Pre-Submission Review

Enrolment Registry FOR PEEr REview, Budget Justification Review AND MORE

SSHRC Insight Grant 2026 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 Grant 2026 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 Craig Taylor (craig.taylor@ualberta.ca) if you have a particular query on your IG 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 team of staff from the College Office of Research 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:

The registration deadline for SSHRC IG peer review matching, budget justification review and other services has passed (July 15th). We are opening a waiting list for those researchers who could not register on time. We have received over 80 applications and we are working on these supports right now. Depending on availability after the first round of matching we will do our best to help those on the waitlist in the order they are received. Please register below - and thanks for working on your research application!

Register for Waitlist

NOON on September 1, 2026 (but if possible please submit as early as possible to help us navigate the beginning of term rush)

  • 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 September 8, 2026

  • Receive feedback from peer reviewers and budget justification reviewers.

September 11, 2026

  • Deadline for those in the Faculty of Arts to submit their final applications to the correspondent VDR for faculty approval. Upload the preview PDF to the UAlberta Researcher Home Page

  September 21, 2026 (RAS deadline)

September 29, 2026