Researchers at Carleton University have received funding of more than $3.7M from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) through the Insight Grants program, Partnership Development Grants program and Aid to Scholarly Journals program. Awarded to 23 researchers, the grants will help advance discoveries and knowledge in diverse areas such as health and wellness, the new economy and social innovation, among others.
Insight Grants
The Insight program aims to support and foster excellence in social sciences and humanities research intended to deepen, widen and increase our collective understanding of individuals and societies, as well as to inform the search for solutions to societal challenges. This round includes funding for 14 Carleton University researchers:
In the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences:
- Shawna Dolansky, College of the Humanities – Women of the Ancient World: Graphic Reconstructions and Digital Resources
- Marina Milyavskaya, Department of Psychology – Why Do We Spend Our Time The Way We Do? Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Time Use
- Joanna Pozzulo, Department of Psychology – Children’s Identification Evidence Goes to Court
- Sheryl-Ann Simpson, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies – Planning for Abolition: Defining Terms and Building Networks
In the Faculty of Public Affairs:
- Kenta Asakura, School of Social Work – Bridging Critical Social Work Education and Clinical Practice: A Design-Based Research Study Using Simulated Practice
- Graeme Auld, School of Public Policy and Administration – Political Economy of Private Auditors in Transnational Sustainability Governance
- Louis-Philippe Beland, Department of Economics – Determinants of Health
- Doris Buss, Department of Law and Legal Studies – Gold Mining in a Pandemic: Gender, Livelihoods and Building Back Better
- Dana Galizia, Department of Economics – Unemployment Risk, Self-Insurance, and the Business Cycle
- Johnathan Malloy, Department of Political Science – Parliamentary Committees: Portals between State and Society
- Thomas Russell, Department of Economics – Optimal Policy Choice Under Weak Modelling Assumptions
- Stephen Saideman, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs – Civilian Control of the Military and the Marketplace of Policy
- Ania Zbyszewska, Department of Law and Legal Studies – Law and the Labour/Environment Nexus: Interactions, Implications, and Regulatory Alternatives
In the Sprott School of Business
- Greg Sears, Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour – Promoting Retention, Inclusion, and Integration of International Graduates
Partnership Development Grants
Partnership Development Grants support formal partnerships between academic researchers, businesses and other partners that will advance knowledge and understanding on critical issues of intellectual, social, economic and cultural significance. The grants allow partners to design and test new approaches to research and its real-world applications, foster valuable research relationships and networks across sectors, and provide hands-on training for students and new scholars.
Awarded this round were:
- Jo-Anne Lefebvre, Department of Psychology, for Assessment and Intervention for Mathematics (AIM)
- Alexander McClelland, Institute for Criminology and Criminal Justice for Tracking (In) Justice: A Publicly Accessible Online Database of Police-Involved and Carceral Deaths Across Canada
- Susan Phillips, School of Public Policy and Administration for Justice Philanthropy: An International Research-to-Practice Network
Aid to Scholarly Journals Grants
Aid to Scholarly Journals grants support Canadian scholarly dissemination by offering a contribution to enable journals to explore innovative activities as well as to help them to defray the costs associated with publishing scholarly articles, digital publishing and journal distribution on Canadian not-for-profit platforms.
Funding was received this round by:
- Melanie Adrian, Department of Law and Legal Studies for work with the Canadian Journal of Law and Society
- David Carment, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs for work with the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal
- Joan DeBardeleben, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies for work with the Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies
- Frank Mitchell, Art and Architectural History for work with RACAR – Canadian Art Review
- Michael Rodgers, School of Linguistics and Language Studies for work with the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics
- Chris Russill, Journalism and Communication for work with the Canadian Journal of Communication