The annual Metropolis National Research Competition has been announced.
Grants are up to $125,000 and the deadline is December 14th 2007. Full details are available on the SSHRC website at:
http://www.sshrc.ca/web/apply/program_descriptions/metropolis_e.asp
The purpose of the annual Metropolis National Research Competition is to select and finance a major national-level policy research project in the field of immigration and diversity. The findings of the research will be of direct relevance to policy-makers within the Government of Canada and, more specifically, to the main funding partners of the Metropolis Project.
At a broader level, the objectives of the competition are to:
- Produce a research study that informs federal policy on issues surrounding immigration and diversity
- Produce knowledge that affects federal policy and programs related to immigration and diversity
- Widely disseminate, in collaboration with the Metropolis secretariat, the results of this research through a range of knowledge transfer/mobilization activities targeting federal policy-makers and the research community
- Create knowledge that informs and expands the broader academic discourse on immigration and diversity
For this year's competition, the policy research question to be investigated is:
How do the major challenges faced by immigrants, as they settle in Canada, change over time?
