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…
Stefan Leslie, CEO Research Nova Scotia 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…
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…
Halifax, 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…
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.
