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2017-10-04

Frei, Christoph

SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: In this proposed research, I provide new economic insights on the trade-offs between efficiency gains and potential social costs in two concrete cases of technological development and new regulation: central bank digital currency (CBDC) and position limits. While these are...

2014-10-13

Mackey, Margaret

SSHRC Awarded IG 2015: The research explores how today's screen-oriented young adults perceive the local and situated nature of their early literate development. RESEARCH QUESTIONS: How do contemporary Canadian young adults articulate their childhood experiences of landscape and local geography,...

2016-10-11

Heyes, Cressida

SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: This project aims to change the way we think about sleep as well as the way we practice it. It communicates to diverse audiences that sleep is not a mysterious non-experience (essential but a wasteful interruption of life) but rather a central part of existence that tells...

2011-10-10

McConnell, David

SSHRC Awarded IG 2012: This study will generate robust data on the social disadvantage and subjective well-being of Canadian children and youth with disabilities. The study has three objectives. 1] determine the nature and level of social disadvantage faced by young Canadians with disabilities...

2016-01-01

GAPSSHRC

Example of the SSHRC application for an Insight grant, from 2016. This version uses the SSHRC "legacy" curriculum Vitae, not the Canadian Common CV. All personal information redacted. When using this form, please also access the "Simplifying the Insight Grant application" documents (this...

2015-10-14

Brigandt, Ingo

SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Where philosophy of science has traditionally construed and studied science in terms of representations of the natural world (eg: data and theories), this project will study scientists' values, explanatory and investigative aims, and methodological and explanatory...

2016-11-22

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, GAPSSHRC

Form/Formulaire for the Insight Development Grant / Subvention de Développement Savoir, 2017. As provided by SSHRC.

2016-09-27

Laforest, Daniel

SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: This project focuses on the representations of health and the biomedical body in post-1960s Anglo-Canada and Franco-Québec literatures. It is interested in the representation of urban middle-classes and the ways in which the notion of responsibility towards health informs...

2018-10-15

Fauteux, Brian

SSHRC IG Awarded 2018: Three transnational corporations (Universal, Sony, and Warner) control roughly 80% of the global recording and publishing industries and 86% of the North American market. This three-pronged research project responds to the problem of music industry consolidation by...

2017-10-02

Nicoladis, Elena

SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: This project will test how children develop the ability to convey viewpoint in gestures. Children's language learning has been shown to be inextricably intertwined with their use of gestures. We expect that children's choice of viewpoint in gestures will change as they get...