Government of Canada announces 2025 SSHRC, NSERC, and NFRF Grant Recipients

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

2025 SSHRC and NSERC Grants awarded to researchers in Psychology

Waterloo researchers are receiving more than $32 million to support research as part of a $1.3 billion Government of Canada announcement for research across Canada. The funding announced for Waterloo researchers includes support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF).

This year, 25 researchers in the Faculty of Arts received SSHRC Insight Development Grants, SSHRC Insight Grants, and NSERC Discovery Grants. Please join us in congratulating our colleagues in Psychology:

SSHRC Insight Development Grants:

  • Hilary Bergsieker, Identifying illusory indirect effects and indexing individual-level variation in mediation analysis
  • Uzma Rehman, The emotional blueprint: How early home environments shape gendered avoidance of anger and sadness  

SSHRC Insight Grants:

  • Wendi Adair, Understanding diversity cues and buffering social identity threat to improve representation, collaboration, and climate in Canada's diverse workplace
  • Hilary Bergsieker, Responsive social support for lived experiences of racism
  • Douglas Brown, Mitigating abusive supervision by enhancing self-control: An examination of four processes

NSERC Discovery Grants:

  • Neil Hester, Dynamic interactive models of social categorization: Generalizing beyond faces
  • Derek Koehler, Click: Sense-making processes underlying inferential reasoning and decision-making
  • Evan Risko, Basic processes in the monitoring and control of cognition