July 9, 2025
Today, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council announced nearly $243 million in funding through SSHRC Insight, Insight Development, Partnership and Partnership Development Grants programs.
This investment supports 1,679 projects led by researchers across Canada, ensuring the continued growth of Canada’s research capacity and its global leadership in social sciences and humanities research.
This investment is part of a series of major investments in federal research funding, announced today by the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, that has been awarded through a suite of research programs administered by the three federal research granting agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
UBC Researchers Supported through Federal Investments in NSERC, SSHRC and NFRF Competitions
UBC-led Projects
A total of 135 projects led by UBC researchers were awarded more than $21.2 million through SSHRC Partnership, Partnership Development, Insight, and Insight Development Grants programs.
This includes:
- $4.6 million for 2 Partnership Grants
- $1.0 million for 5 Partnership Development Grants
- $11.6 million for 61 Insight Grants
- $4.0 million for 67 Insight Development Grants
Partnership Grants
Partnership Grants provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over four to seven years to advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities.
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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.
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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.
- Aguiar, Luis (History and Sociology - UBCO)
Ethnic Media in Canada at a Crossroads: Challenges, Opportunities and Contributions to Canadian Society
- Anderson, Siwan (Vancouver School of Economics)
Gender Norms
- Aquino, Karl (Sauder School of Business)
Effects of Workplace Victim Signaling Perceptions
- Beauchamp, Mark (Kinesiology)
UBC Co-applicants: Puterman, Eli (Kinesiology)
The 'Global Goals Project': An international randomized trial to examine the effectiveness of open goals to promote physical activity
- Bian, Bo (Sauder School of Business)
Data Network, Privacy Regulation, and the Future of Financial Markets
- Binet, Andrew (School of Community and Regional Planning)
UBC Co-applicants: Barudin, Jessica (School of Community and Regional Planning), Clifton, Kelly (School of Community and Regional Planning), Poon, Brenda T. (School of Population and Public Health)
From Patchwork to Infrastructure: Planning for Universal Childcare in B.C
- Birch, Susan (Psychology)
Changing lives by changing minds: Enhancing social emotional competence by combining multiple evidence-based approaches
- Borwein, Sophie (Political Science)
The Supply-Side Politics of Workplace Technological Change
- Bowers, Katherine (Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies)
UBC Collaborators: D'Onofrio, Christine (Art History, Visual Art & Theory), Grguric, Ekatarina (Research Commons)
Computational Dostoevsky
- Carlyle, Margaret (History and Sociology - UBCO)
Delivering the Enlightenment in the French Atlantic World
- Cavanaugh, Lisa (Sauder School of Business)
Emotion, Political Ideology, and Consumption
- Cole, Peter (Curriculum & Pedagogy)
UBC Co-applicant: O'Riley, Patricia A. (Curriculum & Pedagogy)
Mutual Nurturance in the High Amazon for a World on Fire
- Coulthard, Lisa (Theatre & Film)
Historicizing Stunt Performance, Workflows, and Labour in American Cinema
- Fisher, Adlai (Sauder School of Business)
Technological Innovation, Expected Growth, and Asset Prices
- Gallipoli, Giovanni (Vancouver School of Economics)
Heterogeneity and the mechanics of inequality: consumption expenditures in the cross-section and across generations
- Gramling, David (Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies)
UBC Co-applicants: Malakaj, Ervin (Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies)
Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, and the Monolingual University
- Griffin, Michael (Philosophy)
Transforming Logic, Rhetoric, and the Sciences in Late Antiquity: Seven New Volumes in the Ancient Commentators Series
- Head, Keith (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicants: Orr, Scott (Sauder School of Business), Ries, John (Sauder School of Business)
Subsidy Battles and Trade Warfare
- Jenkins, Carrie (Philosophy)
UBC Co-applicants and Collaborators: Osworth, Alison (School of Creative Writing), Roberts, Robin D.
The Undisciplined Project
- Kamat, Vinay (Anthropology)
Climate Change, Ecological Risk, and Adaptive Capacity Among Artisanal Fishing Communities in Coastal Tanzania
- Kasahara, Hiroyuki (Vancouver School of Economics)
Identification and Estimation of Markup, Factor-Neutral and Factor-Augmenting Productivities, and Production Function using Revenue Data and their Empirical Applications
- Kassan, Anusha (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education)
UBC Co-applicant: Eryigit-Madzwamuse, Suna (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education)
An Arts-Based Engagement Ethnography of Newcomer Student Wellness in French and English Institutions of Higher Education in Canada
- Kendrick, Maureen (Language & Literacy Education)
UBC Co-applicant: Early, Margaret (Language & Literacy Education)
Digital Multimodal Composing-To-Learn: Perspectives, Practices, and Possibilities for Multilingual Learners
- Klein, Naomi (Geography)
UBC Co-applicant: Gordillo, Gaston (Anthropology)
Mapping far-right climate discourse and policy in Canada, the United States, Argentina, and Aotearoa/New Zealand
- Lazrak, Ali (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Garlappi, Lorenzo (Sauder School of Business)
Responsible consumption, asset prices, and green innovation
- Li, Guofang (Language and Literacy Education)
UBC Co-applicant: Gunderson, Lee (Language and Literacy Education)
Investigating the Relationship between First Language Proficiency and English Reading Comprehension among Multilingual Learners in Upper Elementary Years in BC
- Lopes, Dominic McIver (Philosophy)
Pluralism and Its Discontents: Episodes in the History of Aesthetics
- Lundholm, Russell (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Zheng, Xin (Sauer School of Business)
Rank-ordering effort in financial statement analysis
- Marmer, Vadim (Vancouver School of Economics)
UBC Collaborator: Schrimpf, Paul (Vancouver School of Economics)
Unknown group structures in econometric models
- Metcalfe, Amy (Educational Studies)
Making a home on campus: The first 50 years of student housing at the University of British Columbia
- Milstein, Sara (Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies)
Translating Sex in the Hebrew Bible
- Morzycki, Marcin (Linguistics)
UBC Co-applicant and Collaborators: Bochnak, Ryan (Linguistics), Davis, Henry (Linguistics), Odic, Darko (Psychology)
Numerals and measurement across constructions and languages
- Nan, Ning (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Woo, Carson (Sauder School of Business)
Societal Outcomes of Low-Carbon Consumer Choices
- Norris, Sam (Vancouver School of Economics)
UBC Collaborator: Borwein, Sophie (Political Science)
The Effects of Alternative Criminal Justice Institutions
- Orr, Scott (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicants: Head, Keith (Sauder School of Business), Rachapalli, Swapnika (Sauder School of Business)
Efficiencies Revisited: The Role of Conduct, Synergies, Selection, and Vertical Integration on Pricing
- Phelan, Anne (Curriculum & Pedagogy)
Therapeutic Practices in Teacher Education: Impact and Significance
- Pratt, Geraldine (Geography)
The new labour of elder care: past, present and future geographies of cobot care technologies
- Proctor, Jonathan (Food and Resource Economics)
UBC Collaborator: Pleiss, Geoff (Statistics)
Predicting global socio-economic vulnerability to climate hazards using satellite imagery and machine learning
- Riddell, W. Craig (Vancouver School of Economics)
Improving the Lives of Welfare Recipients: What Pays Off in the Long Run?
- Robin Martens, Tabitha (Applied Biology)
UBC Co-applicant and Collaborators: Cardinal-McTeague, Warren (Forest and Conservation Sciences), Boucha, Rosalyn, Delaurier-Lyle, Karleen
Sowing Sovereignty: A Journey Into Indigenous Seed Work
- Rullmann, Hotze (Linguistics)
UBC Co-applicant and Collaborator: Matthewson, Lisa (Linguistics), Bochnak, Ryan (Linguistics)
The language(s) of stories: What narrative discourse can tell us about the core properties of language
- Shaffer, Elizabeth (School of Information)
Exploring Black Caribbean and Diasporic Communities' Anti-Colonial Archival Practices: Toward a Theory of Archival Wake Work
- Siu, Henry (Vancouver School of Economics)
Occupations and life-cycle wage growth: Implications for cross-cohort and racial and ethnic inequality
- Sloan Morgan, Onyx (Community, Culture and Global Studies - UBCO)
UBC Collaborator: Asiyanbi, Adeniyi (Community, Culture and Global Studies - UBCO)
Tracing the Settler Colonial Legacies of Insurance: From Empire to Wildfires in British Columbia, Canada
- Smith, Megan (Creative Studies - UBCO)
Truth Machine: Authenticity & Immersive Computational Art in the time of Artificial Intelligence
- Song, Kyungchul (Kevin) (Vancouver School of Economics)
A Systematic Study on Causal Inference Designs and Statistical Inference
- Squires, Munir (Vancouver School of Economics)
UBC Co-applicant: Hwang, Sam (Vancouver School of Economics)
Intermarriage and Social Integration in the United States, 1790-1950
- Sriram, Veena (School of Public Policy and global Affairs)
One country, one exam: Exploring the promise and pitfalls of India's transition to single medical college entrance and exit examinations
- Tenzer, Michael (School of Music)
Irregular Meters of the World: Theory, Analysis, Performance and Composition
- Thrush, Coll (History)
The Train to Weeping Water: Colonialism, Migration, and Critical Family History
- Tomfohr-Madsen, Lianne (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education)
UBC Co-applicants: Horn, Sarah (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education), Oberlander, Tim (School of Population and Public Health)
Digital Childhood: Understanding the Effects of Screen Time on Development and Well-being in School-Aged Youth
- van der Ven, Hamish (Wood Science)
The Indirect Impacts of Internet Use on the Climate Crisis
- VanWynsberghe, Robert (Educational Studies)
When Strong Currents Meet: Swimming in the Waters of Transformative Social Innovation Pedagogies
- Walsh, Zachary (Psychology - UBCO)
UBC Collaborators: Argento, Elena (Psychology - UBCO), Milloy, M-J (Medicine)
Locating the new normal: Nonclincal psychedelic use in context
- Wang, Jessica (Geography / History)
Biogeography, State Power, and Colonial Rule: Tropical Agriculture and the U.S. Insular Empire, 1898-1940
- Ward, Shannon (Community, Culture and Global Studies - UBCO)
Language Revitalization in Transnational Perspective: Tibetan-Canadian Children's Experiences of Heritage Language Education in an International Boarding School
- White, Katherine (Sauder School of Business)
Consumer Self-Views, Decreased Endowment, and Willingness to Donate Possessions
- Wilson, Shawn (Community, Culture and Global Studies - UBCO)
Continuing the Ceremony of Research: New Directions in Indigenous Methodologies
- Zeweri, Helena (Anthropology)
The Colonial History and Present of Australia's Transnational Border Regime
- Zhang, Gaoheng (French, Hispanic and Italian Studies)
Scrambles for East Africa: Media and Cultural Debates between China, Western Europe, and East Africa
- Zuo, Mila (Theatre & Film)
Mongoloids - an experimental documentary
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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.
- Afsahi, Afsoun (Political Science)
Unequal Voices, Unequal Rules: Reimagining Democracy's Boundaries
- Asano, Miho (Health and Exercise Sciences - UBCO)
What It Means to Live Alone and Die Well - Elder Orphans
- Beswick, Samuel (Peter A. Allard School of Law)
UBC Co-Applicant and Collaborator: Hofri-Winogradow, Adam (Peter A. Allard School of Law), Harris, Douglas (Peter A. Allard School of Law)
Resolution of Strata Disputes at the B.C. Civil Resolution Tribunal: An Empirical Legal Study
- Bouchard, Marie-Eve (French, Hispanic and Italian Studies)
The use of English-origin verbs in Quebec French
- Bredin, Shannon (Kinesiology)
Empowering Change through Awareness: A Virtual Strategy to Address Emotional Abuse in Sport
- Bungay, Victoria (Nursing)
UBC Co-applicants: Baumbusch, Jennifer (Nursing), Russolillo, Angela (Nursing)
Do current instruments to assess housing security consider gender-based violence? A scoping review through a structural lens of housing justice
- Cheong, Amanda (Sociology)
Investigating Barriers to Birth Registration Among Labour Migrant Families in the Malaysian Palm Oil Sector
- Craig, Andrea (Economics, Philosophy and Political Science - UBCO)
Measuring Conflict and Estimating the Impacts on Immigrant Outcomes
- Devisscher, Tahia (Forest Resources Management)
Enabling equitable nature-based solutions for social-ecological resilience to climate change
- Effros, Bonnie (History)
Salomon Reinach and the Politics of Assimilation in Early Twentieth-Century France
- Everhart, Avery (Geography)
Beyond Binary Data: The Role of Data, Statistics, and Information in Shaping Transgender Life
- Fang, Limin (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicants: Moszkowski, Erica (Sauder School of Business), Somerville, Craig (Sauder School of Business)
New Condo Supply, Housing Filtering and Residential Displacement
- Flynn, Alexandra (Peter A. Allard School of Law)
How Rights-based Frameworks Shape Housing Responses at the Municipal Scale
- Gallipoli, Giovanni (Vancouver School of Economics)
The mechanics of consumption networks: theory and measurement
- Gantois, Joséphine (Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability / Land and Food Systems)
Quantifying the Conservation Value of Land Investments using Local Ballots and Bird Outcomes
- Gao, Ying (Vancouver School of Economics)
Incentives and Learning in Platforms with Recommendation
- Gavarkovs, Adam (Faculty of Medicine Continuing Professional Development)
UBC Co-applicants: Ajjawi, Rola (Surgery), Eva, Kevin (Medicine), Lynn, Brenna (Faculty of Medicine Continuing Professional Development), Petrella, Robert (Family Practice)
Energizing Team Learning: A Case Study of Motivation in Primary Healthcare Teams
- Girvan, Anita (English and Cultural Studies - UBCO)
Gule Wamkulu: Chewa governance systems for Transnational well-being in and Beyond African and Afro-descended Communities
- Goodyear, Trevor (Nursing)
UBC Co-applicants: Jenkins, Emily (Nursing)
Canadian news media and expert knowledge user perspectives on involuntary substance use treatment: A discourse analysis
- Hasan, Mohammad (Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics - UBCO)
UBC Co-applicants and Collaborator: Jakobi, Jennifer (Health and Exercise Sciences - UBCO), Rush, Kathy (Nursing - UBCO), Bird, Guy
Design, Co-Creation, and Evaluation of a Usability Scale for VR Applications by and for Older Adults
- Hayat, Zahra (Anthropology)
'Pharmaceutical Intellectual Property': Patents, Trade Secrets and Access to Medicines
- Héroux-Legault, Maxime (Economics, Philosophy and Political Science - UBCO)
Understanding and Improving Attitudes toward Immigrants in Canada
- Hu, Allen (Sauder School of Business)
Social Progress and Economic Inequality: Evidence from Financial Advertising
- Huberman, Isabella (French, Hispanic and Italian Studies)
Powerlines: Re-storying Hydro Power in Quebec Through Indigenous Narrative Arts
- Huemoeller, Katharine (Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies)
Domina: Gendering Slaveholding in the Roman World
- Jaccard, Torsten (Vancouver School of Economics)
Multinationals, Export Quality, and the Gains from Trade
- Jorgenson, Andrew (Sociology)
Income Inequality, Economic Growth, and the Climate Crisis: Longitudinal Analyses of Province-Level Carbon Emissions in Canada
- Jurkevics, Anna (Political Science)
A Right to Place? Mapping the Divide between European and Indigenous Approaches to Land
- Karimi, Aryan (Sociology)
Past Losses and Future Lives: Afghan and Ukrainian Women in Canada
- Kasahara, Hiroyuki (Vancouver School of Economics)
The impact of Artificial Intelligence adoption on skill demands and productivity: evidence from newly linked administrative firm-level data in Canada
- Kassam, Shahin (Nursing)
UBC Co-applicant: Bungay, Victoria (Nursing)
Unearthing Social and Psychological Impacts of Climate Change among Women Living at the Nexus of Gender-Based Violence, Forced Migration, and Racism: A Community-Based Intersectional Environmentalism Project
- Kealy, David (Psychiatry)
Understanding personal goals: Clarity, communication, and interpersonal context
- Khmelnitskaya, Ekaterina (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: Marshall Manriquez, Guillermo (Sauder School of Business)
Innovation Incentives in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- Laurin, Kristin (Psychology)
Actual and perceived political residue after religious switching: Implications for secularization
- Li, Jiaze (Sauder School of Business)
Automation vs Augmentation - How Workers' Bargaining Power Shapes Advanced Technology Adoption in Firms
- Li, Kai (Sauder School of Business)
Perceptions and investment: Evidence from mutual fund manager live streaming
- Lyon, Katherine (Sociology)
UBC Co-applicants: Cheung, Karen (Electrical and Computer Engineering), d'Entremont, Agnes (Mechanical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering), Newell, Robyn (School of Biomedical Engineering), Usprech, Jenna (School of Biomedical Engineering), Jamison, Niall (GEERing Up UBC Engineering and Science for Kids)
Does STEM identity matter?: Longitudinally tracing the relationship between STEM identity and STEM trajectory persistence for girls and gender-expansive youth across the socioeconomic spectrum
- Mackie, Gregory (English Language and Literatures)
Looking for Mabel: A Bibliocritical Study of Mrs. Chan-Toon
- Mah, Janet (Psychiatry)
CRAFT-CP: Co-designing Resources for Asian Families Together with Chinese-Canadian Parents
- Maler, Anabel (Music)
The Signing Musician: Composer, Performer, Analyst
- Mcconnell, Kathryn (Sociology)
Investigating post-wildfire housing recovery and gentrification dynamics in Canada and the U.S.
- Mohamadpour Tosarkani, Babak (School of Engineering - UBCO)
UBC Co-applicant: Li, Eric (Management - UBCO)
Building Resilient Food Banks: A Community-Centered Framework for Emergency Preparedness
- Moreiras Reynaga, Diana (Anthropology)
UBC Co-applicant and Collaborator: Chritz, Kendra (Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences), Speller, Camilla (Anthropology)
New Insights on Mesoamerican Human Sacrifice from Two Postclassic Mesoamerican Civilizations through Decolonial, Proteomic, and Isotopic Approaches.
- Moszkowski, Erica (Sauder School of Business)
Age Structure and Housing Affordability
- Nardizzi, Vin (English Language and Literatures)
Thomasin Tunstall: A Botanical Biography
- Nijdam, Elizabeth (Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies)
Games for Decolonization
- Ning, Zhao (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-Applicant: Wang, Yanwen (Sauder School of Business)
Label Informativeness and Price Sensitivity: Evidence from Tobacco Control Act
- Oblander, Elliot (Sauder School of Business)
A Bayesian approach to inferring the effects of events using cohorted data
- Ongchoco, Joan Danielle (Psychology)
UBC Co-applicant: Im, Hee-Yeon (Psychology)
The missing self in time: Studies in perception, action, and decision-making
- Ovie, Glory (Educational Studies)
Black Educators at the Intersections: Understanding the Experiences of Black Educators in Alberta and British Columbia K-12 Schools.
- Park, Jen (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant: White, Katherine (Sauder School of Business)
Shifting Consumer Focus: When Highlighting Premium Price Increases Sustainable Choices
- Raker, Ethan (Sociology)
The Fertility and Natality Consequences of the 2021 Heat Dome in British Columbia
- Robinson, Pamela (Economics, Philosophy and Political Science - UBCO)
Ethics from the 'inside'
- Saggio, Raffaele (Vancouver School of Economics)
UBC Co-applicant: Norris, Samuel (Vancouver School of Economics)
The impact of reducing access to temporary foreign work visas in Canada
- Sari Ozcelik, Elif (Anthropology)
Privatizing LGBTQ+ Asylum: An Ethnographic Exploration of Canada's Private Refugee Sponsorship
- Schmidt, Julia (Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy)
UBC Co-applicant and Collaborator: Jarus, Tal (Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy), Mamman, Rinni (Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy)
Exploring public perception of traumatic brain injury in British Columbia
- Schnellert, Leyton (Curriculum & Pedagogy)
UBC Co-applicant and Collaborators: Christensen, Carly (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education), Jhangiani, Surita (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education), Moore, Shelley, Muñoz, Joaquin (Curriculum & Pedagogy), Nelson, Melanie (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education), Ragoonaden, Karen (Okanagan School of Education - UBCO), Sam, Johanna (Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education)
Embedding disability justice as a core component within teacher education programs
- Schrimpf, Paul (Vancouver School of Economics)
UBC Co-applicant: Kasahara, Hiroyuki (Vancouver School of Economics)
Unintended Consequences of Cash Transfers on Opioid Overdoses and Effects of Expanding Contraceptive Access : Evidence from BC's Free Contraceptives Program
- Shen, Qingyang (Economics, Philosophy and Political Science - UBCO)
Effect of tenement regulation on property values and development timelines
- Sia, Rosanne (Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice)
Performing the "Asian Woman": Traveling Asian Performers on Canadian Variety Circuits
- Sirwani, Deepak (Sauder School of Business)
UBC Co-applicant and collaborators: Cornil, Yann (Sauder School of Business), Sethi, Shakti (Sauder School of Business), Yi, Shangwen (Sauder School of Business)
Rethinking `Best-Before' Dates: Using Behavioral Science to Reduce Food Waste
- Starling, Daniel (Art History, Visual Art & Theory)
The Pencil of Nature: Redux
- Stevens, Sara (School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture)
UBC Co-applicant and Collaborator: Soules, Matthew (School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture), Kamizaki, Kuni (School of Community and Regional Planning)
Socio-spatial Analysis of Decommodified Cooperative and Community Land Trust Housing in Canada
- Wytenbroek, Lydia (Nursing)
Training the World: The Rockefeller Foundation's Role in Developing Nursing Leadership in the Global South, 1950-1970
- Yoo, Philip (Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies)
"And They Could Not Speak...": The Bible and Language Endangerment
- Yu, Lingtao (Sauder School of Business)
Emergence of Informal Leadership: Interpersonal Dynamics Between Informal Leaders, Formal Leaders, and Team Members
- Zaiontz, Keren (Theatre & Film)
UBC Co-applicant: Santos, Alessandra (Theatre & Film)
Performing the Press Against Autocracy