Bridging Divides Workshop Grants for TMU Scholars
The call for applications for the 2025/2026 academic year is now open
Description
Bridging Divides Workshop Grants support gatherings and convenings that respond to the objectives of the Bridging Divides research program, contributing to new understandings of the challenges and opportunities that migrant integration poses for Canada locally and across borders.
Funding distributed through the Workshop Grant program supports opportunities for researchers, staff and students who are part of the Bridging Divides team at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), to exchange knowledge and engage with other researchers and stakeholders from academic institutions and public and private organizations. Workshops and conferences funded by Bridging Divides can serve as first steps toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects or provide opportunities to disseminate research findings.
Bridging Divides supports a wide range of initiatives that aim at facilitating:
- Disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in any of the program’s research themes;
- Intersectoral exchanges between TMU's Bridging Divides researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors;
- International research collaboration and scholarly exchanges with researchers, students, and non-academic partners from other countries.
Overview
Value |
Up to $28,000 |
Duration |
One year |
Application deadline (Extende |
May 1, 2025 |
Results announced |
Within four weeks of the deadline For events that will take place between 1st September 2025 and 31st August 2026. |
Applicant eligibility |
Researchers who are affiliated with one of the Bridging Divides themes or projects and who are TMU faculty, staff or students. |
Limit per researcher |
Researchers can hold one Workshop Grant per academic year, that is, 1 September to 31 August. |
Application requirements |
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Application instructions |
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Application process |
Applicants must submit the completed application by 11:59PM on the deadline date. |
Eligibility
Bridging Divides workshop funding is awarded through an open competition. Workshop proposals can involve any of the program’s thematic areas, approaches, or subject areas eligible for Bridging Divides funding. Projects whose primary objective is to conduct research activities such as literature reviews, field work, data collection and interviews, or to develop stand-alone volumes for books or monographs are not eligible for funding through the Bridging Divides Workshop Grant program. Book launches and similar report dissemination are also not eligible. Bridging Divides will not fund past events and outreach activities retroactively. Students enrolled in a program of study are eligible to apply but their proposals should be supported by at least one Bridging Divides researcher (whether faculty, staff or student). Collaborative proposals from 2 or more Bridging Divides-TMU researchers are strongly encouraged. Likewise, event proposals engaging with more than one sub-theme or project and events that engage Bridging Divides’ non-academic partners are also strongly encouraged.
Matching Funds or External Funding
Applicants can draw on complementary funding from research grants and/or other research funding agencies but must make clear in their budget proposal that there is no duplication of financial support for the same budget expenses.
Design of Convenings
Conferences, Workshops, Research Planning or Research Dissemination Meetings
Proposed workshops must be designed to engage researchers and where relevant a broader public through knowledge creation/exchange or knowledge mobilization. Proposed workshops must be in Canada.
Application Process
All applications must be submitted via email to bridging.divides@torontomu.ca by noon on the deadline date in a single file clearly named with the last name of the main applicant and a shorthand title for the event.
Monitoring and reporting
Applicants will be expected to report on the use of grant funds, on funded activities undertaken during the funding period and on outcomes. Please provide a two page outline of the activities undertaken during the workshop, what was achieved during the event including plans for publication or other output, contributions to training early career scholars and HQP, and add any other comments you deem pertinent within one week after the event to bridging.divides@torontomu.ca. Please note that reporting is mandatory. Bridging Divides will not consider future applications from individuals with outstanding reports.
Outcomes
Describe the benefits and outcomes (such as, evolution, effects, potential learning and implications) that emerged from the workshop, conference, research planning meeting, or knowledge mobilization activities. Elaborate on the benefits and/or outcomes of your event. Examples of outcomes include enhanced curriculum and teaching material; enriched public discourse; improved public policies, enhanced business strategies and increased innovations in every sector of society; and HQP training and supervision opportunities.
Training and Mentoring
It is expected that undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and other highly qualified personnel such as, practitioners, subject matter experts and Indigenous Elders will meaningfully participate in the proposed initiative. Clearly describe the specific roles and responsibilities of students, emerging scholars and/or other highly qualified personnel, indicating the work they undertook. Include:
- the nature and extent of training, mentoring and employability activities;
- the number of students, emerging scholars and/or other highly qualified personnel that were trained and mentored. Where applicable, indicate the level of study (i.e., undergraduate, master’s or doctoral)
- the nature and level of specialized skills that the students, emerging scholars and/or other highly qualified personnel developed as a result of their participation; and
- any career development opportunities for students, emerging scholars and/or other highly qualified personnel.
