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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. Canadian adults are well below adults in comparator countries in their ability to use mathematical information (Statistics Canada, 2013). Are French- and English-speaking school leaders any different? That's what our proposed study will find out. Presently, we have almost...
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2022-10-28
SSHRC IG awarded 2023: Making a living from music is increasingly precarious. A 2020 study of the 1.6 million artists who released music to streaming services found that 90 percent of plays were generated by one percent of artists (Alpha Data). With fractions of a penny being paid per play,...
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2020-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: What we call a cause can vary from one context to another. Causal statements, where one identifies the cause of an event, are sensitive to contextually variant factors such as the circumstances of the statement, and the interests of the interlocutors participating in the...
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2020-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: The proposed research will study three closelyrelated topics about cannabis legalization: (1) SupplyChain Study. In the cannabis supplychain, who will gain the greater proportion of profits or tax revenues: producers, retailers, or government? How do these amounts...
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2022-10-27
SSHRC IG awarded 2023: Until recently, Western film scholars have studied Japanese cinema with complete disregard for the extensive body of Japanese film criticism and film theory that has been produced alongside the films themselves. These extensive discourses on cinema are an important part of...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: This study addresses a critical gap in the current understanding of climate risk and disclosure by linking (a) physical climate risk (i.e., risk of financial loss from climate disasters), (b) investor demand for disclosure about the same, and © firms’ response to both. We...
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Comics and the Emotional Situation of Learning to Teach: Collaborative Reading and Encounters with Adolescent Life in Graphic Novels
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SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: Using graphic novels as our objects of inquiry, this project aims to address how the aesthetic experience of reading comics explicitly focused on adolescent life may be enjoyable, educative, and meaningful for adults becoming teachers.
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09/22/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: The research aims to understand the importance of collective memory and collective identity to the resilience and self-organization of nine Indigenous nations and communities across Canada on Turtle Island (North America). Specifically, the research focuses on processes of...
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2018-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2019: Human milk is becoming a hot commodity: media reports describe it as "liquid gold" and costing "more than sushi" because of its scarcity and high value (Dutton, 2011). This project will explore emerging practices of human milk exchange. Some mothers donate their milk...