SSHRC Partnership Development Grants

May 29, 2024

On May 29, 2024, the Government of Canada announced more than $51 million to support 90 research partnerships across Canada. This investment, through SSHRC’s Partnership Grants and Partnership Development Grants, provides researchers from different disciplines and postsecondary institutions the opportunity to work together on challenging topics and research questions in social sciences and humanities.

Ted Hewitt, president of SSHRC, said, “From examining the links between legislation, innovation and society, to developing partnerships for strengthening economic development in rural communities, these partnership grants in the social sciences and the humanities address important topics that will unlock new knowledge and advance society to provide better outcomes for Canadians and the global community.”

Two UVic research teams received funding from the 2023-24 competition:

Sophia Carodenuto (PI) Collaborative Generation of Social Ecological Knowledge of Food and Forest Systems (CoGEN) $199,837

Cocoa has caused the widespread conversion and degradation of tropical forest ecosystems globally, but especially in Ghana, the second largest exporter of cocoa. Many consumer jurisdictions have proposed legislation to address imported deforestation and related social harms. As more than 65 per cent of cocoa farmers in Ghana are food insecure, it is important to monitor the local socioeconomic impacts of this legislation.

The primary goal of this interdisciplinary project is to support vulnerable smallholder farmers in SubSaharan Africa to better monitor risks to their living standards and food security that result from foreign corporate accountability and related supply chain due diligence regulations.

Nathan Lachowsky (PI) Expanding Partnerships for Arts-Based Knowledge Mobilization of Intergenerational Oral Histories of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic $200,000

Building on existing and establishing new partnerships, the research team has three goals.: 1) to enhance artistic engagement with and arts-based knowledge mobilization of the experiences of long-term HIV/AIDS survivors in Canada; 2) to facilitate the sharing of intercultural HIV and AIDS narratives by providing a platform for collaborations and conversations; and 3) to establish intergenerational dialogue for marginalized communities impacted by HIV and AIDS.