Resources for Researchers

Faculty of Science support

Contact Kim Arnold for:

• Questions about funding opportunities
• Support to develop research grant applications
• Review and writing support for grant proposals

Getting started

• Find funding - What opportunities are currently available?
• Apply for funding - How to get started and maximize your chances for success.
• Partnership Development - Expert support when negotiating research agreements.

Post-award support

• Accepting an award - What to do once you've been notified that your funding application is successful.
• Managing awarded funds - Help to manage your awarded funds correctly.

Federal Funding Agencies

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) 
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
• Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
• New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)

Ontario

• Ontario Research Fund - Research Excellence (ORF-RE)

• Overhead Rates for Sponsored Research (see also Policy 26) 

• Recommended Salary and Benefit Rates for Graduate Students and Postdocs 

• Waterloo travel and per diem rates and guidelines 

• Cover Sheet for Sponsored Research (required with all grant applications) 
• Interim Research Account 
• Other forms 
• Office of Research Ethics (ORE) 
• Emergency Infrastructure Repair Fund Information

Research policies:

• Policy 26 - Provision for Overhead 
• Policy 31 - Travel 
• Policy 33 - Ethical Behaviour 
• Policy 41 - Contract Research 
• Policy 49 - Extra-University Activity 
• Policy 52 - Private Corporations 
• Policy 66 - Use of University Resources 
• Policy 69 - Conflict of Interest 
• Policy 73 - Intellectual Property 
• (All policies) 

• University of Waterloo Strategic Plan 2013-2018 
• UW Office of Research Strategic Plan 2015-2019 
• "Pure", part of the Waterloo Research Gateway System 
• Principal Investigator's Handbook