Tag Archives: SSHRC

Making Change?

Alex Usher at Higher Education Strategy Associates had a great post on his One Thought Blog today dealing with policy-making and change.  His comparison to policy-making in Ottawa as a slow stately moving river compared to Washington's high-pressure ice jam was pretty entertaining – he only left out that parts of the policy making river […]

SSHRC Grant Trends in Economics

Well, the past week saw notifications go out to academic economists on the results of their 2014-15 Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant applications.  Needless to say, there will be a lot of unhappy campers but then there always are when it comes to grant application success.   Needless to say, […]