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2020-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: The proposed research project focuses on constructions of disability in the Old NorseIcelandic Sagas of Bishops (byskupa sögur). Research for this project will take place over a twoyear period. The first year(202021) will be dedicated to data collection, consultation,...
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2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: The heart of this project is careful textual analysis of "The Directory of Conscience" and "The Pilgrimage of Perfection" written by William Bonde, who joined the Birgittine community of monks and nuns at Syon Abbey early in the sixteenth century. The Birgittines played a...
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2019-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2019: If the #MeToo Movement has drawn wide attention to the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment in the workplace, then it has also brought notice to the facts that most victims of sexual assault know their attackers, that most rapes go unreported, that we live in a rape...
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2017-10-13
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: This Aboriginal and community-based, participatory research project aims to co-create knowledge about the holistic (emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual) benefits to Indigenous youth of participating in northern games, and to identify factors that might be modified to...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: The study of language attitudes and their development is an interdisciplinary field of research, at the intersection of psychology, sociolinguistics, and speech-language pathology. To examine attitudes towards French dialects, we formed an interdisciplinary team with...
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2020-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: The compulsory tattooed number on Holocaust survivors’ from Auschwitz acts as an embodied public record of the attempted extermination of Eastern European Jews during the Second World War. As Holocaust survivors are aging and dying these material archives are disappearing,...
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2018-10-29
SSHRC PG awarded 2019: In response to the well-documented threats to Indigenous cultures and languages, this Partnership project will support the revitalization and sustained daily use of multiple Indigenous languages by developing modern technological tools and resources for these languages in...
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2022-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2022: This project seeks to challenge the stereotype of the forever foreigner by highlighting the liveliness and diversity of the Chinese diaspora community in Western Canada. The project draws upon the Strathcona basketball program in Vancouver, BC as a case study, examining...
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A Comparative Investigation of Pedagogical possibilities of Digital Tools for Family and School Early Literacy Education
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SSHRC Awarded Insight Grant 2013: The proposed research aims to investigate shifts in digital literacy practices in school and home in sites in Canada and Australia and to examine factors that might impede and/or facilitate digital literacy development.
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2020-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. This research project will provide "A Feminist Literary History of Women's Writing in the British Isles: The Beginnings to 1800", the first large-scale unabashedly feminist narrative history evaluating over 500 years of writing in English by women to 1800, and the first...