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2018-10-16
SSHRC NFRF-E awarded 2019: With the requested funding, I will apply my expertise in T cells and metabolism to identify new potential metabolic drugs that can enhance immune function. We hypothesize that a Insulin-Resistance (IR)-related immune and metabolic defect contributes to increased risk of...
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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. is it possible to think of a writer whose work might bring together not only East and West but also Antiquity and contemporary times under the sign of a plural poetics of invention? This project proposes a reading of the work of the eminent Brazilian poet, critic, and...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: For this research we are interested in accomplishing three main objectives. Objective 1: to first identify athlete perceptions of control during low-control setbacks, such as sport interruptions, and their impact on motivation in sport and psychosocial wellbeing. Objective...
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2024-01-30
SSHRC CG awarded 2024: This conference will explore the interplay between science and philosophy in the premodern period of South Asia. Topics include but are not limited to: Philosophical Foundations of Knowledge; Hermeneutic Traditions, Ancient Indian Cosmology, Medicine and Healing Traditions,...
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2023-11-06
SSHRC PDG awarded 2024: Canada is facing a housing crisis. Housing prices are rising, as are mortgage and rental costs. Housing stock is being transformed by financial interests from places where people live, into investments from which shareholders expect to make returns. Law is implicated...
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09/28/2021
SSRHC IG awarded 2022: "Why are Chinese tourists so rude?" This question, posted by an American retail worker on Reddit, has received over 2,000 replies. It reveals a widely held stereotype about Chinese people. With 169.2 million Chinese traveling overseas and spending $254.6 billion in 2019...
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2021-02-08
SSHRC PG awarded 2021: Despite Sub-Saharan Africans' (SSAIs) significant size and growth over the past half century, they are poorly understood and underserved by mainstream immigrant settlement and integration services, Canadian institutions, and academia, at large. The Partnership for Research...
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2023-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Many of us have been frustrated when trying to learn something that we feel is difficult. Some of us chose to quit when facing frustration and others chose to work more so that they can overcome these difficulties. While several theories detail the role of adults’ emotions...
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2023-09-14
SSHRC IDG awarded 2023: Newcomers are reshaping the face of Canada. There are increasing numbers of newcomers arriving in Canada, where governments send them to rural municipalities to supplement their shrinking populations and declining economic forces. However, newcomers face unique challenges...
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2020-01-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2021. People across the world are using English in their daily lives--but how are they doing this, and why? This project will investigate conflicts between emerging permissive and older purist ideologies of English in Germany. German young people seem to be driving the emergence...