2025 Insight Grants: Overview, tips and tricks to navigate the application process
Jun 18, 2025 — 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Join us for the next event in our Research Conversations Series entitled "2025 Insight Grants: Overview, tips and tricks to navigate the application process" with Marie-Eve Girard, Research advisor at the Faculty of Education and her panelists Isabelle Bourgeois and Sachin Maharaj. Register for this event happening on June 18, 2025, at 12 PM.
Description
To help you prepare for the SSHRC Insight Grants competition in the fall, this meeting will give you an overview of the competition, as well as the opportunity to ask questions to panelists who have recently submitted a successful application or served on an education-related evaluation committee. Learn more about this program, the merit review process, and the support and resources available at the faculty and the University to help you prepare for your next grant application.
Marie-Eve Girard
Research advisor, Faculty of Education
Marie-Eve Girard holds a bachelor's and master's degree in sexology, research-intervention profile, from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She worked as a research coordinator in HIV prevention research within the LGTBQ community in Montreal for 7 years and then turned to research administration in a university setting. She has been at the University of Ottawa for almost 10 years, during which time she supported the research community in the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, for example as a Knowledge Mobilization Advisor.
Isabelle Bourgeois
Full professor, University of Ottawa
Her ongoing research focuses on measuring and building organizational evaluation capacity (EC) in the public and community sectors. Her main contributions in this field include an organizational framework of evaluation capacity, an online organizational EC assessment instrument, and an integrative review of the literature on evaluation capacity spanning a period of 20 years. Professor Bourgeois was the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation from 2017 to 2022. In 2017, she received the Karl-Boudreault Award for Leadership in Evaluation from the National Capital Chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society, and in 2021, she received the Parenteau award from Canadian Public Administration for best French-language article. She received the Contribution to Evaluation Award from the Canadian Evaluation Society in 2024.
Sachin Maharaj
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
His research, which focuses on student phone use in schools, the work of school boards/districts, teacher unions, and the equity implications of school choice has been published in Critical Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives, Leadership and Policy in Schools, and the Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy. Professor Maharaj is also a contributor to the Toronto Star and regularly appears in media outlets like CBC, and TVO. His current research projects examine anti-racist school district reforms and the implementation of policies to restrict student cellphone use in schools.