2020 Grants

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council  

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2020

  • Susan Roy, History. Six Miles Deep: Mapping Histories of Environmental Transformation in the Grand River Territories of the Haudenosaunee.

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, 2020

  • Randy Harris, English Language & Literature.Understanding how the mind is wired to remember language.
  • Bessma Momani, Political Science. Partnering to Improve Immigrant Women Entrepreneurs' Success.
  • Susan Roy, History. Dancing Histories: Archiving Indigenous Performance in Canada.
  • Rashmee Singh, Sociology & Legal Studies. A Partnership to Evaluate the Impact of COVID-19 on Criminal Justice and Community Responses to Domestic Violence: The Realities of Victim Safety and Offender Accountability.

SSHRC Connection Grant, 2020

  • Christopher Bennett, Political Science. "No Man Is An Island": Territorial rights, climate change, and the case of environmentally displaced people.
  • Igor Grossmann, Psychology. Post-Pandemic Kaleidoscope: Behavioral and Social Scientists' Wisdom for Navigating the New Normal.
  • Imre Szeman, Communication Arts. Petrocultures2020: Transformations.

SSHRC Insight Grant, 2020

  • Douglas Brown, Psychology. The Antecedents of Abusive Supervision: A Self-Regulatory Identity Based Approach. 
  • Gary Bruce, History. Night of the Long Knives: Acquiescence, Masculinity, and the Path to Nazi Mass Murder.
  • Susan Cadell, Social Work (Ren). Healing Tattoos.
  • Heather Henderson, Psychology. Making new friends: The impact of shyness on unfamiliar children's interactions.
  • Ian Milligan, History. Averting the Digital Dark Age: The Digital Preservation Movement, 1991-2001
  • Rashmee Singh, Sociology &  Legal Studies. The Role of the Penal Voluntary Sector in the Governance of the Sex Trade: A Comparative Study.
  • Joyce Tian, School of Accounting & Finance. Corporate Governance with Biased Managers.
  • David Welch, Political Science. Why do leaders fail to learn from history (and how might they succeed)?

SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2020

  • Jordana Cox, Communication Arts. Newsworthy: journalistic imagination in Alexandra Bell's "Counternarratives" and Hill and Silvera's "Liberty Deferred."
  • Lai-Tze Fan, English Language & Literature. Unseen Hands: A Material History of Women as Writing Machines in Typewriters, Word Processors, and Computers.
  • Greta Kroeker, History. The Reformation of Rape: The Early Modern Foundations of European Rape Culture (1450-1800.
  • Heather Love, English Language & Literature. The Rhetoric of Techno-Mediated Maternity in Early 20th-Century Literature, Media, and Medicine.
  • Uzma Rehman, Psychology. Sexuality in Older Age: How Attitudes Toward Aging Predict the Quality of Sexual Communication.
  • Katherine White, Psychology. Listeners' linguistic and social expectations about bilingual speakers.
  • Heather Whiteside, Political Science. Holding the Purse Strings: Joint-Stock Royal Charter Companies and the Origins of Capitalism in North America.

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

NSERC Discovery Grant, 2020

  • Stephanie Denison, Psychology. Probability learning and statistical inference in infancy and early childhood.
  • Chris Eliasmith, Philosophy. Large-scale neural models of cognitive function.
  • Myra Fernandes, Psychology. Factors influencing cognitive and neural representations contributing to memory.

NSERC Science Communication Skills Grant (pilot), 2020

  • Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, English Language & Literature. RCIScience-UWaterloo Science Communication Certificate.

Ontario Grants

Ontario Research Fund - Research Excellence Grant (Round 10), 2020

  • Naila Keleta-Mae, Communication Arts. Freedom in Black Expressive Culture.