SSHRC Doctoral 2020-2021

[JHSinclair]

Yes, I had the same experience, rejected on May 4th.  And it was through checking the extranet, my email of notification (to check the extranet) didn't arrive until May 6th. It was such a stressful week!  Hopefully it goes much quicker this year.

 

Edited April 5, 2021 by JHSinclair

[JHSinclair]

I just received the email confirming what the tweet said - end of April, via extranet.  Just receiving the email so unexpectedly almost gave me a heart attack though.  I have been able to put this out of my mind for six months, but no the anxious time starts...

 

[lolplsfundme]

29 minutes ago, JHSinclair said:

I just received the email confirming what the tweet said - end of April, via extranet.  Just receiving the email so unexpectedly almost gave me a heart attack though.  I have been able to put this out of my mind for six months, but no the anxious time starts...

 

I got this email too! Thanks for the mini heart attack, SSHRC

[Snackerson]

I also just had the mini-heart attack moment. Whew!?

 

[CanadianPhDinUSA]

After this morning's mini heart attack email, I did the usual thing of discouraging myself by looking at past award winners. Does anyone else feel like SSHRC is weighted against their field? For the past two years, there have been 9 awards each year for topics about Latin America and that's including all eligible disciplines. Out of a total 1048, only 18 were related to topics about Latin America or Latin American people. I can't be the only one whose field is so underrepresented, who else is with me.

Edited April 6, 2021 by CanadianPhDinUSA

[displacedcontent]

2 hours ago, lolplsfundme said:

I got this email too! Thanks for the mini heart attack, SSHRC

The lasting effects of receiving/opening this e-mail is hitting me harder than any double Americano can. 

[Bmay]

1 hour ago, displacedcontent said:

The lasting effects of receiving/opening this e-mail is hitting me harder than any double Americano can. 

Me sitting here wondering when they're going to send the Extranet email and constantly refreshing my inbox.haha Just when I had put it in the back on my mind...they pull me back in!

[seeveeargh]

For anyone still waiting to receive the notification email here's what it says in case that eases the anxiety at all

 

Information regarding your doctoral application will be uploaded toward the end of April to the SSHRC Extranet for applicants.                       

You will receive a separate system-generated notification with steps on how to activate your extranet account in order to access the information.

 

If you encounter technical issues in accessing the SSHRC Extranet for Applicants, please contact the Helpdesk at webgrants@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca.

For any other questions, do not hesitate to contact us at fellowships@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca.  

 

Sincerely,

The Research Training Portfolio

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

 

FYI, it had the subject line "SSHRC Doctoral Awards Results" and was from "Z-Scholarships". It went to my "promotions" folder in Gmail for some reason.

Edited April 6, 2021 by seeveeargh
clarification

[seeveeargh]

5 hours ago, CanadianPhDinUSA said:

After this morning's mini heart attack email, I did the usual thing of discouraging myself by looking at past award winners. Does anyone else feel like SSHRC is weighted against their field? For the past two years, there have been 9 awards each year for topics about Latin America and that's including all eligible disciplines. Out of a total 1048, only 18 were related to topics about Latin America or Latin American people. I can't be the only one whose field is so underrepresented, who else is with me.

Have you looked up the same information for other topics/research areas? I'd want to compare to other less common fields of research before getting worked up about it. And even then, I think the quality of your proposed research matters a lot more than your field. Or at least that's what I tell myself as someone studying a phenomenon that has been historically maligned by academia .

[Snackerson]

19 hours ago, CanadianPhDinUSA said:

After this morning's mini heart attack email, I did the usual thing of discouraging myself by looking at past award winners. Does anyone else feel like SSHRC is weighted against their field? For the past two years, there have been 9 awards each year for topics about Latin America and that's including all eligible disciplines. Out of a total 1048, only 18 were related to topics about Latin America or Latin American people. I can't be the only one whose field is so underrepresented, who else is with me.

Mine is a research as practice PhD, in Creative Writing -- within the winning English Lit topics listed for previous years, CW projects are pretty scarce. Although you can't always tell by the title ?. I did my best to emphasize the academic aspect of the program.

[roxy31512]

Does anyone know if SSHRC considers extension of awards (non-Covid reasons). Extensions were given last year because of covid, but if someone's program of study is extended by a year for other complications?

[CanadianPhDinUSA]

18 hours ago, seeveeargh said:

Have you looked up the same information for other topics/research areas? I'd want to compare to other less common fields of research before getting worked up about it. And even then, I think the quality of your proposed research matters a lot more than your field. Or at least that's what I tell myself as someone studying a phenomenon that has been historically maligned by academia .

I'm not sure that Latin America is really an uncommon field of research though, when you consider that it would include any project about Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, which are all pretty common locations for research when you factor in history, sociology, anthropology, environmental studies/ecology, education/curriculum/instruction, Atlantic studies, and poli sci dissertations. It's like 700 million people + at least 100 million more living in the UK/US/Canada. I could be wrong, but I feel like (and it is indeed just a hunch) more than 1.2% of Canadian humanities/soc sci PhD dissertations have to do with a Latin American country or Latin American people (assuming that the percentage of awards given to a particular field roughly corresponds with the percentage of PhDs that are pursued in that field out of total Canadian humanities/soc sci PhDs generally).

Edited April 7, 2021 by CanadianPhDinUSA
Clarification

[seeveeargh]

1 hour ago, CanadianPhDinUSA said:

I'm not sure that Latin America is really an uncommon field of research though, when you consider that it would include any project about Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, which are all pretty common locations for research when you factor in history, sociology, anthropology, environmental studies/ecology, education/curriculum/instruction, Atlantic studies, and poli sci dissertations. It's like 700 million people + at least 100 million more living in the UK/US/Canada. I could be wrong, but I feel like (and it is indeed just a hunch) more than 1.2% of Canadian humanities/soc sci PhD dissertations have to do with a Latin American country or Latin American people (assuming that the percentage of awards given to a particular field roughly corresponds with the percentage of PhDs that are pursued in that field out of total Canadian humanities/soc sci PhDs generally).

Sorry, I misunderstood your point! I thought you were saying you thought SSHRC was weighted against your field due to it being a less common area of study for SSHRC applicants.

[SNH]

LOL at the "mini heart attack" ? which I had too btw. 3 weeks and 2 days left you all ! how are you feeling??? the wait is killing me..

[kahou]

On 4/7/2021 at 3:30 PM, SNH said:

LOL at the "mini heart attack" ? which I had too btw. 3 weeks and 2 days left you all ! how are you feeling??? the wait is killing me..

My brain is playing tricks on me:D
My brain is telling me that there is a uniform distribution of getting the news from today to the end of April. So I refresh my email every hour.
But, the reality is they are going to send us the results on April 30th,11:59.
Or send us an email on April 30, 11:59 with: "sorry, Covid happened as you know, how about early May?"

Edited April 8, 2021 by kahou

[AnalyzingYourDiscourse]

I am just wondering, for those who also got the email earlier this month, were your names highlighted in green or some other colour?

[farhsa8]

52 minutes ago, AnalyzingYourDiscourse said:

I am just wondering, for those who also got the email earlier this month, were your names highlighted in green or some other colour?

Mine was in green! Got any theories? 

 

On 4/7/2021 at 5:30 PM, SNH said:

LOL at the "mini heart attack" ? which I had too btw. 3 weeks and 2 days left you all ! how are you feeling??? the wait is killing me..

Even though my sister told me a thousand times not to do this, I'm still going back and reading my research proposal. Don't try this at home kids! 

[SNH]

2 hours ago, AnalyzingYourDiscourse said:

I am just wondering, for those who also got the email earlier this month, were your names highlighted in green or some other colour?

Mine was green too. I don't think it means anything. or could it? lol we are reading into this way too much hahaha overanalyzing everything. This is so totally normal tho :P

7 hours ago, kahou said:

My brain is playing tricks on me:D
My brain is telling me that there is a uniform distribution of getting the news from today to the end of April. So I refresh my email every hour.
But, the reality is they are going to send us the results on April 30th,11:59.
Or send us an email on April 30, 11:59 with: "sorry, Covid happened as you know, how about early May?"

let's REALLY hope that doesn't happen. I read in previous year's forum that people had to wait well into May to find out about their results and I think that's just CRUEL. We're already waiting for MONTHS! We shouldn't have to wait any longer. Let's all be positive and hope we will ALL hear about our results by April 30, by 11:59  or latest May 1st. Fingers crossed for good news.

1 hour ago, farhsa8 said:

Mine was in green! Got any theories? 

 

Even though my sister told me a thousand times not to do this, I'm still going back and reading my research proposal. Don't try this at home kids! 

OMG, I do this too! Your sister is probably right. It's not like we could do anything about it at this point. Sometimes I feel good about it after I read it but often I find things that could be better in it, I guess it depends on my mood.

But honestly there is so many ways that the proposal could be different/better/whatever and at the end of the day, I feel like there is an element of luck involved in that it heavily depends on firstly who are the people who read your proposal and how they feel about it and secondly how you compare to the rest of the applicants in that subject. So we can never know until the results are out. I know of people who've won CGS & Vanier (which is the most competitive of them all) but were rejected from FRQSC (which is a Quebec based scholarship) and is supposed to be much less competitive than CGS and Vanier since those are federal AND applicants have to go through multiple rounds before they will be considered. There really isn't a logic....

Ugh...I just want this month to be over already. I want to wake up and the date to be April 30th. Fairy god mother, can you hear me?

[MarleyBarley]

hows the wait going folks...  

[Jahoon]

Extremely difficult to wait ? 

Edited April 9, 2021 by Jahoon

[SNH]

7 hours ago, MarleyBarley said:

hows the wait going folks...  

not good. i wish time would go faster ?

[lolplsfundme]

Last year was pure torture, I really hope they do it a bit better this year.

I think I waited like 5-6 days from the time the first people started posting that they had results here on GradCafe to the time I got mine (rejected). My friend at my University got hers on the Friday (also rejected) and I didn't get mine until the Monday! And she wasn't even one of the first to get notified, I want to say it started on like the Wednesday of that week. My goodness, I'm stressed just thinking about it. 

There was also no rhyme or reason to who got results when - some were winners on Day 1, some were winners on day 6. It was agony lol. 

[soulmuse]

On 4/6/2021 at 8:30 AM, CanadianPhDinUSA said:

After this morning's mini heart attack email, I did the usual thing of discouraging myself by looking at past award winners. Does anyone else feel like SSHRC is weighted against their field? For the past two years, there have been 9 awards each year for topics about Latin America and that's including all eligible disciplines. Out of a total 1048, only 18 were related to topics about Latin America or Latin American people. I can't be the only one whose field is so underrepresented, who else is with me.

Hi, I'm also a CanadianPhDinUSA!

How can I find the info you mention here?

[AnalyzingYourDiscourse]

On 4/8/2021 at 10:47 PM, farhsa8 said:

Mine was in green! Got any theories? 

 

Even though my sister told me a thousand times not to do this, I'm still going back and reading my research proposal. Don't try this at home kids! 

 

On 4/9/2021 at 12:33 AM, SNH said:

Mine was green too. I don't think it means anything. or could it? lol we are reading into this way too much hahaha overanalyzing everything. This is so totally normal tho

Hmm maybe they decided to spice things up in the colour department this year because they were tired of yellow?

[MuchSynergyWowSoIntersec]

The answer to this question might be obvious to others, but the email we received on the 6th tells us that we will receive a "separate system-generated notification with steps on how to activate [our] extranet account[s]". 

Is this the email we will be receiving at the end of April, or should we expect yet another "heart attack" email in the interim? I recognise that we all submitted our applications through the "SSHRC Web Portal", but it is not apparent that this is the same as the "extranet for applicants".

Thoughts?