The Centre for Educational Research, Collaboration and Development provides research grants to tenure-track and tenured faculty, lecturers, and instructors in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina.
Each year, funds are available to support short-term research projects in four grant categories:
Call For Applications
Who should apply?
Any tenure-track, tenured and term faculty, lecturers, and instructors in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina may apply for a CERCD grant.
How do I apply?
To apply for a CERCD grant, please send an application to education.CERCD@uregina.ca. Please see the Application Form and Funding Guidelines below. Ensure to read the Research Funding Guidelines before filling the application form.
Spring 2023 Applications
- Call for research proposals: January 19 – February 27, 2023
- The Grant Writing workshop date: TBA
- Application deadline: February 27, 2023
General Research Fund
- Purpose: To support short-term research projects in the faculty
- Value: Up to $15,000
- Eligibility: Tenure-track and tenured faculty, lecturers, and instructors
- Types of Initiatives: Short-term research projects that can be completed within two years of receipt of the award
Community-engaged Research Fund
- Purpose: To support research that is responsive to the local/provincial community needs and/or builds partnerships with community organizations
- Value: Up to $10,000
- Eligibility: Tenure-track and tenured faculty, lecturers, and instructors; preference given to research projects that demonstrate evidence of community-based research relationships
- Types of Initiatives: Research done in partnership with community organizations or that involves/includes community members, research that specifically addresses an identified need in the community
French Language Research Fund
- Purpose: To support research in and about French language education
- Value: Up to $4000
- Eligibility: Tenure-track and tenured faculty, lecturers, and instructors
- Types of Initiatives: Support for various aspects of research that addresses French language education
Knowledge Mobilization Fund
- Purpose: To support the “reciprocal and complementary flow and uptake of research knowledge between researchers, knowledge brokers, and knowledge users”
(SSHRC definition at bit.ly/sshrckm) - Value: Up to $15,000
- Eligibility: Tenure-track and tenured faculty, lecturers, and instructors
- Types of Initiatives: Exchange and dissemination of knowledge through activities such as facilitation of workshops/events, delivery of conference presentations, development of print or web-based materials/communications, publishing in open access journals, and other activities that fall under the Tri Council’s definition of knowledge mobilization