UBC Faculty of Arts researchers are advancing 58 projects supported through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)’s Insight, Insight Development, and Partnership Development Grant competitions.
The funded projects span a wide range of research areas, including artificial intelligence and digital literacies, climate change and sustainability, cultural histories, Indigenous-led methodologies, labour inequalities, and social change. Explore the Arts recipients and their research projects below.
Insight Grants
Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging scholars and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years.
- Dr. Donna Baines, School of Social Work
Project: Vulnerable Workers, Vulnerable Services and Non-Profits: Working in the Shadow of the New Authoritarianism and Intolerance - Dr. Alan Kingstone, Department of Psychology (co-applicant)
Project led by Dr. Lori Brotto, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Project: Shifting focus: Examining the impact of mindfulness on visual attention and sexual response in women and gender-diverse individuals with and without sexual concerns - Dr. Clayton Childress, Department of Sociology
UBC Collaborator: Dr. Neda Maghbouleh, Department of Sociology
Project: How Shared is Common Culture? Memories and Meanings for Historic Icons - Dr. Jessica Dempsey, Department of Geography
UBC Collaborator: Dr. Rashid Sumaila, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
Project: Beyond the status quo: Political economic barriers to reform and pathways for change in BC’s extractive economy - Dr. Carey Doberstein, Department of Political Science
Project: Arm’s-Length Agencies and the Performance of Accountability in Canada - Dr. Simon Donner, Department of Geography
UBC Co-applicant: Dr. Jiaying Zhao, Department of Psychology
Project: Urban Future Walks: Can guided tours promote support for climate solutions and positive climate engagement in urban environments? - Dr. Mauricio Drelichman, Vancouver School of Economics
Project: Nominal wage rigidity and labour markets in Europe, 1540-1820 - Dr. Claudio Ferraz, Vancouver School of Economics
Project: Accountability, Bureaucratic Capacity, and the Quality of Public Services in Developing Democracies - Dr. Patrick Francois, Vancouver School of Economics
Project: Democratic Backsliding and the Rule of Law: How Ideas Shape Institutional Resilience - Dr. Adam Frank, Department of English Language and Literatures
Project: Countertransference and literary criticism - Dr. Sylvia Fuller, Department of Sociology
UBC Co-applicant: Dr. Elizabeth Hirsh, Department of Sociology
UBC Collaborator: Dr. Jennifer Berdahl, Department of Sociology
Project: The Right to Request Flexibility and Labour Market Inequalities - Dr. Leila Harris, Department of Geography
Project: Reimagining River Governance: Political-ecological and decolonial approaches across three rivers - Dr. Calla Hummel, Department of Political Science
Project: The Global Expansion of Transgender Rights - Dr. Alan Kingstone, Department of Psychology
Project: The Medusa Effect: Visual abstraction and perceptions of mind - Dr. Thomas Lemieux, Vancouver School of Economics
UBC Co-applicants: Dr. Nicole Fortin, Vancouver School of Economics; Dr. Raffaele Saggio, Vancouver School of Economics
Project: Unions in Canada: Going Beyond the Wage Gap - Dr. Siyuan Liu, Department of Theatre and Film
Project: Shanghai-Style Jingju (Beijing Opera) through the Lens of Transnational Theatre History - Dr. Juliet Lu, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs
UBC Co-applicant: Dr. Sarah Gergel, Forest and Conservation Sciences
Project: Seeing Through Sustainable Supply Chains: A Critical Look at the Tools for Tackling the Deforestation-Land Tenure Nexus - Dr. Georgios Makris, Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory
Project: Repopulating Medieval Port Cities: The Maroneia Archaeological Project - Dr. Joshua Mostow, Department of Asian Studies
Project: Anthologizing Other “Hundred Poets”: Variant Collections of “One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each” in Early Modern and Modern Japan - Dr. Jasbir Puar, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
UBC Co-applicant: Dr. Ervin Malakaj, Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
Project: Queer and Trans Solidarities and The Global Struggle Against Fascism - Dr. Christopher Rea, Department of Asian Studies
Project: Chinese Cinema of War and Revolution (1937-1965) - Dr. Alan Richardson, Department of Philosophy
Project: The Oxford Critical Edition of Carnap’s Aufbau and Related Projects - Dr. Dylan Robinson, School of Music
UBC Co-applicant: Ryan Davis, School of Music
Project: s’olh shxwyó: Our Tools for Resurgence: Interdisciplinary Co-stewardship Models for Classical Music Performance - Dr. Toni Schmader, Department of Psychology
UBC Collaborator: Dr. Andrew Baron, Department of Psychology
Project: Does Gender Essentialism Lead to Biased Learning Affordances that Limit Children’s Interests? - Dr. Azim Shariff, Department of Psychology
UBC Collaborators: Gabrielle Ibasco, Department of Psychology; Dr. Nour Abdelfattah
Project: Unjust world theory - Dr. Ori Simchen, Department of Philosophy
Project: Pragmatic Encroachment in Metaphysics - Dr. Lisa Sundstrom, Department of Political Science
Project: Russian Activists Adapting to Repression and War - William Wadsworth, Department of Anthropology
UBC Co-applicant: Dr. Andrew Martindale, Department of Anthropology
Project: Decolonized Principles into Grounded Practice: Developing Indigenous-led Methodologies for Northwest Coast Archaeology - Dr. Katherine Wagner, Vancouver School of Economics
Project: The Efficiency of Resource Extraction - Dr. Crystal Webster, Department of History
Project: Encoded in Love: A Tale of Travel, Medicine, and Black Masculinity in the Nineteenth Century
Insight Development Grants
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.
- Dr. Dominic Alford-Duguid, Department of Philosophy
Project: Thinking Generally about Properties - Dr. Lane Atmore, Department of Anthropology
UBC Co-applicant: Dr. Camilla Speller, Department of Anthropology
Project: The Phantom Fish: Untangling the coevolution of herring and people across the Pacific Rim - Dr. Patrick Baylis, Vancouver School of Economics
Project: Climate Risks, Markets, and Adaptation in Agriculture - Dr. Sophie Borwein, Department of Political Science
Project: The Politics of Prosperity: Growth Narratives and Support for Democracy - Dr. Lisa Coulthard, Department of Theatre and Film
UBC Co-applicants: Dr. Patrick Pennefather, Department of Theatre and Film; Dr. Leigh VanHandel, School of Music
Project: Stingers, Stabs, and Screams: Psychoacoustics, Brain Science, and the Material Sounds of Horror Cinema - Dr. Stephen Dadugblor, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media
Project: In Pursuit of a Unified Nation: Rhetoric, Peace Narratives, and National Identity in Ghana - Dr. Henry Davis, Department of Linguistics
UBC Co-applicants and collaborators: Dr. Molly Babel, Department of Linguistics; Dr. Strang Burton, Department of Linguistics; Dr. Lisa Matthewson, Department of Linguistics; Helen Copeland, Community, Culture and Global Studies, UBC Okanagan
Project: BC Indigenous Languages in Transition: Grammatical Change and Adaptation - Dr. Grant Charles, School of Social Work (co-applicant)
Project led by Dr. Sarah Dow-Fleisner, School of Social Work (UBCO); Dr. Saima Hirani, School of Nursing; Dr. Katrina Plamondon, Health & Social Development, UBCO
Project: Parenting Following Childhood Family Adversity: How Yesterday’s Children Become Today’s Parents - Dr. Michael Griffin, Department of Philosophy and Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
Project: Seeing the Individual: Love, Attention, and Dignity from Neoplatonism to al-Andalus - Dr. Phurwa Gurung, Department of Geography
UBC Co-applicant: Dr. Mark Turin, Department of Anthropology
Project: Documenting Relational and Governance Values of Indigenous Knowledge: the Dolpo Oral Literature Project in the Nepal Himalaya - Dr. Alycia Hall, Department of History
Project: Strategic Ties: Family, Land, and Plantation Connections in Maroon Jamaica - Dr. Alexandra Hoffmann, Department of Asian Studies
Project: Race in the Shahnameh - Dr. Callan Hummel, Department of Political Science
Project: Do Remittances Increase Support for LGBTQ2S Rights? - Dr. Alan Kingstone, Department of Psychology
UBC Co-applicant: Dr. Julia Rubin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Project: The effects of AI tools on motivation in general problem-solving tasks - Dr. Joelle LeMoult, Department of Psychology
UBC Co-applicant: Dr. Daniela Palombo, Department of Psychology
Project: Adolescents’ Autobiographical Memory of Interpersonal Stressors - Dr. Xiaojun Li, Department of Political Science
Project: Can Western Influencers Change How Canadians See China? Creator-Mediated Public Diplomacy in the Digital Age - Dr. Hallie Marshall, Department of Theatre and Film
Project: Desiring Antiquity: The Reciprocity of Classical Reception at the turn of the 19th Century - Dr. Matthew McCarty, Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
Project: Work and Worship in Roman Africa - Dr. Kelly McCormick, Department of History
Project: Photographs on Trial: A New Media History of Crime, Atrocity, and Evidence at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal - Dr. Seok Min Moon, Vancouver School of Economics
Project: Mandatory Carbon Disclosure Impacts on Firms and Workers - Dr. Heather O’Brien, School of Information
UBC Collaborator: Dr. Nilou Davoudi, School of Information
Project: Stop, Block or Scroll: Can Design Friction Support More Intentional TikTok Use - Dr. Patrick Pennefather, Department of Theatre and Film
UBC Collaborator: Dr. Thomas Scholte, Department of Theatre and Film
Project: Equitable Voice Portal: A Participatory Research Creation Framework for Actor-Controlled AI Speech Generation - Dr. Toni (Tanya) Schmader, Department of Psychology
UBC Co-applicants: Dr. Frances Chen, Department of Psychology; Dr. Rosie Shrout, Department of Psychology
Project: Validating a New Behavioural Measure of Willingness to be Emotionally Vulnerable - Dr. Rosie Shrout, Department of Psychology
UBC Co-applicant: Dr. Anita DeLongis, Department of Psychology
Project: Accuracy and bias in partners’ perceptions of stress and stress communication: Implications for dyadic coping - Dr. Nancy Sin, Department of Psychology
UBC Co-applicant: Dr. Benjamin Cheung, Department of Psychology
Project: Positive cultural experiences in everyday life among Chinese Canadian older adults - Dr. Isaac Soon, Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
Project: Dying to be Christian: Suicide and the Desire for Death in Early Christianity - Dr. Shannon Walsh, Department of Theatre and Film
Project: Reimagining Masculinities: Participatory Filmmaking and Youth Futures in Wentworth
Partnership Development Grants
Partnership Development Grants provide support over one to three years for the development of partnered research and related activities in the social sciences and humanities.
- Dr. Colleen Laird, Department of Asian Studies
Project: Videographic Venice: The Video Essay at the Intersection of Place and Practice
