Recent Grant Successes – External

 

Connection Grants – 2012 Awards

Duranti, Luciana (School of Library, Archival and Information Studies)
The Memory of the World in the digital age: digitization and digital preservation

Kojevnikov, Alexei (History)
Dark Matters: Contents and Discontents of Cold War Science

Potter, Pitman (Institute of Asian Research)Public Health Policy in Asia: Rights, Risk and Redistribution

Insight Development Grants – February 2012 Competition Awards

Berryman, Sylvia (Philosophy)
Ethics and Global Poverty

Henrich, Joseph (Psychology)
Pathways to leadership: an investigation into the nature and effectiveness of leadership based on dominance or prestige

Mathijs, Ernest (Theatre and Film)
Digital Cinema in Transition

Mikami, Amori (Psychology)
Online social communication patterns and adjustment during students’ transition to university

Nomokonova, Tatiana (Anthropology)
Seal-hunter interactions on Lake Baikal, Siberia

Raibmon, Paige (History)
The Life History and Knowledge of Elsie Paul, Sliammon elder and knowledge keeper

Woody, Sheila (Psychology)
The Sanctity of Home: Clutter, Clean-outs, Evictions, and Outcomes

Zuberi, Daniyal M. (Sociology)
Creating Good Jobs: Mobilizing Cross-Sectoral Coalitions to Create Living Wage, Family Sustaining Employment

Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences – November 2011 Competition Awards

Dancygier, Barbara (English)
Language and the creative mind

Griffin, Michael (Classical Near Eastern and Religious Studies / Philosophy)
Canadian colloquium for ancient Philosophy/collogue Canadien de Philosophie ancienne

Partnership Development Grants – November 2011 Competition Awards

Hiebert, Daniel  (Geography)       
The Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society

Taylor, Owen (Liu Institute for Global Issues)
International relations in the digital age

Partnership Grants – November 2011 Competition Awards

Slingerland, Edward (Asian Studies)
The Evolution of Religion and Morality

Public Outreach Grants - November 2011 Competition Awards

Pratt, Geraldine (Geography)       
Stimulating public debate about temporary labour migration

Insight Grants – October 2011 Competition Awards

Alden, Lynn E. (Psychology)
Reshaping the self-schema

Anderson, Scott A (Philosophy)
The regulation of coercion

Arneil, Barbara (Political Science)
Domestic colonies and the meanings of colonialism

Blackburn, Carole (Anthropology)
The right to be harmed: rights, culture and injury in residential school litigation

Bombardini, Matilde (Economics)
Skill distribution as a source of productivity differences and international trade

Chen, Jinhua (Asian Studies)
“Sacred geography”: new perspectives on East Asian Buddhist sacred sites

Duranti, Luciana (Library, Archival and Information Studies)
Records in the cloud

Gallipoli, Giovanni (Economics)
Individual heterogeneity and aggregate outcomes: measurement and policy

Green, David A. (Economics)
Examining the implications of policies aimed at increasing labour market flexibility: wages and productivity

Griffin, Michael (Classical Near Eastern and Religious Studies / Philosophy)
Rediscovering and digitizing the philosophy and science of the late Roman empire: translating the philosophy of the Greek commentators

Halevy, Yoram (Economics)
Theoretical and experimental investigation of individual and interdependent preferences

Henrich, Joseph (Psychology)
The psychology of kinship

Laffin, Christina (Asian Studies)
Women’s education in Japan, 1100-1400

O’Brian, John S. (Art History, Visual Art and Theory)
Photography and the nuclear era in North America

Riano-Alcala, Pilar (Social Work)
The workings of memory in contexts of crisis. A repertoire of memory initiatives

Richardson, Alan W. (Philosophy)
Projects in the history of philosophy of science

Russell, Paul (Philosophy)
Hume and the idea of British empiricism

Schaller, Mark (Psychology)
The parental care motivational system and social cognition

Schneider, Thomas (Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies)
Egyptology in the Nazi era. National socialism and the profile of a humanistic discipline, 1933-45

Schrimpf, Paul (Economics)
Completeness, dynamic decision models, and best linear approximations to set identified functions

Song, Kyungchul (Economics)
Optimal estimation for partially identified models

Warren, Mark (Political Science)
Supplementary democracy: democratic innovation in complex societies

Windsor-Liscombe, Rhodri (Art History, Visual Art and Theory)
The aesthetics of automobile culture in reconstruction-era Canada, 1947-1967

Yan, Miu Chung (Social Work)
The possibilities and challenges of a place-based approach to strengthening urban communities: A case study of neighbourhood houses in Vancouver

Yedid-LevI, Yaniv (Economics)
Technological learning and the business cycle

Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences – May 2011 Competition Awards

Riano-Alcalar, Pilar (Social Work)
Living through Violence: Transitional Justice Considers Everyday Memory Practices and Performances of Social Repair

 

 

 

Discovery Grants Program Individual – November 2011 Competition Awards

Christen, Andreas A. (Geography)
Direct measurement of greenhouse gas exchange in urban ecosystems

Hassan, Marwan (Geography)
Particle kinematics and sediment transport processes in mountain streams: the role of sediment supply and flow regimes

Winstanley, Catharine (Psychology)
A novel approach to studying the neurobiology of decision-making: modeling cognitive effort in rats

 

 

 

 

Operating Grants – September 2012 Competition Awards

Makami, Amori (Psychology)Parents as Friendship Coaches for Children with ADHD

Operating Grants – March 2012 Competition Awards

Hoppmann, Christiane (Psychology)
It takes two to tango – on the role of collaborative problem-solving for spousal health dynamics in old age

Tracy, Jessica (Psychology)
Self-conscious emotions and alcoholism

Operating Grants – March 2011 Competition Awards

Christoff, Kalina (Psychology)
Investigating higher mental functions using real-time fMRI

 

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