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2015-10-11
SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: The objective of this project is to study and improve fundraising strategies. We will focus on what influences giving, in particular, the impact of involvement with the charity, fundraiser events, and the influence of social media. The proposed research will bridge the gap...
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2015-10-14
SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Music scholars have recognized the need for more inclusive histories, however there is no broadly inclusive resource for interdisciplinary study of the multicultural and multifaceted phenomenon of music in Canada. This project will develop the theoretical and methodological...
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2015-01-01
SSHRC Awarded Knowledge Synthesis grant 2015: The dominant form of energy of any given era shapes the characteristics and capacities of societies in an essential way; energy is a key aspect of the fabric of our social experience, and not just a neutral input that helps run the engines of our...
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2016-10-11
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: A landscape archaeological approach to studying early human occupation of the Iringa Region, Tanzania. Previous research in Iringa has revealed occupations from the critical period for the evolution of our species. This project's goal is to explain the data from the site...
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2016-10-14
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: The 2007-2009 financial crises, government debt crises in USA and EU have motivated investigation into the following six topics: 1) optimal investment, liability ratio and dividend policies when the external risk is negatively correlated with returns in the financial...
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2016-10-17
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: This research examines and refines key assumptions of the recreation specialization framework, tests the refined assumptions, and examines the roles of structural location and environmental worldviews in explaining recreation preferences. This research will: Test and...
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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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Pathways to the Premiership: Representation, Motivation and Impact of Women Premiers in Canada and Australia
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SSHRC Awarded PDG 2017: This new partnership between university and government institutions will illuminate women's access to and impact in political leadership roles. We plan to achieve this objective by exhaustively detailing and comparing the representative contexts, pathways to the...
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2016-10-14
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: In everyday conversation, we need to rapidly find referents for pronouns when we process language. This process is guided by what is said, but also by where and how it is said. How do children learn to understand pronouns in real time conversation? This project will...