Three Water Institute researchers have been awarded funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to support research on effective governance for climate change, data sovereignty and pro-poor policy approaches.
The projects were included in the announcement made today by the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announcing more than $175 million to support 809 social sciences and humanities research projects across Canada. In total, University of Waterloo researchers were awarded $4.4M in today’s announcement.
Congratulations to the following researchers on their SSHRC Insight Grants:
Arts
Daniel
Henstra
(Political
Science):
Effective
governance
arrangements
for
climate
resilient
infrastructure
($378,073)
Environment
Peter
Johnson
(Geography
and
Environmental
Management):
Who
owns
the
map?
Data
sovereignty
and
the
shifting
government
role
in
spatial
data
collection,
use,
and
dissemination
($202,050)
Health
Warren
Dodd
(School
of
Public
Health
Sciences):
Interrogating
different
pro-poor
policy
approaches
in
the
context
of
intersecting
social-ecological
crises
in
the
Philippines
($178,423)