Research Data Centres Graduate Student Award Program

Deadline: May 15, 2006

Research Fields

• Unrestricted

Categories

• Unrestricted

Citizenship

• No citizenship information available

Eligibility

• As a means of promoting the use of Statistics Canada datasets in graduate student research projects and encouraging the funding of graduate students, the Manitoba RDC is offering grants for Masters and PhD students who plan to undertake a new project.

  The Manitoba RDC offers researchers in Manitoba free access to Statistics Canada datasets, as well as the workspace, professional and technical support and equipment needed to analyze these data. Information on the RDC program, the application process, and the datasets available can be found at the Statistics Canada website: http://www.statcan.ca/english/rdc/index.htm

  Eligibility: Applicants must be:
  1) Registered as a graduate student at a university in Manitoba;
  2) Base their thesis or dissertation on one of the Statistics Canada databases available at the RDC;
  3) Students may hold these grants in addition to other funding, when allowed by the terms of their other funding.

  Modes of Payment: There will be one lump sum paid once all necessary procedures have been completed:
  1) The research project has been approved. The procedure described at http://www.umanitoba.ca/centres/rdc/ ; and
  2) The contract with Statistics Canada has been signed.

Value

• Up to 5 grants of $5,000 will be offered in 2006, depending on the availability of funding.

Currency

• Canadian

Tenable at

• No details on tenability available

Application details

• Interested students must submit the following documents:
  1) The proposal to be submitted to Statistics Canada/SSHRC for approval to access the datasets, including a description of the research project, with details on the research question, methodology used, and the dataset to be accessed;
  2) A current transcript;
  3) A letter of support from the supervisor;
  4) A cover letter, with contact information (name, home and departmental address, telephone number and email address).
• All documents must be received by the RDC not later than May 15, 2006.

• For further information, contact:
  Linda DeRiviere, RDC Analyst
  Linda_Deriviere@umanitoba.ca
  Selection Procedure: A committee chaired by Evelyn Forget (Academic Director, Manitoba RDC) will evaluate all completed applications received by the due date.

Results will be announced by June 15, 2006.