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2020-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: This project explores the types and purposes of information and communication technologies (ICT) used by older Arab immigrants in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It describes older Arab immigrants’ selfperceived ICT competence, including knowledge, skills and attitudes, and...
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2016-10-17
Insight Grant funded in 2017. the world of the present is a 'Petroculture', where cultural, economic, ideological, legal and political relationships --locally and globally-- have been shaped by oil and its networks of power. Energy transition demands social transformation. This research is...
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Gay-Straight Alliances in High Schools: A Closer Examination of Youth Participation and Well-being
2018-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2018: Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) are a recent development in Canadian schools. These student-led clubs aim to promote positive youth development. They, and the recent legislation enabling them, are controversial. There is a need for research on the roles and effects of GSAs....
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2023-09-14
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Newcomers are reshaping the face of Canada. There are increasing numbers of newcomers arriving in Canada, where governments send them to rural municipalities to supplement their shrinking populations and declining economic forces. However, newcomers face unique challenges...
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2021-04-30
SSHRC CG awarded 2021: The purpose of the proposed Connection Grant is to convene a one day conference and implementation dialogue that considers the key features of Alberta's present industrial transition in the oil and gas sector and draws on comparative policy learning to share leading just...
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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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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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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: An exploratory comparative case study of two Canadian prelicensure nursing programs from Eastern and Western Canada will be used to identify similarities and differences. Social Learning Theory will inform all aspects of the research. In phase 1, we will conduct a scoping...
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Literacy Learning in Playful Spaces: Using Multimodal Strategies to Develop Narrative with Young Learners
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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...