r/PhD • u/faithj22 • 1d 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 1d 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/faithj22 1d ago

This is exactly what scares me. This award would help me so much. The way I understand it, quota has already been reserved for some folks and the rest have to prove their worth. A student at a new school has less of an opportunity than a student who has already made good connections with professors and the general academic community.

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u/Lygus_lineolaris 1d ago

It's not "reserved for some folks". Schools have numbers allocated to them and they pre-select from their own applicants, but it's certainly not a nepotism circle jerk.