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- 3Davidson, Debra
- 3Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- 3Supernant, Kisha
- 3Szeman, Imre
- 3Wilson, Sheena
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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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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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2014-02-14
SSHRC Awarded PG-Letter of Intent (stage 1) 2014 and invited to stage 2: Our central objective directly confronts the following question: Can urban agriculture make a substantial contribution to urban food security in a culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable manner? What would an...
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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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Gay-Straight Alliances in High Schools: A Closer Examination of Youth Participation and Well-being
2018-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2018: Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) are a recent development in Canadian schools. These student-led clubs aim to promote positive youth development. They, and the recent legislation enabling them, are controversial. There is a need for research on the roles and effects of GSAs....
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2023-09-14
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Newcomers are reshaping the face of Canada. There are increasing numbers of newcomers arriving in Canada, where governments send them to rural municipalities to supplement their shrinking populations and declining economic forces. However, newcomers face unique challenges...
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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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2021-04-30
SSHRC CG awarded 2021: The purpose of the proposed Connection Grant is to convene a one day conference and implementation dialogue that considers the key features of Alberta's present industrial transition in the oil and gas sector and draws on comparative policy learning to share leading just...
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2018-02-01
SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018: This research-creation project asks “What is a contemporary landscape?” Building on cultural geographers' insights that the natural environment provides a setting for cultural processes and belief systems, we will explore the history of ideas and images in traditional...