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09/28/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Financial markets are playing an increasingly important role in the fight against climate change and other sustainability issues by allowing investors to finance projects that have positive sustainability outcomes. Despite the proliferation of securities on the sustainable...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: Between 2016 and 2018, over 11 000 Canadians and 136 000 Americans died from accidental opioid overdoses—triple the number of deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents (Government of Canada, 2020). This public health crisis is so severe that, by 2017, Canadian life...
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2021-08-01
Presentation by NSERC employee Enrico Scarpella, focussed on the HQP training component of the NSERC Discovery grant application. Includes advice on past contributions to development of talent (students, postdoctoral fellows), training philosophy, research training plan, inequity in the...
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09/27/2021
SSRHC IG awarded 2022: The PI will test the well-worn trope, "you are what you where," by examining how racial hierarchies in the imperial Atlantic used dress and material systems to enact race. Whiteness shaped aesthetic priorities in empires and colonies, including the raced and gendered...
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2020-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: The proposed research will study three closelyrelated topics about cannabis legalization: (1) SupplyChain Study. In the cannabis supplychain, who will gain the greater proportion of profits or tax revenues: producers, retailers, or government? How do these amounts...
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2020-10-01
SSHRC Insight grant awarded 2021. This project will investigate conflicts between emerging permissive and older purist ideologies of English in Germany. For German youth, English is coming to be viewed as a culturally neutral language, making Germany a good "living laboratory" for the study of...
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2020-09-29
SSHRC awarded 2021: The goal of this proposed research is to set out a research agenda that will provide the first empirical study to examine the welfare effects of rising Chinese imports on American and Canadian households. We will specifically focus on the effect on household expenditure and...
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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 2019: This project aims to examine if publicly funded bailouts of financial institutions during banking crises are welfare beneficial, once their longer term impact on risk taking and on the crisis probability is taken in account.The specific objectives of the research are: a)...