2013 grants

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2013

  • Susan Roy, History. The Marpole project: the history and politics of Indigenous heritage sites in Canada

SSHRC Connection Grant, 2013

  • Altay Coskun, Classical Studies. Seleucid Royal Women at McGill in Feb. 2013 (Seleucid Study Day IV)
  • Victoria Lamont, English Language & Literature. Culture and the Economization of Everything

SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2013

  • Beth Coleman, English Language & Literature. City as Platform: Media studies in the age of ubiquitous computing
  • Alison Kelly, Psychology. Rolling with the punches and with the praises: Self-compassion and responses to positive self-relevant events
  • Ian Milligan, History. An Infinite Archive? Developing HistoryCrawler to Explore the Internet Archive as a Historical Resource
  • Jonathan Oakman, Psychology. Improving analysis of single case two-phase repeated measures research designs.
  • Blake Phillips, School of Accounting & Finance. Performance chasing and mutual fund managerial incentives
  • Sharon Roberts, Social Development Studies (Renison). From Furries to Sport Fans: Do conventional and unconventional forms of fantasy-based group activities differ in terms of their association with identity formation?
  • Katherine White, Psychology. Children's use and understanding of speech cues during communicative interactions

SSHRC Insight Grant, 2013

  • Janice Aurini, Sociology & Legal Studies. A Multi-Method Examination of Summer Learning Inequality (5 yr)
  • Colin Ellard, Psychology. Measuring affect in urban spaces: development of toolkits for evidence-based urban design (5yr)
  • Ori Friedman, Psychology. Children's reasoning about ownership of property (5 yr)
  • Christine McWebb, French Studies. "CANTUS" for Office and Mass: New Online Tools for Textual-Melodic Input, Search, and Analysis of Mass Chants (5 yr)
  • Elizabeth Nilsen, Psychology. Children's perspective-taking during communication and social interactions: Mechanisms and outcomes (4 yr)
  • James Thompson, School of Accounting & Finance. Financial Risk Transfer and Regulation (3 yr)
  • Joanne Wood, Psychology. Expressing negative emotions can jeopardize close  relationships: The roles of agreeableness and self-esteem in leading to harmony or discord (5 yr)

SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2013

  • Robert Zacharias, English Language & Literature (working with Winfried Siemerling, English Language & Literature)

SSHRC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2013

  • Shauna Bottos, Psychology (working with Elizabeth Nilsen, Psychology)

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

NSERC Discovery Grant, 2013

  • James Danckert (renewal), Psychology. Examining the cognitive and neural bases of boredom
  • Stephanie Denison, Psychology. the development of probabilistic inference in infants
  • Mike Dixon (renewal), Psychology. Reward processing, motivation and emotional responding during slot machine play
  • Colin Macleod (renewal), Psychology. Attention, Learning, and Memory: The Fluency of Processing

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

CIHR Open Operating Grant, 2013

  • Heather MacDougall, History. Contested Intervention: The history of MMR adoption and rejection in Canada, 1963-2012