Doctoral scholarship CRSH/SSHRC 2012

[checkeredBlanket]

I think I have already come to terms with the fact that I will be rejected...so I wait less eagerly at my mailbox...however, this forum still remains a highly entertaining read :-)

[NeedFunds]

Common CB, where's the competitive spirit?

[NeedFunds]

I just hope that they mail out the results today or tomorrow at the latest, I am growing very impatient!

[littlebirdie]

Last year, SSHRC announced that they had mailed their letters via their Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/#!/SSHRC_CRSH

You know - because we all need something else to check every 5 minutes....

Good luck everyone!!!

[avsilver]

I see that last year SSHRC announced it had mailed the doctoral letters on April 21st. Sigh. Come on, SSHRC! Put us out of our misery already!

[DMMS18]

I see that last year SSHRC announced it had mailed the doctoral letters on April 21st. Sigh. Come on, SSHRC! Put us out of our misery already!

which was a Thursday ;) ..... *fingers crossed!!*

[cathaea]

Ack, a twitter feed! How is this just coming to my attention? I just don't seem to be able to focus at all with these looming results. This is killing my average!

[DMMS18]

I wonder if the people at SSHRC follow this forum and laugh at the amount of anxiety we display..

[isagrapefruit]

I wonder if the people at SSHRC follow this forum and laugh at the amount of anxiety we display..

Ha, I fund it amusing that these posts roughly match up with the discipline of the poster. So, Decaf, of course you're diagnosing our anxiety. It is palpable! This observation makes sense given your field of study -- just as mine makes sense. After all it's *all about* form and character, right? ;-)

[DMMS18]

Ha, I fund it amusing that these posts roughly match up with the discipline of the poster. So, Decaf, of course you're diagnosing our anxiety. It is palpable! This observation makes sense given your field of study -- just as mine makes sense. After all it's *all about* form and character, right? ;-)

Haha, very true!! We self-select...

I looked on the SSHRC 2010 thread..and they only received their results May 7th.... I cannot wait another full week..

[checkeredBlanket]

I have a mountain of work but somehow can't motivate myself to anything bc of this sshrc..let the results come in next week..let the results come in next week..regardless of their outcome...sigh

[cathaea]

^ So agreed. Knowing is better than not knowing, regardless of the results.

[checkeredBlanket]

I think that instead of just idly waiting for the results, we should either get to work or speculate on our applications...:-) Any suggestions for a topic?

[Dakon]

Maybe we should just create voodoo dolls of those in charge to make them feel what we are feeling.

[checkeredBlanket]

Just curious about the moods on this forum..of course I know one can not forsee whether the application is successful or not, but, without being too pessimistic or too hopeful, what do you believe, are your chances of getting an award this year?

[cathaea]

Dakon, you make a lot of sense.

[cathaea]

Just curious about the moods on this forum..of course I know one can not forsee whether the application is successful or not, but, without being too pessimistic or too hopeful, what do you believe, are your chances of getting an award this year?

Honestly, 50/50. I was the only person in my department to get forwarded to SSHRC so that has to say something positive. That being said, my proposal wasn't as airtight as it could have been and it was a little on the short side because I didn't want to bullshit the committee. So, some of my chapter descriptions are weak because it's so tentative rather than forcefully assertive about what I'm going to do. I also had zero pubs and conferences on my resume because my supervisor hates the idea of going to grad conferences and I hadn't yet gotten the CFPs accepted that I had submitted over the summer/fall. I do think my references were probably good and they were both written by highly respected professors who have a reputation for writing kick ass letters.

[Andsowego]

Just curious about the moods on this forum..of course I know one can not forsee whether the application is successful or not, but, without being too pessimistic or too hopeful, what do you believe, are your chances of getting an award this year?

I think my chances are pretty good. This is my last year to qualify for SSHRC (so only $20,000 at stake for them), and I've been forwarded and then waitlisted the last two years. This is the strongest application I've submitted. On the other hand, again, it's my last year. And if I couldn't show them why I deserved the funding for the last two years, why would it change now? "Oh, *her* again. Good luck sister!" Gah. So annoying to live in this constant paradox. Plus, if I win the SSHRC this year, it's really not going to make that big of a monetary difference for me. At this point, it's more about my pride and wanting to be able to write "SSHRC funded" on my c.v. as I enter the job-hunting process.

Edited April 26, 2012 by Andsowego

[checkeredBlanket]

I think my chances are pretty good. This is my last year to qualify for SSHRC (so only $20,000 at stake for them), and I've been forwarded and then waitlisted the last two years. This is the strongest application I've submitted. On the other hand, again, it's my last year. And if I couldn't show them why I deserved the funding for the last two years, why would it change now? "Oh, *her* again. Good luck sister!" Gah. So annoying to live in this constant paradox.

I did not know that they keep everything on file for so long and can actualy tell when someone applied, with what, and so on.

Initially I thought my chances were alright..Im an external candidate and did not even expect to be forwarded. I did not even abide by their paper size requirements, so the February letter came as a big shock. As to the actual application...I thought my chances wre better until I read that they don't like phd projects being a continuation of their MA. And my professor played that part rather strongly in his reference....

[Andsowego]

I did not know that they keep everything on file for so long and can actualy tell when someone applied, with what, and so on.

Initially I thought my chances were alright..Im an external candidate and did not even expect to be forwarded. I did not even abide by their paper size requirements, so the February letter came as a big shock. As to the actual application...I thought my chances wre better until I read that they don't like phd projects being a continuation of their MA. And my professor played that part rather strongly in his reference....

Good point, I actually don't know what they keep on file either. It's likely just me being paranoid that the same people are going to be reading another application written by Ms. Andsowego, and will remember me (for better or worse!). At the very least, the committee knows it's my last year (since we were required to note the year of study right in the proposal) and that I only qualify for $20,000. I just really want this whole thing to be over so I can move on with my life!

Edited April 26, 2012 by Andsowego

[Compoe]

Good point, I actually don't know what they keep on file either. It's likely just me being paranoid that the same people are going to be reading another application written by Ms. Andsowego, and will remember me (for better or worse!). At the very least, the committee knows it's my last year (since we were required to note the year of study right in the proposal) and that I only qualify for $20,000. I just really want this whole thing to be over so I can move on with my life!

Given how many applications they have to go through, I'm really not sure how much time they have to compare current applications against old ones.

[DMMS18]

I am hoping I have a good chance. There are only 4 of us left in the competition from my program and in the past there have been ~ 4 CGS awards and ~ 2 reg. SSHRCS awarded. I also have around the same # of pubs and more conferences ( at the time of application I had 1 peer-reviewed pub, 1 non-peer-reviewed, and 7 first author and 6 not as first author presentations at professional conferences) than the others applying from my program. I feel that my weakness is that I do not have an MA SSHRC.

I am also #1 on the waitlist for FQRSC (with a score of 16.5/20). So I faired well in that competition. Only two of the senior students in my program won this award (they are going into their last year).

I should also mention that I am going into my 1st year PhD in the fall.

My fingers are crossed I currently work +25hours a week (not including my TAship) in addition to a full course load and seeing my clients for my practicum in order to pay rent and tuition as my program does not offer funding.. so anything would be really useful!

Edited April 26, 2012 by DMMS18

[Interferenceviolet]

I'm trying to be optimistic. Last year I was seventh on the waitlist. So close yet still so very, very far. This year I re-submitted the same proposal, but after getting feedback from three well-positioned faculty members, I have a year of my PhD under my belt, two more academic scholarships, a conference, an exhibition at a national museum, and much stronger letters of recommendation. I've heard through the grapevine that people on the SSRCH panel at my university thought I had a really strong proposal. But all that said, I'm steeling myself for disappointment. I figure if I don't get a SSHRC, I'll get an OGS. I believe I'll get something. I'm trying to be cautiously optimistic here. Sadly, I know what rejection feels like. Oh hell. I don't know. Anything can happen. The world can be cruel.

[checkeredBlanket]

I am always amazed when people in their first year of Phd Studies, or going into their first year, write that they have so many or, in fact, any publications. Of course it varies from discipline to discipline, Im in history so it is incredibly difficult to get anything published...

So you guys actually described the breakdown and content of your chapters in proposals? interesting!

[Dakon]

I think I have a pretty good chance since my track record is ok. I have a number of publications and conference presentations under my belt and my references should be good (plus one was written by a leading specialist and translator of German philosophy in France). Sadly one article which was a preliminary sketch of the theoretical model I will be using in my thesis was accepted for publication a month after I the applications were due. Tough luck.

One thing, however, could go against me: the major idea was to argue for the "relevance" of Hegel's philosophy of nature. A lot of Hegelians and philosophers would consider that idea as outright absurd and not even bother to understand the specific way in which I think it is (which has nothing to do with scientific content, but the idea of nature). I managed, however, to show a growing interest in the international literature on this topic and show that no one has really devoted an entire monograph to the precise problematic I outlined.

That all being said, DAAD rejected my application. So, let's see.