Does the proposal topic matter for CGS-M?

[Clinpsyc01]

Is it expected that students will complete the research outlined in the CGS-M proposal? SSHRC, specifically. 

I'm not applying until next year, but I've been wondering about this as I've been thinking about where I'm going to apply for grad school. Most of the faculty I'm interested in have fairly different research interests, so it would be impossible to write a research proposal to fit all of them. Can you apply for CGS-M with a proposal for research that you won't be conducting? 

[TakeruK]

My CGS-M and PGS-D proposals were nothing like the actual research I did. In fact, I wrote both of these proposals with a specific professor/school in mind but I did not even choose that school in the end. This was for NSERC, and it was in 2010 and 2012, respectively, so I know rules have changed a bit since then. But I don't think you are bound to the proposal even now. The CGS-M is only one year, so it just has to be in the same evaluation committee (I'm not sure how SSHRC splits up its fields, but I was in the Physics & Astronomy NSERC evaluation committee so as long as I stayed within that field, it was fine). For the my PGS-D, since it's a 3 year award, after I decided I would not be doing the original research topic, I had to write a new proposal to request a change of topic (this was straight-forward though, it just needed to be approved by NSERC and they want it for record keeping purposes, not evaluation purposes). However, in NSERC documentation of my award, it's still granted for the original title, even though I did not work on it at all. But that's okay.

[FacelessMage]

I was awarded a CGS-M in 2013. My Master's research was nothing like what I had outlined in my proposal. I didn't even end up in a clinical psychology program as proposed. However, my Master's research still fell under SSHRC's mandate so I was good.