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"The Difference", a Novel: In 1908, a Canadian woman on a clipper ship in the south Pacific buys a small boy for four pounds of tobacco
Download2012-10-13
SSHRC Awarded IG 2013: Over the next three years, I will research and write the first draft of a new novel. The Difference will examine the actions of a Canadian woman in 1908, wife of a clipper ship captain, who buys a small Tongan boy for four pounds of tobacco. The research required for The...
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09/22/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: The research aims to understand the importance of collective memory and collective identity to the resilience and self-organization of nine Indigenous nations and communities across Canada on Turtle Island (North America). Specifically, the research focuses on processes of...
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2018-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2019: Human milk is becoming a hot commodity: media reports describe it as "liquid gold" and costing "more than sushi" because of its scarcity and high value (Dutton, 2011). This project will explore emerging practices of human milk exchange. Some mothers donate their milk...
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2016-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: The goal of this project is to develop foundational knowledge on the applicability of the learning perspective to account for interference phenomena when children perform language activities. We expect to learn more about the appropriateness of interpreting interference...
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2011-10-12
SSHRC awarded 2012: This project aims to gather new scientific insights, foster civic deliberation, facilitate learning, and explore energy choices in Canada. Our approach is innovative, comparative, interdisciplinary, and organized around three broad objectives, to: (1) use elicitation and...
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2018-09-28
SSHRC IG awarded 2019: The Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) communities in the Western Arctic face significant challenges in engaging with and utilizing digital technologies to interactively and systematically preserve, transmit, revitalize, and provide access to oral cultural heritage. This...
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Playbuilding Community Partnerships in Deaf Education: Cocreating Culturally Relevant Art Curricula
2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: The primary objective of the study is to explore how playbuilding can support translanguaging in deaf children and youth. To this end, the research study will initiate a test case playbuilding project with a partnership of university researchers, deaf youth and parents,...
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09/28/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: The proposed research is concerned with the evolution of the School Resource Officer (SRO) program in Canada. It focuses on the experiences of persons with nexus to the SRO program. These include (1) students, (2) parents, (3) school administrators and board trustees, (4)...
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2024-10-01
SSHRC CG awarded 2024: The purpose of this project is to develop a free online learning module for established and emerging professionals (i.e., scholars, students, practitioners, and policymakers) working in recreation, sport, physical activity, leisure, and other movement cultures. Based on...
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2022-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2022: This research will identify (1) how white identity activation affects people’s political attitudes and behaviours; (2) which actors activate white identity, and how this can be mitigated; and (3) the mechanisms through which white identity activation takes place. We will...