Pre-Submission Review

Pre-submission Peer Review and/or Budget Justification Review

SSHRC Insight Development Grant competition 

The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Research Partner Network are pleased to offer faculty member applicants the possibility of an internal peer review and/or a budget justification review to support applications for the Insight Development Grant competition. Participation is voluntary, but past experience shows that pre-submission feedback helps to improve an applicant’s chances of competition success.

The College has established a panel of volunteer peer reviewers who are willing to read a final draft of your application. Many of our volunteers are successful grant recipients and/or past members of SSHRC merit review committees. (If you’d like to serve as a peer reviewer, please get in touch.)

The budget justification reviews will be carried out by a team of staff from the College Office of Research and the Research Partner Network who will check for red flags, common mistakes, and ineligible expenses.

To take advantage of these services, you will need to have a high-quality, penultimate version of your application uploaded to the SSHRC Research Portal (do not click on “Submit”) so that you can share the preview PDF.

Here are the deadlines that apply:

November 15, 2024

Register for peer review and/or budget justification review. This gives us time to find a suitable match between your topic and a peer reviewer and tells us how many will need a budget justification review.

Register Here

NOON on January 2, 2025 (but if possible please submit by December 18, 2024)

  • Absolute latest cut-off date for submitting a near final draft of your application
  • Many faculty doing peer reviews appreciate receiving a pre-Xmas submission
  • Your draft must be uploaded into SSHRC’s Research Portal (do not click “Submit”) and then download and share the preview PDF
  • While you wait for results, get ready to create a “New Proposal Request” in the UAlberta Researcher Home Page (but do not deposit as yet)

January 10, 2025

  • Reviewers return feedback to applicants

January 17, 2025

  • Deadline for those in the Faculty of Arts to submit their final applications for review by uploading the preview PDF to the UAlberta Researcher Home Page

   January 20, 2025

  • Deadline for those in the Faculties of Business, Education and Law to submit their final applications for review by uploading the preview PDF to the UAlberta Researcher Home Page

   January 27, 2025 (RAS deadline)