Thursday, June 16, 2022
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada has just announced the latest round of grant recipients, including 15 Faculty of Arts researchers. Have a look at their project titles and you will see relevance and potential for positive social impacts. Congratulations to our scholars!
Insight Grants
- Kathy Acheson (English Language and Literature): The future of research in early modern marginalia ($92,506)
- Annik Bilodeau (Spanish and Latin American): 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)
- Sarah Turnbull (Sociology and Legal Studies): Reforming detention: Race, gender, and nation in the national immigration detention framework ($85,685)
Partnership Development Grant
- Bessma Momani (Political Science): Digital transformation of work: Determining impacts on women and skills retraining needs ($199,999)
Aid to Scholarly Journal
- Jay Dolmage (English Language and Literature): Canadian Journal of Disability Studies/Revue canadienne d'études sur le handicap ($90,000)
Read the Office of Research announcement for the full list of grant recipients including Arts colleagues at the affiliated and federated institutions of Waterloo.