SSHRC Grants Carleton Researchers $2.8 Million in Funding to Build Knowledge and New Initiatives

Carleton University researchers received approximately $2.8 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) in Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants to fund their projects. A total of 25 Carleton researchers will benefit from the grants announced on September 13.

“The SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Programs offer vital support to researchers conducting work in areas important to Canadians and the world, as well as experimenting with new research approaches,” said Rafik Goubran, Vice-President (Research and International). “The breadth and depth of Carleton recipients selected in this competition is a testament to their excellence in important areas such as equity, diversity and inclusion, Indigenous issues, refugees and migration, health and wellness, and climate change.”

New SSHRC Insight Grants

The SSHRC Insight Grant program supports high-calibre research projects that build knowledge and understanding about people, societies and the world. Nine Carleton researchers were awarded funds ranging from $99,000 to $315,000 for their research initiatives.

The funding will allow research into topics such as simulation-based economic modelling, the status of Russian media, and children’s health and school absenteeism. See the breadth of researchers awarded the grants:

• Alexander McClelland, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice: Tracking (In)Justice: Advancing new knowledge on police involved deaths in Canada
• Jay Drydyk, Department of Philosophy: Capability Theory of Justice
• Jerald Sabin, School of Public Policy & Administration: Leadership, Democratic Accountability, and Consensus Government in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories
• Kevin Nunes, Department of Psychology: Attitudes toward Violence, Self-Control, Psychopathy, and Aggressive/Violent Behaviour
• Lynda Khalaf, Department of Economics: Multidimensional simulation-based inference with applications to asset pricing
• Maria Rogers, Department of Psychology: Attending to Attendance: Understanding School Absenteeism Among Children and Youth with Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder
• Paul Goode, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies: Russia’s Media at War: Domestic Content, International Transfer, and Perceived Credibility
• Renate Ysseldyk, Department of Health Sciences: Spirituality in an Aging Society: Mapping Contradictions for Health
• William Walters, cross-appointed with the Departments of Political Science and Sociology & Anthropology: Rethinking declassification: Dis/closure, infrastructure, aesthetics

New SSHRC Insight Development Grants

SSHRC’s Insight Development Grants support research in its initial stages, enabling new research initiatives and experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches, and ideas. Sixteen Carleton researchers will receive between $40,000 and $75,000 over the next two years for their projects.

Research areas range from Ontario’s homelessness services and social norms around climate emissions, to the sex workers’ rights movement and migrant women in urban Canada. Find out more about the awarded researchers:

• Anna Kopec, School of Public Policy & Administration: The (In)Visibility of Services: Mapping Homelessness Services in Ontario
• Ardyn Nordstrom, School of Public Policy & Administration: Supporting Education During Crises: A Global Evaluation using Machine Learning
• David Dean, Department of History: Philately in Troubled Times: A Citizen Science Approach
• David Hugill, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies: “Mobility Austerity” and the Long Shadow of the “Special Period” in the Everyday Lives of Havana Commuters
• R. Fraser Taylor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies: Collaborative Story Mapping with Urban Residential School Survivors
• Jean-Michel Marcoux, Department of Law and Legal Studies: Practicing reform: The law-making role of tribunals and the sanctioning of investor misconduct in investment arbitration
• Kristin Bourassa, Department of History: Political Books and Political Networks in Late-Medieval France
• Lisa Moffitt, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism: Earth Work: Architecture’s Regenerative Material Models
• Manjeet Birk, Feminist Institute of Social Transformation: EDI or Bust: Are equity, diversity and inclusion policies working at post secondary institutions in Ottawa, Ontario?
• Natalia Escobar Castrillón, Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism: Undoing White Settler Designed Cities: Understanding the Urban Experiences of Immigrant and Refugee Women in Canada
• Oriane Couchoux, Sprott School of Business: Comptabilité et maternité: Étude des pratiques financières des mères au Canada
• Ryan Conrad, Feminist Institute of Social Transformation: Sex Worker Self-Authoring in the Canadian Women’s Movement Archive
• Shanel Wu, Creative Interactions Lab: Understanding Accessibility Challenges in Textile Crafting Communities
• Tanya Halsall, Department of Neuroscience: In-depth exploration of outdoor learning: A case study of a school-level approach
• Trish Audette-Longo, School of Journalism and Communication: Pipeline promises and disruptions: Analyzing the intersections of fossil fuel narratives, climate change stories and new journalism practices
• Vivian Hoffmann, cross-appointed with the School of Public Policy & Administration and the Department of Economics: Building and activating social norms through personal climate emissions feedback

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