The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) has finally announced the results of its 2011 Discovery Grants competition, which allocates $325.6 million in funding to 2,003 researchers. The success rates for the various categories of researchers and average grant sizes are: early-career (54%/$22,481), established researchers who held a grant (74%/$35.045) and established researchers not previously holding a grant (33%/$28,082). The competition was controversial when results were communicated to successful researchers earlier this year, primarily over the new binning system used by grant selection committees (R$, May 2/11). Public disclosure of full results were delayed due to the federal election. Also announced were the results of three scholarship programs: Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships ($40.5 million), NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships ($34.5 million) and Postdoctoral Fellowships ($10.6 million). A detailed breakdown of the results can be found on the Research Money web site....

FMI: Discovery Grants Statistics.pdf