UBC researchers are to receive more than $21m in funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) through scholarships, fellowships and grants.
- More than 150 scholarships and fellowships totalling more than $7m were awarded to UBC students and postdoctoral fellows
- 78 research projects led by UBC faculty members received approximately $14.6m in funding. These projects are listed below
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UBC recipients
INSIGHT DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (18 awards, $1.1m)
- Caperchione, Cristina
A league of their own: Examining the effectiveness of a psycho-social and sport program targeting at-risk adolescent girls - Farinha Luz, Vitor
Multidimensional private information in insurance markets - Galla, Candace
Digital Technology Use for First Nations Language Education and Revitalization in British Columbia - Gornall, Will
Venture Capital Contracts and Valuations - Griess, Verena
Indigenous land-use planning and the discourse of sovereignty: Communicating values at the contact zone - Guiry, Eric
The Historical Ecology of Lake Ontario: An Isotopic Perspective - Hagerman, Shannon
Targets through time: Negotiating knowledge (s) and constructing future possibilities for global biodiversity governance - Honey-Rosés, Jordi
No one showed up at our public meeting. Testing theories of public engagement in the context of groundwater management - Joy, Annamma
Ganjapreneurs in the Okanagan Valley: Exploring emerging market formation for recreational cannabis in British Columbia - Kasahara, Hiroyuki
Identification and Estimation of Production Function under Unobserved Heterogeneity - Laurin, Kristin
Understanding the nature of rationalized confidence in the sociopolitical system - LeMoult, Joelle
Co-Rumination in the Context of Adolescents' Friendships - Marshall, Christopher
Thomas Heywood and the Classical Imagination - Oberle, Eva
School's out - what now? A population-level study on how out-of-school time is linked to trajectories of social-emotional wellbeing and academic success in middle childhood and early adolescence - O'Hogan, Cillian
Romans, Christians, and their books, 300-486 CE - Rosenblum, Daisy
q̓ ә́nq̓ oƛaχәnc ʔәwin̓ agʷis (Knowing our land): Documenting Gwa’sala and ’Nakwaxda’xw Cultural Keystone Places in Kʷak̓ ʷala - Tan, Yuen Sze Michelle
Supporting teachers’ design and implementation of theories-framed, reform-based pedagogies: Case of teacher professional development for science teachers in BC - Walsh, Shannon
We grew as we grew: Longitudinal perspectives on youth activism, visual methodologies, and HIV prevention
INSIGHT GRANTS (54 awards, $7.8m)
- Babel, Molly
Socially selective phonetic memory - Beauchamp, Mark
Peer leadership and physical literacy promotion among elementary school children - Brander, James
Innovation, patent litigation, and competition policy - Brown, Jennifer
Home values, mobility and job search during the Great Recession - Bulkan, Janette
Improving Lil'wat food security with ecosystem services approaches - Chan, Kai
Human-nature relationships and values: from meanings to mitigation and practice - Charles, Grant
Witnessing the dark secret of student-to-student abuse in Canada's Indian residential schools: situating survivor testimony, scholarship, and creative practice in a process of reconciliation - Cherkowski, Sabre
Flourishing in schools: examining positive leadership for sustainable school improvement - Clarke, Anthony
Mentoring as a professional practice: addressing an intractable problem in teacher education - Claxton, Dana
Abstract labour, transient bodies: art, embodied labour, migration, indigeneity, and globalization in contemporary British Columbia - De Oliveira Andreotti, Vanessa
Ethical social innovation for decolonial global futures - Donaldson, R. Glen
Banks, sovereign debt and financial markets - Dulic, Aleksandra
Water ways - the past, present and future of the Okanagan waterscape - Frackman, Kyle
Coming out of the iron closet - queer lives in East Germany - Gallipoli, Giovanni
Inequality, wealth and intergenerational mobility: measurement and policy - Gardner, Gregg
Poverty and social justice in classical Jewish thought: Mishnah Pe'ah - a translation and commentary - Giammarino, Ronald
Tax-loss carry forwards: real options, investment and returns - Grant, Isabel
Sexual assault of women and girls across the lifespan: age-specific barriers to an effective criminal law - Guhn, Martin
Understanding the K-12 academic achievement trajectories of immigrant and refugee children - Hagerman, Shannon
Novel environmental management interventions in the Anthropocene - Halevy, Yoram
Experiments on bounded and standard rationality: risk, uncertainty, time and interactive decisions - Hare, Jan
Using collaborative inquiry to explore teacher educator practices in Indigenous education coursework - Holtzman, Susan
Social support in the palm of your hand: can support through mobile phones be as effective as face-to-face - Hoppmann, Christiane
It takes two to tango: a couples approach to goal regulation in old age - Hurd Clarke, Laura
Aging and the body: portrayals, perceptions and experiences of LGTBQ older adults - Jovel Ayala, Eduardo
Indigenous land-based pedagogies and food security in urban and rural Aboriginal communities in British Columbia - Joy, Annamma
Sensory profiling and taste culture development of wine consumers in Canada - Kasahara, Hiroyuki
Estimating the number of types in finite mixture panel data models and empirical research in international trade - Kendrick, Maureen
Language and literacy learning among youth refugees in Canadian scondary school classrooms - Lebaron, Michelle
Engaging the other: applying arts tools to transform conflicts with religious dimensions - Marmer, Vadim
Structural econometrics of auctions: estimation and inference under collusion - Marshall, Sheila
Being my future: adolescents' future oriented projects with non-parental adults - Menzies, Charles
Understanding an Indigenous chain of production from the coastal Alpine to the seashore: Laxyuup Gitxaala - Mostow, Joshua
Popular literary-literacy in early modern Japan - Muehlmann, Shaylih
Women's activism against drug-war violence in Mexico - Murphy, Anne
Writing Punjabi across borders: the poetics and politics of a transnational language movement - Nan, Ning
Design without final goals: fractal-based design principles for IT infrastructure - Onyeoziri-Miller, Gloria
Utopian memory: remembering as utopianism in African and Caribbean francophone literatures - Poon, Brenda
Adoption of a response to intervention model across educational contexts - Prange, Sebastian
Monsoon Islam: trade and faith in the medieval Indian Ocean - Ragoonaden, Karen
Mindfulness and Indigenous knowledge: shared narratives about identity well-being - Sandercock, Leonie
Evaluating film as a catalyst for Indigenous community development in a remote northern community - Seidel, Marc-David
Organizational and ecosystem innovation: a life-course perspective - Severinov, Sergei
Communication and matching - Simchen, Ori
Conflating representation and represented - Simintzi, Eleni
Mergers and acquisitions and within firm pay inequality - Song, Kyungchul
Statistical inference on cross-sectional dependence in large scale networks - Steel, Daniel
Distinct concepts of diversity and their ethical-epistemic implications for science - Tindall, David
Making sense of climate action: understanding social mobilization to curb anthropogenic climate change through advances in social network analysis - Tomc, Sandra
Words for a song: unpaid work in nineteenth-century U.S. print capitalism - van Jaarsveld, Danielle
Customer incivility in the moment: immediate and delayed reactions to customer verbal and non-verbal behaviour - Wells, Susan
Child protective services organizational environment, practice, and outcomes - Young, Richard
Goal-directed project support for young adult newcomers to Canada - Wilkes, Rima
It's a question of trust: explaining how race and ethnicity matter
PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT GRANTS (4 awards, $0.8m)
- Bundon, Andrea
Level the field: disability inclusion in sport - Bungay, Victoria
Partnerships for trauma and violence informed outreach: new strategies to service delivery to redress violence against women - Poon, Brenda
Building partnerships for strong communities: developing coordinated and sustainable community systems to promote children's social-emotional well-being in the early years and beyond - Shneiderman, Sara
Expertise, labour and mobility in Nepal's post-conflict, post-disaster reconstruction: construction, law and finance as domains of social transformation
PARTNERSHIP GRANTS (2 awards, $5.0m)
- Gillen, David
Green shipping: governance and innovation for a sustainable maritime supply chain - Schmader, Tanya
Engendering success in STEM: a research consortium for gender equality in science and technology