2012 grants

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 

SSHRC Partnership Grant, 2012

  • Neil Randall, English Language & Literature. IMMERSE: Interactive & multi-modal experience research syndicate (with Waterloo team-members Karen Collins, Kevin Harrigan, Colin Ellard and Marcel O'Gorman from the Faculty of Arts as well as Chrysanne DiMarco, Mark Hancock, Fue-Sang Lien, Diane Santesso, and Stacey Scott). $2.5 million over 6 years.

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2012

  • Kathleen Bloom, Psychology. Building a system for sustainable knowledge mobilization
  • Jennifer Simpson, Drama & Speech Communication. Building and mobilizing knowledge on race and colonialism in Canada

SSHRC Public Outreach Grant, 2012

  • Jennifer Schulenberg, Sociology & Legal Studies. The Ontario police complaints system: perspectives on where we are three years later

SSHRC Connection Grant, 2012

  • Robert Kerton, Economics. Workshop to build an academic consumer interest research network in Canada (workshop)

SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2012

  • Pierre Chaussé, Economics. Estimation techniques for economic or financial models based on a large or infinite number of moment conditions
  • Daniel Henstra, Political Science. Climate change, extreme weather and Canadian cities: analyzing urban adaptation policy
  • Stephanie Lluis, Economics. Employment insurance and post-unemployment outcomes: how do men and women fare?
  • Alain-Désiré Nimubona, Economics. Adaptation, mitigation, and the impact of international trade.

SSHRC Insight Grant, 2012

  • Ramona Bobocel, Psychology. New directions in organizational justice research: Victims, observers, and enactors
  • Changling Chen, School of Accounting & Finance. Fair-value accounting, loan loss-provisions, and the development of the recent financial crisis
  • Alan Huang, School of Accounting & Finance. Public news releases, information asymmetry and information
  • David Moscovitch, Psychology. Activation & inhibition of negative mental self-representation in social anxiety: Toward an understanding of individual differences in information processing, emotion, and behaviour
  • Francois Paré, French Studies. L'Ontario français et ses premiers textes: de Brébeuf à Charlevoix
  • Abigail Scholer, Psychology. Mental representation and transformation of self-control conflicts
  • Steven Spencer, Psychology. An intervention to improve women’s engineering achievement

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

NSERC Discovery Grant, 2012

  • Britt Anderson, Psychology. Probability and attentional effects
  • Derek Besner, Psychology. Visual word recognition: Intention, attention, and computational modelling
  • Roxane Itier, Psychology. Role of eyes in early neural face processing

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

CIHR Open Operating Grant, 2012

  • Geoffrey Fong, Psychology. The International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project: Evaluating the impact of the WHO framework convention on tobacco control with an emphasis on low and middle income countries

CIHR Strategic Grant, 2012

  • Wendy Mitchinson, History. Obesity in Canada: historical and cultural perspectives

Other awards

Ontario Early Researcher Award (ERA), 2012

  • Andrew Faulkner, Classical Studies. Cross-cultural integration in the Greek poetic tradition
  • Roxane Itier, Psychology. I can see it in your eyes – understanding the links between emotions, eye gaze and social skills
  • John Turri, Philosophy. Classifying and evaluating speech arts

2015 grants

2014 grants

2013 grants

2011 grants