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2013-10-11

Tucker, Benjamin

SSHRC Awarded IG 2014: How do humans recognize speech? How do factors such as native language, age, and dialect have an effect on the way in which spoken words are recognized? The present proposal seeks to investigate these and other questions regarding spoken language recognition by creating and...

2019-01-01

Hudson Breen, Rebecca, Holt, Regan, Larsen, Denise J., Edey, Wendy, Hobbs, Chelsea

Teaching is a complex and demanding profession, with many teachers experiencing high stress and burnout (Gray, Wilcox, & Nordstokke, 2017). Teacher well-being is essential in creating a positive learning community. As highlighted in Alberta’s new Teaching Quality Standard, teachers play a central...

2019-10-14

Wujastyk, Dominik

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...

2019-10-11

Maroto, Michelle

SSHRC IG awarded 2020: The Great Canadian Class Study (GCCS) aims to reinvigorate the study of economic inequality and class stratification in Canada -- a vital undertaking in light of ongoing economic and social change --through a large-scale mixed-methods project. Does social class function as...

Spring 2018

Whitford, Adam N

The World in an Object Lesson addresses the ways in which nineteenth-century reading audiences of the United States were taught to make sense of the visual stimulus of worlds fairs. The Object Lesson was one visual method which was both promoted and critiqued in the material culture of the...

2022-10-26

Rast III, David

SSHRC IG awarded 2023: Societal and organizational success often hinges on whether subgroups or departments can successfully work together. These subgroups or departments can have positive, harmonious relations whether they feel connected with the larger, superordinate group that lends itself to...

2020-04-04

Reikie, Thomas W.

Twentieth century post-structuralists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari provide a lens by which desire and its role in education can be analyzed. This analysis is done in the hope of understanding some of the ways by which our desires are manufactured, singularized, and then leveraged in the name...

Spring 2022

Howe, William R.

Abstract Literature has the power to change lives. Most English teachers trust this to be true. But while there are numerous arguments, of varying merit, that defend literature on cognitive grounds, few studies convincingly point to the underlying mechanisms of what makes it ‘work,’ or explain...

2010-06-03

Higginbottom, G., Mogale, R.S.

While credentialing issues for IENs relocating to Canada have been studied, little is known about the experiences of their transition into Canadian healthcare systems. Alberta Health Services (AHS) recently undertook recruitment drives in Australia, India, the UK and the Philippines, thus...

2021-02-01

Miller-Young, Janice

SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: This qualitative study will explore engineering and design team experiences among undergraduate students from understudied, underrepresented groups, and at the intersection of multiple minority identities: women, black, indigenous, students of colour, students with visible...