Research Guide for Library Faculty: Canadian Common CV

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The CCV is a separate online system (for which you will have to create an account) from the funding agencies' online systems. The CCV allows researchers to maintain their CV data in a single repository and use it to apply to 22 different funding organizations across Canada, including the Tri-Agencies (i.e., SSHRC, CIHR, & NSERC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and the Canada Council for the Arts. Note: All applicants for any competition (including co-applicants and collaborators) must complete a CCV.

The main CCV sections include

Personal Information: identification, language skills, address, telephone, email, website (Note: Your work address & contact information is sufficient.)

Education: degrees & credentials

Recognitions: citations, distinctions, & awards/prizes

User Profile: keywords, research disciplines, areas of research, fields of application, temporal periods, countries, …

Employment: academic, non-academic, affiliations, & leaves of absence

Research Funding History: contracts, fellowships, research chairs, & grants

Activities:

1. teaching activities (courses taught/developed)
2. supervisory activities (list each student supervised separately—complete with degree type, student status, and supervision start date)
3. administrative activities (any events such as workshops, seminars, courses, and conferences that you organized/administered)
4. assessment & review activities (editorships & peer-reviews)
5. participation activities (events that you’ve participated in)
6. community & volunteer activities (including committee/service work)

In addition to your academic information such as discipline, work history, and position, you will also need to add your “research contributions” to your CCV. You will need to input each contribution separately in the appropriate places. NOTE: Working with an electronic copy of your current CV can help speed up the process as you can copy and paste article and journal titles, and you do not waste time trying to track down information.

Contributions: different agencies/competitions require different timeframes (e.g., SSHRC requires contributions over the past 6 years)

You may enter all your contributions into the CCV; however, ensure that you submit only the ones within the required timeframe for the funding agency. To do this, select (under “submit?”) only those that fall within time parameters.

1. Presentations (e.g., conference oral/poster presentations, keynote addresses, invited speaker, etc.)
2. Interview & Media Relations (i.e., broadcast & text interviews)
3. Publications (e.g., book chapters, journal articles, books, conference proceedings (including conference presentations), magazine entries, newspaper articles, reports, book reviews, …)
4. Artistic Performances (e.g., short fiction, scripts, artistic exhibitions, audio recordings, musical compositions, visual artworks, performance art, …)
5. Intellectual Property (e.g., patents, licenses, registered copyrights, trademarks, & disclosures)

After completing your CCV, you will to need click the “submit” button. Don’t worry; you can submit as many times as you want (It doesn’t really send it anywhere for perusal.). NOTE: The “History” dropdown menu keeps all of your submitted versions so that you can retrieve a previous version if you need to. In your submission history, you will both find .xml and .pdf files of all your submitted versions.

For more information, please consult SSHRC’s “How to Use the Canadian Common CV” step-by-step guide for completing the CCV, including a table that indicates the mandatory and optional fields for SSHRC.

The Canadian Common CV (CCV) is a web-based application that provides researchers with a single, common approach to gathering CV information required by a network of federal, provincial and not-for-profit research funding organizations. The CCV’s processes, procedures and capabilities allow the input of CV information by researchers and the extraction of the CV data (with consent from the researcher) by member agencies to support their funding application process.

You can find more information about the Canadian Common CV here.