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Research Nova Scotia Announces $2 Million in Funding for New Health Researchers
HALIFAX, NS (December 10, 2020) Research Nova Scotia (RNS) is pleased to announce over $2 million in funding for new health researchers in Nova Scotia to help increase capacity in this critical area. The 21 recipients are located at Dalhousie, Acadia, St. Francis Xavier, Saint Mary’s, Mount Saint Vincent, and Cape Breton University as well as…
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Federal Research Funding Integrated Calendar
Canada’s federal research funding agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)—together with the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), have created an integrated calendar of agency and interagency funding opportunities. The integrated calendar lists a wide-range of funding opportunities for…
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Our Mission-Oriented Approach to Research
When Research Nova Scotia began operations on April 1, 2019, we needed to figure out how the new organization would fulfill its mandate. How do you support, organize and coordinate research funding in such a way that the research is in line with the needs of the province, but without telling researchers what or how…
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African Nova Scotian Researcher Directory
The Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute is creating the first African Nova Scotian Researcher Directory. The purpose of the directory is to help bring awareness to, and create a network of, researchers of African descent in a range of fields. The directory will be a “go to” place for researchers looking to work collaboratively and…
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‘The echo pandemic of mental health’: survey finds that Nova Scotia has the highest COVID-19 Anxiety and Depression levels in Canada
HALIFAX, NS (October 1, 2020) “The echo pandemic of mental health will be one of the legacies of COVID-19” said Dr. Katie Aubrecht, assistant professor in the department of sociology at St. Francis Xavier University. Nova Scotians are reporting Canada’s highest levels of anxiety and depression due to COVID-19, and the greatest nation-wide increase since…
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Scholar Strike Nova Scotia: Teach in for Black Lives
Research Nova Scotia supports our academic colleagues who participated in the Scholar Strike on Sept 9th & 10th, 2020 to protest anti-Black, racist and colonial police brutality in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere. Watch scholars from across Nova Scotia actively engaged in ending all forms of racist, carceral, institutional and systemic forms of violence.