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Early Career Awards 2024 Application

The Hamilton Health Sciences Research Early Career Awards (ECA) are research awards of up to $50,000 annually. Successful awardees will have the opportunity to renew their funding for up to three years, contingent on productivity and impact. The emphasis is on building a multidisciplinary and collaborative research program. This program is intended to enhance the recipient's ability to be more competitive for research grants from other funding sources.

HHS ECA Application Submission Details

Deadline: 11:59 PM on Friday November 29, 2024 by electronic submission via RedCap

Submitting: If you would like to return to your incomplete application, select the "Save & Return" option at then end of the application; you will be prompted for your email to receive a return link. Once you are ready to submit, select the "Submit" option; you will be sent a confirmation email upon successful submission.

HHS ECA Guidelines - ECA-Guidelines_2024.pdf

First Name

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Last Name

Voluntary Disclosure of Equity Data

Achieving a more equitable, diverse and inclusive Canadian research enterprise is essential to creating the excellent, innovative and impactful research necessary to advance knowledge and understanding, and to respond to local, national and global challenges.

Self-identiﬁcation provides information on the degree of diversity of the population applying for funding and participating in peer review of grant applications. The aim of this self-identiﬁcation data collection is to increase equitable and inclusive access to funding opportunities, as outlined in the Best Practices in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Research (sshrc-crsh.gc.ca)

The personal information you provide in this questionnaire will only be used or disclosed for the following purposes:

· Implementing funding equalization measures designed to ensure that underrepresented groups have access to HHS funding proportional to other groups;

· Determining your eligibility for funding opportunities targeting speciﬁc groups;

· Peer review recruitment and within our peer review processes for Reviewers; and

· Future program design and delivery, results measurement and reporting purposes.

The completion of the self-identiﬁcation questionnaire is required in order for your application to be considered. We thank you for your cooperation.

Which term(s) best describe your current gender identity? [Select the option(s) that apply to you]

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Agender

Bigender/Multigender

Gender-ﬂuid

Gender Queer

Man

Non-binary

Questioning

Transgender

Two-Spirit

Woman

Gender not speciﬁed above

I prefer not to answer

Select the sexual orientation that best describes how you currently think of yourself.

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Asexual

Bisexual

Gay

Heterosexual

Lesbian

Pansexual

Queer

Two-Spirit

I don't identify with any option provided

I prefer not to answer

Do you identify as Indigenous, that is, First Nation, Métis, or Inuk (Inuit)?

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Select the population group(s) you identify with.

Note: if you answered "Yes" to question 4 (i.e., you are an Indigenous person), select "Another Population Group" for this question. You can also select from the list any other population group that applies to you.

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Black (African, Afro-Caribbean, African-Canadian descent)

Asian (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese descent)

Latino (Latin American, Hispanic descent)

Middle Eastern (Arab, Persian, West Asian descent, e.g. Afghan, Egyptian, Iranian, etc.)

South Asian (East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Indo-Caribbean, etc.)

Southeast Asian (Filipino, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Thai, other)

White (European descent)

Another Population Group

Do you identify as a person with a disability as described in the Act?

The Accessible Canada Act deﬁnes disability as "any impairment, including a physical, mental, intellectual, cognitive, learning, communication or sensory impairment - or a functional limitation - whether permanent, temporary or episodic in nature, or evident or not, that, in interaction with a barrier, hinders a person's full and equal participation in society."

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Are you a member of an underrepresented group?

(Women, Indigenous Peoples, members of racialized minorities, people with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQI+)

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Yes

Prefer Not to Answer

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Are you a Hamilton Health Sciences Employee?

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Yes

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Please enter your Hamilton Health Sciences employee ID:

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Email Address:

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Are you a member of a joint HHS/McMaster Research Institute?

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Provide the month and year (MM/YR) and institution where you were first appointed as faculty.

Physicians must hold full-time appointments, however, a faculty members of other clinical health professions with part-time appointments may also be considered

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Please include your professional credentials?

(Example: MD, PhD, RN)

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Please list research awards held, and dates received:

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Mentor's First Name

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Mentor's Last Name

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Mentor's Email Address:

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Please include your mentor's professional credentials?

(Example: MD, PhD, RN)

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Mentor's research institute/centre affiliation

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Please provide a concise budget plan (using provided xlsx template) that includes a description of how the funds will be used.

These awards are intended to support the applicant by purchasing a portion of their time to dedicate to research in their specialty area, providing funding for supplies or research staff to help with their projects, or both. Any one or combination of the intended uses of the funds is acceptable, provided there is adequate budget justification.

ECA Budget Template.xlsx

Complete template provided and re-upload for submission

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Describe the role of your Scientific Mentor:

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Please upload a completed ECA Lay Summary, using the template provided

This will be evaluated by the Patient Partners in Research (PPR), who is a member of the Scientific Review Committee

ECA Lay Summary Form.docx

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Describe the research program you are looking to build

(i.e., describe the overarching goals/vision)

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Please upload your ECA Research Plan outlining the following:

Purpose and Background
Objectives
Design and Methods
Analysis Plan (including sex and gender-based analyses)
Proposed Timeline(s)

Up to 3 appendices may be included, and References (maximum of 2 pages, Vancouver Style format)

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Please upload your CCV

Ensure all funding and publication records are updated and available

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Please upload a Letter of Support from your chosen Mentor, indicated above.

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Please combine two "Letters of Assessment/Support" outlining your suitability for a research career, into one file for upload.

Assessments should be provided by your Ph.D. supervisor and/or postdoctoral supervisor(s), if applicable, and/or individuals who have had a good opportunity to assess your potential for conducting research

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Name of HHS Department Chief or HHS Program Director:

Please indicate the name(s) of the leaders who are aware you intend to conduct research at a HHS site/dept (s), and therefore have been informed and engaged

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