BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

The broad purpose of the Standard Research Grants program is to support research and develop excellence in research activities in the social sciences and humanities.
The specific objectives of the program are to:
• support high-quality independent programs of research, as proposed by scholars and judged by their peers;
• provide opportunities for the training of future researchers;
• contribute to the development or elaboration of new theoretical or methodological approaches to research;
• maintain and develop vigorous disciplinary research activities;
• foster and develop vigorous collaborative, multidisciplinary research activities among researchers in the social sciences and humanities; and
• assist the communication of research results both within and beyond the academic community.