Apply for the Housing Research Scholarship Program

We’re collaborating with Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to provide research training awards and supplements.

The 2024 application window is now open

Postdoctoral fellowships
Launch: June 5, 2024
Deadline: September 12, 2024 (8 p.m. Eastern Time)

Doctoral students
Launch: August 1, 2024
Deadline through a Canadian institution with a quota: Contact your institution
Deadline directly to SSHRC: October 17, 2024 (8 p.m. Eastern Time)

Master’s students
Launch: September 1, 2024
Deadline: December 1, 2024 (8 p.m. Eastern Time)

Program Goal

Our goal is to recognize excellence in early-career academic research, advance the creation and sharing of knowledge on housing. We also aim to expand the pool of highly skilled and qualified housing researchers across Canada.

The Program Objectives Are To

recognize excellence in early-career academic research

advance knowledge and application in the field of housing

expand the community of reliable, highly skilled and qualified researchers

Previous Recipients and Their Stories

Dr. Andrew Crosby received the CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship in 2021 for his research on rental housing insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

Andrew (or Dr. Crosby) is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Planning whose work focuses on housing justice, policing and social movement mobilization. Andrew has published articles in various academic journals, including Canadian Public Administration, Urban History Review, and Social Justice.

His postdoctoral research is funded by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and the Bora Laskin National Fellowship in Human Rights Research.

Meet past scholarship winners

2022 Scholarship Recipients

2022 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Emanual Guay, Concordia University
Strategies and challenges for the development of community housing in Montreal's central neighborhoods: analysis of the Parc-Extension

2022 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Samantha Thompson, University of Victoria
Co-operatives in Crises: Renters' experiences of care in housing co-ops

2022 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Rachel Weldrick, Toronto Metropolitan University
Going it alone: Geo-narratives of older renters who live alone in the urban periphery of Hamilton and Toronto, ON

2022 CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Gum-Ryeong Park, University of Toronto
Linking housing crisis to deaths of despair: A focus on Canada's metropolitan area

2021 Scholarship Recipients

2021 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Andrew Crosby, University of Waterloo.
Rental Housing Insecurity in a Public Health Emergency: Evictions, Resistance, and Criminalization of Tenant Organizing during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada

2021 CMHC-NSERC Scholarship Recipient: Fuad Baba, Université de Sherbrooke
Development of resilient cooling measures for mitigating urban heat island and indoor overheating risks in Canada

2020 Scholarship Recipients

2020 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Jeffrey Walsh, McGill University
To Die Equal: A Mixed Methods Study on the Impact of Housing Insecurity on Access to End-of-Life Care and a Good Death

2020 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Beibei Zhang, York University
The Financializaton of Student Housing in the Greater Toronto Area

2020 CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Daniel Gan, Simon Fraser University
Healthy Ideas+: A Modified Effectiveness Implementation Trial to Improve Cognition in Community Housing

2020 CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Daniel Manson, BC Centre on Substance Abuse
Urban Housing Instability and Substance Use Care Trajectories among Young People in Vancouver

2020 CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Jesse Jenkinson, Unity Health Toronto
Exploring a Specialized Navigator Role as an Innovative Hospital-Based Approach to Improve the Health and Social Outcomes of People Experiencing Homelessness in Toronto, Canada

2020 CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Selim Khan, University of Calgary
Application of Artificial Intelligence in Evaluation of Radon Health Risk in Urban vs Rural houses of Canada and Sweden

2020 CMHC-NSERC Scholarship Recipient: Donna Vikalis, University of British Columbia
Novel methods of characterizing retrofit influences on aspects of indoor environmental quality and occupant comfort

2019 Scholarship Recipients

2019 CMHC-NSERC Scholarship Recipient: Malak El Hattab, University of Alberta
Towards a More Sustainable Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industry: A System-wide Approach for Forecasting Growth Impacts, Simulating Alternative Ways, and Advising Future Directions

2019 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Susane Havelka, McGill University
Linking Self-building and Well-being: Uncovering Capabilities and Promise in Canada and Greenland

2019 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Liza Jackson, Wilfred Laurier University
From Prison to Homeless Shelter: Unpacking the Logic of Carceraility

2019 CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: James Lachaud, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
Peer Support: Evaluating a Pilot Program Among Homeless Shelter Users

2019 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Guillaume Lessard, University of Waterloo/McMaster University
What About Accessory Dwelling Units?: ADU's Role in Regards to Changes in Housing Needs and Their Potential Contribution to a Sustainable (Sub)urban Transformation

2019 CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Anne-Marie Nader, CIUSSS du Nord-de-l'Ile-de Montréal - Hôpital Sacré Cœur
Assessing the Impact of Residential Care on the Quality of Life of Autistic Adults

2019 CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Christine Sheppard, Sunnybrooke Research Institute
Using an Implementation Science Approach to Design and Evaluate an Integrated Service Model for Seniors Social Housing

2019 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Trevor Wideman, Simon Fraser University
Land Use Control, Residential Property, and Local Governance in Vancouver and Toronto: Planning and Policy for Housing Affordability

2018 Scholarship Recipients

2018 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Daniela Aiello, Queen’s University
The Contemporary Governance and Colonial Genealogy of Evictions in Vancouver

2018 CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Geoff Bardwell, University of British Columbia
Examining housing-based overdose response interventions in Vancouver

2018 CMHC-NSERC Scholarship Recipient: Jamie Fine, University of Toronto
Development of a Crowdsourced HVAC Control System for the Retrofit of Post-War Multi-Unit Residential Buildings

2018 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Michael Lait, University of Northern British Columbia
Place-based housing policy for the ageing resource frontier: A study of seniors housing needs, housing options, and age-friendly assets in resource-based communities in Northwest British Columbia, Canada

2018 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Katherine Perrott, York University
Densifying the dream: “Missing middle” housing, sustainable suburban growth, and affordability

2018 CMHC-NSERC Scholarship Recipient: Mohamed Said, University of Waterloo
Autonomous Mobile Manipulators for Community Housing Supply, Sustainability and Operation

2018 CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Julien Simard, McGill University
Older tenants from racialized communities facing direct displacement in Montreal: Experiences and strategies

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Date Published: June 5, 2024

Apply for the Housing Research Scholarship Program

The 2024 application window is now open

Program Goal

The Program Objectives Are To

Previous Recipients and Their Stories