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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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2018-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2019: From Ms. Grundy to Peter Parker, comics and teachers are curious bedfellows. This interdisciplinary study examines the history of the teacher in North American comics, and involves a praxis-oriented approach to researching with this hybrid form, studying the relationship...
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2013-10-10
McCulloch, Allison, Byrne, Siobhan
SSHRC Awarded IG 2014: In Afghanistan and Syria (2013), powersharing peace-deal processes, modelled on examples from the Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Powersharing experts argue ethnopolitical groups are the most important actors in contemporary conflicts like Afghanistan and Syria,...
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2011-10-13
SSHRC Awarded IG 2012: Verbs are harder than nouns for children to learn. This research project will test two central hypotheses about verb learning in children: First, in experimental situations, children benefit from co-speech gesture as shown by enhanced verb learning. Second, in everyday...
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2017-10-12
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: From 1968 to 1985, a small division within the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs (DIAND)--now Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)--pursued initiatives designed to encourage the development of Inuit literary production in Canada. At times acting without the...
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09/28/2021
SSRHC IG awarded 2022: "Why are Chinese tourists so rude?" This question, posted by an American retail worker on Reddit, has received over 2,000 replies. It reveals a widely held stereotype about Chinese people. With 169.2 million Chinese traveling overseas and spending $254.6 billion in 2019...
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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. People across the world are using English in their daily lives--but how are they doing this, and why? This project will investigate conflicts between emerging permissive and older purist ideologies of English in Germany. German young people seem to be driving the emergence...
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2020-10-01
SSHRC Insight grant awarded 2021. This project will investigate conflicts between emerging permissive and older purist ideologies of English in Germany. For German youth, English is coming to be viewed as a culturally neutral language, making Germany a good "living laboratory" for the study of...
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2022-10-28
SSHRC IG awarded 2023: Educational assessment can be one of the most productive forces for student learning in classrooms or one of the most destructive. The deciding factor is whether teachers can make assessment decisions that can engage and motivate students and enhance their learning....
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2017-10-16
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Consumption (purchases) is considered one of the best metrics of individual and household well-being. Economists typically assume households elect to smooth their consumption, so as to insure against shocks such as disability or unemployment. The current state-of-the-art...