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2018-01-23
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2018: This exploratory research focuses on the connection between board membership and art philanthropy in the performing arts (i.e. theatre, symphony, ballet, opera). Art patronage, from the Renaissance, through nation-state promotions of culture is recognized as having...
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2023-11-06
SSHRC PDG awarded 2024: This project builds on existing research partnerships in a rural town of Alberta (population 7,000) and seeks to establish new partnerships with diverse, intersectoral community organizations. As a result of these challenges, the Town is keen to try alternative and novel...
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2020-01-09
SSHRC PEG awarded 2020:The project will address a series of related questions: how can we apply and promote equity and substantive equality considerations in a zoning bylaw? How can we identify the inequities created by land use regulations generally, and specifically in the case of Edmonton?...
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2024-01-29
SSHRC CG awarded 2024: One notable negative outcome of pandemic educational disturbances is learning loss but the true extent of learning loss in Canada is currently unknown. This makes it challenging for Canada to to set evidence-based priorities, raise awareness, and implement effective...
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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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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
Download2016-02-01
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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2018-02-01
SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018. This study aims to answer the question: ‘How has the illicit introduction of opioid fentanyl and its ‘analogues’ such as carfentanyl, altered life in Alberta’s prisons? In Canada's opioid crisis, prisons end up housing a disproportionate number of the marginalized and...