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2017-10-16
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Consumption (purchases) is considered one of the best metrics of individual and household well-being. Economists typically assume households elect to smooth their consumption, so as to insure against shocks such as disability or unemployment. The current state-of-the-art...
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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. There is an increase of Canadians speaking a language at home other than French or English, resulting in an increase of linguistic and cultural diversity in schools. Unfortunately, many mainstream elementary teachers lack knowledge to effectively teach these emerging...
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2023-09-22
SSHRC IG awarded 2024: This program of research will provide important new insights into the cognitive dynamics associated with the interplay between environments, actions, and thoughts that govern consumer behavior. We focus on the impact of the structural properties of a decision environment --...
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2017-10-08
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: The project will document languages belonging to the Central Totonac branch of the Totonacan language family, which are in danger of extinction. Languages contain irreplaceable records of a people's knowledge of their natural environment and their cultural, social, 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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2020-09-20
SSHRC IG awarded 2021: My study of the food supply in France addresses two issues fundamental to civilian survival: state management of food supplies and civilian adaptations to scarcity. My project will reconstruct French food policy from 1939 to 1950, analyze the locations and logic for...
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09/25/2020
SSRHC IG awarded 2021: "Kidless Lit" seeks to expand and historicize the existing conversations about childlessness in both popular and scholarly discourses. In order to address both popular and scholarly audiences about this topic of great public interest, the project foregrounds writing as both...
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2012-10-15
SSHRC Awarded IG 2013: Black markets in wartime expose serious economic and social tensions; the choices faced in wartime are instructive for understanding contemporary issues in economic regulation. In France, wartime shortages and state controls accentuated stresses that reveal critical...
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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. ...