Application Form: Health Graduate Student Support Program

9. Descriptive Project Document: You must answer below or attach a word document or PDF with this form that answers all the following (written proposals submitted to other potential funders are acceptable):

Please submit the following documents with your proposal:

• Describe the research focus.
• Describe the relevance of the proposed research to Indigenous community priorities and to health and social related decision-making, systems improvement or patient impacts.
• What is your research/evaluation question and rationale for the approach and methodology?
• Describe the research plan, steps involved, knowledge systems to be reflected; and requirements for external expertise.
• Describe your project’s goals
• How are First Nation citizens/communities engaged in the research process?
• Describe considerations around data privacy, confidentiality, storage, access, use, possession and restrictions. If applicable, include a description of how the project is designed to comply with the principles of OCAP® and/or local Indigenous knowledge governance protocols; include development of a research agreement with the community and the research team to ensure data ownership remains within the community.
• Identify if your project requires Research Ethics Board approval. Successful awardees must comply with YukonU’s research ethics and integrity policies, and those of the community that their study may impact. It is the responsibility of the faculty Supervisor to ensure Ethics Approval is in place within six months of the award notice being received or the award may be revoked. Awardees are expected to obtain all required ethics approvals prior to undertaking award activities. A request for the early release of funds will be considered when a study is at a stage where it may not require a full research ethics review because it has not yet progressed to the point where human participants are required. Please see YukonU What Needs Research Ethics Review (PDF). Please contact YSPOR for more information.