The St. Lawrence College Scholarship Fund is a platform dedicated to empowering our faculty and staff members in their pursuit of professional growth and excellence. As an institution committed to fostering innovation and knowledge advancement, we recognize the importance of supporting our faculty and staff in staying current in their respective fields.
The Scholarship Fund provides a unique opportunity for our dedicated educators and administrators to engage in a wide range of activities, such as research, collaboration, publication, and workshops, that contribute to their ongoing development in teaching, learning, and their areas of expertise.
These funding opportunities are supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) through its Institutional Grants (SIG) program, the St. Lawrence College Scholarship Fund, and the St. Lawrence College Internal Research Fund.
NEW - Researchers applying for Ignite, Activate, or Achieve funding must first complete the online workshop Applied Research 101. Please email research@sl.on.ca to request access.
***Please note that funding for the programs below are limited and subject to availability. Once allocated funds are exhausted, no further awards will be issued for the year.
Academic Scholarship Funding Programs
| Grant Overview | About | Expected Outcome | Link to Application Instructions |
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Ascent Grant
Value Up to $2,000 Duration Up to One Year Application Deadline Rolling Applications Accepted |
The Ascent Grant was created to help inspire, encourage and support Fundable Examples
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The Ascent Grant provides short-term funding to perform an initial investigation into a specified topic to develop a case for pursuing other research grants (ie: SLC-IGNITE Award, NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC, etc.) These awards will result in greater awareness of the research being done at SLC and enable greater access to the knowledge that is being created here. |
Eligible applications will be automatically considered for SSHRC Explore awards |
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Activate Grant
Value Up to $2,000 Duration Up to One Year Application Deadline Rolling Applications Accepted |
The Activate Grant provides resources for SLC employees to create meaningful relationships with community partners to scope and prospect larger collaborative research projects. Activate Grants are intended to build a framework for college staff to connect and build trust and understanding to co-create knowledge opportunities that will impact the community and industry partners. Fundable Examples
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The Activate Grant provides short-term and direct support for research activities with partners that will inform decision-making with a community or industry partner in the public, private or not-for-profit sector. These awards will result in stronger collaboration between SLC staff and external groups and enable the co-creation of new knowledge that will bring measurable benefits to the partner and/ or the broader community. |
Eligible applications will be automatically considered for SSHRC Explore awards |
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Advance Grant
Value Up to $2000 per person per year Duration Up to One Year Application Deadline Rolling Applications Accepted |
The Advance Award will allow for funding applications to enable researchers and innovators to share and mobilize knowledge to academic, community, industry, or other audiences. Research and innovation impacts are maximized when the products of these activities are shared widely. Fundable Examples
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Through the Advance Grant, SLC faculty and staff can disseminate knowledge and outputs of research and scholarly activity to academic and non-academic audiences, ensuring knowledge, products, and processes can be used, debated, critiqued, and built upon (dissemination). Additionally, Advance Grants can provide funding for SLC faculty to plan and host, attend, or participate in conferences or workshops to help ensure that SLC faculty can engage in conversations on the cutting-edge of their discipline (peer learning). |
Eligible applications will be automatically considered for SSHRC Exchange awards |
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Ignite Grant
Value Up to $5,000 Duration One Year Application Deadline Rolling Applications Accepted |
Ignite Grants support the development of exceptional researchers at St. Lawrence College. IGNITE Grants fund well-developed, employee-led small-scale research projects that have the potential to lead to larger, externally funded projects. Fundable Examples
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Ignite Grant proposals should bring together faculty or staff, students and, where appropriate, community partners to further knowledge or solve real-world problems. Ignite Awards are best developed from ASCENT or ACTIVATE Grant applications, unless the researcher has significant research experience and would be comfortable undertaking a tri-council (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR) grant application. |
Eligible applications will be automatically considered for SSHRC Explore and/ or SSHRC Exchange awards. |
Should you require any of the SLC Research and Scholarship Funding documents in an alternate format, email research@sl.on.ca.
Resources
Use these resources as needed to develop a strong Research and Scholarship Funding proposal.
As you prepare your proposal, refer to the following information to ensure strong, accurate budget and budget justification sections.
When budgeting for student assistants, use the rates included in the most current version of the student wage rate schedule.
When budgeting for travel-related expenses, please ensure you follow SLC's Finance - Travel Expense Policy found on the SLC policy webpage
Research data management refers to the ways researchers work with, organize, and maintain the data created from a research project. A data management plan (DMP) is a formal, researcher-created document that details the methods, tools, and practices that will be used to manage data during and after a research project and is an important part of a research proposal.
For guidance on creating a DMP, and links to resources and examples, see the Research Data Management FAQs.
- Employees with a project idea should have a discussion with the Research Office (research@sl.on.ca) about the funding opportunity and the research idea.
- Employees should have a discussion with their supervisor to a) determine supervisor support for the project and b) have a preliminary discussion about the project scope and its potential impact on SWF hours, teaching load, and/ or work hours (B applies to full time employees only)
- As they scope their projects and develop their proposals, employees are strongly encouraged to stay in touch with supervisors and the research office with substantive updates or questions. In the budget and budget justification sections of their applications, employees will indicate the number of hours per semester they will dedicate to the project.
- Before an employee sends in an application, their supervisor must review and approve the proposal and, in the case of full time employees, the SWF or work hours included in the budget.
- When a proposal is ready to submit, employees will apply using the Research and Scholarship Funding Webform. When applying, employees indicate supervisor support by clicking a confirmation button on the web form.
For all funding programs, please follow the application instructions found in link to application instructions column in the table above. For Ignite, Activate, Ascent use the Application Templates provided in the same column.