University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ researchers have been awarded more than $4.4 million in funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), to support research that addresses environmental inequality, economic sustainability and Indigenous language revitalization.
À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s 22 projects, which are among the , are:
Partnership Development grants
Philip Beesley (Engineering): Empathetic Spaces Partnership (ESP) ($114,176)
Bessma Momani (Arts): Digital transformation of work: Determining impacts on women and skills retraining needs ($199,999)
Dawn Parker (Environment): Why did the "Missing Middle" miss the train? Exploring barriers and solutions to intensified family housing in À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ region ($189,926)
Insight Grants
Arts
Kathy Acheson (English Language and Literature): The future of research in early modern marginalia ($92,506)
Annik Bilodeau (Spanish and Latin): Mapping artistic sorority in Spanish America ($92,740)
Ramona Bobocel (Psychology): Investigating impediments to achieving organizational justice ($283,089)
Randy Harris (English Language and Literature): Growing the rhetoricon for ML argument mining ($272,411)
Daniel Henstra (Political Science): Effective governance arrangements for climate resilient infrastructure ($378,073)
Naila Keleta-Mae (Communication Arts): Sites and performances of blackness and freedom ($212,932)
Allison Kelly (Psychology): How can an understanding of observational learning promote new ways of increasing self-compassion? ($298,165)
Emmet Macfarlane (Political Science): Hate speech legislation, the commonwealth model, and parliamentary debates on rights ($243,737)
Lennart Nacke (Stratford): Entering the metaverse: Investigating social virtual reality platforms and experiences ($383,816)
Marcel O'Gorman (English Language and Literature): Critical by design: Fostering responsible innovation with critical design methods ($290,586)
Guy Poirier (French Studies): Superbe et imaginaire entrée d'un roi devenu reine, l'espace d'un pamphlet ($95,495)
Uzma Rehman (Psychology): Testing the perfectionism model of women's sexual desire ($217,242)
Andrew Stumpt (St. Jerome's): Observational studies to improve end-of-life care in Canada ($177,733)
Sarah Turnbull (Sociology and Legal Studies): Reforming detention: Race, gender, and nation in the national immigration detention framework ($85,685)
David-Antoine Williams (St. Jerome's): Opening the Oxford English Dictionary: A data-enhanced, research-ready historical dictionary ($265,720)
Engineering
Bon Koo (Management Sciences): Capital structure and innovation: Canadian biotechnology industry ($89,560)
Environment
Peter Johnson (Geography and Environmental Management): Who owns the map? Data sovereignty and the shifting government role in spatial data collection, use, and dissemination ($202,050)
Health
Warren Dodd (School of Public Health Sciences): Interrogating different pro-poor policy approaches in the context of intersecting social-ecological crises in the Philippines ($178,423)
Aid to Scholarly Journal
Jay Dolmage (Arts): Canadian Journal of Disability Studies/Revue canadienne d'téudes sur le handicap ($90,000)