SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

This page is for tracking SSHRC awards to be held during the 2013-2014 academic year.

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships provide stipendiary support to recent PhD graduates who are:


 * undertaking original research;
 * publishing research findings;
 * developing and expanding personal research networks;
 * broadening their teaching experience; and
 * preparing to become competitive in national research grants competitions.

Fellowships will normally be awarded to candidates affiliated with a university other than that which awarded the PhD. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship awards are tenable at Canadian or foreign universities and research institutions.

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships are valued at $38,000 per year, plus an accountable research allowance of up to $5,000 per award. These are taxable, non-renewable fellowships, tenable for a minimum of 12 months and a maximum of 24 months. The award may begin on the first of any month between May 2013 and January 2014.

Application Deadline: October 4, 2012

Stats
Applying as an ABD: 6

Applying with PhD (0-1 years out): 3

Applying with a PhD (2-3 years out): 1

Total: 10

Applying to hold at a Canadian institution: 7

Applying to hold at a non-Canadian institution: 2

Pages from Previous Years
SSHRC 2011-12

SSHRC 2012-13

See also: Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2012-13

Acknowledgement of application received

 * (10/3/12) Submitted last night and the status on the toolbar (where you "verify" and "submit") changed to "forwarded". This morning "forwarded" had changed to "received," so I guess that's an acknowledgment?
 * (10/4/12) Same here, and I am also assuming "received" is an acknowledgment. If you email, they will confirm, though.
 * (10/3/12) OP here - e-mailed and confirmed - "received" does indeed mean that submission was successful. (Am I paranoid much? Sigh...)
 * (10/5/12) anyone else have problems with the system? One of my letter writers submitted her letter 3h before deadline, but every time I tried to "verify" the application, the system told me I was missing her letter. At 5pm PST, the system removed the verify and submit buttons. So I never got my app in, but it is so obviously the fault of the terrible SSHRC online system. And everybody I've talked to at the SSHRC offices says something like "I'm sorry, but the deadline has passed." (!)
 * (10/5/12) That's terrible! For some reason, one of my referees didn't receive the referee form until I entered his/her info for the third time, but that's the only problem I had with the system... I did submit a couple of days before, though. I'm wondering something went awry because so many people must have been logged on yesterday? I seem to recall that it has crashed on the due date in previous years :(
 * (10/7/12) Terrible! I am sorry to hear that! But there definitely was something wrong with the system. One of my referees had "submitted" his form and thought he had had it done, but on my side it was "created" and not "complete." He had to re-fill the form just a day before the deadline again so I can verify and submit.