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- 18Mukherjee, Ayantika
- 18Young-Leslie, Heather
- 14Murphy, Michelle N.
- 8Taylor, Craig
- 4Mayan, Maria
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2017-10-13
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: This project addresses a hidden bias of mainstream teaching and learning, wherein Indigenous and locally-held knowledge is often positioned as the oral teachings of the past, in contrast to the contemporary character of digital literacy. The three-year project takes a...
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2020-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: This project explores the types and purposes of information and communication technologies (ICT) used by older Arab immigrants in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It describes older Arab immigrants’ selfperceived ICT competence, including knowledge, skills and attitudes, and...
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2023-09-01
SSHRC PEG awarded 2023: This project explores one rural community’s attempt to address its dependence on jobs in the oil and gas industry, youth out-migration, and low post-secondary education attainment. In 2020 Drayton Valley, a rural oil and gas town of 7,000 people (Statistics Canada, 2023),...
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09/27/2021
SSRHC IG awarded 2022: The PI will test the well-worn trope, "you are what you where," by examining how racial hierarchies in the imperial Atlantic used dress and material systems to enact race. Whiteness shaped aesthetic priorities in empires and colonies, including the raced and gendered...
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2016-10-17
Insight Grant funded in 2017. the world of the present is a 'Petroculture', where cultural, economic, ideological, legal and political relationships --locally and globally-- have been shaped by oil and its networks of power. Energy transition demands social transformation. This research is...
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09/28/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Financial markets are playing an increasingly important role in the fight against climate change and other sustainability issues by allowing investors to finance projects that have positive sustainability outcomes. Despite the proliferation of securities on the sustainable...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: Our proposed project, therefore, uses community-driven archaeological remote sensing to address important community needs, while exploring the research implications of relocating graves in historic cemeteries by combining archaeology, remote sensing, historical research,...
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Fragmentation and Conversion of Agricultural Land: Managing tradeoffs in a context of Climate Change
2020-07-01
AREF awarded 2020: The previous phase of this project collected survey data from 1300 residents of the 6 largest urban landscapes (CMAs, CAs) in Alberta: Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Red Deer, Medicine Hat and Grand Prairie. The current phase will continue to emphasize those areas as well as...
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2020-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: This project will develop a framework of basic competencies for PhD supervision across the University of Alberta (U of A) and lay a foundation for similar work to happen on Canadian campuses. Beyond quantitative measures of performance, the competencies will be invested in...