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2016-02-01

Byl, Julia

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: Music's place in the Catholic Church’s movement from an agent of Portuguese colonization to a site of indigenous resistance in now-independent East Timor is the focus of this project. I will seek out traces of musical sound and embodied performance in archives and...

2011-11-29

Shields, Rob

SSHRC Awarded PDG 2012: What can cities and communities do to support and benefit from new technologies? How can knowledge-intensive sectors develop in ways which account for local contexts and local needs? How can benefits and prosperity be made to 'stick' to the communities in which new...

2015-01-21

Fox, Karen

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2015: The project focuses on historical analysis of indigenous Hawaiians' [Kanaka Maoli] submissions to Hawaiian language newspapers (1834 - 1948). In 19th century Hawaii, missionaries' leisure-discourses were intimately connected with colonial structures and judgments about...

2015-01-01

Szeman, Imre

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...

2011-11-28

Cui, Ying

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2012: The proposed research addresses the consistency and accuracy of classification results produced by a cognitive diagnostic assessment. The objectives of the proposed research are to (1) evaluate the strengths and limitations of our two new statistical indexes in applied...

2014-11-24

Donald, Dwayne , Conrad, Diane

SSHRC Awarded PDG 2015: Challenge: Education for Aboriginal students across Canada is in dire need of enrichment given the legacy of residential schools and the persistent failure of mainstream curriculum to engage Aboriginal learners. The education of Aboriginal students has become a national...

2012-01-29

Czach, Elizabeth

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2012: This research project seeks to reconstruct the milieu of post-war film lecturing in Canada and U.S. by piecing together the careers of individual filmmakers, delving into the histories of exhibition sites and booking agencies while also probing the collections of museums,...

2013-12-12

GAPSSHRC

Developing your Insight Development grant proposal - things to keep in mind. Based on a meeting with IDG adjudicators, in 2013.

2017-02-01

Lund, Anna Jane

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2017: Although bankruptcy should not be a side effect of sickness, many Canadians are pushed over this financial precipice by an illness or injury. Public programs, such as the federal employment insurance sickness benefit and provincial workers' compensation programs, are...

2017-10-12

Yohani, Sophie

SSHRC Awarded IG 2018. The study builds on two exploratory community-based, participatory research (CBPR) projects with Syrian refugees. Guided by CBPR, and using ethnographic data collection and analysis methods, we examine the psychosocial adaption and integration of 8 diverse Syrian refugee...