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2017-08-28
SSHRC Awarded PEG 2017: Recent government policy changes have created public funding challenges for many organizations, threatening the sustainability of social movements. We aim to synthesize and mobilize best practices and knowledge to help non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Canada access...
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2023-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Pakistan ranks poorly in the world when it comes to gender equality. Sociocultural barriers, limited access to schooling, and discriminatory gender norms have negatively impacted women’s socioeconomic development and inclusion in the formal financial system. Women play a...
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2019-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2019: In December 2015, after several rounds of consultation, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) adopted a new rule (i.e., Rule 3211) to require disclosure of the audit engagement partner’s name in Form AP (PCAOB 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015). This requirement is...
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2018-02-01
SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018: The proposed research focuses on suicide terrorism. It investigates operatives or captives of Boko Haram (Nigeria) who deliberately refused to detonate their suicide vests. Scholars have overwhelmingly focused on "successful" suicide terrorism with much attention on the...
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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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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: As the world faces the consequences of resource depletion, global climate change and the ensuing threat of mass extinction – a sense of which the COVID19 pandemic has only further exacerbated – literature has much to say and teach us about our environmental emergency....
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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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2014-11-03
SSHRC Invited PG; not funded (2014): Can urban agriculture make a substantial contribution to urban food security in a culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable manner? What would an agri-food system that enhances urban food security and ecological sustainability look like, and what...
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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...