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2017-11-30
SSHRC Awarded PDG 2018: Globally, most park agencies have little capacity to produce in-house social science or ecological research, or conduct meaningful knowledge exchange with Indigenous and local communities. The goal of this project is to enhance the generation and use of knowledge,...
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Literacy Learning in Playful Spaces: Using Multimodal Strategies to Develop Narrative with Young Learners
Download2011-01-31
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2011: The initial two-year phase of the project is primarily interested in examining the possibilities for using touch screen (ipad) technologies with young learners when they are used as a means to facilitate the creation, modification and use of children’s own multimodal...
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2016-10-15
Hvenegaard, Glen, Halpenney, Elizabeth, Gould, Joyce
SSHRC Insight grant awarded 2017: The project aims to determine the short- and long-term outcomes of interpretive programs in Alberta's provincial parks, the factors influencing those outcomes, and the consistency of outcomes with staff perceptions of provincial goals, policies, and strategies. ...
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2013-10-10
McCulloch, Allison, Byrne, Siobhan
SSHRC Awarded IG 2014: In Afghanistan and Syria (2013), powersharing peace-deal processes, modelled on examples from the Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Powersharing experts argue ethnopolitical groups are the most important actors in contemporary conflicts like Afghanistan and Syria,...
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A Comparative Investigation of Pedagogical possibilities of Digital Tools for Family and School Early Literacy Education
Download2012-10-12
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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2015-10-14
SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Project aims to catalogue, edit and analyze Early Modern Icelandic religious poetry whose subjects are virgin martyr saints. The project seeks to demonstrate the critical role of the poems within Early Modern Icelandic religious and social thought as prescriptive models for...
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2014-10-09
SSHRC Awarded IG 2015: An estimated 51% of Canadian children aged 5-14 years regularly participate in youth sport [1], making it a fundamental feature in the lives of almost two million children and their families. Parents invest substantial amounts of time and money to support their children's...
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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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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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2019-02-01
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...