APPLICATIONS CLOSED
Call for proposals
The Vanier Institute of the Family is now accepting funding applications for secondary data analysis of Statistics Canada and other national-level datasets with potential to advance understanding of family diversities and family wellbeing in Canada.
Research proposals should address these priority areas:
- Family structure: one-parent families, skip-generation families, stepfamilies, blended families, families living apart together, families experiencing infertility;
- Family work: caregivers, families with remote workers, families with non-standard work schedules, families with self-employment;
- Family identity: new immigrant families (<5 years in Canada), Indigenous families, racialized families, families with disability, LGBTQ2S+ families.
When developing the research proposal, researchers are asked to include analyses of wellbeing outcomes.
One grant valued at up to Cdn$25,000 will be awarded.
Eligibility
- This call is open to all researchers with knowledge of families in Canada.
- Preference is given to early career scholars, including Postdoctoral Fellows, Assistant Professors, and others who have obtained their PhD within the past seven years.
- Researchers working in Canada or partnering with researchers in Canada are preferred.
- In the case of international partnerships, funding must be distributed through an eligible Canadian institution.
- Applications from both public and private sector researchers are welcome.
Schedule
- February 27, 2024: Call for proposals opens
- April 23, 2024: Deadline for applications (5:00 p.m. ET)
- May 14, 2024: Funding notification
- June 1, 2024: Project start date
- December 1, 2024: Project completion date
Please review our downloadable funding application guidelines for more details. When submitting an application, you will also need to refer to our downloadable expense guidelines and our downloadable budget and timeline templates.
Contact
Margo Hilbrecht, PhD, Executive Director
[email protected]
