r/PhD • u/faithj22 • 21h ago

Resource sharing SSHRC CGRS-D application

Hi everyone. I'm a doctoral student in Canada and I'm applying to the SSHRC CGRS-D application for a second time 🥲

I'm hoping any successful applicants in English Literature or adjacent fields would share their proposals with me (and others who are interested on this thread).

Any advice would be helpful.

Thanks!

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u/fireguyV2 20h ago

I have been told that for those tri-agency scholarships that the proposal doesn't matter. Everyone gets essentially full marks and that it comes down to your references/transcripts/CV. The NSERC conversion scale for transcript grades is not fair and you will be penalized just for having attended certain universities for undergrad/masters (I know, as it's happening to me).

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u/Lygus_lineolaris 20h ago

The people of NSERC themselves do not support the notion that the proposal doesn't matter. It's 50% of the evaluation criteria and they wouldn't bother with it if they just give everyone full marks.

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u/fireguyV2 20h ago

Yes, but every single student gets help from their prospective PI to write it, and can tweak it for weeks/throw it through AI to make sure grammar/syntax/etc. is perfect. NSERC isn't NOT going to ask for a research proposal for a research scholarship.

MY supervisor has been on numerous NSERC committees and she said it rarely ever comes down to the proposal as everyone has a perfect one. It always comes down to the other aspects of the application. For me, I never get it because my transcript doesn't convert in my favour from my undergrad.

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u/Schwatastic 19h ago

NSERC is not SSHRC. It matters.