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Supplementary Information (Tables)
Transfer Payment Program | Actual 2007-08 | Actual 2008-09 | 2009-10 | |||
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council | Main Estimates | Planned Revenue | Total Authorities | Actual | ||
Refunds of previous year’s expenditures | 1.7 | 2.8 | N/A | 1.7 | N/A | 3.3 |
Total Non-Respendable Revenue | 1.7 | 2.8 | N/A | 1.7 | N/A | 3.3 |
1: Grants and Scholarships
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Grants and Scholarships (voted) | |
Start Date: 1978 | End Date: No end date |
Description: This transfer payment program consists of grants and scholarships awarded for research, research training and research dissemination activities in the social sciences and humanities. | |
Strategic Outcomes: | 1. PEOPLE—A first-class research capacity in the social sciences and humanities |
2. RESEARCH—New knowledge based on excellent research in the social sciences and humanities | |
3. KNOWLEDGE MOBILIZATION—Facilitating the use of social sciences and humanities knowledge within and beyond academia |
Strategic Outcome 1: PEOPLE
Strategic Outcome 2: RESEARCH
Strategic Outcome 3: KNOWLEDGE MOBILIZATION
($ millions) | Actual Spending 2007-08 | Actual Spending 2008-09 | Planned Spending 2009-10 | Total Authorities 2009-10 | Actual Spending 2009-10 | Variance Between Planned and Actual Spending |
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Program Activities | ||||||
Fellowships, Scholarships and Prizes | 33.1 | 37.8 | 36.9 | 36.1 | 37.4 | 0.5 |
Canada Research Chairs | 55.8 | 55.6 | 59.2 | 59.1 | 54.0 | -5.2 |
Investigator-Framed Research | 84.9 | 82.6 | 82.0 | 82.0 | 82.4 | 0.4 |
Targeted Research and Training Initiatives | 22.1 | 22.1 | 21.6 | 22.2 | 22.4 | 0.8 |
Strategic Research Development | 24.8 | 24.9 | 26.0 | 26.0 | 25.0 | -1.0 |
Research Communication and Interaction | 58.7 | 29.9 | This program activity has been split into two new program activities for 2009-10 and beyond. | |||
Research Dissemination and Knowledge Translation | N/A | N/A | 7.5 | 7.5 | 9.6 | 2.1 |
Research Networking | N/A | N/A | 8.2 | 8.2 | 9.0 | 0.8 |
Total Grants/Contributions/Other Types of Transfer Payments | 279.4 | 252.9 | 241.4 | 241.1 | 239.8 | -1.6 |
Comment on variance |
As a result of SSHRC’s 2008-09 participation in a strategic review exercise, SSHRC’s grants and scholarships budget decreased in 2009-10. |
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Audit completed or planned |
No audit was conducted or planned during the reporting year. |
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Evaluation completed or planned |
Doctoral Fellowships (2008-09) |
2: Canada Graduate Scholarships
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canada Graduate Scholarships (voted) | |
Start Date: 2003 | End Date: No end date |
Description: This transfer payment program supports 1,300 doctoral students and 1,300 master’s students in the social sciences and humanities. | |
Strategic Outcome: | 1. PEOPLE—A first-class research capacity in the social sciences and humanities |
The total number of Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) master's and doctoral scholarships awarded in 2009-10 was 2,055. Of the above, 200 new master’s and 100 new doctoral CGSs were awarded in the targeted funding area of business, management and finance.
An evaluation of the CGS programs conducted in 2008-09 found that the CGS programs are meeting two key goals: enhancing the quality of graduate training and increasing the number of highly qualified personnel graduating from Canadian universities. The evaluation generally supports the notion that there is a continuing need for CGS and related programs. However, the evidence was not strongly weighted to one side.
($ millions) | Actual Spending 2007-08 | Actual Spending 2008-09 | Planned Spending 2009-10 | Total Authorities 2009-10 | Actual Spending 2009-10 | Variance Between Planned and Actual Spending |
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Program Activity | ||||||
Fellowships, Scholarships and Prizes | 64.6 | 67.3 | 68.2 | 76.0 | 75.7 | 7.5 |
Total Grants | 64.6 | 67.3 | 68.2 | 76.0 | 75.7 | 7.5 |
Comment on variance |
The major difference between planned and actual spending is due to a temporary increase in funding of $17.5 million over three years to the CGS program. |
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Audit completed or planned | No audit was conducted or planned during the reporting year. | |||||
Evaluation completed or planned |
3: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (voted) | |
Start Date: 2008 | End Date: No end date |
Description: SSHRC’s portion of this tri-agency class grant transfer payment program provides financial support to Canadian and international students who have achieved outstanding success in their studies and will pursue a doctoral program at a Canadian university in an area of the social sciences and humanities. |
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Strategic Outcome: | 1.PEOPLE—A first-class research capacity in the social sciences and humanities |
The first competition of the flagship Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships program was delivered in 2009-10, with:
($ millions) | Actual Spending 2007-08 | Actual Spending 2008-09 | Planned Spending 2009-10 | Total Authorities 2009-10 | Actual Spending 2009-10 | Variance Between Planned and Actual Spending |
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Program Activity | ||||||
Fellowships, Scholarships and Prizes | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.6 | -0.2 |
Total Grants | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 2.6 | -0.2 |
Comment on variance: |
No significant variance was observed. |
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Audit completed or planned: |
No audit was conducted or planned during the reporting year. |
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Evaluation completed or planned: | No evaluation was completed or planned during the reporting year. |
4: Indirect Costs of Research
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Indirect Costs of Research | |
Start Date: 2003 | End Date: No end date |
Description: This transfer payment program supports a portion of the indirect costs associated with conducting academic research in institutions that receive research grant funds from any of the three federal research granting agencies. Grants are awarded to eligible institutions using a progressive funding formula based on the average revenues from research grants received from CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC. |
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Strategic Outcome: | 4. INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT—A strong Canadian science and research environment |
Since 2005-06, there has been a more than 25 per cent increase in financial support to postsecondary institutions for indirect costs of research supported by the federal government’s three research granting agencies (SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR).
In a recent evaluation, vice-presidents of research and presidents of recipient institutions reported that, since 2003-04, support for research has improved from below average to above average.
Since the program’s inception in 2001, SSHRC has allocated close to $1.7 billion in Indirect Costs grants to 124 eligible Canadian postsecondary institutions, including $324.6 million in 2009-10. The funding has provided vital support to the academic research environment in Canada.
In 2008-09, the most recent year for which data is available, eligible institutions invested along five key investment areas: 36 per cent of the Indirect Costs funds were spent on facilities; 15 per cent on research resources; 34 per cent on management and administration; 9 per cent on regulatory requirements and accreditation; and 6 per cent on intellectual property management.
Larger institutions, because they receive larger grants, seem better able to benefit from the program’s positive impacts than do smaller institutions. However, in general, small and mid-sized institutions say that, even though their grants are more modest, these funds play a key role in building their research programs, and make a big difference when it comes to their researchers’ work.
On the whole, the institutions that receive Indirect Costs funds invest them mainly in research facilities, management and administration. This distribution remains very similar from year to year, but the proportion of funds spent on regulatory requirements and accreditation does seem to be increasing over time, most likely reflecting an increase in institutions’ and researchers’ responsibilities in these areas. In contrast, the proportion of funds spent on resources seems to be decreasing.
Interestingly, the small and medium-sized institutions spent a large proportion of their Indirect Costs grants on management and administration of their research activities, while large institutions and research-intensive institutions invested almost the same proportion on facilities as they did on management and administration.
($ millions) | Actual Spending 2007-08 | Actual Spending 2008-09 | Planned Spending 2009-10 | Total Authorities 2009-10 | Actual Spending 2009-10 | Variance Between Planned and Actual Spending |
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Program Activity | ||||||
Indirect Costs of Research | 299.1 | 328.3 | 329.1 | 328.3 | 324.6 | -4.5 |
Total Grants | 299.1 | 328.3 | 329.1 | 328.3 | 324.6 | -4.5 |
Comment on variance: |
As a result of SSHRC’s 2008-09 participation in a strategic review exercise, the grants and scholarships budget for this program activity decreased in 2009-10. |
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Audit completed or planned: | ||||||
Evaluation completed or planned: | Evaluation of the Tri-Agency Indirect Costs Program (2009) |
5: Networks of Centres of Excellence
Name of Transfer Payment Program: Networks of Centres of Excellence | |
Start Date: 1997 | End Date: No end date |
Description: This federal class grant transfer payment program is administered jointly by the three federal research granting agencies, in partnership with Industry Canada. It supports research in complex areas of critical importance to Canadian universities and hospitals, in partnership with private and public sectors. The networks funded through this program are multidisciplinary and multisectoral partnerships that stimulate leading-edge, internationally competitive research in areas critical to Canadian economic and social development. |
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Strategic Outcome: | 3. KNOWLEDGE MOBILIZATION—Facilitating the use of social sciences and humanities knowledge within and beyond academia |
In 2009-10, SSHRC continued to work towards deepening the social sciences and humanities’ involvement in the Networks of Centres of Excellence’s four main programs: the Networks of Centres of Excellence, the Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research, Business-Led Networks of Centres of Excellence, and the Industrial R&D Internship Program.
New Networks of Centres of Excellence resulting from the 2009 competition include: GRAND (Graphics, Animation and New Media), which has strong and diverse social sciences and humanities research elements; Carbon Management Canada, which has almost 20 social sciences and humanities researchers; and NeuroDevNet, which also has strong social sciences and humanities elements related to health.
In addition, an information session on the Networks of Centres of Excellence was held in late 2009 as part of the promotion of interagency and interdisciplinary research at the annual SSHRC Leaders conference.
($ millions) | Actual Spending 2007-08 | Actual Spending 2008-09 | Planned Spending 2009-10 | Total Authorities 2009-10 | Actual Spending 2009-10 | Variance Between Planned and Actual Spending |
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Program Activity | ||||||
Research Communication |
This program activity no longer exists for 2009-10 |
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Research Networking | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.8 | 11.8 | 11.8 | 0.0 |
Total Grants | 0.0 | 0.0 | 11.8 | 11.8 | 11.8 | 0.0 |
Comment on variance: |
No variance was observed. |
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Audit completed or planned: | No audit was conducted or planned during the reporting year. | |||||
Evaluation completed or planned: | No evaluation was completed or planned during the reporting year. |
1. Name of Internal Audit | 2. Internal Audit Type | 3. Status | 4. Completion Date |
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Grant and Fellowship Budget Process Review | Advisory | Completed | September 2009 |
Audit of the Enterprise Awards Management System | Assurance | Completed | February 2010 |
All audit reports are or will be posted in the Publications section of SSHRC's website, at www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/about-au_sujet/publications/audit-verification-eng.aspx.
1. Name of Evaluation | 2. Program Activity | 3. Evaluation Type | 4. Status | 5. Completion Date |
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Evaluation of the Initiative on the New Economy | 2.2 Targeted Research and Training Initiatives | Summative evaluation | Completed | August 2009 |
Summative Evaluation of the Metropolis Project, Phase II: Knowledge Transfer Activities and Impacts | 2.2 Targeted Research and Training Initiatives | Summative evaluation | Completed | May 2009 |
Doctoral Fellowships Program Review Report | 1.1 Fellowships, Scholarships and Prizes | Program review | Completed | January 2010 |
Evaluation of the Tri-Agency Indirect Costs Program | 4.1 Indirect Costs of Research | Summative evaluation | Completed | July 2009 |
Cluster Evaluation of the Standard Research Grants Program and the Research Development Initiatives Program | 2.1 Investigator-Framed Research | Summative evaluation | In progress | September 2010 |
Summative Evaluation of the Canada Research Chairs Program | 1.2 Canada Research Chairs | Summative evaluation | In progress | March 2011 |
Joint Evaluation of the Postdoctoral Fellowships Program and Prizes and Special Fellowships | 1.1 Fellowships, Scholarships and Prizes | Summative evaluation | Planned | March 2011 |
Other Strategic Research Development | 2.3 Strategic Research Development | Summative evaluation | Rescheduled | March 2012 |
Evaluation of the Sports Canada Joint Initiative | 2.2 Targeted Research and Training Initiatives | Summative evaluation | Cancelled | NA |
Evaluation of the International Opportunities Fund | 2.3 Strategic Research Development | Summative evaluation | Cancelled | NA |
Evaluation of SSHRC’s Participation in BOREAS: Histories from the North—Environments, Movements, Narratives | 2.3 Strategic Research Development | Summative evaluation | Cancelled | NA |
Summative Evaluation of the Networks of Centres of Excellence—New Initiatives | 3.2 Research Networking | Summative evaluation | Completed | September 2009 |
Evaluation of the Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research Program | 3.2 Research Networking | Summative evaluation | Completed | September 2009 |
All evaluation reports are or will be posted in the Publications section of SSHRC's website, at www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/about-au_sujet/publications/evaluations-eng.aspx.