BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

Some Funding Sponsors Offer Small Grants to Jumpstart Your Research

• They come in different forms and in varying dollar amounts depending on the sponsor:
  • Seed Grants
  • Research Proposal Development Grants
  • Networking Facilitation Grants
  • Research Capacity Development Grants
  • Collaborative Team Building Awards
  • Community-based Research Grants

What are Some Benefits of Securing Small Grants?

• Broadens your research experience and establishes your credibility as a researcher

• Allows you to gather pilot data in a short-term project
  • to test research ideas, methods, logistics and timing
  • to build the case for your proposed research in the next grant application

• Provides funds for team building, networking, and travel to strengthen your proposed research and solidify your research team

• Helps new research teams to successfully compete for research funds at the national and international level

• A starting point to establish a research career

Sources of Start-up Grants

Health of Population Networks (HoPNs) - funded by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research until March 31, 2010 - are just a few of the many sources of seed and development grants:

• BC Child & Youth Health Research Network (BCCYHRN)
  • Seed and Networking Grants ($4,900)

• BC Environmental & Occupational Health Research Network (BCEOHRN)
  • Research Capacity Development Grants ($10,000)
  • Networking Facilitation Grants ($2,500) 

• Mental Health and Addictions Research Network (MHARN)
  • Development Grants ($3,500)
  • Seed Grants ($7,500)

• BC Network for Aging Research (BCNAR)
  • Development Grants ($5,000)
  • Seed Grants ($4,900)

• BC Rural & Remote Health Research Network (BCRRHRN)
  • Collaborative Team Building Awards ($6,000)
  • Research Building Working Group Initiative ($2,000)

• Network Environments for Aboriginal Research BC (NEARBC)
  • Seed Grants ($4,999)

• Women’s Health Research Network (WHRN)
  • Seed Grants ($4,000)
  • Individual/Team Community-based Research Funds ($1,000/$4,000)

* Note - agency offerings change over time. Always email/phone to confirm a grant is still being offered.

Funding is Available!

• There are numerous funding pools available to each of you:
  • You have nothing to lose but so much to gain!
  • Don’t be intimidated – just get started with small grants
  • Get support from your colleagues and build research teams

Need assistance? Contact Dr. Tanya Wahbe, Research Capacity Development Officer.

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