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Insight Development Grants

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

TraditionalPilot / seed funding

Seed funding for research in its initial stages: developing new research questions and experimenting with new methods, theoretical approaches or ideas. One to two years.

Indicative award
$10k–$100k (total award)Canadian dollars as published for the 2026 competition: $10,000 to $100,000 over 1 to 2 years. The 2024 and 2025 competitions were $7,000 to $75,000.
Timing
Annual cycleAnnual cycle · FebNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual competition with a fixed February 2 deadline (8:00 p.m. eastern) in 2024, 2025 and 2026. The February 2, 2026 date has passed; the 2027 date is not yet published on the page.
Who can apply
Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank, Postdoctoral
Eligibility
Proposals from individuals or teams affiliated with a Canadian postsecondary institution eligible to administer SSHRC funds. The programme page states no career-stage restriction on the face of it, though the scheme is oriented to early-stage work.
SSWR clusters
Topics
exploratory research · new methods · early-stage projects
Apply at
https://sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/opportunities/insight-development-grants.aspx
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Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

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