Language Sciences Member Funding

LANGUAGE SCIENCES HAS FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR MEMBER PROJECTS

We will accept and approve requests on a rolling basis until February 28th. For those who are seeking grant facilitation support or matching funds for grants due shortly (such as the SSHRC Connection, Insight Development, and Partnership grants), we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible so we can support you in meeting external competition deadlines. We are also happy to receive requests for grant facilitation and matching funds for future grants, as well as for pilot projects, community outreach and knowledge mobilization activities.

Requests will be assessed on:

• Inter- and/or cross-disciplinarity
  • Request includes team members and demonstrated contributions from multiple departments and/or faculties
  • Request includes explicit statement of how proposed project crosses disciplinary boundaries
• New teams and/or new directions
  • Proposal describes either ways in which the team constitutes a new partnership or takes an existing partnership in a new direction
• Commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion, minimally within the team and, if relevant, as an outcome of the project
• The clarity and feasibility of the following request components:
  • Project rationale and timeline
  • Outcomes (such as events held, communications/publications, reports, policy briefs)
  • Budget
  • Roles of team members
  • Whether the request provides a clear plan and timeline for leveraging LangSci funds for external funding

Eligible Expenditures

LangSci has separate envelopes of funding for direct and indirect research costs. In preparing your budget, you should indicate what expenses are direct costs of research (such as GRA/UGRA salaries, data collection, honoraria for research participants and consultants, data entry, or stimulus/interview question creation) versus indirect costs of research (such as costs associated with hosting workshops, talks, seminars, and knowledge exchange/mobilization activities – e.g. catering, invited speaker travel and per diems, GAA salaries and benefits, honoraria and travel costs for community partners, and the costs of generating materials for public information such as reports, policy briefs, infographics, and other materials).

Please note that budgets may comprise solely direct costs, indirect costs, or a combination of the two.

Spending should adhere to the UBC Expenditure Guidelines, especially with regard to per diem rates and Hospitality & Entertainment expenditures. Please contact Language Sciences with questions regarding eligibility and approval of specific expenditures.

Ineligible Expenditures

At this time, Language Sciences cannot provide funding to support development of course materials. If you are interested in matching funds for something like Teaching and Learning Enhancement Funds, please reach out to us at language.sciences@ubc.ca.

Eligible Requestors

PIs must be faculty at UBCV and UBCO.  However, LangSci highly encourages the involvement of trainees and colleagues at UBC and other institutions.

Submission package

Requestors can email a completed request form (Word or PDF) to language.sciences@ubc.ca or submit their request via webform.  If seeking a transfer of funds to a new worktag, please include a signed Research Project Information Form.