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Postdoctoral fellowships
Launch: July, 2025
Deadline: September 11, 2025 (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time)

Doctoral students
Launch: July, 2025
Deadline through a Canadian institution with a quota: Contact your institution
Deadline directly to SSHRC: October 17, 2025 (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time)

Master’s students
Launch: August, 2025
Deadline: December 1, 2025 (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time)

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The Housing Research Scholarship Program offers research training awards and supplements to postdoctoral researchers and doctoral and master’s students in the social sciences and humanities. Your work must be related to one or more of the National Housing Strategy’s priority areas for action.

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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

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recognize excellence in early-career academic research

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advance knowledge and application in the field of housing

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grow housing research expertise and capacity in Canada

Meet past scholarship winners

2024 Scholarship Recipients

Postdoctoral Fellowship:

CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Mireille Fournier, Université Laval
Legal discourses of tenant unions in Montréal and Ottawa: Creation of an alternative civil law and common law regarding housing
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Melissa Perri, University of Toronto
Structural Violence and Housing Precarity of Women and Gender Diverse Populations
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Sara Lindsay, Trent University
Homelessness and Companion Animals in Ontario, Canada
 

Doctoral:

CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Oliver Chan, University of Toronto
Laying the Foundations for a Constitutional Right to Adequate Housing in Canada
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Allison Evans, University of California, Berkeley
Shadow settlements: Tent encampments across the urban-rural divide
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Stephen Pham, University of Toronto
Multi-Property Ownerships and the Consequences for Housing and Rental Affordability and Residential Displacement in Ontario, 2015 to 2020
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Sonja Zoeller, University of Victoria
Crisis and Homelessness Governance Network Resilience in Canadian Cities
 

Master’s:

CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Jessie Eiswerth, The University of British Columbia
Exploring duration of homelessness and lack of service usage
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Matisse Gagnon, HEC Montréal
Reinventing housing: the common living spaces as a resistance strategy to overcome the housing crisis
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Emily Lim, Toronto Metropolitan University
Social mixing or state-led gentrification? The Alexandra Park revitalization and its effects on the community
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Grant Shasta, Acadia University
The Role of Community-University Partnership in Supporting a Community-Led Approach to Ending Rural Homelessness
 

2023 Scholarship Recipients

Postdoctoral Fellowship:

CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Emanual Guay, Concordia University
Strategies and challenges for the development of community housing in Montreal's central neighbourhoods: analysis of the Parc-Extension
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Samantha Thompson, University of Victoria
Co-operatives in Crises: Renters' experiences of care in housing co-ops
 
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
 
CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Gum-Ryeong Park, University of Toronto
Linking housing crisis to deaths of despair: A focus on Canada's metropolitan area
 

2022 Scholarship Recipients

Postdoctoral Fellowship:

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
 
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
 

2021 Scholarship Recipients

Postdoctoral Fellowship:

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
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Beibei Zhang, York University
The Financialization of Student Housing in the Greater Toronto Area
 
CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Daniel Gan, Simon Fraser University
Healthy Ideas+: A Modified Effectiveness Implementation Trial to Improve Cognition in Community Housing
 
CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Daniel Manson, BC Centre on Substance Abuse
Urban Housing Instability and Substance Use Care Trajectories among Young People in Vancouver
 
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
 
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
 
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
 

2020 Scholarship Recipients

Postdoctoral Fellowship:

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
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Susane Havelka, McGill University
Linking Self-building and Well-being: Uncovering Capabilities and Promise in Canada and Greenland
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Liza Jackson, Wilfred Laurier University
From Prison to Homeless Shelter: Unpacking the Logic of Carceraility
 
CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: James Lachaud, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
Peer Support: Evaluating a Pilot Program Among Homeless Shelter Users
 
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
 
CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Anne-Marie Nader, CIUSSS du Nord-de-l'Île-de Montréal - Hôpital Sacré Cœur
Assessing the Impact of Residential Care on the Quality of Life of Autistic Adults
 
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
 
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
 

2019 Scholarship Recipients

CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Daniela Aiello, Queen’s University
The Contemporary Governance and Colonial Genealogy of Evictions in Vancouver
 
CMHC-CIHR Scholarship Recipient: Geoff Bardwell, University of British Columbia
Examining housing-based overdose response interventions in Vancouver
 
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
 
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
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Katherine Perrott, York University
Densifying the dream: “Missing middle” housing, sustainable suburban growth, and affordability
 
CMHC-NSERC Scholarship Recipient: Mohamed Said, University of Waterloo
Autonomous Mobile Manipulators for Community Housing Supply, Sustainability and Operation
 
CMHC-SSHRC Scholarship Recipient: Julien Simard, McGill University
Older tenants from racialized communities facing direct displacement in Montreal: Experiences and strategies
 

Application process

The 2025 application window is now open

Postdoctoral fellowships
Launch: July, 2025
Deadline: September 11, 2025 (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time)

Doctoral students
Launch: July, 2025
Deadline through a Canadian institution with a quota: Contact your institution
Deadline directly to SSHRC: October 17, 2025 (8:00  p.m. Eastern Time)

Master’s students
Launch: August, 2025
Deadline: December 1, 2025 (8:00 p.m. Eastern Time)

Application process and reporting requirements:

  • If you’re looking for specific requirements and application deadlines, please refer to the SSHRC joint initiative funding opportunity page.
  • In addition to SSHRC reporting requirements, CMHC may reach out to award recipients to obtain information for promotional purposes. Information requests may include:
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For questions on applications, merit review process or guidelines contact:

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  • Email: nhs-snl_researchawards@cmhc.ca

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