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  • Risk Management

    2016-10-14

    Cadenillas, Abel

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: The 2007-2009 financial crises, government debt crises in USA and EU have motivated investigation into the following six topics: 1) optimal investment, liability ratio and dividend policies when the external risk is negatively correlated with returns in the financial...

  • Sleep is the New Sex

    2016-10-11

    Heyes, Cressida

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: This project aims to change the way we think about sleep as well as the way we practice it. It communicates to diverse audiences that sleep is not a mysterious non-experience (essential but a wasteful interruption of life) but rather a central part of existence that tells...

  • Teacher Education, Diversity, and Worldview Threat

    2018-02-01

    van Kessel, Cathryn

    SSHRC Awarded IDG 2018: This qualitative research project involves pre-service social studies teachers learning and implementing terror management theory (TMT), as a technique for helping them in the classroom, when teaching for plurality and cultural diversity. Through focus groups before and...

  • The Conundrum of Learning to Work with Older People: A Descriptive Case Study of Social Learning in Nursing Education

    2018-02-01

    Dahlke, Sherry

    SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018: This study applies social learning theory to case studies of nursing students to identify what, in both theoretical and clinical courses, perpetuates negative social stereotypes about aging and older people. Our goal is to craft opportunities for thoughtful interventions...

  • The Cultural Capital project: Digital Stewardship and Sustainable Monetization for Canadian Independent Musicians

    2018-10-15

    Fauteux, Brian

    SSHRC IG Awarded 2018: Three transnational corporations (Universal, Sony, and Warner) control roughly 80% of the global recording and publishing industries and 86% of the North American market. This three-pronged research project responds to the problem of music industry consolidation by...

  • The Essence of Anti-Essentialism

    2017-10-14

    Koslicki, Kathrin

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Essences have traditionally been assigned important but controversial explanatory roles in philosophical, scientific and social theorizing. For example, why is it possible for one and the same organism to be first a caterpillar and then a butterfly? Why is it impossible for...

  • The Spoken English Lexicon: Massive Auditory Lexical Decision

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    2013-10-11

    Tucker, Benjamin

    SSHRC Awarded IG 2014: How do humans recognize speech? How do factors such as native language, age, and dialect have an effect on the way in which spoken words are recognized? The present proposal seeks to investigate these and other questions regarding spoken language recognition by creating and...

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