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HSS has created Budget Help documents, research application Guides, and Request Forms to assist researchers in the development of competitive grant applications. If you have any questions about the content of these documents, please contact an HSS Grants Facilitation Officer (GFO).

Budget Help

• Graduate Student Baseline & Stipends (updated Sept 15, 2025) 
• Postdoctoral Fellows (updated July 22, 2024)
• Grant Employees (updated June 17, 2026)
• URAs / GRAs (updated June 16, 2026)
• Professionals & Consultants (updated June 17, 2026)
• Multiple Applications Master Budget Template (Excel File, updated Aug. 31, 2023)
• Travel Expenses (updated June 17, 2026)

Guides

• Impact of COVID-19 on Research (updated Aug. 22, 2024)
• Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism (updated Aug. 22, 2024)
• Cash and In-Kind Contributions (updated Sept 15, 2025)
• Researcher Portal Guide for Smallwood / ISER Research Grant Applications (updated July 9, 2025)
• I Got the Grant! Now what? (updated July 9, 2025)

Request Forms

• Course Release for Support of Funding Proposals Application Form for requests in support of significant Tri-Agency and other externally-funded projects (updated Sept 15, 2025)
• Future Departmental-Baseline Form commitments in support of externally funded grant proposals (updated Dec 11, 2025)
• Cash Support for Major External Funding Proposals Form for requests to the HSS Dean's Office and/or the Vice-President (Research) (updated Dec. 3, 2024)
• Research Space Allocation Request Form (updated June 27, 2024)
• Postdoctoral Fellows Appointment Letter Form for departments and supervisors seeking to appoint PDFs out of their research funding (updated July 26, 2024). If the appointment requires more than 1 funding source, please contact a GFO.

Other Forms

Please contact a GFO to obtain the necessary forms if required for the following application or funding scenarios:

• You are an HSS researcher who is a Co-Applicant / Co-Investigator participating in funding applications or agreements lead by a researcher at ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ who is outside of HSS or your home unit within HSS.
• You have been awarded an HSS Dean's Special Award or a Special Award from another ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ unit.
• You are a new faculty member seeking to access your Start-Up funds.
• You would like to request a deviation from an existing ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ existing policy (for example, hosting or travel) for the purposes of accurate budgets on pending research applications or agreements.