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UVic researchers awarded over $2M by SSHRC

September 13, 2024

Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of National Revenue, on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced that $123.1 million in federal research funding has been awarded through 503 Insight Grants and 590 Insight Development Grants to researchers working in social sciences and humanities disciplines at institutions across Canada. These grants enable scholars to further our collective understanding of individuals and societies, as well as to inform the search for solutions to societal challenges.

$2,328,000 of this funding will help UVic scholars make significant contributions to their fields through seven Insight Grants and 12 Insight Development Grants, ranging from reviving forgotten play manuscripts to strengthening Indigenous languages.

Grant recipients

SSHRC Insight Grants

  1. Megan Ames (Psychology), “Testing a Novel Model of the Bidirectional Associations between the Canadian 24-hour Movement Behaviour Guidelines and Emotion Regulation in Adolescents' Daily Lives”
  2. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (English), “Jewish Women in Hostile Archives: England, 1154-1307 CE”
  3. Sophia Carodenuto (Geography), “Canada's Global Food Footprint: Reducing Imported Deforestation”
  4. Janelle Jenstad (English), “Editing Early Modern Drama: Edge Cases, Outliers, New Texts, and Multi-Texts”
  5. Megan Lukaniec (Indigenous Studies), “Tekwarihwakhashonhk 'We are putting our ideas together': Analyzing Wendat and Wandat syntax and discourse”
  6. Nigel Mantou Lou (Psychology), “Development of a digital education program to promote mental health among East Asian Canadian families,”
  7. Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta (Theatre), “Staging our voices: Strengthening Indigenous languages through theatre”

Insight Development Grants

  1. Corinne Bancroft (English), “Visualizing Braided Narratives”
  2. Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Anthropology), “Cuban Exodus: Multimodal Stories of Migrants in Search of Hope”
  3. Claudia Diaz-Diaz (Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies), “Women activists and pedagogies for climate and gender justice: A participatory-exploratory study”
  4. Andrea Grant (Adjunct assistant professor) (History), “Reckoning with Historic Injustice: Exploring Nikkei (Japanese Diasporic) Art in Canada, the US, Brazil, and Australia”
  5. Sarah Hunt (Environmental Studies), “More Than an Echo in the Archive: Rematriating Kwakwaka'wakw Ancestral Knowledge”
  6. Ammie Kalan (Anthropology), “The Living Archaeology of Chimpanzee Accumulative Stone Throwing”
  7. Sarah Macoun (Psychology), “Social Camouflaging in Autistic Adolescents: Social Emotional Function and Contextual Factors”
  8. Midori Ogasawara (Sociology), “Post/Pandemic Smartphone Surveillance in East Asia: The Expansion, Efficacy, Experiences and Exits”
  9. Katherine Sanford (Curriculum and Instruction), “Becoming Quality Education: Cross-National Exploration of Formal, Informal and Nonformal Learning Spaces for Transformation of Lives through Education and Social Inclusion”
  10. Paweena Sukhawathanakul (Psychology), “The Effect of Supportive Active Transportation Infrastructure on Longitudinal Changes in Cognition, Physical and Mental Health among Older Adults”
  11. Samantha Thompson (Postdoctoral Fellow, Public Health and Social Policy), “Care-full housing: Impacts of care on renters' experience of crises in housing co-operatives”
  12. Suzanne Urbanczyk (Linguistics), “qwaqwasen te sqwalten: the language is blossoming”

More on these funding opportunities

  • Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to emerging and established scholars for research initiatives lasting two to five years. Stable support for long-term research initiatives is central to advancing knowledge.
  • 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.