2026 Grants

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

SSHRC Insight Development Grants, 2026

  • Steven Bednarski, St. Jerome's University, DAMMES: the Digital Archive of Medieval Manosquin Environment and Society
  • Holly Campeau, Sociology & Legal Studies (School of Social, Political, and Historical Research), Curbing the Craft: AI, Officer Discretion, and the Sociotechnical Transformation of Policing
  • Clara Collombatto, School of Psychology, The moral weight of confidence: How decision dynamics shape perceptions of moral character
  • Sepideh Ebrahimi, School of Accounting & Finance, How Does Anthropomorphism Influence Consumers' Susceptibility to Deception by Conversational Agents?
  • Seda Oz, School of Accounting & Finance, Decentralized Entry Signals and Strategic Disclosure: How Crowdfunding Activity Shapes Incumbent Firms

SSHRC Insight Grants, 2026

  • Tim Bauer, School of Accounting & Finance, When is Client Incivility Toward Auditors More or Less Problematic
  • Jennifer Clary-Lemon, English Language & Literature (School of Critical and Creative Humanities), Field Notes of Hope
  • Andrew Cooper, Political Science (School of Social, Political, and Historical Research), Trump's Personalist Approach to International Politics: Implications for Diplomatic Processes, Practices and Outcomes
  • Jordana Cox, Communication Science (School of Critical and Creative Humanities), Radical Edits: Reimagining news participation in contemporary visual and performing art
  • Igor Grossmann, School of Psychology, From narratives to choices: Advancing semantic topic modeling for mapping cultural narratives to social decision making
  • Sara Hart, School of Psychology, Intergenerational Transmission of Reading Ability
  • JingJing Huo, Political Science (School of Social, Political, and Historical Research), How Has Population Aging Changed the Politics of Inequality in Advanced Industrialized Nations?
  • Suzan Ilcan, Sociology & Legal Studies (School of Social, Political, and Historical Research), Constellations of migrant precarity: precarious legal status in precarious spaces and precarious times
  • Tisha King, School of Accounting & Finance, Balancing Roles in Elite Tax Advisory: Insights from Big Four Tax Professionals Serving Family Offices
  • David Moscovitch, School of Psychology, Autobiographical memory as a vehicle for social resilience
  • Winfried Siemerling, English Language & Literature (School of Critical and Creative Humanities), Critical Theory, Blackness, and Anthropocene Poetics
  • Galen Watts, Sociology & Legal Studies (School of Social, Political, and Historical Research), Culture Wars in Canada: Romantic Expressivism and the Reconfiguration of Political Conflict
  • Kaishu Wu, School of Accounting & Finance, The influence of information environments on tax efficiency and use of tax planning channels: Evidence from private CbCR tax disclosure
  • Will Zhao, Stratford School of Interaction Design & Business, Multimodal Optimal Distinctiveness in Creator Economy Entrepreneurship: A Verbal-Visual Alignment Approach

SSHRC Connection Grants, 2026

  • Jenny Saul, Philosophy (School of Social, Political, and Historical Research), Anti-Democratic Communication
  • Adam Molnar, Sociology & Legal Studies, (School of Social, Political, and Historical Research) Governing Digital Research Methods in Canada

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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

NSERC Discovery, 2026

  • Myra Fernandes, School of Psychology, Characterizing cognitive and neural contributions to the quantity and quality of memory
  • Daniel Smilek, School of Psychology, The Basic Mechanisms of Attentional Engagement and Disengagement

NSERC Alliance Grant, 2026

  • Lennart Nacke, Stratford School of Interaction Design & Business, AI-VIATE (AI for Virtual Interactive Aviation Training Excellence): Modernizing Canadian Pilot Education through Intelligent Systems

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Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

CIHR Project Grants, 2026

  • Geoffrey Fong, School of Psychology, The Global Prevention of Disease (GPrev) Project: From Evidence Synthesis to Simulation Modeling to Population Impact-Estimating the Effects of Tobacco Control Policies on Smoking Reduction and Lives Saved in Five Diverse Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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