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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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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...
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2016-10-15
Hvenegaard, Glen, Halpenney, Elizabeth, Gould, Joyce
SSHRC Insight grant awarded 2017: The project aims to determine the short- and long-term outcomes of interpretive programs in Alberta's provincial parks, the factors influencing those outcomes, and the consistency of outcomes with staff perceptions of provincial goals, policies, and strategies. ...
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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. Overnight on July 24, 2020, a teepee was erected and a sacred fire lit on a triangular patch of grass on Amiskwaciy territory, also known as the Rossdale Flats in downtown Edmonton, Alberta. Ten days later, 170 tents were pitched, providing shelter and community for 300...
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2020-09-21
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: Adopting a community-based participatory research approach, this project will use a comparative case study methodology to examine how an inclusive economy approach is being used to inform economic development in Edmonton (urban) and Drayton Valley (rural). This will be...
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2014-10-09
SSHRC Awarded IG 2015: An estimated 51% of Canadian children aged 5-14 years regularly participate in youth sport [1], making it a fundamental feature in the lives of almost two million children and their families. Parents invest substantial amounts of time and money to support their children's...
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2019-07-31
SSHRC CG awarded 2019: Tuberculosis (TB) is an endemic disease within many Indigenous communities in the Treaty 8 territory. It has roots both within the historical contexts of the affected communities, and the historic failure of clinical medicine to achieve culturally relevant health outcomes....
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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. Canadian adults are well below adults in comparator countries in their ability to use mathematical information (Statistics Canada, 2013). Are French- and English-speaking school leaders any different? That's what our proposed study will find out. Presently, we have almost...
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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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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...