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2019-10-15
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...
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2015-01-30
SSHRC Awarded CG 2015: Funding to support an academic conference entitled "Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC)", at the University of Alberta, from June 17-19, 2015. The conference will address theoretical issues concerning what linguistic...
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2016-01-22
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...
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2011-01-18
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...
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2017-12-14
SSHRC Awarded PEG 2018: This project is a partnership between researchers at the University of Alberta and the City of Edmonton's Community Inclusion and Investment Branches of Citizen Services, to investigate community translation practices. Our object of study is the Newcomer's Guide to...
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2016-10-16
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: Despite scientific consensus about the environmental costs of petrocarbon use and increasing political desire for energy transition, our societies remain fully dependent on fossil fuels. This research explores the ability---or inability---of contemporary culture to address...
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2012-10-15
SSHRC IG awarded 2012: The research project I propose will lead to a book on the intellectual and cultural history of dictionaries in sixteenth-century England. The primary texts it will discuss are dictionaries and wordlists produced or circulated in England, both printed and manuscript. These...
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2014-10-02
SSHRC Awarded IG 2015: ESL acquisition in early childhood is not well understood or even well-documented. Early L2 child speakers appear to produce more varied types of phonological errors compared with monolingual children, some but not all of which are predictable from their own mother tongues....
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2018-10-29
SSHRC Awarded PG 2019: Evidence demonstrates that children’s early experiences and environments profoundly impact their development, making early childhood a priority across Canada. Despite significant investment in early childhood programs, indicators have persistently revealed shortfalls....
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2018-02-14
SSHRC Awarded PG 2019: Children's early experiences and environments profoundly impact their development and the economic and social fabric of our communities. Given this knowledge, early childhood is a priority across Canada. Despite significant investment in early childhood in recent decades,...