Carleton University will receive more than $500,000 in Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grants divided among three research projects.

  • Chris Davis, professor, Psychology, Growing through Grief: Adolescents and Loss.
  • Marie-Odile Junker, professor, School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Dictionnaire Atikamekw.
  • Fraser Taylor, distinguished research professor, director of the Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre (GCRC), OceanCanada Partnership.

Quick Facts:

Growing through Grief: Adolescents and Loss

  • The project will receive $101,006 in funding from a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.
  • The project will develop a series of brief, evidence-based videos to help adolescents deal with grief.

Dictionnaire Atikamekw

  • This project will receive $200,000 from a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.
  • This project will create an online, multimedia dictionary in the Atikamekw language, with printed versions and mobile applications that will act as tools for online documentation and maintenance of the  language.
  • The database will be open source, easily accessible and archivable.

OceanCanada Partnership

  • The GCRC will receive $200,000 as part of $2 .5 million in overall funding from a SSHRC Partnership Grant.
  • Carleton’s GCRC will be participating in an interdisciplinary research collaboration between 15 Canadian universities, non-governmental organizations and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
  • The research will look at both the challenges and opportunities facing Canada’s oceans and the coastal communities that depend on them.
  • The GCRC, together with McMaster University, is responsible for work specifically on the Arctic Ocean.

Quotes:

“The purpose of this grant is to develop a series of brief, evidence-based videos that will help adolescents deal with grief following the loss of a friend or sibling. These videos will be available freely online. The Partnership Grant is led by Carleton and involves the Ottawa and Toronto Chapters of Bereaved Families of Ontario and York University’s Christine Jonas-Simpson.” Davis.

“I am very happy that this project is being funded. It will allow a much-neglected group of Aboriginal speakers to participate in the digital world with their language and culture. It will also provide essential resources supporting language maintenance and linguistic diversity.” Junker.

“The GCRC is pleased to be a partner in this important project. We will build on our extensive research on the Arctic to produce a new Cybercartographic Atlas of the Arctic Ocean with substantive input from northern communities.” Taylor.

Associated Links:
SSHRC: SSHRC-CSRH.gc.ca
Carleton Research: staging.carleton.ca/research

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