UBC Researchers Awarded $7m from SSHRC Partnership Programs

SSHRC has announced that $75 million in total funding has been awarded across Canada through the 2019-20 competitions for the Partnership Grants, Partnership Development Grants and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships.

• UBC researchers are leading three projects supported by Partnership Grants, with a combined award of $6.1m
• Six projects led by UBC researchers are receiving $1.2m through Partnership Development Grants.
• Additionally, ten Postdoctoral Fellowships are being administered by UBC for a total of $0.9m FULL LIST OF AWARDEES

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UBC-LED PARTNERSHIP GRANTS

CO-CURRICULAR-MAKING: HONOURING INDIGENOUS CONNECTIONS TO LAND, CULTURE, AND THE RELATIONAL SELF

Applicant: Margaret Macintyre Latta (Okanagan School of Education)
UBC Co-applicants: Jan Hare (Language & Literacy Education), Karen Ragoonaden (Okanagan School of Education), Sabre Cherkowski (Okanagan School of Education)
$1,076,813 (5 years)

TOWARDS BARRIER-FREE COMMUNITIES : A PARTNERSHIP FOR IMPROVING MOBILITY, ACCESS AND PARTICIPATION (MAP) AMONG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Applicant: William (Ben) Mortenson (Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy)
UBC Co-applicant: Kathleen Martin Ginis (School of Health and Exercise Sciences),
$2,500,000 (7 years)

ENSURING FULL LITERACY IN A MULTICULTURAL AND DIGITAL WORLD

Applicant: Janet Werker (Psychology)
UBC Co-applicants: Anthony Herdman (School of Audiology & Speech Sciences), Bryan Gick (Linguistics), Carla Hudson Kam (Linguistics), Guofang Li ( Language and Literacy Education), Mark Turin (Anthropology), Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (Library, Archival & Information Studies), Raymond Ng (Computer Science)
$2,500,000 (7 years)

FULL LIST OF AWARDEES, PARTNERS AND COLLABORATORS

UBC-LED PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT GRANTS

• Rose-Marie A. Déchaine (Linguistics)
  Haa Yoo Xh'atángi Daak Gaxhtootée: We Will Bring Our Language Out Into Brightness
  $199,860
   
• Antje Ellermann (Political Science)
  Belonging in Unceded Territory
  $200,000
   
• Sumeet Gulati (Land and Food Systems/IRES)
  Human Casualties and Wildlife Conservation in India
  $166,000
   
• Katherine J. White (Sauder School of Business) 
  Sustainable Behavioural Insights: Developing a Framework for Nudging Long-Term Behaviour Change
  $196,000
   
• Hannah K. Wittman (Land and Food Systems/IRES) 
  Navigating agroecological transitions in Latin America
  $200,000
   
• Sheila R. Woody (Psychology)
  Assessment as a roadmap: Community responses to hoarding
  $199,979

FULL LIST OF AWARDEES