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This Dataroom archives and opens up for discussion the data shared by NSERC on Scholarships and Fellowships.
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K. Casteel and C. Mire suggest that decreased investment in postdocs is balanced by increased investment in CREATE? What does the data show?
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Thanks Brent. This evidence reveals a striking change of policy. NSERC is
moving away from investments in the training of young researchers, even if
statements by administrative staff suggest otherwise.
From what I understand, is this (and the reduction in PGS) also not rather incongruous with the increased emphasis in DG applications on training HQP? (I know DGs can't be used to pay PGS-funded students, so do PGS/PDF-funded people count toward the DG "score"? I would assume so, but I guess I don't really know.)
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I added some new visualizations, showing the trend in funding for the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship program since 1996. Accounting for inflation, we see an 80% decline in per-applicant funding since 2001. During the same period, the applicants' success rate has gone from 37.0% to 7.8%, due to a steady rise in the number of applicants, coupled with a decline in the number of awards offered.
The data used to make these plots is available in the Data section as "PDF Results.xls". It is taken from NSERC's official Facts and Figures:
http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NSERC-CRSNG/FactsFigures-TableauxDetailles_eng.asp
Estimates of the present value of the awards are in July 2012 dollars, based on data from the Bank of Canada's Inflation Calculator:
http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculator/