2018 Grants

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council  

SSHRC Insight Grant, 2018

  • Russell Adams. Anthropology. Tracing the long-term footprint of anthropogenic pollution in the landscape: evaluation of the evidence from a 5000-year-old industrialized landscape in southern Jordan
  • James Beck, Psychology. Velocity as an antecedent of workplace shortcut behaviours
  • Beth Coleman, English Language & Literature. City as platform: smart cities and civic engagement in the data society
  • Ori Friedman, Psychology. How non-material aspects of ownership influence children and their social interactions
  • Randy Harris, English Language & Literature. Gamesourcing a rhetorical figure ontology
  • Goetz Hoeppe, Anthropology. Making sense of data reuse in environmental science: a comparative ethnography
  • Thomas Homer-Dixon, Political Science. Ideological conflict project: application and field testing of conflict resolution tools
  • Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, English Language & Literature. Networked expertise as a novel approach to complex problem solving
  • David Moscovitch, Psychology. Mental time travel processes in social anxiety: toward an understanding of the mechanisms and boundaries of autobiographical memory accessibility and appraisal
  • Jane Nicholas, History (SJU). Sorrow: child death and grief in Ontario, 1867-1940
  • Chris Riddell, Economics. The effects of compulsory interest arbitration on disputes, wages and service quality: evidence from a unique natural experiment in Ontario
  • Evan Risko, Psychology. Integrating affect into an evidence-based approach to the design of recorded lectures in postsecondary education

SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2018

  • Veronica Austen, English Language & Literature (SJU). Artful (un)belonging: Expressing racialization through the visual arts in contemporary Canadian literature.
  • Annik Bilodeau, Spanish & Latin American Studies. "El arte como martilo": Political street art in contemporary Mexico.
  • Angela Carter, Political Science. The politics of keeping fossil fuels in the ground: Building and testing comparative theory in major producing states.
  • Secil Dagtas, Anthropology. Religious assemblages: An ethnographic study of refugee-minority relations along the Turkish-Syrian border.
  • J. Andrew Deman, English Language & Literature (SJU). Counting Claremont: Sexuality, subversion and symbolic capital in comics' longest single-author run. 
  • Stephanie Denison, Psychology. The development of social causal reasoning in infancy: Using others' emotions to direct behaviour.
  • Katy Fulfer, Philosophy. From rootlessness to belonging: An Arendtian critique of the family as a structure of refugee assimilation.
  • Shelley Hulan, English Language & Literature. Bearing the cupboard for the world: The literature and rhetoric of food scarcity in late colonial Canada and India.
  • Naila Keleta-Mae, Communication Arts. Black and free in the 21st century.
  • Shana Macdonald, Communication Arts. The personal is aesthetic: The formal politics of feminist film and media.
  • Bessma Momani, Political Science. Testing resiliency to right-wing populism.
  • Vinh Nguyen. English Language & Literature (Ren). Pay it forward: Circuits of refugee solidarity in Canada.
  • Andrea Quinlan, Sociology & Legal Studies. Assembled and forgotten: An examination of forensic sexual assault kit backlogs in Canada.
  • Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme, Sociology & Legal Studies. Surveying millennials' non-religious homophily and social distance.

SSHRC Connection Grant, 2018

  • Sheila Ager, Classical Studies. Localism in the Hellenistic world: A multidisciplinary exploration of the phenomenon of 'the local' in a global context.
  • Andrew Faulkner, Classical Studies. Greek, Latin, Syriac, and Hebrew: A cross-cultural study of late antique poetics.

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

NSERC Discovery Grant, 2018

  • Britt Anderson, Psychology. Attention, Probability and Reward.
  • James Danckert, Psychology. Behavioural, psychophysical, genetic and neuroimaging investigations of boredom.
  • Michael Dixon, Psychology. Exploring the Motivational and Emotional Aspects of Gambling.
  • Colin MacLeod, Psychology. Attention, Learning, and Memory:  The Fluency of Cognitive Processing.

NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement, 2018

  • James Danckert, Psychology. Behavioural, psychophysical, genetic and neuroimaging investigations of boredom.

Canada Research Chair

  • Nicole Nolette, French Studies. Canada Research Chair in Minority Studies (SSHRC, Tier 2)

Ontario Grants

Ontario Research Fund - Research Excellence (ORF-RE), 2018

  • Wendi Adair, Psychology.  Reconciliation in the workplace: Creating cultures of trust via effective communication, building relationships, and a climate for cultural safety for Indigenous employees in Ontario and Canada.