"Investing in Canadian research is critical to building a strong Canada and driving our success in the 21st century," said today's announcement from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada of $1.3 billion in new research funding. The announcement includes Tri-Agency programs from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).
Once again, Waterloo Arts researchers stand out. They're building knowledge and solutions for global challenges and our collective futures by tackling issues such as the rapid development of technology and inequities across diverse communities.
Congratulations to our 2025 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipient, Kaitlyn Hunter, PhD candidate in Sociology and Legal Studies. Read about Hunter's research: Vanier Scholar investigates impacts on trust in Canadian policing.
Congratulations to the 25 Arts researchers receiving 2025 SSHRC Insight Development Grants and Insight Grants, and 2025 NSERC Discovery Grants.
SSHRC Insight Development Grants, 2025
- Muhammad Azim, Accounting & Finance, Government Sensitivity to Negative Tax News in Procurement
- Hilary Bergsieker, Psychology, Identifying illusory indirect effects and indexing individual-level variation in mediation analysis
- Ana Ferrer, Economics, Outcomes of youth attending the Future Launch Program
- Colin Hastings, Sociology & Legal Studies, Mobility Data for Public Health? An Institutional Ethnography of the Promises (and Perils) of Emerging Surveillance
- Wenqian Hu, Accounting & Finance, A Tipping Point? The Effect of Tipping on Employee Motivation
- Christine Logel, Renison, A psychological approach to understanding barriers to affirmative consent communication
- Reina Neufeldt, Conrad Grebel, Desegregating Peace: Interracial Peace and 20th Century Peace and Conflict Studies
- Kim Hong Nguyen, Communication Arts, Resisting Chemical Futures in the Waterloo Region: A Curatorial Project
- Nicole Nolette, French Studies, Cinquante ans de recherches théâtrales au Québec sous le prisme de la SQET
- Clemens Possnig, Economics, Strategic Algorithms: Impacts on the Economy
- Andrea Quinlan, Sociology & Legal Studies, Technology-facilitated Sexual Violence in Canadian Sport
- Uzma Rehman, Psychology, The emotional blueprint: How early home environments shape gendered avoidance of anger and sadness
- Brianna Wiens, English, Reactionary Rhetorics: Mapping Digitally Mediated Rhetorics of Gendered Violence
- Mingyue Zhang, Accounting & Finance, Business Combinations, Innovation, and the Valuation of Intangible Assets
SSHRC Insight Grants, 2025
- Wendi Adair, Psychology, Understanding diversity cues and buffering social identity threat to improve representation, collaboration, and climate in Canada's diverse workplace
- Hilary Bergsieker, Psychology, Responsive social support for lived experiences of racism
- Douglas Brown, Psychology, Mitigating Abusive Supervision by Enhancing Self-Control: An Examination of Four Processes
- Frankie Condon, English, In The House of the Hangman
- Robert Danisch, Communication Arts, Primal Communication: What Rhetoric Can Learn from Mycelium, Mammals, and Machines
- Andrew Deman, English, Sequential Scholars
- Lai-Tze Fan, Sociology & Legal Studies, Interdisciplinary Approaches toward Responsible Facial Recognition AI: Developing Technical, Ethical, and Regulatory Recommendations for Policymaking in Canada
- Greta Kroeker, History, The Artemisia Project: Rape in Early Modern Europe
- Ian Milligan, History, Digital Terror: The September 11th, 2001 Attacks Online
- Mingyue Zhang, Accounting & Finance, Human Capital Investment in Financially Distressed Firms
NSERC Discovery Grants, 2025
- Neil Hester, Psychology, Dynamic Interactive Models of Social Categorization: Generalizing Beyond Faces
- Derek Koehler, Psychology, Click: Sense-making processes underlying inferential reasoning and decision-making
- Evan Risko, Psychology, Basic Processes in the Monitoring and Control of Cognition
Read the university-wide announcement: More than $32 million awarded to advance University of Waterloo research