University of Alberta researchers will seek new insights into culture and language, education, artificial intelligence, climate adaptation and more, thanks to new funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
In all, 29 U of A researchers are receiving more than $2.1 million through SSHRC's Partnership Engage and Insight Development grant programs.
"These newly funded projects reflect a deep commitment to addressing pressing societal matters and building safer, stronger communities," says Dr. Aminah Robinson Fayek, vice-president of research. "The success of our researchers from 10 faculties in these SSHRC competitions is also a reflection of the high-calibre research in social sciences and humanities happening across our university. We look forward to seeing the impact of this work and remain committed to empowering our researchers as they continue to drive social and cultural change."
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants provide up to $50,000 to support one-year research projects involving a post-secondary institution, and a public, private or not-for-profit organization.
Insight Development Grants provide up to $100,000 to support early-stage projects for up to two years, enabling researchers to develop new methods, theoretical approaches and ideas.
Partnership Engage Grant recipient
Paulina Johnson (Faculty of Arts)
Mîhskocîyâyâwin (Changes in Life Spirit): Nîpisîhkopâhk views of climate change in Nipiy (water) and Maskihkiy (traditional medicines)
$49,350
Insight Development Grant recipients
Adelina Barbalau (Alberta School of Business)
Beyond charity: The economic case for financing climate adaptation, and how to design it
$63,764
John Enman-Beech (Faculty of Law)
Foundations of equity in Canada
$34,560
Tahereh Firoozi (Faculty of Education/Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry)
Do AI corrections improve the quality of multiple-choice questions? Perceptions of university instructors
$65,188
Caylee Hong (Faculty of Law)
Frontline municipalities: Decommissioning oil wells in Alberta's cities, towns and villages
$89,633
Samantha Louie-Poon (Faculty of Nursing)
Networks of connection: Tracing the invisible infrastructures of connectedness in Chinatown
$94,215
Sylvia Ijeoma Madueke (College of Social Sciences and Humanities)
Documenting Black Canadian literature in translation: Visibility, knowledge access and community
$72,177
Paul Messinger (Alberta School of Business)
Beyond what brands say: The role of reply strategy in public brand-consumer conversations
$65,016
Sidarth Moktan (Alberta School of Business)
Housing returns and household wealth over the life cycle
$75,563
Sarah Moore (Alberta School of Business)
Something old or something new? Measuring and understanding reconsumption behaviour
$50,433
Gillian Robinson (Campus Saint-Jean)
Investigating the governing power of "age-appropriateness" in Alberta's shifting educational landscape
$91,236
Bryan Spencer (Alberta School of Business)
Interpreting wildfire intelligence: An ethnographic study of predictive analytics and environmental ambiguity
$71,090
Xiaoyun Wang (Faculty of Arts)
An eye on help: Developing interactional competence in offering help in Mandarin as a second language
$66,149
Yanhao Wang (Alberta School of Business)
Agreeing to disagree: Political partisanship and team performance
$61,086
Jiatong Zhong (Faculty of Arts)
Do family policies affect firms? Evidence from two recent Canadian reforms
$37,144
Olubukola Alimi (Faculty of Engineering)
Negotiating toxic beauty: Digital narratives and Black immigrant lived experiences
$85,120
Gaang Lee (Faculty of Engineering)
Understanding psychological injury hazards in sociodynamic systems via stress-and sociometric-aware wearables and temporal graph neural networks
$99,700
Youran Lin (Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine)
English second-language learners' speech sound production: toward a causal model of multidimensional individual difference factors
$77,717
Jerine Pegg (Faculty of Education)
LIT-Sci: Literacy-integrated digital texts to support science reading and reasoning
$93,236
Blair Attard-Frost (Faculty of Arts)
Advancing artificial intelligence governance systems for communities
$67,818
Elmond Bandauko (Faculty of Science)
Contested rationalities of spatial formalization of street trading in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe ("CONTESPACE")
$100,000
Claire Benny (School of Public Health)
Understanding youth and parental attitudes toward road safety and driving in Alberta
$98,026
Wendy Hoglund (Faculty of Arts)
Individualized learning supports for reading and writing: Variation and resiliency among children at risk for learning difficulties
$93,947
Zahra Kasamali (Faculty of Education)
Language as living pedagogy: A two-Nation pilot of Indigenous research governance at the Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (ATEP)
$100,000
Tamara Pearl (Faculty of Law)
Urban Indigenous identity and legal culture in Edmonton and Saskatoon
$79,645
Ke Wang (Alberta School of Business)
Power of the crowd: Freedom of speech and government stewardship
$64,667
Longzhou Wang (Alberta School of Business)
Transport infrastructure and economic transformation: How connectivity shapes technology diffusion, resource reallocation, and productivity
$45,874
Yang Yi (Alberta School of Business)
Municipalities' financial constraints and the redistribution of pollution
$75,354
Yao Zheng (Faculty of Arts)
Parental cultural socialization in the preservation of culture, tradition and ethnic-racial identity among Asian Canadian communities
$98,931
