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2021-09-09

Tucker, Benjamin

SSHRC IG awarded 2022: This project asks how does our ability to produce and understand conversational reduced speech change as speakers age at the phonetic, lexical, and phrasal levels? To address this research question this project proposes the creation of a cross-sectional (different age...

2003-03-17

Sustainable Forest Management Network

2024-04-18

Anderson, Hailey, Duarte Cuartas, Michelle, Kublik, Jocelyn, Receveur, Thomas, Raj, Anushil

Extreme weather events, particularly tornadoes and windstorms, pose significant risks to vulnerable populations, including the elderly, individuals with disabilities, the unhoused, and low-income households. ​​Vulnerable groups often lack access to resources necessary for emergency preparedness,...

2020-09-08

Supernant, Kisha

SSHRC IG awarded 2021: Using five threads of a Métis worldview as represented by the Métis sash – geography and place, mobility, economy, daily life, and kinship relations (Macdougall, Podruchny, and St-Onge 2012), we propose research that weaves together archaeological, spatial, and historical...

2021-01-01

Slade, Teri

Why do women have more pain than men? Hundreds of research studies have asked this question. They have asked whether hormones or the menstrual cycle are to blame. Some suggest it is mostly psychological. But what if we stepped back and looked at women's lives? Women in our society do a...

2014-10-24

Jardine, Cindy, Bubela, Tania, Luth, Westerly

OBJECTIVES: Effective communication by public health agencies during a pandemic promotes the adoption of recommended health behaviours. However, more information is not always the solution. Rather, attention must be paid to how information is communicated. Our study examines the television news,...

Fall 2013

Tymko, Morgan A

International law guarantees every person the highest attainable standard of health, and this should include protection from the health risks of environmental tobacco smoke. As knowledge of these risks has increased, there has been an incremental expansion of smoking bans in public space. Since...

Fall 2023

Severson Mason, Meryn A.

Canada has a highly tenure-discriminatory housing system where ownership has been privileged and supported in policy while renting has been discouraged and disinvested, contributing to widening social and economic inequality based on housing tenure. Residential mobility, or moving homes, is a key...

Fall 2021

Tootonsab, Zahra

This research-creation questions and resists colonial technologies such as industrialization and urbanization that exploit environments and IBPOC peoples–Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour–as resources for colonial "progress." The research examines how nature and human relations intersect...

2022-01-02

Snagovsky, Feodor

SSHRC IDG awarded 2022: This research will identify (1) how white identity activation affects people’s political attitudes and behaviours; (2) which actors activate white identity, and how this can be mitigated; and (3) the mechanisms through which white identity activation takes place. We will...