Konstantin

Congrats gradschoolcat! I guess some departments do know the results before their students are notified.

Are you sure the email were sent to doctoral applicants? I know that waitlisted Master's applicants have been receiving emails for the last few days from SSHRC offering them an award... EDIT: Now I see that you're an NSERC Master's applicant (and the process is completely different from SSHRC Doctoral awards).

No, the tweets just say that "Doctoral results have now been mailed." The long weekend in Canada has already passed, so this week has to be the week.

So I searched SSHRC's Twitter feed and here is what I found: SSHRC tweeted the announcement that Doctoral results have been mailed out: at 10:58am on Thursday April 21, 2011; at 10:02am on Friday, April 27, 2012; and at 12:43pm on Friday, April 26, 2013. This means that SSHRC likes to release the results late in the week. Maybe this year will be different?

None of the staff in my dept. claim to know the competition results, including grad administrator, chair of grad studies, and ex-chair of grad studies! In fact they keep asking me if I received any news from SSHRC! haha. I probably won't ask them anymore, just going to wait for the letter.

Yeah, they've certainly done that in the past! Let's hope they're more vigilant with the announcement this time

I'll be checking my mailbox a few times a day starting tomorrow!

Hopefully the announcement will posted on Twitter! Let's keep our eyes peeled

It no longer shows up in SSHRC Twitter feed, but you can find it directly at the source: https://twitter.com/Stellar_StellaD

It's already the 16th and if the results aren't mailed out tomorrow, then they won't be mailed until next Tuesday, April 22nd, meaning that they will be released almost roughly at the same time as last year and the year before: end of April.

Yeah I wouldn't read too much into the announcement: it also says that all Tri-Council applicants will hear by regular mail, whereas CIHR candidates found out online.

I'd be surprised if you received a response that's different from the one SSHRC replies to emails with.

Sooooooooooo. I received an email from my university today containing an announcement that "PhD students who applied for a Tri-Council award have been notified by mail if they have won an award." Considering that SSHRC's Twitter account has been silent about the competition results, maybe the announcement refers to CIHR and NSERC competiitons only? What should we make of this? Full text of the media release: http://gradstudents.carleton.ca/newsletter/2014/april-16/

I was concerned about the lack of animated GIFs on this thread, but no longer!

Hasn't SSHRC been saying all along that it would be the end of April?

Me until the time SSHRC releases the results:

Hey how do you guys insert GIFs into your posts?

I'm sticking to the "end of April," but of course aiming for an earlier date! Edit: crimsoc, it will definitely be my regular mail. From SSHRC website: "Competition results are not provided by telephone or email."

I'm curious about what prompted SSHRC to make such an announcement.

Looks like we will have to wait until the end of April to learn the results, after all. Here is the reply I received after I emailed SSHRC asking about the competition results: ----- "Thank you for your email. The Doctoral Awards competition is still in progress. The results of the competition will be mailed out around the end of April 2014. If your mailing address has changed, please inform us as soon as possible so that we may keep your file up to date." ----- This is roughly the same timeline as my university posted on its website, meaning some of us won't find out until early May.

I heaven't heard anything about universities determining Doctoral SSHRC/CGS winners at the institutional level in the future. But, according to SSHRC, doctoral applicants will likely be required to use the Research Portal and CCV to apply and to receive results, which is identical to how MA SSHRC applications are submitted: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/news_room-salle_de_presse/latest_news-nouvelles_recentes/update_CCV_and_portal-compte_rendu_CV_commun_canadien_et_portail-eng.aspx According to SSHRC this can happen as early as the next application cycle (Nov 2014).

Not at all, I just knew this was too good to be true, so I had to do some googling

No, these are past winners (Nov 2012 competition): www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/results-resultats/2013/CGS_Bombardier_2012_EF.pdf Edit: you actually have to copy and paste the link into your browser, since clicking it doesn't work.

I don't think SSHRC staff actively gleans information from this forum, I'm sure they have more important things to do, such as waiting for an entire month after the applications have been reviewed to release the results.

Heh, these dreams are pretty common in April. Speaking of dreams: I had a dream the other night that I was awarded a SSHRC, and then a zombie apocalypse broke out. I was very disappointed that I received the award and couldn't take it up anywhere since there were no functioning universities left!