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University of ��ݮ��Ƶ researchers have been awarded over $4.4 million in funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) this month.

Multiple Games Institute faculty members received SSHRC Insight funding to support their research totalling nearly a million dollars!  

The SSHRC Insight grant supports social sciences and humanities researchers with the goal of building “knowledge and understanding about people, societies and the world.”

• Randy Harris (English Language and Literature) received an Insight Grant ($272,411) for his project “Growing the rhetoricon for ML argument mining.”
• Lennart Nacke (Stratford School of Interaction Design and Business, Communication Arts) received an Insight Grant ($383,816) for his project “Entering the metaverse: Investigating social virtual reality platforms and experiences.”
• Marcel O'Gorman (English Language and Literature) received an Insight grant ($290,586) for his project “Critical by design: Fostering responsible innovation with critical design methods.”

Congrats to Drs. Harris, Nacke, and O’Gorman and all SSHRC winners across the University!