Humanities

Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the time. Today, the humanities are more frequently defined as any fields of study outside of professional training, mathematics, and the natural and sometimes social sciences.The humanities use methods that are primarily critical, or speculative, and have a significant historical element—as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences, yet, unlike the sciences, it has no central discipline. The humanities include …

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CFI: Canada Foundation for Innovation · 18 March 2024 English

What were the objectives of the 2023 Innovation Fund competition? The objectives of the 2023 Innovation Fund competition were to: • Enable internationally competitive research or technology development through the …

Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Canadian Institutes their projects by fields and social sciences and humanities (SSH) for of research (FOR) and by socioeconomic successful proposals relates to social sciences and humanities (SSH). While the success and funding rates for


CCA: Council of Canadian Academies · 18 March 2024 English

These actions have the expected outcomes of updating processes, practices, and policies to better equip the CCA with the governance structure and capacity to meet SSF needs and position the …

sciences, natural sciences, engineering, arts, humanities, and social sciences to join its panels. More


Wilson Center Canada · 6 March 2024 English

ACTIVATING AMERICAN INVESTMENT OVERSEAS FOR A FREER, MORE OPEN WORLD How the Development Finance Corporation Can Better Mobilize Private Capital Hon. [...] Kennedy Director, Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition Dr. …

Shelly Lowe, Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities Enoh T. Ebong*, Director, US Trade and Development


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 6 March 2024 English

The opinions and recommendations in this report, and any errors, are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders of this report. [...] 12 …

approval from Dalhousie’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Ethics Board. 17 Nova Scotia Immigration


Fraser Institute · 5 March 2024 English

The Report Card on Alberta’s High Schools 2023 collects a variety of relevant, objective indicators of school performance into one, easily accessible public document so that anyone can analyze and …

students), Mathematics, the sciences, and the humanities. Alberta Education has developed courses in


PHABC: Public Health Association of BC · 1 March 2024 English

Moreover, a narrow focus on household food These manifestations of oppression are linked to a insecurity fails to account for the compounding effects misunderstanding and misdiagnosis of the causes of …

community partners Ecotrust Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – Canada, Revelstoke Community


CCA: Council of Canadian Academies · 29 February 2024 English

Thus, framework elements are presented in a way that offers Foundational to the success of a framework are considerations of sufficient flexibility to serve partnership agreements at all levels of …

Talent   Expertise Labour force Number of STEM, humanities, and social sciences graduates Education and


PHABC: Public Health Association of BC · 29 February 2024 English

6 To really make a causes hunger, poverty, and a lack of control over food change, we need to break the foundations of the food for others, especially people of …

part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – Robert Newell, PhD New Frontiers


Right to Housing · 29 February 2024 English

FINANCING SOCIAL HOUSING IN MANITOBA MARCH 2024 The Social Housing Action Plan report released by the Right to Housing Coalition last September outlined the urgent need for investment in social …

the financial support of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada through the Manitoba


CHA: Canadian Historical Association · 22 February 2024 English

APPLY HERE Department of History Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position Number: F01411-2023-234 The Department of History at Memorial University invites applications

APPLY HERE Department of History Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Tenure-Track Assistant Professor collaborate with other academic units the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. We are part of the largest


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