2025 Grants

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

SSHRC Insight Development Grants, 2025

  • Muhammad Azim, School of Accounting & Finance, Government Sensitivity to Negative Tax News in Procurement
  • Hilary Bergsieker, Psychology, identifying illusory indirect effects and indexing individual-level variation in mediation analysis
  • Ana Ferrer, Economics, Outcomes of youth attending the Future Launch Program
  • Colin Hastings, Sociology & Legal Studies, Mobility Data for Public Health? An Institutional Ethnography of the Promises (and Perils) of Emerging Surveillance
  • Wenquian Hu, School of Accounting & Finance, A Tipping Point? The Effect of Tipping on Employee Motivation
  • Christine Logel, Renison University College, A psychological approach to understanding barriers to affirmative consent communication
  • Reina Neufeldt, Conrad Grebel University College, Desegregating Peace: Interracial Peace and 20th Century Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Kim Hong Nguyen, Communication Arts, Resisting Chemical Futures in the Waterloo Region: A Curatorial Project
  • Nicole Nolette, French Studies, Cinquante ans de recherches théâtrales au Québec sous le prisme de la SQET
  • Clemens Possnig, Economics, Strategic Algorithms: Impacts on the Economy
  • Andrea Quinlan, Sociology & Legal Studies, Technology-facilitated Sexual Violence in Canadian Sport
  • Uzma Rehman, Psychology, The emotional blueprint: How early home environments shape gendered avoidance of anger and sadness
  • Brianna Wiens, English Language & Literature, Reactionary Rhetorics: Mapping Digitally Mediated Rhetorics of Gendered Violence
  • Mingyue Zhang, School of Accounting & Finance, Business Combinations, Innovation, and the Valuation of Intangible Assets

SSHRC Insight Grants, 2025

  • Wendi Adair, Psychology, Understanding diversity cues and buffering social identity threat to improve representation, collaboration, and climate in Canada’s diverse workplace
  • Hilary Bergsieker, Psychology, Responsive social support for lived experiences of racism
  • Douglas Brown, Psychology, Mitigating Abusive Supervision by Enhancing Self-Control: An Examination of Four Processes
  • Frances (Frankie) Condon, English Language & Literature, House of the Hangman
  • Robert Danish, Communication Arts, Primal Communication: What Rhetoric Can Learn from Mycelium, Mammals, and Machines
  • Jonathon Andrew Deman, St. Jerome’s University, Sequential Scholars
  • Lai-Tze Fan, Sociology & Legal Studies, Interdisciplinary Approaches toward Responsible Facial Recognition AI: Developing Technical, Ethical, and Regulatory Recommendations for Policymaking in Canada
  • Greta Kroeker, History, The Artemisia Project: Rape in Early Modern Europe
  • Ian Milligan, History, Digital Terror: The September 11th, 2001 Attacks Online
  • Mingyue Zhang & Sasan Saiy, School of Accounting & Finance, Human Capital Investment in Financially Distressed Firms

SSHRC Connection Grants, 2025

  • Lai-Tze Fan, Sociology & Legal Studies, The Electronic Literature Organization @25 International Conference

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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

NSERC Discovery, 2025

  • Derek Koehler, Psychology, Click: Sense-making processes underlying inferential reasoning and decision-making
  • Evan Risko, Psychology, Basic Processes in the Monitoring and Control of Cognition

NSERC Discovery Awards and Early Career Research Supplements, 2025

  • Neil Hester, Psychology, Dynamic Interactive Models of Social Categorization: Generalizing Beyond Faces

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Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

CIHR Project Grants, spring 2025

  • Geoffrey Fong, Psychology, Evaluating and understanding tobacco and nicotine products among youth and adults in Canada

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