Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants : final evaluation report / prepared by Science-Metrix Inc., the Evaluation Division and R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd.: CR22-67/2016E-PDF
"This report presents the results of an evaluation of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's (SSHRC) Insight Grants (IG) and Insight Development Grants (IDG). The evaluation was conducted to meet the coverage requirements of the Treasury Board's Policy on Evaluation (2009) and the requirements of the Financial Administration Act. ... Insight Grants provide funds to scholars working as individuals or in teams for long-term social sciences and humanities (SSH) research initiatives. For the 2012-2014 competition years, these grants provided between $7,000 and $500,000 over three to five years. Insight Development Grants support the development of new research questions, and experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches or ideas in the SSH. These grants are valued at between $7,000 and $75,000 over one to two years and are allocated across two categories of researchers: established and emerging scholars"--Executive summary, page vi.
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| Department/Agency | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, issuing body. Science-Metrix (Firm), consultant. R.A. Malatest & Associates, consultant. |
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| Title | Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants : final evaluation report / prepared by Science-Metrix Inc., the Evaluation Division and R.A. Malatest & Associates Ltd. |
| Variant title | Evaluation of SSHRC's Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants |
| Publication type | Monograph |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
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| Note(s) | Issued also in French under title: Subventions Savoir et subventions de développement Savoir : rapport d'évaluation final. Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (pages 48-49). |
| Publishing information | [Ottawa] : Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada = Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, May 2016. ©2016 |
| Description | 1 online resource (viii, 49 pages) : colour illustrations |
| ISBN | 9780660058436 |
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| Subject terms | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada -- Evaluation. Research grants -- Government policy -- Canada -- Evaluation. Federal aid to research -- Canada -- Evaluation. |
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