July 21, 2026
Today, more than $289 million in funding to support social sciences and humanities research across Canada was announced by Karim Bardeesy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry, on behalf of the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions.
UBC Links and Features
- UBCO researchers to make further societal impacts with new federal funding
- UBC Sauder faculty awarded over $2.4 million in SSHRC and NSERC grants for 2026
- UBC Arts researchers awarded SSHRC funding to advance social, cultural, and economic research
- UBC Medicine researchers receive federal funding to address social and economic challenges
UBC-led Projects
Insight Grants
Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging scholars and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years.
- Antweiler, Werner (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Marshall Manriquez, Guillermo (Sauder School of Business)
The Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Electric Vehicle Adoption Policies in B.C
- Arbel, Efrat (Peter A. Allard School of Law)
Punishment without Crime? A Lived-Experience Evaluation of Canada's Immigration Detention Pilot in Federal Prisons
- Baines, Donna (Social Work)
Vulnerable Workers, Vulnerable Services and Non-Profits: Working in the Shadow of the New Authoritarianism and Intolerance
- Binfet, John-Tyler (Okanagan School of Education, UBCO)
Understanding the Uptake and Benefits of On-Campus Therapy Dog Programming
- Boedhihartono, Agni Klintuni (Forest and Conservation Sciences)
UBC Co-applicant: Sayer, Jeffrey (Forest and Conservation Sciences)
UBC Collaborators: Arwida, Shintia, Merkel, Garry (Forest Resources Management)
Advancing the role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework
- Bouchard, Katrina (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
UBC Co-applicant: Dawson, Samantha (Psychology)
Implicit theories of sexual desire: A dyadic validation, daily diary, and longitudinal investigation
- Brotto, Lori (Obstetrics and Gynaecology)
UBC Co-applicant: Kingstone, Alan (Psychology)
Shifting focus: Examining the impact of mindfulness on visual attention and sexual response in women and gender-diverse individuals with and without sexual concerns
- Bundon, Andrea (Kinesiology)
UBC Co-applicants: Bennett, Erica (Kinesiology); McEwen, Carolyn (Kinesiology)
Tracking Flow of Menstruation Data in Canadian Sport
- Carter, Diana (Creative and Critical Studies, UBCO)
UBC Co-applicant: Langevin, Francis (Creative and Critical Studies, UBCO)
Gender-inclusive language usage and the barriers to implementation in French and Spanish language classrooms
- Childress, Clayton (Sociology)
UBC Collaborator: Maghbouleh, Neda (Sociology)
How Shared is Common Culture? Memories and Meanings for Historic Icons
- Darvin, Ronald (Language & Literacy Education)
The inequalities of generative AI and the emerging digital literacies of multilingual youth in Canada
- Dempsey, Jessica (Geography)
UBC Collaborator: Sumaila, Rashid (Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs)
Beyond the status quo: Political economic barriers to reform and pathways for change in BC's extractive economy
- Dias Saraiva-Patelli, Ella (Sauder School of Business)
The intersection of macroeconomic and firm news
- Doberstein, Carey (Political Science)
Arm's-Length Agencies and the Performance of Accountability in Canada
- Donner, Simon (Geography)
UBC Co-applicant: Zhao, Jiaying (Psychology)
Urban Future Walks: Can guided tours promote support for climate solutions and positive climate engagement in urban environments?
- Drelichman, Mauricio (Vancouver School of Economics)
Nominal wage rigidity and labour markets in Europe, 1540-1820
- Elfstrom, Manfred (Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, UBCO)
Mobilizing the Mountains: Coal and Collective Action in Appalachia and North China
- Ferraz, Claudio (Vancouver School of Economics)
Accountability, Bureaucratic Capacity, and the Quality of Public Services in Developing Democracies
- Ford, Cristie (Peter. A. Allard School of Law)
Engaged or Estranged? How Disaffection Is Showing Up in Canadian Financial Regulation
- Forsyth, Janice (Kinesiology)
Inventing the War Canoe: Archival Pathways to Narrative Justice, 1880-1910
- Francois, Patrick (Vancouver School of Economics)
Democratic Backsliding and the Rule of Law: How Ideas Shape Institutional Resilience
- Frank, Adam (English Language and Literatures)
Countertransference and literary criticism
- Fuller, Sylvia (Sociology)
UBC Co-applicant: Hirsh, Elizabeth (Sociology)
UBC Collaborator: Berdahl, Jennifer (Sociology)
The Right to Request Flexibility and Labour Market Inequalities
- Garlappi, Lorenzo (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Baldauf, Markus (Sauder School of Business)
Designing Resilient Pension Systems
- Graham, John (Social Work, UBCO)
Improving the Bereavement Experience Among People Experiencing Homelessness in Canada
- Harris, Leila (Geography)
Reimagining River Governance: Political-ecological and decolonial approaches across three rivers
- Hummel, Calla (Political Science)
The Global Expansion of Transgender Rights
- Kikkawa, Ayumu (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Rachapalli, Swapnika (Sauder School of Business)
The economic implications of buyer-supplier networks
- Kingstone, Alan (Psychology)
The Medusa Effect: Visual abstraction and perceptions of mind
- Kubota, Ryuko (Language & Literacy Education)
UBC Co-applicants: Deschambault, Ryan (Language & Literacy Education); Whitehead, George (Language & Literacy Education)
Teachers' Engagement with the Heterogeneity and Ideologies of English and English Users: Exploring Praxis through a Documentary Film
- Lemieux, Thomas (Vancouver School of Economics)
UBC Co-applicants: Fortin, Nicole (Vancouver School of Economics); Saggio, Raffaele (Vancouver School of Economics)
Unions in Canada: Going Beyond the Wage Gap
- Liu, Siyuan (Theatre & Film)
Shanghai-Style Jingju (Beijing Opera) through the Lens of Transnational Theatre History
- Lu, Juliet (Public Policy and Global Affairs)
UBC Co-applicant: Gergel, Sarah (Forest and Conservation Sciences)
Seeing Through Sustainable Supply Chains: A Critical Look at the Tools for Tackling the Deforestation-Land Tenure Nexus
- Makris, Georgios (Art History, Visual Art & Theory)
Repopulating Medieval Port Cities: The Maroneia Archaeological Project
- Martin-Ginis, Kathleen (Health and Exercise Sciences, UBCO)
UBC Co-applicants: Bundon, Andrea (Kinesiology); Gee, Cameron (Kinesiology)
How does exercise improve quality of life/subjective well-being in adults with physical disabilities? Exploring the roles of quality-participation experiences and life-domain satisfaction
- Mostow, Joshua (Asian Studies)
Anthologizing Other "Hundred Poets": Variant Collections of "One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each" in Early Modern and Modern Japan
- Nimmon, Laura (Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy)
UBC Co-applicants: Ajjawi, Rola (Surgery); Jarus, Tal (Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy); Kennedy, Erin (Nursing)
UBC Collaborator: Tsuei, Sian (chool of Population and Public Health)
Health professions students' lived experiences of loneliness and isolation
- Oliffe, John (Nursing)
UBC Co-applicants: Baumbusch, Jennifer (Nursing): Hung, Lillian (Nursing)
Understanding older men's spousal caregiving: A photovoice study
- Park, Keunhyun (Forest Resources Management)
UBC Co-applicants: Binet, Andi (School of Community and Regional Planning); Mortenson, W. Ben (Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy); Nesbitt, Lorien (Forest Resources Management)
From Access to Experience: Exploring Embodied Accessibility of Urban Greenspaces in Later Life
- Parkins, Ilya (Community, Culture and Global Studies UBCO)
Sartorial Emotion Work and Social Reproduction
- Pikulina, Elena (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Agarwal, Isha (Sauder School of Business)
Economics of Independent Financial Advice: Pricing, Value, and Household Welfare
- Puar, Jasbir (Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice)
UBC Co-applicant: Malakaj, Ervin (Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies)
Queer and Trans Solidarities and The Global Struggle Against Fascism
- Rea, Christopher (Asian Studies)
Chinese Cinema of War and Revolution (1937-1965)
- Richardson, Alan (Philosophy)
The Oxford Critical Edition of Carnap's Aufbau and Related Projects
- Robinson, Dylan (Music)
UBC Co-applicant: Davis, Ryan (Music)
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- Sajjadiani, Sima (Sauder School of Business)
How Academic Evaluation Systems, Author Networks, and Publication Practices Shape the Novelty and Impact of Management Scholarly Work?
- Schmader, Toni (Psychology)
UBC Collaborator: Baron, Andrew (Psychology)
Does Gender Essentialism Lead to Biased Learning Affordances that Limit Children's Interests?
- Shariff, Azim (Psychology)
UBC Collaborators: Ibasco, Gabrielle (Psychology); Abdelfattah, Nour
Unjust world theory
- Simchen, Ori (Philosophy)
Pragmatic Encroachment in Metaphysics
- Slaunwhite, Amanda (Population and Public Health)
UBC Co-applicant: Oliffe, John (Nursing)
Understanding the layered inequities and vulnerabilities experienced by people who are leaving correctional centres in British Columbia
- Sundstrom, Lisa (Political Science)
Russian Activists Adapting to Repression and War
- Wadsworth, William (Anthropology)
UBC Co-applicant: Martindale, Andrew (Anthropology)
Decolonized Principles into Grounded Practice: Developing Indigenous-led Methodologies for Northwest Coast Archaeology
- Wagner, Katherine (Vancouver School of Economics)
The Efficiency of Resource Extraction
- Webster, Crystal (History)
Encoded in Love: A Tale of Travel, Medicine, and Black Masculinity in the Nineteenth Century
- Wu, Chunhua (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Fang, Limin (Sauder School of Business)
Review Polarization, Consumer Segmentation, and Market Differentiation: The Impact of Expert and Consumer Opinions on Business Performance
- Zhang, Anming (Sauder School of Business)
Air Transport, Economic Growth, and Emission Reduction
- Zhang, Shaojun (No longer at UBC; previously Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Hu, Allen (Sauder School of Business)
The AI-Powered History of Asset Pricing
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Insight Development Grants
Insight Development Grants support research in its initial stages. The grants enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches and/or ideas. Funding is provided for short-term research development projects of up to two years that are proposed by individuals or teams.
- Abughannam, Rana (School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture)
From Drawing to Dwelling: The Work and Lives of Palestinian Women Architects
- Ahmed, Anwar (Language & Literacy Education)
Emotions, Ethics, and Equity in the Negotiation of AI Disclosure among Academic Writers in English as an Additional Language
- Akkiraju, Karthik (Materials Engineering)
Beyond income: Reconciling time use with basic-needs fulfilment
- Alford-Duguid, Dominic (Philosophy)
Thinking Generally about Properties
- Atleo, Tara (Forest Resources Management)
Reconceptualizing Total Economic Value: Non-Use Values Under Indigenous Law and Governance
- Atmore, Lane (Anthropology)
UBC Co-applicant: Speller, Camilla (Anthropology)
The Phantom Fish: Untangling the coevolution of herring and people across the Pacific Rim
- Baylis, Patrick (Vancouver School of Economics)
Climate Risks, Markets, and Adaptation in Agriculture
- Borwein, Sophie (Political Science)
The Politics of Prosperity: Growth Narratives and Support for Democracy
- Bryan, Camellia (Sauder School of Business)
Beyond EDI Backlash: Understanding Opening Identity Tactics and Allyship Development Among Dominant-Group Members
- Chan, Kai (Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability)
Harmonizing environmental and religious identities for personal and societal transformation
- Chawla, Muskan (Sauder School of Business)
Jagged Little Patent: Political Hostility and Women in Innovation
- Coulthard, Lisa (Theatre & Film)
UBC Co-applicants: Pennefather, Patrick (Theatre & Film); VanHandel, Leigh (Music)
Stingers, Stabs, and Screams: Psychoacoustics, Brain Science, and the Material Sounds of Horror Cinema
- Dadugblor, Stephen (Journalism, Writing, and Media)
In Pursuit of a Unified Nation: Rhetoric, Peace Narratives, and National Identity in Ghana
- Davis, Henry (Linguistics)
UBC Co-applicants and collaborators: Babel, Molly (Linguistics); Strang, Burton (Linguistics); Helen Copeland (Community, Culture and Global Studies, UBCO); Matthewson, Lisa (Linguistics)
BC Indigenous Languages in Transition: Grammatical Change and Adaptation
- Dias Saraiva-Patelli, Ella (Sauder School of Business)
Risk Management in Multi-Asset Portfolios
- Dow-Fleisner, Sarah (Social Work, UBCO)
UBC Co-applicants: Charles, Grant (Social Work); Hirani, Saima (Nursing); Plamondon, Katrina (Health & Social Development, UBCO)
Parenting Following Childhood Family Adversity: How Yesterday's Children Become Today's Parents
- Dunn, Nicole (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education)
Sensing Suicide and Survival in Vancouver: The Gendered Experience of Hidden Homelessness and Survival
- Griffin, Dale (Sauder School of Business)
Odds Formats, Sports Gambling, and Consumer Behaviour
- Griffin, Michael (Philosophy; Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies)
Seeing the Individual: Love, Attention, and Dignity from Neoplatonism to al-Andalus
- Gurung, Phurwa (Geography)
UBC Co-applicant: Turin, Mark (Anthropology)
Documenting Relational and Governance Values of Indigenous Knowledge: the Dolpo Oral Literature Project in the Nepal Himalaya
- Haase, Kristen (Nursing)
Understanding the social impact of knowledge mobilization among community-dwelling older adults
- Hall, Alycia (History)
Strategic Ties: Family, Land, and Plantation Connections in Maroon Jamaica
- Hoffmann, Alexandra (Asian Studies)
Race in the Shahnameh
- Hu, Min (Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, UBCO)
Unpacking the Gender Earnings Gap: A Systemic Analysis of Canadian STEM+ Academic Departments
- Hudspith, Lara (Nursing)
UBC Co-applicants: Bungay, Vicky (Nursing); Kassam, Shahin (Nursing)
Advancing Wellbeing and Justice Outcomes for Victim-Survivors of Sexual Assault: The Role of the Medical Forensic Exam
- Hummel, Callan (Political Science)
Do Remittances Increase Support for LGBTQ2S Rights?
- Izquierdo Tort, Santiago (Forest Resources Management)
UBC Co-applicants: Nelson, Harry (Forest Resources Management); Zerriffi, Hisham (Forest Resources Management)
Nature Credit Markets in Indigenous Landscapes
- Janus, Magdalena (Pediatrics)
UBC Co-applicant: Poon, Brenda (Population and Public Health)
Exploring equitable access to social-emotional support services for families of young children with disabilities: Navigating the gap between family experiences and system realities
- Joy, Annamma (Management, UBCO)
Beyond Prediction: Integrating Interpolation and Conceptual Blending to Better Understand Human Meaning-Making
- Kikkawa, Ayumu (Sauder School of Business)
Territorial Monopsony and Cartelization: Sugar Industry in Colonial Taiwan
- Kingstone, Alan (Psychology)
UBC Co-applicant: Rubin, Julia (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
The effects of AI tools on motivation in general problem-solving tasks
- Kumpulainen, Kristiina (Language & Literacy Education)
UBC Collaborators: Dadkhahfard, Shima (Language & Literacy Education); Hare, Jan (Language & Literacy Education)
Sounding Ecologies: Developing Listening-Centred Research Methods for Ecological Imagination and Intergenerational Learning
- Lam, Gabrielle (School of Biomedical Engineering; Materials Engineering)
UBC Co-applicants: Eva, Kevin (Medicine); Scott, Ian (Family Practice)
Bridging the Professional Divide: Exploring Barriers to Interprofessional Education
- Lasserre, Patricia (Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, UBCO)
UBC Co-applicant: Dulic, Aleksandra (Creative and Critical Studies)
LandLearn: Collaborative XR and AI experiences for K-12 Wetland Education
- LeMoult, Joelle (Psychology)
UBC Co-applicant: Palombo, Daniela (Psychology)
Adolescents' Autobiographical Memory of Interpersonal Stressors
- Li, Xiaojun (Political Science)
Can Western Influencers Change How Canadians See China? Creator-Mediated Public Diplomacy in the Digital Age
- Liao, Carol (Peter A. Allard School of Law)
UBC Co-applicant: Bungay, Vicky (Nursing)
Mapping Gender Justice in Canada
- Libben, Maya (Psychology, UBCO)
UBC Co-applicants: Holtzman, Susan (Psychology, UBCO); Kingstone, Alan (Psychology)
What the Feed Feeds Back: Measuring Attention in Social Media Feeds and Its Implications for Body Image
- Liu, Xun (School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture)
Decoding Urban Form: Agentic AI for the Democratization of Vancouver's Zoning
- Lo, Chih-Shen (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education)
UBC Co-applicants: Christensen, Carly (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education); Fundelius, Erika (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education); Tan, Yuen Sze Michelle (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education)
Bridging Paradigms: Understanding Neurodivergent Students' Lived Experiences to Inform Neurodiversity-Affirming Practices in Schools
- Macdonald, David (Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, UBCO)
Evaluating Effective Pathways out of the Canadian Criminal Justice System
- Macfadyen, Leah (Language & Literacy Education)
UBC Co-applicant: Horst, Rachel (Education)
Holding pedagogy and AI systems in productive tension: Designing sociotechnical practices for AI-mediated learning
- Marshall, Hallie (Theatre & Film)
Desiring Antiquity: The Reciprocity of Classical Reception at the turn of the 19th Century
- McCarty, Matthew (Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies)
Work and Worship in Roman Africa
- McCormick, Kelly (History)
Photographs on Trial: A New Media History of Crime, Atrocity, and Evidence at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
- Molyneux, Tonje (Nursing)
UBC Co-applicants: Bredin, Shannon (Kinesiology); Faulkner, Guy (Kinesiology); Gadermann, Anne (Population and Public Health); Jenkins, Emily (Nursing)
Developing and Validating a Measure of Coaching Practices that Foster School Belonging Among Secondary School Student Athletes
- Moon, Seok Min (Vancouver School of Economics)
Mandatory Carbon Disclosure Impacts on Firms and Workers
- O'Brien, Heather (Information)
UBC Collaborator: Davoudi, Nilou (Information)
Stop, Block or Scroll: Can Design Friction Support More Intentional TikTok Use?
- Park, Chan Jeong (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education)
Decent Work and Job Satisfaction in the Age of AI: Old and New Barriers and Protective Factors
- Pennefather, Patrick (Theatre & Film)
UBC Collaborator: Scholte, Thomas (Theatre & Film)
Equitable Voice Portal: A Participatory Research Creation Framework for Actor-Controlled AI Speech Generation
- Ramsay, Scott (Nursing)
UBC Co-applicant: Schmidt, Julia (Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy)
Unseen, Unpaid, Unending: An Institutional Ethnography of Family Labour in Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury
- Ransom, Madeleine (Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, UBCO)
UBC Co-applicants and Collaborators: Irani, Pourang (Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, UBCO); Robinson, Pamela (Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, UBCO)
Advancing AI Literacy through Trustworthy AI
- Russolillo, Angela (Nursing)
UBC Co-applicant: Kealy, David (Psychiatry)
Understanding Public Views on Drug Diversion and Drug Policy Acceptability in Canada
- Schmader, Toni (Tanya) (Psychology)
UBC Co-applicants: Chen, Frances (Psychology); Shrout, Rosie (Psychology)
Validating a New Behavioural Measure of Willingness to be Emotionally Vulnerable
- Shearer, Karis (Creative and Critical Studies, UBCO)
Kalevan Naiset: Reading epic poetry in Finnish migrant-settler communities in Northern Ontario.
- Shrout, Rosie (Psychology)
UBC Co-applicant: DeLongis, Anita (Psychology)
Accuracy and bias in partners' perceptions of stress and stress communication: Implications for dyadic coping
- Sin, Nancy (Psychology)
UBC Co-applicant: Cheung, Benjamin (Psychology)
Positive cultural experiences in everyday life among Chinese Canadian older adults
- Soon, Isaac (Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies)
Dying to be Christian: Suicide and the Desire for Death in Early Christianity
- Walsh, Shannon (Theatre & Film)
Reimagining Masculinities: Participatory Filmmaking and Youth Futures in Wentworth
- Wang, Yanwen (Sauder School of Business)
Navigating the Ideological Divide: How Candidates' Polarization Positions Affect Electoral Outcomes
- Wu, Chunhua (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Ning, Zhao (Sauder School of Business)
The Returns to Knowledge Access: Causal Evidence from Publishing Agreements and Subscription Shocks
- Yan, Han (Sauder School of Business)
Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Carbon Reporting: Evidence from Market-Based Scope 2 Emissions
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Partnership Development Grants
Partnership Development Grants provide support over one to three years for the development of partnered research and related activities in the social sciences and humanities.