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2019-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2020: project addresses the need to understand the differences in employment experiences and outcomes for marginalised groups, particularly women, employed in the video game industry in North America. A a staggering number of women leave the video game industry within the first...
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2019-11-23
SSHRC Awarded PDG 2020: Impact assessments (IA) are a crucial tool in the management of disruptions to our climate, ecosystems and communities generated by economic development. Given the growing concerns about the sustainability of socio-ecological systems in Canada and globally, IAs are rightly...
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2019-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: People living with serious mental illness (PSMI) experience high levels of marginalization from the labour force. In Canada, 80 to 90% of PSMI are unemployed, or if working, have low job attachment and restricted career advancement. This project will identify ways of...
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2019-02-01
CRSH récompensé en 2020: Le projet a pour but de reconstituer pour la première fois et dans son entièreté la population francophone des Prairies à partir des microdonnées de recensements informatisés de 1901 et 1911 rendus accessibles grâce au projet interuniversitaire du Fonds d’innovation...
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2019-11-11
SSHRC Awarded PDG 2020: The ongoing political, social, and economic marginalization of Indigenous women exposes them to poverty, social exclusion, and violence. But Indigenous women are not victims; they are actively involved in resistance efforts and have created civil society organizations...
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2019-01-21
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2019: The research outlined in this proposal focuses on a new and exciting direction in my research: examining how group leaders can strategically modify their rhetoric to strengthen follower support for collective change. Drawing on my expertise in social identity and...
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2019-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2019: In August 2018, a statue of Canada's first prime minister, John A. McDonald was unceremoniously hoisted from Victoria, BC's city hall steps, wrapped in foam and trucked away to a storage facility. City council was responding to concerns from Indigenous community members...
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2019-02-02
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2019: This IDG project aims at developing an inclusive approach to landscape by studying it through the lens of 'biography' and using cutting edge methods of archaeological prospection. I have selected a test area of 600 hectares of forested countryside in Achaia Phthiotis, a...
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2019-10-01
SSHRC IG funded 2020: This study of Carol Shields' oeuvre has three aims: to explore her achievement in challenging nonfiction genres; to explore how this work influenced her novels; and to explore how this work rendered her fiction increasingly feminist and postmodernist. Methods include...
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2019-11-15
SSHRC Awarded PDG 2020: New immigrants (those in Canada for less than 10 years) are over-represented in jobs and workplaces that are hazardous to their health and safety, placing them at high risk for occupational injuries. Many new immigrant workers in precarious employment have little...