2019 Grants

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council  

SSHRC Partnership Grant, 2019

  • Steven Bednarski, History (SJU). Environments of Change: Digitizing Nature, History, and Human Experience in Late Medieval Sussex ($2.5 million).

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2019

  • Roy Brouwer, Economics. Payments for wetland ecosystem services as a nature-based solution to sustainably manage urban watersheds.

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, 2019

  • Nicole Nolette, French Studies. Le numérique dans les théâtres francophones du Canada.

SSHRC Insight Grant, 2019

  • Janice Aurini. Sociology & Legal Studies. National stratification systems, parenting logics, and social reproduction: The case of higher education in the United States, Canada, and Cuba.
  • Andrew Bauer, School of Accounting and Finance. Corporate tax incentives and their link to managerial compensation and risk-taking.
  • Gerry Boychuk, Political Science. Populism, suffrage, prohibition: Causes and consequences of the female vote in the Northern Plains states and Canadian Prairie provinces, 1910-1920.
  • Jay Dolmage, English Language & Literature. Academic Eugenics.
  • Doreen Fraser, Philosophy. How mid-level frameworks are used to develop new theories in physics. 
  • Igor Grossmann, Psychology. Wisdom of knowing the difference: Unpacking knowledge of strategy-situation fit and its relationship to context-sensitive meta-cognition. 
  • Svetlana Kaminskaia, French Studies. Regional and stylistic (in)variance in Canadian French prosody.
  • Alice Kuzniar,Germanic & Slavic Studies. Homeopathy and the poetic modernity of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff.
  • Denise Marigold, Social Development Studies (Renison). Responsive social support for vulnerable individuals.
  • Aimee Morrison, English Language & Literature. Rhetoric of the selfie.
  • Theo Stratopoulos, School of Accounting & Finance. Using company disclosures to predict technology diffusion.
  • Andrew Thompson, Political Science. The defenders: A short history of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
  • Adam Vitalis, School of Accounting & Finance.  An investigation into the impact of changing the Auditor’s Report on financial statement users.

SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2019

  • Dillon Browne,Psychology. Emotional well-being in newcomer Canadian families: Applying a whole family approach to assessment and monitoring.
  • Shannon Dea, Philosophy. Academic freedom in a non-ideal world.
  • Ana Ferrer, Economics. Conspicuous consumption, savings, and income inequality.
  • Margaret Gibson, Social Development Studies (Renison). Neurodiversity matters: An ethnographic investigation of discourse, practice, and identity.
  • Rachael Johnstone, Political Science. “Mother, you have the floor:” Pregnancy, policy, and politics.
  • Christina Parker,Political Science (Renison). Restorative justice and peacebuilding dialogue in schools.
  • Winny Shen, Psychology. Leveraging data science and observed internet data to understand the role of gender in work family interface.
  • Andrew Stumpf, Philosophy (SJU). Physicians' Moral Experience and Moral Distinctions in Philosophical Bioethics.
  • Henry Svec, Communication Arts. Entangling the media history archive: String figures as imaginary media. 

SSHRC Connection Grant, 2019

  • Janice Aurini, Sociology & Legal Studies. Ed-Tech Connect: An Intersectoral Workshop on Education, Technology, and 21st Century Labour.
  • Bessma Momani, Political Science. Gender in the Academy.
  • Andrea Quinlan, Sociology & Legal Studies. Inaccessible care: An international forum on sexual assault services in rural Canada and Scotland
  • Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Communication Arts. Design for Peace (Tumaco) Workshop and Exhibition.
  • Sarah Wilkins-LaFlamme, Sociology & Legal Studies. Non-Religion and Secularity in Canada: A Two-Day Workshop Event.

SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals Grant, 2019

  • Jay Dolmage, English Language & Literature. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

NSERC Discovery Grant, 2019

  • Evan Risko, Psychology. Basic Mechanisms in the Control of Cognition.
  • Daniel Smilek, Psychology. Understanding the Basic Mechanisms of Attentional Engagement and Disengagement.

NSERC Discovery Grant Supplement, 2019

  • Daniel Smilek, Psychology. Understanding the Basic Mechanisms of Attentional Engagement and Disengagement.

Canada Research Chair

  • Dillon Browne, Psychology. Canada Research Chair in Child and Clinical Psychology (SSHRC, Tier 2)

Ontario Grants

Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA), 2019

  • Alison Kelly, Psychology. Facilitating treatment seeking among postsecondary students with mental health problems.
  • Jessica Thompson, Fine Arts. Borderline – A mobile artwork to “play” urban data.