Partner with NiCHE on your SSHRC-Funded Project!

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Are you spending part of your summer preparing a SSHRC Insight or Connection Grant for fall submission? If so, have you thought about including a partnership with NiCHE? Our expertise and track-record can strengthen plans for research dissemination, and we are always interested in exploring creative ways of supporting environmental history research.

Check out our guidelines for partnering with NiCHE on SSHRC and other research grants. You can find the guidelines below and on our main menu. And then reach out to discuss further or to explore creative possibilities! We are available for consultation by videoconference throughout the summer months, and we’re eager to chat with you about your work.

Bookmark Our “Partner with NiCHE” Page

NiCHE partners with scholars working on projects in environmental history and adjacent fields, particularly when these projects include attention to northern North America.

Partnering with NiCHE provides scholars with access to NiCHE’s knowledge mobilization infrastructure and expertise, helping ensure robust strategies for research dissemination. When NiCHE partners with scholars who have access to grant funds, these partnerships can help ensure NiCHE’s ongoing financial stability. NiCHE relies heavily on volunteer labour from the executive and editorial boards. It operates on a very modest budget, with much of the organization’s funds dedicated to paying honoraria to emerging and precariously-employed scholars, offering conference travel funding to students, and maintaining the website and blog. By building a partnership with NiCHE into grant budgets, scholars can help sustain NiCHE as an organization, ensuring that it can continue to foster environmental history and scholarly community.  

NiCHE can offer in-kind contributions that strengthen funding applications, particularly in instances where successful grants include partnerships involving some funds flowing to NiCHE. We welcome creative partnership proposals! Please reach out to discuss your ideas. 

NiCHE is particularly well-positioned to provide infrastructure and expertise to support knowledge mobilization. For example:

  • Publicize your project on our widely-read blog!
    • Grant-holders and their team could publish a series of blog posts on The Otter, NiCHE’s blog, as a way of sharing research findings.
    • Grant-holders could edit a series of blog posts on a key research theme, including a public call for proposals that helps build awareness of your project.
    • Blog posts and blog series receive promotional support from the NiCHE team, ensuring wide reach.
  • Create a project page for your research!
    • Scholars can draw on NiCHE’s online infrastructure to create a web presence for their projects. These project pages can effectively share research goals, resources, and findings with the community.
    • Preparing a blog post to launch your project page can be a great way of announcing an important new research initiative.
    • See these examples of existing project pages to get a sense of what’s possible.
  • Collaborate on events!
    • NiCHE regularly subsidizes travel funding for students and emerging scholars attending the Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium (CHESS), which provides important research dissemination and professional development opportunities. We welcome proposals from research teams keen to host CHESS or to sponsor a session at CHESS, particularly when there is capacity to support participation from students as well as emerging and precariously-employed scholars. 
    • NiCHE has an established track-record of successful events, and so partnering with NiCHE can help inspire confidence among potential funders.
    • Events receive promotional support from the NiCHE team, ensuring broad publicity.  

Please reach out for more information and to further discuss ways of writing NiCHE into your grant applications. By working together, we can better support the environmental history community and ensure accessible opportunities and appropriate supports for students, emerging scholars, and precariously-employed colleagues. 

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Shannon Stunden Bower

Shannon Stunden Bower is a Professor of History in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on the Canadian Prairies, and addresses questions related to water management (with particular concern for the extremes of flood or drought) and government institutions (whether at national, provincial, or local scales).

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