Resources for faculty

• College of Law Funding Calendar (updated August 2021)
• Subscribe to Usask's listservs for updates on funding and collaborations (requires NSID login)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funding opportunities

• USask Office of the Vice-President Research
• Saskatchewan Research Data Centre (SKY-RDC) is a research data platform that provides researchers, including faculty and students, access to Statistics Canada microdata master files of Canadian censuses, cross-sectional and longitudinal population and household surveys, administrative data holdings and linked data. These data can be used to investigate a wide range of demographic, social, economic and health-related topics. 
  • List of data available through the RDC
  • USask Library guide for Data and Statistics: Canada  (includes Statistics Canada, federal, provincial, and municipal data)
• Canadian Hub for Applied and Social Research (CHASR) is a unique university-based (at the University of Saskatchewan) research support and consulting service. Operating on a cost-recovery basis, CHASR regularly engages and supports academic-based researchers from a variety of disciplines, backgrounds, and institutions, government (federal, provincial, and municipal) and NGO clients, and private sector firms.
• The Centre for Forensic Behavioural Sciences and Justice Studies  (CFBSJS)

• USask Grant Repository (successful SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR applications)
• Canadian Common CV

• Tri-Agency Statement on EDI
• USask Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Resources

• Any research or study conducted at University facilities or undertaken by persons connected to the University, involving human subjects, animals, or biohazardous materials must be reviewed and approved by the appropriate University of Saskatchewan Research Ethics Board or Committee. More information is available on the ethics page.
• Researchers conducting human research should complete the TCPS 2 Tutorial Course on Research Ethics (CORE) (https://tcps2core.ca/welcome). The TCSS 2: CORE (Course on Research Ethics) is an introduction to the second edition of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2).

• Internal review is available for select funding opportunities (including most SSHRC grants).
• Academic and institutional approval for funding applications is obtained through UnivRS prior to submission to the funding agency.

Journals & Publishing

• Canadian Association of Learned Journals  
• USask Library guide on predatory publishers
• Tri-Agency open access policy on publications  
• USask Library guide to open access publishing

Networks

• SSRN Legal Scholarship Network’s Professional Announcements   
• Social Science Research Network
• ResearchGate
• Google Scholar
• ORCID can connect, aggregate, and distinguish your research activities

Knowledge Mobilization

• HARVEST: USask’s open access institutional repository
• SSHRC guidelines
• Approaches to Assessing Impacts in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research guide to knowledge translation planning