will receive an e-mail with more details next week.

I am also finishing the PhD (the planned date to submit my monograph is March 11th) and I'm also worried. I think the expectations for publications are adjusted based on where you are at in your career, though, so I wouldn't be overly worried about that (but maybe it depends on the committee, too). However, I have been warned that if you have taken a long time in your program and have not yet graduated, it can greatly impact your feasibility score. I included reasons for my delays on the allowable inclusions page, like the loss of my brother and lab shut downs during Covid, but I am emotionally prepared for this to impact me (currently in my 8th year). I have a few interviews coming up (one tt position at a research university, two others for liberal arts colleges), and the pressure of what happens if I don't get SSHRC and can't secure a reasonable alternative feels like it will really impact my performance. 
In any case, I'm rooting for all of us, in our varied situations. There are a lot of variables outside of our control, and the truth is we are all deserving...

I am also finishing the PhD (the planned date to submit my monograph is March 11th) and I'm also worried. I think the expectations for publications are adjusted based on where you are at in your career, though, so I wouldn't be overly worried about that (but maybe it depends on the committee, too). However, I have been warned that if you have taken a long time in your program and have not yet graduated, it can greatly impact your feasibility score. I included reasons for my delays on the allowable inclusions page, like the loss of my brother and lab shut downs during Covid, but I am emotionally prepared for this to impact me (currently in my 8th year). I have a few interviews coming up (one tt position at a research university, two others for liberal arts colleges), and the pressure of what happens if I don't get SSHRC and can't secure a reasonable alternative feels like it will really impact my performance. 
In any case, I'm rooting for all of us, in our varied situations. There are a lot of variables outside of our control, and the truth is we are all deserving...

I found myself really procrastinating near the end of my dissertation because I was nervous about my PhD ending and what was going to come after (not saying you’re doing this but just my experience and how I started to realize how anxious I really was). One thing that helped was setting up multiple plans: plan A, B, C, etc. and having those as solid as possible. My PhD supervisor introduced me to a researcher at another university who was applying for a big grant and would be hiring postdocs for it, so I met with her like a year before I finished my PhD and talked about joining her project if she was funded. Plan A was that I’d apply for SSHRC and she’d supervise me and I’d work part-time on the project: plan B was if I didn’t get SSHRC she’d hire me full-time as a postdoc on the project; plan C was if she didn’t get funded she’d hire me for another project; plan D was I reached out to another researcher I met on a scholarship review committee and he said he’d be hiring a postdoc in about a year so if my first plans fell through he’d be there. When I had about a year left of my PhD, I also started looking online for research assistant jobs and found a really good one at another university where I was a research coordinator for a SSHRC-funded project. I’m still working with that researcher on the side and it’s opened a lot of doors for publications and co-I roles. I did that in large part so that if my PhD ended and none of my postdoc plans worked out I’d at least have some kind of work to carry me through until I landed something.
I’m not sure if this is helpful but basically I just had a bunch of contingency plans and also made it known to EVERYONE that I was defending soon and looking for a postdoc. A lot of opportunities pop up randomly, like, one project I was working on as an RA was winding down and the PI mentioned to the program director of another department the work I had done for her, and then the program director asked if I would teach a course in her program on my area of expertise. Finishing the dissertation is already exhausting enough so hustling like that was exhausting, but it set me up really well by the time I defended—I was actually overworked at one point and had TOO many hours a week I was trying to juggle between projects.

I feel you. It's my first time applying for the post-doc but I never got the sshrc doctoral and I wonder how that might impact my chances (I did get other major awards, but less prestigious). 

That is for sure disappointing. Hopefully it's included in some form of your app under review and they can see the great work you were pursuing... I'm sure that counts for a lot.