OSSTF / FEESO Research Grant for Emergent Issues and Priorities Application Form

Eligible Theme for the 2025 – 2026 Academic Year:

Building Stronger Schools and Universities: Advancing Democratic Governance Through Meaningful Community Participation

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Please answer the following questions:

Name:

Contact information:

Curriculum Vitae:

Research Statement, which includes your research question, how you plan to answer the question and how this project fits into your overall research interests:

Projected expenses for conducting, presenting, and publishing your research, are not covered by other funding. Grant money may not be used for overhead, tuition, or fees at an applicant's university or place of work:

Instead of using the Projected Expenses textbox, you can upload a file:

Ethics approval as required:

For graduate students, a letter signing off on the proposal from the student's academic advisor:

OSSTF/FEESO values the participation of members with various lived experiences. We recognize that the selection of candidates for this award from members of equity or sovereignty-seeking groups is an asset. Self-identification of membership in equity or sovereignty-seeking group(s) is voluntary. If you choose to self-identify, please check any that apply to you in the separate Voluntary Self-ID form.

Additional Comments:

You should limit your text to 500 words.

Note that at least one of the three awards would be reserved for researchers who identify as belonging to Indigenous, equity-seeking, or oppressed groups.

To facilitate knowledge mobilization, check all of the following that you can commit to providing OSSTF/FEESO:

A layperson summary of OSSTF/FEESO-specific and overall findings. This should include disaggregation should the data allow it. This is intended for the OSSTF/FEESO Provincial Executive so they can be familiar with the results. The OSSTF/FEESO Provincial Executive may then want to share the report with the OSSTF/FEESO Provincial Council.

Copies of published papers/conference presentations related to this research project.

An article appropriate for publication in Forum Magazine. You can find the magazine here: http://education-forum.ca/.

Should you and OSSTF/FEESO identify other opportunities for knowledge mobilization that are of mutual interest, such as presentation to committees and conferences, those may also be pursued.

The application Deadline for the 2025 – 2026 Academic year is January 31, 2026. Successful applicants will be informed by February 16, 2026.

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