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2014-10-24

Jardine, Cindy, Bubela, Tania, Luth, Westerly

OBJECTIVES: Effective communication by public health agencies during a pandemic promotes the adoption of recommended health behaviours. However, more information is not always the solution. Rather, attention must be paid to how information is communicated. Our study examines the television news,...

2022-01-02

Snagovsky, Feodor

SSHRC IDG awarded 2022: This research will identify (1) how white identity activation affects people’s political attitudes and behaviours; (2) which actors activate white identity, and how this can be mitigated; and (3) the mechanisms through which white identity activation takes place. We will...

09/28/2021

Carter, Sarah A

SSHRC IG awarded 2022: "Who owns the prairies?" will uncover and analyze who has owned the farmlands of the prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta from the 1870s treaties to today. It will dissect the objectives, attitudes, politics, and logics of the laws and policies that shaped land...

2012-10-12

Arazy, Ofer, GAPSSHRC

SSHRC IG awarded 2013: My primary objective is to use a grounded theory approach to understand the causal dynamics underlying IT-mediated collaboration, as evidenced in wikis and using system logs (which capture every single online activity) as data. Inspired by the Human Genome Project, that...

09/30/2021

Dorow, Sara

SSRHC IG awarded 2022: "Meaning of work" refers to how individuals make sense of paid work and their working selves in relation to the changing institutional facts of work and the broader social worlds in which they experience work. Work-Life aims to advance understanding of the intersecting ways...

2017-10-16

Ensslin, Astrid

SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Through cooperative inquiry and critical co-design, the project will develop an interactive digital story app (i.e., digital fiction) that can be evaluated as a tool for media-enhanced bibliotherapy to help young women address issues associated with body image concerns. 40...