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2017-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: Participation in youth sport has been associated with a range of emotional, social, physical, and cognitive benefits. Similarly, participation in school sport has been associated with several educational benefits, including increased educational attainment and likelihood...
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2017-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: We propose to examine how Science- and Mathematics- textbook authors position themselves in relation to their hopes and challenges. In particular, we are interested in how the material they write might be a force or influence relating to their hopes (and challenges),...
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2016-01-01
SSHRC Awarded "Targeted Research: Syrian Refugee Arrival, Resettlement and Integration" 2016: This project will document the settlement experiences of recent Syrian refugees to Albertan cities, comparing across the three streams of sponsorship; namely, government assisted refugees,...
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2016-10-11
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: This project aims to change the way we think about sleep as well as the way we practice it. It communicates to diverse audiences that sleep is not a mysterious non-experience (essential but a wasteful interruption of life) but rather a central part of existence that tells...
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2015-12-01
SSHRC Awarded PDG 2016: This study aims to determine a solution to two inter-related problems for human services in Quebec and Alberta. One problem is that we currently lack the requisite knowledge to 'make good' on our commitment under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
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2016-09-27
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: This project focuses on the representations of health and the biomedical body in post-1960s Anglo-Canada and Franco-Québec literatures. It is interested in the representation of urban middle-classes and the ways in which the notion of responsibility towards health informs...
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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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2017-01-25
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: The expansion of video games as a medium has precipitated a healthy indie game movement, and created opportunities for media artists to explore interactive art creation. However, audio and music in games is still primarily constrained to sound effects, dialog and emotive...
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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...
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2012-01-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2012: The proposed research will identify ways in which Aboriginal youth can overcome barriers to participation in sport. The purpose of the proposed program of research is twofold: (1) to better understand the meanings of the terms 'sport', 'community', and 'culture' to...