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2015-10-15

Boechler, Patricia

SSHRC Awarded IG awarded 2016: Worldwide, approx. 683 million young people between the ages of 10 and 25 are registered in virtual worlds. Virtual environments have the potential to provide instruction encompassing the attributes that educational research has determined increase student...

2024-02-10

Byrne, Siobhan

SSHRC IDG awarded 2024: In 2021, the United Nations (UN) released its Intersectionality Resource Guide and Toolkit, issuing the following warning: “Without an intersectional approach, the global pledge to leave no one behind will remain aspirational” (p. 9). This toolkit – designed to equip the...

2019-10-15

Fisher, Robert

SSHRC IG awarded 2020: Social desirability bias (SDB) is a significant threat to the validity of organizational research because it can inflate, attenuate, or moderate structural relationships depending on the testing situation, the questioning methods employed, individual differences in the...

2020-09-28

Quinter, David

SSHRC IG awarded 2021: This project investigates how medieval Japanese monastics from Nara-area schools performed cultic practices. But it is also concerned with how modern scholars treat the "lived religion" of those practices. My focus on creative syntheses of material, visual, and ritual...

2013-05-22

Graves, Roger

2016-02-08

Larsen, Amanda

A brief examination of the ways drones are being used in information workplaces in the United States, as well as a speculative look at future applications. By examining both scholarly articles and current news, I have brought together a description of military and recreational use of drones, an...

2016-01-22

Cisneros, Odile

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2016: The research project will create a trilingual (Spanish, Portuguese, English) online resource (website) mapping the relationships between contemporary Latin American poetry and the environment. This website will be addressed to both general readers of poetry and to students...

2011-01-18

Cobb, Russell

SSHRC Awarded IDG 2011: This pilot project will lay the groundwork for the creation of a digital, interactive map of the city of Edmonton. Four specific objectives: 1] creation of a network of researchers, students, practitioners and community-involved citizens interested in urban theory and...

09/15/2021

Davidson, Debra J

SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Moving the needle toward pro-climate action requires better understanding of the antecedents to personal and collective climate behavior. Our research questions include the following: 1. How do personal and intersectional attributes shape emotion-cognition pathways to...

Spring 2018

Miriam N Sekandi

The number of immigrants entering Canada annually is projected to rise to 333,600 by 2035 (Statistics Canada, 2010). This migration increase also means an upsurge in newcomers in Canadian classrooms, which creates pedagogical challenges and concerns (Canadian Teachers’ Federation, 2013). These...