The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council today announced an investment of more than $285m that will support 6,900 researchers and graduate students across Canada.
Funding was awarded for the Partnership Grants, Partnership Development Grants, Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants. A total of 107 research projects led by UBC researchers received $17m in funding.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships and SSHRC doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships were also announced. A total of 163 scholarships and fellowships were awarded to UBC, valued at $7m.
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partnership grants 2019-20 competition
2 projects led by UBC researchers received $5.0m
UBC-led projects
Scaling up Trauma and Violence-Informed Outreach with Women Affected by Violence
$2,499,946 (7 years)
Alfred Hermida and Mary-Lynn Young
Global Journalism Innovation Lab: Revitalizing journalism and accelerating knowledge mobilization from Canadian universities
$2,472,154 (6 years)
Partnership Development Grants 2018-2019 Competition
7 projects led by UBC researchers received $1.3m
UBC-led projects
Activism in International Human Rights Courts (ActInCourts)
$199,187 (3 years)
Hisham Zerriffi
Social-Ecological Relationships of Household Energy, Forests and Farms
$186,600 (3 years)
Heather Gainforth
Co-Developing and Co-Implementing the First Integrated Knowledge Translation Guiding Principles for the Spinal Cord Injury Research System
$199,735 (3 years)
John Graham
Kelowna Homelessness Research Collaborative
$177,900 (3 years)
Johannus Janmaat
Facilitating Agricultural Adaptation to a Changing Climate in British Columbia
$186,648 (2 years)
Leyton Schnellert
Growing Innovation in Rural Sites of Learning
$195,075 (3 years)
Henry Yu
Activating a Multi-sited Museum: An Innovative Organizational Model for Heritage and Community Knowledge-Making
$199,058 (2 years)
Insight Grants 2018-2019 Competition
64 projects led by UBC researchers received $8.8m
UBC-led projects
Margolis, Eric
A Theory of Concepts
$79,550
Veenstra, Gerry D.
Capital interplays and health in Canada
$52,000
Jeong, Gyung-Ho
Supermajority Rule in the National Assembly of Korea
$39,076
Shapka, Jennifer
Adolescent Technology Engagement, Self-Regulation, and the Changing Nature of Parent, Peer, and Intimate Relationships
$230,091
Cenfetelli, Ronald T.
Are We Really Addicted to Technology? What Can We Do to Reduce Our Need to Constantly Check Our Devices?
$59,509
Savalei, Victoria
Improving measures of self-report
$80,800
Green, David A.
Immigration and Employment Outcomes in the Receiving Economy
$163,900
Fernández Utrera, María Soledad
Salvador Dalí, Homo Politicus
$59,702
Stacey, Jocelyn
The Law of Disaster Exceptionalism: Reforming Law's Role in Disaster
$97,766
White, Katherine J.
Using Marketing Communications to Encourage Prosocial Consumer Actions When Ingroup Norms are Low
$167,020
Liao, Carol M.
A Canadian Model of Sustainable Corporate Governance: 30 Years to the Day
$98,998
Gottlieb, Joshua D.
Top Income Inequality: Theory, Data, and Measurement
$172,039
Garrett, Bernie
Risk-Taking Behaviours with Alternative Health Care and Psychosocial Factors Predicting Engagement
$76,909
Martin, Christopher
Understanding Student's Place in the Deliberative Politics of Education: A Philosophical Analysis
$56,185
Hoegg, JoAndrea
One Bad Apple: How Negative Feelings Toward One Organization Can Impact Perceptions of Others
$84,097
Oberle, Eva
Get outside and play! Investigating outdoor play and children's positive development in schools and communities
$151,895
Rogers, Theresa
Youth, Literature, Mobilities, and Civic Engagement
$112,322
Dunn, Elizabeth W.
Hello stranger: Intrapersonal and interpersonal strategies for promoting interactions between strangers
$163,716
Lee, Sanghoon
The Well-Being of Nations: Estimating Welfare from International Migration
$91,550
Santos, Alessandra S.
African Diaspora Literature, Culture and Technology in Brazil
$44,980
Chowdhury, Arjun
The Paradox of Postcolonial Time
$36,360
Werker, Janet F.
Bilingualism as a lens for understanding lexical development in infancy
$312,710
Shan, Hongxia
Doing "diversity" in practice: Immigrants and knowledge "transfer" in engineering and health care
$142,469
Beauchesne, Kim M.
Bridging Transatlantic and Transpacific Studies: The Keicho Embassy and Its Textual Representations in the Hispanic World (Seventeenth and Twenty-First Centuries)
$91,945
Dancygier, Barbara
Emotional dissonance and the post-truth crisis
$43,680
Mortenson, William B.
An intersectional analysis of assistive technology access and utilization across cultural groups
$306,264
Yoon, Florence
The character-object spectrum in Greek Tragedy
$37,300
Affolder, Natasha A.
Contagious Law-making: How Environmental Law Moves and Why it Matters
$238,092
Miller, William C.
Supporting adaptive Snowsports Leisure Opportunities for PEople with disabilities (SSLOPE)
$90,699
Norenzayan, Ara
Religion, Spirituality, and Moral Concern for the Environment
$175,644
Vertinsky, Ilan
When do venture capitalists spur innovation among their investees?
$74,582
Head, Keith
Multinational oligopoly: new issues and new methods
$172,500
Hamlin, J. Kiley
Mapping the origins of human morality: A comprehensive longitudinal study of moral development from birth through age 3
$381,845
Barnes, Trevor J.
Geographies of the life, works and social activism of William Bunge
$99,547
Ortiz-Molina, Hernan
Labour Laws, Process Innovation, and Firm Performance
$90,439
Bena, Jan
Risk and Ownership of Startup Companies
$120,560
Laurin, Kristin
System justification: Self-regulatory causes and unintended emotional consequences
$148,210
Gick, Bryan W.
Virtually Speaking: How Phonetic Information Affects Communication in Virtual Reality
$93,485
Ford, Cristie L.
Innovation as a regulatory challenge: Responses by financial and legal professional regulators
$170,687
Oberg, Gunilla M.
Science, Values and Wastewater Controversies
$399,780
Kealy, David
Enhancing possible selves among emerging adults: Randomized controlled trial of a mentoring intervention
$97,200
Christopoulos, John
Bodies of Crime in Early Modern Italy
$85,381
Heine, Steven J.
Economic Inequality and Status Strivings
$301,567
Griffin, Michael J.
Translating, Interpreting, and Publicizing the Philosophy and Science of the Roman Empire: New Translations in the Ancient Commentators Series
$66,502
Yeung, Ira IY.
High on Accounting? Do Marijuana Companies' Financial Statements Mislead Investors?
$39,942
Coulthard, Lisa M.
Between Blood and Data: Anatomy of the Post-Millennial Hollywood Fight Sequence
$71,776
Cavanaugh, Lisa A.
Identity-Relevant Brands and Social Distance in Online Reviews
$141,650
Rehavi, Michal Marit
Getting Inside the Black Box of Prosecutors' Discretion
$94,968
Roth, Wendy D.
Genetic Ancestry Testing and the Future of Race: Qualitative Follow-Up Study
$43,908
Yang, Bicheng
Salesforce Management using Monetary and Non-Monetary Incentives
$79,200
Zhang, Anming
Tradable permits versus congestion fees for transportation facilities with uncertain supply and demand
$265,650
Poudrier, Ève
Modeling polyrhythmic experience
$253,964
Griffin, Dale W.
Beyond Green Values: Affirmation Processes in Consumer Decision-Making About Climate Change
$156,450
Sin, Nancy
The unfolding of positive events in daily stress and coping processes
$252,740
Sayer, Jeffrey A.
Small and medium forest industries for vibrant local economies: conditions for success in communally managed lands
$263,550
Gillespie, Judy L.
Enhancing Evaluation Methodologies in Multisector Community Change Initiatives: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
$299,296
Olsen, Lise L.
Assessing feasibility and effectiveness of an online parent resource to support safe and active sport and recreation for children with autism spectrum disorders
$120,440
Kingstone, Alan
Human social attention
$136,250
Pena, Francisco
The Confluence of Religious Cultures in Medieval Historiography: A Digital Humanities Project
$289,281
Milstein, Sara
Making a Case: The Origins and Legacy of Biblical and Near Eastern Law
$40,275
Angeles, Leonora C.
Postnationalism and Canada-Philippine Bilateral Relations: Trends, Patterns, Limits and Possibilities of Postnational Citizenships and Transnational Linkages for Development, 1970-2020
$93,585
Hayden, Brian
The role of ecology and economy in the emergence of complexity on the Canadian Plateau
$214,396
Thobani, Sunera
The Cinematic Lives of Islam and Muslims
$79,920
Severs, Jeffrey
Postmodernism as they found it: contingent transformations in U.S. fiction, 1970-1976
$31,150
Insight Development Grants 2019-2020 Competition
34 projects led by UBC researchers received $1.8m
UBC-led projects
Walter, Pierre The University of British Columbia
Catalysts for Transformative Learning in Living History Museums
$65,084
Pratt, Geraldine The University of British Columbia
Anticipating Alzheimer's: geographies of the global intimate
$74,980
Bigazzi, Alexander The University of British Columbia
Electric pedal-assist, physical capability, and cycling accessibility: Do cycling speed and energy expenditure mediate route and travel mode choices?
$75,000
Kerns, Connor
Social Exclusion, Social Communication and Psychological Well-being in Emerging Adulthood
$45,970
Hanser, Amy
The Public Bus as Urban Space: How People Navigate Encounters Across Social Difference
$38,054
Kikkawa, Ayumu
On the Measurement of Global Value Chain Participation
$54,400
Huddart Kennedy, Emily
Who Cares About the Environment? How Class and Politics Are Related to Environmental Beliefs, Preferences and Impacts
$65,488
Latimer, Heather
Future Now: Reproductive Politics and the Dystopic Imaginary
$33,914
Huemoeller, Katharine
Reproducing Slavery: Maternal descent in the Roman world
$28,790
Stewart, Jaclyn
Feedback Effectiveness and Emotion in Learning (FEEL): How stress relates to students' uptake of feedback in organic chemistry
$50,525
Gardner, Gregg
The Horvat Midras Excavation Project: Cultural Interaction in Rural Roman Judea
$69,023
Kealy, David
The Multi-dimensional Conceptualization and Assessment of Interpersonal Loyalty
$47,000
Gornall, Will
Gender and Racial Discrimination in Venture Capital
$50,633
Gottlieb, Joshua
Studying Coal Plant Pollution Using Machine Learning
$56,067
Lee, Gene
Predicting Litigation Risk via Machine Learning
$48,100
Liu, Yan
Robotics Education for a New Generation of STEM: Developing Novel Measurement Tools & Assessing Learning Outcomes
$54,965
Petherick, LeAnne
Sexuality Education as Public Pedagogy: Media and Parental Constructions of Sexuality Education
$64,286
Moran, Patrick
Literary Genre in the French-Speaking Middle Ages: From Manuscript Studies to Cognitive Theory
$56,763
Ostwald, Kai
Conflict is Local: Insights from Localized Patterns of Peace and Violence in Myanmar's Ethnic Conflicts
$48,596
Sajjadiani, Sima
The Spillover Effects of Police Brutality against Visible Minority Groups on Work Outcomes
$46,163
Yeung, Ira
Economic Consequences of Unbundling Analyst Research
$38,995
Turin, Mark
Relational Lexicography: New Approaches to Community-Informed Dictionary Work
$75,000
Yang, Bicheng
Management of Financial Advisors
$46,496
Sin, Nancy
Positive emotional well-being and aging: A daily process approach
$70,817
Gallipoli, Giovanni
Technology, Productivity and Skills in the Labor Market: the Role of Firms
$67,300
Gagné, Monique
Understanding the developmental well-being of refugee children in Canada and Australia
$65,121
Nagarajan, Mahesh
Developing and Testing a Measure of Behavioural Risk Attitudes
$51,750
Metcalfe, Jessica
Dene Bison Hunting and Migration: Western Science and Indigenous Perspectives
$63,924
Hallensleben, Markus
Migration as Core Narrative of Plural Societies: Towards an Aesthetics of Postmigrant Literature
$34,795
Andreas, Wolfgang
A Novel Conditional Analysis of Causation
$23,590
Arneil, Barbara
Organic Politics
$44,625
Klassen, Sarah
Koh Ker Archaeological Project
$72,400
Jain, Romi
Quests for Developing Knowledge Economies: A Comparative Study of the Higher Education Reforms in China and India
$50,170
Adriasola Munoz, Ignacio
Omen: The Work of Enokura Koji
$47,168
SSHRC doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships 2019-2020 Competition
UBC received 27 SSHRC doctoral fellowships worth $1.4m and 7 postdoctoral fellowships worth $0.6m.
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships 2019-2020 Competition
UBC received 97 masters scholarships worth $1.7m and 32 doctoral scholarships worth $3.4m