Pre-Submission Review | SSHRC IDG 2027

Enrolment Registry for Peer Review, Budget Justification Review and more

SSHRC Insight Development Grant 2027 Competition 

The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Research Partner Network are pleased to offer faculty member applicants a set of resources (including internal peer review, a budget justification review, and other forms of assistance) to support applications for the Insight Development Grant 2027 competition. Past experience shows that pre-submission feedback helps to improve an applicant’s chances of competition success. This program contributed to position the UofA second in SSHRC funding across Canada. Our services helped several researchers like you to achieve their goals, read this note in the Quad to learn more about impact. *Please also note that pre‑enrolment is mandatory as of September 11, 2026 onward for SRIF Pool B bridge funding.

The Research Partners are here to help - please get in contact with Dr. Sylvia Ijeoma Madueke (sylvia.madueke@ualberta.ca) if you have a particular query on your IDG grant preparation. 

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 with your Vice/Associate Dean of Research or Oliver Rossier (orossier@ualberta.ca). 

The budget justification reviews will be carried out by a collaborative team from the College Office of Research, Research Administrative Services 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.

Please note that, while every effort is made to support all applicants, resources are limited, and full support cannot be guaranteed in all cases.

Here are the deadlines that apply:

November 10, 2026

Registration deadline, initial matching for peer review, budget justification review and other services. This gives us time to find a suitable match between your topic and a peer reviewer, tells us how many will need a budget justification review, and what of the other services will be available to you.

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NOON on January 4th, 2027 (but if possible December 18, 2026)

  • Absolute latest cut-off date for submitting a near final draft of your application 
  • 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)

Week of January 11, 2027

  • Receive feedback from peer reviewers and budget justification reviewers.

  • January 18, 2027

    • 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. 
    • If you belong to other Faculties or outside the CSSH you should check with your department or faculty their internal deadlines.

  January 26, 2027 (RAS deadline)

  February  2, 2027