September 13, 2024
Today, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of National Revenue, on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced that $123.1 million in federal research funding has been awarded through 503 Insight Grants and 590 Insight Development Grants to researchers working in social sciences and humanities disciplines at institutions across Canada.
The SSHRC Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants enable scholars to further our collective understanding of individuals and societies, as well as to inform the search for solutions to societal challenges.
83 projects led by UBC researchers have been awarded $11.5 million in funding through these grants.
These grants were announced as part of the Government of Canada's investment of over $502.3 million in support of over 6,900 researchers and research projects across Canada. This includes funding for new UBC-led projects through SSHRC Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants; Tri-Agency Scholarships and Fellowships; and CFI's John R. Evans Leaders Fund.
Read the Government of Canada announcement
UBC-LED Awards
Insight Grants
52 UBC-led projects were awarded a total of $9.5 million through the Insight Grants program.
- Amijee, Fatema (Philosophy)
Émilie Du Châtelet's Idealist Legacy
- Babel, Molly (Linguistics)
Processing Multilingual Phonetic Variation
- Bakan, Joel (Peter A. Allard School of Law)
What It Means to Be Free
- Black, Alexis (School of Audiology & Speech Sciences)
The impact of stimulus complexity on infant learning and behaviour
- Bunn, David (Forest Resources Management)
UBC Co-applicants: Gulati, Sumeet (Food and Resource Economics); Menzies, Charles R. (Anthropology)
Sovereigns and shapeshifters: animal interlocutors in the global management of protected areas
- Cavusoglu, Hasan (Sauder School of Business)
Understanding the Role of Organizational Initiatives in Building Cybersecurity Resilience: The Confluence of Business, Technology and Skilled Labor Strategies
- Chan, Kai (Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability)
UBC Co-applicants: Carruthers Den Hoed, Donald G. (Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability); Hardisty, David (Sauder School of Business)
Toward a death that begets life? Relational values and action for transformative change in deathcare
- Cherkowski, Sabre (School of Education, UBCO)
Examining community-responsive approaches to whole-school wellbeing
- Dunn, Elizabeth (Psychology)
How Does Conversational AI Influence Social Connection and Happiness?
- Emberson, Lauren (Psychology)
Neural correlates of the infant experince: Research embedded in sociocultural contexts
- Fan, Grace Hong (Faculty of Management, UBCO)
Reconstructing the relationships between humans and nature to challenge inequality: The role of Indigenous worldviews and Two-Eyed Seeing
- Favilukis, Jack (Sauder School of Business)
Real estate markets, individual choices, and the macro-economy
- Fisher, Alexander (School of Music)
Sounding Difference: The Acoustic Culture of Catholic Germany in an Age of Religious Conflict
- Fu, Qiang (Sociology)
One-Twentieth of Canada: Authoritarian-Racist Mythology and Socio-Political Realities of Chinese Canadians
- Geary, David (Community, Culture and Global Studies, UBCO)
Virtuous Development: Heritage Diplomacy and the Infrastructure of Buddhist Memory in North India
- Gladwin, Derek (Language and Literacy Education)
UBC Co-applicant: Ellis, Naoko (Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Cultivating Literacy for Systems Change
- Götz, Friedrich Martin (Psychology)
On the structure of cultural norms: where they come from, when they clash, and why they matter
- Green, David (Vancouver School of Economics)
Immigration, COVID, and Structural Change in the Canadian Labour Market
- Griffin, Dale (Sauder School of Business)
Perception of loss as a barrier to climate change belief and action
- Hamlin, J. Kiley (Psychology)
Exploring the emergence of social cognitive intergroup biases: Studies with preverbal infants
- Hansson, Gunnar (Linguistics)
Diphthongs: Between Unit and Sequence
- Hardisty, David (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicants: Park, Jen H. (Sauder School of Business); White, Katherine J. (Sauder School of Business)
Collaborative Nudging: A new framework for shifting behaviour
- Ho, Janice (English Language and Literatures)
Culture, Empire, and Development at Midcentury
- Hodges, Nicola (School of Kinesiology)
Taking the long road: Evaluating practice activities that facilitate long-term learning and development in girls' and women's sports
- Hoegg, JoAndrea (Sauder School of Business)
Healthy Competition: How Competitive Experiences Can Improve or Impair Wellbeing
- Hoppmann, Christiane (Psychology)
UBC Co-applicant: DeLongis, Anita (Psychology)
Solitude in Context
- Human, Lauren (Psychology, UBCO)
Examining the downsides of accurate first impressions: Implications for romantic interest
- Kennedy, Emily Huddart (Sociology)
UBC Co-applicant: Silva, Tony (Sociology)
Defining, explaining, and disrupting affective climate polarisation in Canada
- Kovach, Margaret (Educational Studies)
UBC Co-applicants: Montgomery, Harpell A. (School of Social Work); Wilson, Shawn (Community, Culture and Global Studies, UBCO)
An Indigenous PeerPlus approach in building graduate student support theory and programing in Canadian universities
- Logan, Tricia (School of Public Policy and Global Affairs / Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies)
UBC Co-applicants: Ahenakew, Cash R. (Educational Studies); Stein, Sharon (Educational Studies); Valley, William C. (Faculty of Land and Food Systems)
Facing Colonial Complicity and Mobilizing Reparations in Canadian Higher Education
- Lougheed, Jessica (Psychology, UBCO)
UBC Co-applicant: De France, Kalee (Psychology, UBCO)
Emotion Regulation and Well-Being: A Multi-Method Intensive Longitudinal Investigation
- Lowe, Matthew (Vancouver School of Economics)
The evolution of discriminatory norms: evidence from untouchability in India
- Mitchell, Tamara (French, Hispanic and Italian Studies)
Sounds of the Capitalocene: Extraction and Aurality in Mexican Literature
- Moon, Terry S. (Vancouver School of Economics)
Carbon Tax Policy Impacts on Firms and Workers
- Muehlmann, Shaylih (Anthropology)
Narco-Animalia: Human-Animal relations in Mexico's Narco-Culture
- Murphy, Anne (History)
Reconnecting Partitioned Knowledge: Early Modern Punjab in the Archives
- Myers, Tamara (History)
The Runaways Project: Street Youth and the Transformation of Adolescence in Canada, 1960s-1990s
- Nikolakis, William (Forest Resources Management)
Caring for Land, Caring for People: Supporting an Indigenous-led Environmental Stewardship Evaluation Framework
- Odic, Darko (Psychology)
The role of surprise and prediction in early math education
- Ortiz-Molina, Hernan (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Zheng, Xin (Sauder School of Business)
Does IT Investment Reduce a Firm's Carbon Footprint?
- Paluch, Rebecca (Sauder School of Business)
An Investigation Into How Employee Exit Reasons Predict Post-Employment Behavior
- Schaller, Mark (Psychology)
Seasonal Cycles in Attitudes and Dispositions
- Severinov, Sergei (Vancouver School of Economics)
Microeconomics of Competitive Information Acquisition and Marketplace Design for Heterogeneous Goods
- Sin, Nancy (Psychology)
Positive emotions and stress responses: An adult developmental perspective
- Slingerland, Edward (Philosophy / Psychology /Asian Studies)
The cultural evolution of moralizing religions: A quantitative historical analysis
- Tracy, Jessica (Psychology)
Does group-based pride regulate other group-based emotions and promote prosocial intergroup attitudes?
- Turin, Mark (Anthropology)
Implementing relational lexicography in four Indigenous language dictionaries
- Weinberg, Charles (Sauder School of Business)
Does Where You Produce Matter? Evidence from the Motion Picture Industry
- Werker, Janet (Psychology)
UBC Co-applicant: Black, Alexis (School of Audiology & Speech Sciences)
The influence of language and culture on the development of lexical semantic systems in infants and toddlers
- Wood, Stepan (Peter A. Allard School of Law)
UBC Co-applicant: Clifford, Robert J. (Peter A. Allard School of Law)
Respect For All Relations: Can Indigenous and Settler Laws Work Together?
- Yu, Lingtao (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Robinson, Sandra (Sauder School of Business)
When to Start...to Change...and to Stop? The Evolvement Process of Abusive Supervision
- Zhou, Mi (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Lee, Gene Moo (Sauder School of Business)
The impact of generative AI on the creator economy
Insight Development Grants
31 UBC-led projects were awarded a total of $2.0 million through the Insight Development Grants program.
- Asiyanbi, Adeniyi (Community, Culture and Global Studies, UBCO)
Investigating shared responsibility for wildfire security in Whistler, British Columbia
- Ba, Wenjia (Sauder School of Business)
Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Ad Timing: Maximizing Engagement in Targeted Advertising
- Baada, Jemima (Geography)
Climate Change, Renewable Energy, and Rural Live(lihood)s in Ghana
- Bain, Kimberly (English Language and Literatures)
I CAN'T BREATHE: BLACKNESS AND BREATHING IN NORTH AMERICA
- Bochnak, Michael Ryan (Linguistics)
It's about time: tense in Ktunaxa and reciprocal knowledge exchange
- Brotto, Lori (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
Examining the influence of cis-heteronormativity, ethnocultural affiliation, and acculturation on sexual pleasure and improving the study of sexual pleasure by developing a validated measure
- Chen, Frances (Psychology)
Prosociality "in the wild": Understanding the benefits and trade-offs of prosocial engagement in everyday life
- Coulombe, Antoine (School of Social Work)
Queering Schools/Faculties of Social Work in Canada: Photovoice and Exploring the Experiences of 2S/LGBTQI+ Students
UBC Co-applicant: Kia, Hannah (School of Social Work)
- Daniels, Michael (Sauder School of Business)
An investigation of expert humility during the provision of advice
- De France, Kalee (Psychology, UBCO)
Examining the role of perceived stress and emotion regulation in the association between poverty and adolescent well-being
UBC Co-applicant: Lougheed, Jessica (Psychology, UBCO)
- Fleerackers, Alice (School of Journalism, Writing, and Media)
Watchdog science journalism: A Canada-UK study of practices, challenges, and opportunities
UBC Co-applicant: Hermida, Alfred (School of Journalism, Writing, and Media)
- Gutierrez-Monroy, Tania (School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture)
'We Are One with the Land:' Indigenous Protest and the Rewriting of Place in Contemporary Mexico
- Hopper, Courtneay (Anthropology)
Disentangling the diets of early South African food producers through biomolecules preserved in ancient pottery
UBC Co-applicant: Speller, Camilla (Anthropology)
- Huot, Suzanne (Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy)
UBC Co-applicants: Gaertner, David (English Language and Literatures); Montgomery, Harpell (School of Social Work)
Exploring 2SLGBTQ+ Indigenous peoples' experiences of knowing, being and doing through occupation
- Hwang, Il Myoung (Vancouver School of Economics)
Intergenerational mobility and mortality: evidence from the United States
UBC Co-applicant: Squires, Munir (Vancouver School of Economics)
- Jacobs, Sara (School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture)
Material Movements: Reparative Landscape Histories in British Columbia
- Kikkawa, Ayumu (Sauder School of Business)
Quantity restrictions in retail trade
- Margulis, Matias (School of Public Policy and Global Affairs / Land and Food Systems)
The Norm Factory: The Expansion of the UN Human Rights System
- Oberg, Gunilla (Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability)
Removing barriers to the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in existing chemicals management practices
- Palombo, Daniela (Psychology)
UBC Co-applicants: Chen, Frances (Psychology); Dawson, Samantha (Psychology)
Co-reminiscing as a social glue to mitigate loneliness
- Pikulina, Elena (Sauder School of Business)
Silent Barriers, Loud Consequences: Understanding the Effects of Discrimination on Human Capital and Wealth
- Rachapalli, Swapnika (Sauder School of Business)
Economic Growth and Income Gaps in a Connected World
- Ryan, Christopher (Sauder School of Business)
"Democratization of the scientific method'': Exploring the history of science in operations research
- Salgirli, Saygin (Art History, Visual Art and Theory)
Painting the Invisible and the Unseen: Image, Knowledge and Truth in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Art
- Sherpa, Pasang (Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies)
Living: A Sherpa Offering to an Ailing Planet
- Stein, Sharon (Educational Studies)
Catalyzing Critically Engaged Climate Education
UBC Co-applicant: Hunt, Dallas (English Language and Literatures)
- Van Jaarsveld, Danielle (Sauder School of Business)
Improving customer service with AI: Investigating the use of AI in performance evaluation
- Wong, Danielle (English Language and Literatures)
Ambient Green Screens: Carceral Composites and Other Speculations in Digital Media
- Yang, Run Nan (Sauder School of Business)
Economics of Roadside Infrastructure: Parking and Electric Trucks
- Yeung, Ira (Sauder School of Business)
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Stability
- Yoshimizu, Ayaka (Asian Studies)
Memorializing the Ungrievable Deaths of Japanese Sex Workers in the Transoceanic Underground