The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council today announced an investment of more than $285m that will support 6,900 researchers and graduate students across Canada.
Funding was awarded for the Partnership Grants, Partnership Development Grants, Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants. A total of 50 research projects led by UBC Arts researchers received $8m in funding.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships and SSHRC doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships were also announced.
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PARTNERSHIP GRANTS 2019-20 COMPETITION
Alfred Hermida
Global Journalism Innovation Lab: Revitalizing journalism and accelerating knowledge mobilization from Canadian universities: $2,472,154 (6 years)
PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 2018-2019 COMPETITION
Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom
Activism in International Human Rights Courts (ActInCourts): $199,187 (3 years)
Henry Yu
Activating a Multi-sited Museum: An Innovative Organizational Model for Heritage and Community Knowledge-Making: $199,058 (2 years)
INSIGHT GRANTS 2018-2019 COMPETITION
Margolis, Eric
A Theory of Concepts: $79,550
Veenstra, Gerry D.
Capital interplays and health in Canada: $52,000
Jeong, Gyung-Ho
Supermajority Rule in the National Assembly of Korea: $39,076
Savalei, Victoria
Improving measures of self-report: $80,800
Green, David A.
Immigration and Employment Outcomes in the Receiving Economy: $163,900
Fernández Utrera, María Soledad
Salvador Dalí, Homo Politicus: $59,702
Gottlieb, Joshua D.
Top Income Inequality: Theory, Data, and Measurement: $172,039
Dunn, Elizabeth W.
Hello stranger: Intrapersonal and interpersonal strategies for promoting interactions between strangers: $163,716
Santos, Alessandra S.
African Diaspora Literature, Culture and Technology in Brazil: $44,980
Chowdhury, Arjun
The Paradox of Postcolonial Time: $36,360
Werker, Janet F.
Bilingualism as a lens for understanding lexical development in infancy: $312,710
Beauchesne, Kim M.
Bridging Transatlantic and Transpacific Studies: The Keicho Embassy and Its Textual Representations in the Hispanic World (Seventeenth and Twenty-First Centuries): $91,945
Dancygier, Barbara
Emotional dissonance and the post-truth crisis: $43,680
Yoon, Florence
The character-object spectrum in Greek Tragedy: $37,300
Norenzayan, Ara
Religion, Spirituality, and Moral Concern for the Environment: $175,644
Hamlin, J. Kiley
Mapping the origins of human morality: A comprehensive longitudinal study of moral development from birth through age 3: $381,845
Barnes, Trevor J.
Geographies of the life, works and social activism of William Bunge: $99,547
Laurin, Kristin
System justification: Self-regulatory causes and unintended emotional consequences: $148,210
Gick, Bryan W.
Virtually Speaking: How Phonetic Information Affects Communication in Virtual Reality: $93,485
Christopoulos, John
Bodies of Crime in Early Modern Italy: $85,381
Heine, Steven J.
Economic Inequality and Status Strivings: $301,567
Griffin, Michael J.
Translating, Interpreting, and Publicizing the Philosophy and Science of the Roman Empire: New Translations in the Ancient Commentators Series: $66,502
Coulthard, Lisa M.
Between Blood and Data: Anatomy of the Post-Millennial Hollywood Fight Sequence: $71,776
Rehavi, Michal Marit
Getting Inside the Black Box of Prosecutors’ Discretion: $94,968
Roth, Wendy D.
Genetic Ancestry Testing and the Future of Race: Qualitative Follow-Up Study: $43,908
Poudrier, Ève
Modeling polyrhythmic experience: $253,964
Sin, Nancy
The unfolding of positive events in daily stress and coping processes: $252,740
Kingstone, Alan
Human social attention: $136,250
Milstein, Sara
Making a Case: The Origins and Legacy of Biblical and Near Eastern Law: $40,275
Angeles, Leonora C.
Postnationalism and Canada-Philippine Bilateral Relations: Trends, Patterns, Limits and Possibilities of Postnational Citizenships and Transnational Linkages for Development, 1970-2020: $93,585
Thobani, Sunera
The Cinematic Lives of Islam and Muslims: $79,920
Severs, Jeffrey
Postmodernism as they found it: contingent transformations in U.S. fiction, 1970-1976: $31,150
INSIGHT DEVELOPMENT GRANTS 2019-2020 COMPETITION
Pratt, Geraldine
Anticipating Alzheimer’s: geographies of the global intimate: $74,980
Kerns, Connor
Social Exclusion, Social Communication and Psychological Well-being in Emerging Adulthood: $45,970
Hanser, Amy
The Public Bus as Urban Space: How People Navigate Encounters Across Social Difference: $38,054
Huddart Kennedy, Emily
Who Cares About the Environment? How Class and Politics Are Related to Environmental Beliefs, Preferences and Impacts: $65,488
Huemoeller, Katharine
Reproducing Slavery: Maternal descent in the Roman world: $28,790
Gardner, Gregg
The Horvat Midras Excavation Project: Cultural Interaction in Rural Roman Judea: $69,023
Gottlieb, Joshua
Studying Coal Plant Pollution Using Machine Learning: $56,067
Moran, Patrick
Literary Genre in the French-Speaking Middle Ages: From Manuscript Studies to Cognitive Theory: $56,763
Turin, Mark
Relational Lexicography: New Approaches to Community-Informed Dictionary Work: $75,000
Sin, Nancy
Positive emotional well-being and aging: A daily process approach: $70,817
Gallipoli, Giovanni
Technology, Productivity and Skills in the Labor Market: the Role of Firms: $67,300
Metcalfe, Jessica
Dene Bison Hunting and Migration: Western Science and Indigenous Perspectives: $63,924
Hallensleben, Markus
Migration as Core Narrative of Plural Societies: Towards an Aesthetics of Postmigrant Literature: $34,795
Arneil, Barbara
Organic Politics: $44,625
Adriasola Munoz, Ignacio
Omen: The Work of Enokura Koji: $47,168
2019 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships
Twenty-five graduate students in the Faculty of Arts received SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships or Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships.
