wrenochka
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Wow, congratulations! Your proposal and letters must have been very strong. It's great to hear positive results from direct applicants. Good luck with your graduate research!
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Nope! That's all you need to do. Except maybe make sure you've given your bank info to your school, if you haven't already? Congratulations!
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I really don't think that would be a reason to cut you out of the funding competition! What discipline are you in? I think it would really come down to your federal adjudication committee - remember that it's academics, not politicians, who evaluate your application. There are some disciplines that might tend to have some wonky and conservative members, but they'd still have to justify why they marked your application the way they did to a committee of their peers. If it gives you hope, one of my colleagues does research in this area and she has been very successful with awards. We need more people doing research in this area, so I hope you get an award!
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THIS. Absolutely. If you don't ask directly, you often don't get offered money. You should go with your SSHRC offer and request that your current funding be pushed back. Do you have any offers from other schools? That could be a good bargaining chip, too, although I imagine it might be a bit late.
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I had to decline because I became seriously ill and had to withdraw from my master's program at the time (this was several years ago - when I got the notification I'd received an award, I was already on medical leave). You can also take up to three years with medical documentation to return with the SSHRC on hold, but that wasn't possible for me with my health at the time (it wasn't clear where my health would be at that time). All the advice I received back then and again while re-applying last fall was that the successful application would actually help (it adds to a good track record of awards). That said, I'm not sure I would recommend it unless you have to do it for serious medical or family reasons - that's seen as a justifiable reason for declining, I think. SSHRC is a pretty prestigious award and I think it can only help you get further funding. You should definitely speak to your own department and supervisor first to discuss your own circumstances.
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Unfortunately, the SSHRC master's award is a one-time, 12-month award. You'll have to find other funding for your 2nd year. The doctoral awards are either up to 3 years of 30K (CGS) or up to 4 years of 20K/year (regular SSHRC). You can be offered a SSHRC for a program, but decline it and you would still be eligible to re-apply (this happened to me - sorry if my earlier post added to the confusion), but you can't take up the award twice. Good luck! I hope you find both funding for both years. p.s. - Cleopatra01: did you go to U of A for your undergrad, too? Isn't it the worst trying to explain the 9-point system?
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I got my letter, too - I got the CGS! THANK GOD. Good luck everyone, and thanks for all the supportive updates. I'm in Quebec, but I hope you hear soon! oops, forgot to post stats - I assume this is helpful for future applicants? I have a bit of an odd file (interrupted studies, imperfect grades), so this might be helpful for anyone worried they don't have the perfect profile: Heading into second year of MA, applied through my school Undergrad GPA 3.7/4.00, Grad GPA so far 4.00/4.30 The dept committee said my proposal and letters were all very strong No peer-reviewed publications 3 conference presentations 2 TA-ships (3 terms), 3 RA-ships (3 terms), with some experience overseas 6 years between undergrad and current degree, including several years of community teaching and research experience outside of the academy I received the SSHRC for a previous master's in 2006 but had to decline because I withdrew from the first program due to a serious illness (declining meant I was still eligible to reapply but it also meant I had 4 months counted toward grad studies already, and could only start the SSHRC May 1st) several small community awards, plus entrance fellowships and one national prize in my field (this + my letters probably helped compensate for my just-okay undergrad grades) p.s. - if anyone wants to come bang some pots & pans with me tonight, just let me know
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Well, at least I can give you some relief about that - I got worried after May 1st and asked SSHRC directly: the payments will be retroactive to May 1st. The delay doesn't mean we're ineligible, it just means that if we get an award, our late payments get lumped together with the June payment (assuming we find out by June, that is - I don't know what to think anymore. :s).
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Seriously? May 31st? My award was supposed to start May 1st. I borrowed money I can't afford to pay for my spring tuition, and now it'll be too late to convert to part-time status by the time I hear about funding (we're also not supposed to work more than 10 hrs/week while enrolled full-time). I can't afford not to go part-time if I don't get funding, but I can't have the funding if I'm not full-time. This is absolutely ridiculous. I don't know what I'm going to do if I don't get an award, but not knowing either way is worse.
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Oh my god. That's horrible - I hope we all find out soon. It's a lot of stress not to know when there are so many life decisions to make.
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Yeah, I second this. At my current school, students usually receive their letters before notification gets to our school, but when I studied out west as an undergrad, students usually heard from their program director first. Not sure why it varies - both schools were pretty comparable in terms of administration, size and SSHRC success.
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Do you know what sort of cuts were made to the PhD sshrcs? I'm not sure that it would matter if our schools received lower quotas this year, because we would have been forwarded according to that quota - or did you mean they've already received their quota amounts for next year? A general rumour about funding agency cuts started at our university when shortly after the budget was announced in March, several faculty with newly-awarded grants (NSERC, I think) received notices that their expected funding had been "suspended, pending review." The government had announced in 2008 a three-year "temporary expansion" of SSHRC awards for graduate study (which ended last year), but as far as I know, that expansion was intended only for those controversial "business" research projects.
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Ugh - yesterday's Canada Post tweet is officially a false alarm: "Results will be mailed soon. Good luck!" (https://twitter.com/#!/sshrc_crsh) I still haven't heard about our internal awards yet, and they were originally due mid-April. I can't believe both competitions are taking so long!
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Well, it's definitely mid-May now, isn't it? Hopefully we'll find out soon.... fingers crossed.
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I'm stressed out, too - I really hope the budget doesn't mean there are fewer awards this year. I'm still waiting on the results of our university's internal awards competition, too (!) and I don't know whether to hunt down additional RA hours or find part-time work. I can't afford more debt, and my SSHRC was supposed to start May 1st. I can't even concentrate on my research right now, I'm too worried about how to pay for tuition next week (our summer terms are active enrolment periods). Has anyone heard if there seem to be fewer doctoral awards this year? I don't know if it's possible to tell unless they release the numbers...