LFS Today July 11, 2022 | LFS Intranet 2020

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Are you a Manager or Supervisor going on vacation? Set up your Workday Delegations

As the holidays near and people go on vacation, please remember to set up your delegations if you’ll be unavailable for a certain length of time. Delegate your workflow approvals to an alternate approver.

Read on to find out how to delegate all inbox items or only inbox items belonging to a specific type: How do I set up delegation?

Events

July 12 – Farm Foundation & CAPI Webinar: Agriculture & Food Security

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created increased pressure on global food systems, limiting supply and driving up prices of many key foodstuffs. However, pressure on global food systems was already significant, driven by rising demand and production challenges around the world.

This global challenge requires local solutions, with food producers being called on to find sustainable ways to meet growing global demand. This webinar will explore current dynamics within the global food system and consider what policy solutions could be implemented in Canada, the United States and around the world.

Deadlines

July 28 – Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI): Special Fund for Graduate Research

This one-time-only Special Fund is for graduate-level students to fund research that advances any of the Indigenous Strategic Plan’s (ISP) 43 actions.

This was initiated by the Indigenous Strategic Plan Executive Advisory Committee (ISPEAC) and the Indigenous Strategic Plan Coordinating Committee (ISPCC) following adjudication of the Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund Stream 3: Student-led Projects.

Graduate students have widely reported a lack of access to funds for on-the-ground, Indigenous community-based research. This one-time-only Special Fund for Graduate Research seeks to fill this gap to temporarily fund unique costs associated with research in this area until a longer-term funding stream can be established.

Up to $30K is available per project
Research projects can run for up to 18 months
Principal Applicants must have at least one full-time faculty Co-Applicant tied to the ISI Fund research project.
Applications are due July 28, 2022 at 3:00pm (PDT) through the online application portal

Further information can be found on the ISP website

Aug. 5 – Strengthening the Capacities of Science Granting Councils in Gender and Inclusion – call for project proposals

The goal of the project on Gender Equality and Inclusivity, to be funded under this call by the new SGCI partnerships involving IDRC, the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), is to reinforce the capacity of science granting councils to mainstream gender and inclusivity into science, technology and innovation.

The SGCI’s ongoing work on gender, equality and inclusion will be deepened and councils will be supported to implement the knowledge and lessons gained during the two phases of SGCI initiatives (SGCI-1 and SGCI-2). Achieving this goal could include work in three broad areas: promoting (i) the equality and status of women in research environments; (ii) diversity and inclusivity beyond gender equality in research environments; and (iii) the sex, gender and inclusivity dimension in research design and content.

Deadline: August 5, 2022

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Aug. 17 – Advance Knowledge in Health Research, Care, Systems or Outcomes

CIHR’s Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes by supporting projects of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.

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