It's hard to keep up. Again, an impressive number of Arts professors have won impressive research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Again, we celebrate a member of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists - congratulations to John Turri of the Department of Philosophy.
Both SSHRC and RSC, followed by the University of Waterloo, made the announcements this week.
John Turri, member of Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
Professor Turri is an international leader in experimental philosophy, an exciting new field of research at the intersection of traditional philosophy and cognitive science, and director of the Philosophical Science Lab. His research has advanced philosophical and scientific understanding of concepts central to social cognition, including knowledge, communication and agency.
Members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists have reached a high level of achievement at an early stage of their careers. They represent the emerging generation of scholars and leaders in science and the arts in the country. Membership is for seven years.
Read the Waterloo media release.
Grant Recipients
In total, Waterloo professors have been awarded $5.7 million for social sciences and humanities research. Congratulations to the Faculty of Arts recipients.
SSHRC Partnership Grant recipients
- Jasmin Habib (Political Science): A socio-cultural mapping of Arab-Canadian migration, settlement, and integration: collaboration, community, co-authorship ($199,062)
- Kristina Llewellyn (Social Development Studies, Renison University College): Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation: The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children History Education Initiative ($199,027)
SSHRC Insight Development Grant recipients
- Joel Blit (Economics): The potential for a selective immigration policy to increase innovation; evidence from Canada ($60,731)
- Tao Chen (Economics): Functional dynamic factor models ($31,422)
- Elise Lepage (French Studies): Du pays au paysage. La poésie québécoise en perspective depuis 1950 ($42,297)
- Thomas Parker (Economics): Uniform Inference Using Simple Gaussian Field Asymptotics ($36,418)
SSHRC Insight Grant recipients
- Jefim Efrim Boritz (School of Accounting and Finance): The role of external valuation specialists in determining fair values in corporate reports ($103,865)
- Alan Huang (School of Accounting and Finance): The information content of debt IPO prospectuses: a text-based study ($67,223)
- Patricia O’Brien (School of Accounting and Finance): Credible financial reporting ($115,648)
- Peter J. Carrington (Sociology and Legal Studies): The structure of the national Canadian criminal network ($198,032)
- Heather Henderson (Psychology): Mechanisms linking childhood shyness and self-regulation ($166,862)
- Daniel Henstra (Political Science): Multilevel governance and climate change adaptation policy in Canada ($81,532)
- Kathryn Hochstetler (Political Science): Wind and solar power in South America ($80,489)
- Marcel O’Gorman (English Language and Literature): Digital abstinence: the art, politics, and philosophy of unplugging ($159,511)
- Jennifer L. Schulenberg (Sociology and Legal Studies): Policing innovation: an investigation of specialized responses to youth crime ($200,436)
- Winny Shen (Psychology): Adaptability or inconsistency/understanding antecedents and consequences of change in leadership behaviours ($107,346)
- Mikal Skuterud (Economics): The impact of the temporary foreign worker program on the Canadian economy ($87,440)