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New Research Funding Strategies for the Humanities and Social Sciences in the 21 st century: Examples from Canada Chad Gaffield OC FRSC Distinguished University Professor chadgaffield University Research Chair in Digital Scholarship November

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New Research Funding Strategies for the Humanities and Social Sciences in the 21st century: Examples from Canada

Chad Gaffield OC FRSC Distinguished University Professor University Research Chair in Digital Scholarship

November 16, 2017

chadgaffield www.chadgaffield.com gaffield@uottawa.ca

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Technology: Change/History:Transfer of Knowledge

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Research is telling us that we are living in a paradigm-shifting era…. Deep changes in research and in larger society

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Winter 2006: “accountability” and “value-for- (public) money” review of the federal research granting agencies announced in the 2006 Canadian federal budget Accountable to whom? Value for whom?

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SSHRC NSERC CIHR

Canada’s Research Granting Councils

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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES ON CAMPUS:

  • – 50,440: Full time graduate students;
  • – 20,420: Full time professors.
  • SSHRC:
  • – $323M in funding—8,994 projects—30

disciplines;

  • – 13,000 applications received for grants,

scholarships and fellowships;

  • – 4,320 new projects funded;
  • – 565 peer-review committee members.
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September 2006: appt as President and CEO Autumn 2006: Jim Mitchell, A review of NSERC and SSHRC.

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Technology-driven age? ”Outsiders” telling “us” to change?

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So what’s going on?

1) Deep conceptual changes underway in research and larger society; 2) These conceptual changes are being enabled, accelerated and then influenced positively and negatively in iterative ways by digital technologies; 3) For these reasons, we are must update research policies and practices including those related to funding.

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Complaints in public discussion: SSH research is not related to the major issues today (especially H) graduates are not getting good jobs – not materially valued by society (especially H)

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Timeless critiques? Research activities really changing?

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What does research tell us about ourselves as researchers?

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Peer-review….. (external critique: funding bad proposals!) Researcher perspective: Increasing number of applications! Turning down good proposals…

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Researcher perspective: Too hard to apply (too many different research funding programs…too complex…valeu of grantmanship is too high

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“On a scale ranging from extremely interdisciplinary to exclusively disciplinary, how would you characterize your research?”

5,7 31,1 38,9 24,3 5,9 31,6 39,8 22,7 6,3 36,9 41,2 15,5 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45

Exclusively disciplinary Quite disciplinary Quite interdisciplinary Extremely Interdisciplinary

Social Sciences Humanities History

PERCENT %

Source: 2008 web survey, SSH faculty, Science-Metrix

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Research is telling us that we are living in a paradigm-shifting era…. Deep changes in research (and in larger society)

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CREATIVITY DIVERSITY COMPLEXITY

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Three deep conceptual changes:

COMPLEXITY = from the conviction that complexity is only apparent (simplicity if we just look closely) to recognition of complexity as a common phenomenon (non-linearity, small-large, emergence, etc)

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Thanks to Simon Hodson ‪ @simonhodson99

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Three deep conceptual changes:

COMPLEXITY = from the conviction that complexity is only apparent (simplicity if we just look closely) to recognition of complexity as a common phenomenon (non-linearity, small-large, emergence, etc) DIVERSITY = from diversity as a problem to be eliminated to diversity as the foundation of strength and resilience

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Three deep conceptual changes:

COMPLEXITY = from the conviction that complexity is only apparent (simplicity if we just look closely) to recognition of complexity as a common phenomenon (non-linearity, small-large, emergence, etc) DIVERSITY = from diversity as a problem to be eliminated to diversity as the foundation of strength and resilience CREATIVITY = from a tiny group of creators (pre-ordained elite) for a majority of appliers to trying to tap the entire pool of talent

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WE STUDY HUMANS!!!!!! What are the humanities and social sciences? We study human thought and behaviour In the past and present

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We must tell our story based on the evidence!

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  • Tomorrow’s headlines!
  • Next generation’s headlines!
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Post-graduate income: by field of study

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Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln

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The increasing influence of the humanities across research fields and beyond: Interpretation, meaning, significance of evidence (« facts ») Evidence does not speak for itself! The data do not tell us…

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The increasing influence of the humanities on campus: Studying‪“unstructured”‪evidence…studying deep complexity…

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For more information, please visit the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)

« What are the intersections between biomedicine and humanities scholarship? »

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Implications for research policy practice:

  • Complexity: pathways to support integrated research

(multi-inter-trans-cross-sectoral) as well as specialized (“disciplinary”)‪research

  • Diversity: pathways to support research using different

concepts, research approaches, ways of working (no cookie‪cutter!‪No‪“ideal”!

  • Creativity:‪redefine‪who‪is‪“expert”…be open to all

possible « research creators »

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Redefining relevance….

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SSHRC NSERC CIHR

Canada’s Granting Councils

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NSERC CIHR CFI SSHRC

21st century approach

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“Agatha Christie likely suffered from Alzheimer’s”

“Research by U of T professors Ian Lancashire and Graeme Hirst has garnered top spot in the N.Y. Times’ 9th Annual Year in Ideas.”

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New answers to old questions: FUND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE SSH??? SSHRC FUNDS PROJECTS WITH SCIENTISTS??? NSERC? CIHR?

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Persistent Challenges

1) Uneven resources across campus… e.g. % of researchers with any external funding! 2) 19th-20th century thinking-assumptions apparent in research funding application forms, adjudication, impact evalution, etc. 3) 19th-20th century thinking-assumptions apparent in institutional structures (including budget models), rankings, etc.

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Learning to participate within AND across (20th century) boundaries: a) cross-campus; b) cross-sector; c) global engagement.

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http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-humanities-for-beginners

"This is an extraordinary time for understanding of the human condition"

Pierre Lévy, philosopher, CRC in Collective Intelligence, uOttawa

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Over to you! Many thanks.