Twenty-nine researchers at the University of Waterloo will receive $5.7 million from the federal government to advance research and encourage partnerships that will lead to innovative approaches to improve the well-being of Canadians.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is awarding the funding through Partnership Grants, Partnership Development Grants, Insight Grants, and Insight Development Grants.
“Social sciences and humanities research is the foundation for advancing social, cultural, economic, and intellectual change across Canada and around the world,” said D. George Dixon, vice-president, university research. “As a comprehensive university, funding for research in this area is an important and valuable balance to generating new knowledge that is broad and diverse.”
The federal government awarded funds to the following Waterloo researchers and projects:
Partnership Grant
Engineering
- Philip Beesley (School of Architecture): Living architecture systems ($2,476,738)
Partnership Development Grants
Arts
- Jasmin Habib (Political Science): A socio-cultural mapping of Arab-Canadian migration, settlement, and integration: collaboration, community, co-authorship ($199,062)
- Kristina Llewellyn (Social Development Studies, Renison University College): Digital Oral Histories for Reconciliation: The Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children History Education Initiative ($199,027)
Insight Development Grants
Applied Health Sciences
- Luke Potwarka (Recreation and Leisure Studies): Leveraging Youth Sport Participation Impacts of International Sport Events: The Case of Track Cycling in Milton's Velodrome ($64,297)
Arts
- Joel Blit (Economics): The potential for a selective immigration policy to increase innovation; evidence from Canada ($60,731)
- Tao Chen (Economics): Functional dynamic factor models ($31,422)
- Elise Lepage (French Studies): Du pays au paysage. La poésie québécoise en perspective depuis 1950 ($42,297)
- Thomas Parker (Economics): Uniform Inference Using Simple Gaussian Field Asymptotics ($36,418)
Environment
- Andrea Collins (School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability): A New Alliance with Old Problems: A Gendered Analysis of the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition ($36,355)
- John McLevey (Knowledge Integration): Remaking the Boundaries of Open and Proprietary Science: A Longitudinal Study of Biomedical Research and Development Networks in Canada ($67,790)
- Prateep Nayak (School of Environment, Enterprise and Development): Social-Ecological Regime Shifts (SERS) and Governance in Coastal-Marine Systems ($74,990)
- Kathryn Plaisance (Knowledge Integration): Increasing the Impact of Philosophy of Science in Scientific Domains ($59,302)
Mathematics
- Yeying Zhu (Statistics and Actuarial Science): Understanding the Causal Mechanism of Reputation Using Big Data in e-Commerce ($51,145)
Insight Grants
Arts
- Jefim Efrim Boritz (School of Accounting and Finance): The role of external valuation specialists in determining fair values in corporate reports ($103,865)
- Alan Huang (School of Accounting and Finance): The information content of debt IPO prospectuses: a text-based study ($67,223)
- Patricia O’Brien (School of Accounting and Finance): Credible financial reporting ($115,648)
- Peter J. Carrington (Sociology and Legal Studies): The structure of the national Canadian criminal network ($198,032)
- Heather Henderson (Psychology): Mechanisms linking childhood shyness and self-regulation ($166,862)
- Daniel Henstra (Political Science): Multilevel governance and climate change adaptation policy in Canada ($81,532)
- Kathryn Hochstetler (Political Science): Wind and solar power in South America ($80,489)
- Marcel O’Gorman (English Language and Literature): Digital abstinence: the art, politics, and philosophy of unplugging ($159,511)
- Jennifer L. Schulenberg (Sociology and Legal Studies): Policing innovation: an investigation of specialized responses to youth crime ($200,436)
- Winny Shen (Psychology): Adaptability or inconsistency/understanding antecedents and consequences of change in leadership behaviours ($107,346)
- Mikal Skuterud (Economics): The impact of the temporary foreign worker program on the Canadian economy ($87,440)
Engineering
- Robert-Jan van Pelt (School of Architecture): The Barrack-Hut in history ($75,503)
Environment
- Derek Armitage (School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability): Integration of social wellbeing and ecosystem service bundles for adaptive governance of coastal systems experiencing rapid change ($327,160)
- Luna Khirfan (School of Planning): The potential of daylighting - deculverting - urban streams for climate change adaptation and mitigation and for place-making: Amman's Seil and Seoul's Cheonggyecheon ($243,814)
- Steffanie Scott (Geography and Environmental Management): Cultivating pathways to ecological agriculture: rural-urban interfaces and regional dynamics in the agri-food sector in Nanjing, China ($238,841)
- Olaf Weber (School of Environment, Enterprise and Development): The impact of voluntary codes of conduct and financial sector sustainability regulations on banking project financing and investing ($110,980)
The Waterloo awards are part of a larger announcement where the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, announced $163 million for nearly 1,150 social sciences and humanities research projects.
