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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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The Textual and Cultural History of Medicine in South Asia based on Newly-Discovered Manuscript Evidence
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SSHRC Awarded IG 2020: The Compendium of Sushruta (Sushrutasamhita) is an ancient Indian medical text that was was used to diagnose and treat patients in South Asia two thousand years ago and continues to influence the study of medicine even today. The Compendium of Sushruta presents baffling...
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2019-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2020: the goal of this project is to uncover the work and decisions involved in collecting, organizing, and changing the data used by algorithms, using business ethnographic methodology. This understanding is ultimately critical to revealing how algorithms work, and to revealing...
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2018-10-07
SSHRC Awarded IG 2019: Our four-year study explores how disabled men with diverse impairments and subject positions experience and enact masculinity through fashion. We use fashion as a research context and an arts-based method to generate new understandings of masculinity and disability. Our...
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2018-10-15
SSHRC IG Awarded 2018: Three transnational corporations (Universal, Sony, and Warner) control roughly 80% of the global recording and publishing industries and 86% of the North American market. This three-pronged research project responds to the problem of music industry consolidation by...
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2017-10-02
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: This project will test how children develop the ability to convey viewpoint in gestures. Children's language learning has been shown to be inextricably intertwined with their use of gestures. We expect that children's choice of viewpoint in gestures will change as they get...
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Outdoor Education in Canada: Guiding Philosophies, Distinguishing Characteristics, and Central Goals
2017-10-16
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Outdoor education (OE) is an academic discipline and a teaching method characterized by experiential learning, immersion in nature, and challenging activities. However, OE varies across countries in terms of its philosophies, characteristics, and goals. OE in Canada lacks a...
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2017-10-16
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Consumption (purchases) is considered one of the best metrics of individual and household well-being. Economists typically assume households elect to smooth their consumption, so as to insure against shocks such as disability or unemployment. The current state-of-the-art...
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2017-10-08
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: The project will document languages belonging to the Central Totonac branch of the Totonacan language family, which are in danger of extinction. Languages contain irreplaceable records of a people's knowledge of their natural environment and their cultural, social, and...
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2017-10-13
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: This project addresses a hidden bias of mainstream teaching and learning, wherein Indigenous and locally-held knowledge is often positioned as the oral teachings of the past, in contrast to the contemporary character of digital literacy. The three-year project takes a...