University of Waterloo researchers have been awarded more than $3.3 million to support research infrastructure and solutions to societal challenges through Canada Foundation for Innovation and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The announcement was shared by the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of National Revenue at the Université de Sherbrooke, on behalf of the Honourable François Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry and the Honourable Mark Holland, Minister of Health.
"I would like to congratulate the more than 35 University of Waterloo researchers who are receiving funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Canada Foundation for Innovation," says Charmaine Dean, vice-president, Research and International at the University of Waterloo. "This funding is a significant element of driving university research by supporting infrastructure along with the development of new knowledge in significant areas, including developing a personalizable robotic system for enhancing children's emotion knowledge, the political power of public sector votes, and scalable biomanufacturing for a net-zero economy."
The funding will support Waterloo researchers in transforming societies, economies, technologies, sustainability and health for humanity to thrive in our complex future.
Numerous Waterloo researchers received funding under the following grants and programs:
- Insight Grant
- Insight Development Grant
- John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Learn more about the recipients and their projects below.
Insight grant
Dr. Janet Boekhorst | Faculty of Engineering
$162,628
The inclusion warriors: An event system perspective of high performers in fostering workgroup inclusion
Dr. Philip Boyle | Faculty of Arts
$135,429
Infrastructures of vulnerability: Governing critical systems
Dr. Dillion Browne | Faculty of Arts
$92,323
"We Belong": Exploring patterns and predictors of belonging and well-being with the Youth Impact Survey
Dr. Stephanie Denison | Faculty of Arts
$272,393
Children's reasoning about variable social and physical causes
Dr. Fraser Easton | Faculty of Arts
$187,417
Cross-dressing in the news: Social practice and generic constraint in the Times, 1785-1884
Dr. Dan Gorman | Faculty of Arts
$60,466
Freedom of Expression and PEN International, 1921-1970
Dr. Jean Guillaume Forand | Faculty of Arts<
$47,203
The political power of public sector voters
Dr. Shavin Malhotra | Faculty of Engineering<
$173,831
CEO dyads: Unveiling personality dynamics in joint corporate strategies
Dr. Derek Stacey | Faculty of Arts
$64,958
Frictional and speculative vacancies: The effects of an empty homes tax
Insight development grant
Dr. Laura Jane Brubacher | Faculty of Health
$73,895
Identifying entry points for social prescribing to support temporary and/or precarious-status (TAPS) migrants
Dr. Victor Cui | Faculty of Engineering
$64,113
Geopolitical tension and inventor mobility
Dr. Kim de Laat | Faculty of Arts
$66,190
Hybrid work arrangements and cognitive labour: Implications for gender inequality at work and home
Dr. Felicitas Egunyu | Faculty of Environment
$52,561
Can non-government organizations mitigate the social impacts of mining in Uganda?
Learn more on the Faculty of Environment website.
Dr. Amr ElAlfy | Faculty of Environment
$62,347
Sustainability disclosure and net zero targets: Investigating the readiness of Canadian firms and implications for financial stability
Learn more on the Faculty of Environment website.
Dr. Adam Ellis | Faculty of Arts
$70,500
Challenging mainstream narratives about the Canadian war on drugs through the urban arts: Stories of survivors
Dr. Moojan Ghafurian | Faculty of Engineering
$75,000
Developing a personalizable robotic system for enhancing children's emotion knowledge
Dr. Nicolas Hebbinckuys | Faculty of Arts
$47,079
Examiner la fabrique "d'une" Histoire de la Nouvelle-France: Le cas Marc Lescarbot
Dr. Daniel Kim | Faculty of Arts
$69,477
Carbon emission and firms: estimates from a dynamic model
Dr. James Kim | St. Jerome's University/Faculty of Arts
$54,926
Modern man-ifestations: An interdisciplinary mixed-methods investigation of misogyny and gender-based violence
Dr. Juyeon Lee | Faculty of Health
$74,444
Working behind the closed doors: Examining policy and research needs for digital platform workers in the private households sector
Dr. Laura Mae Lindo | Faculty of Arts
$53,740
Philosophy as resistance: Imagining black youth engagement in philosophy
Dr. Shana MacDonald | Faculty of Arts
$74,232
Exploring the visual culture of misogyny across material and digital archives
Dr. Kaleigh Pennock | Faculty of Health
$69,122
A community-based approach to concussion reporting in youth girls' sport
Dr. Helena Shilomboleni | Faculty of Environment
$72,600
Assessing the impact of the stress tolerant rice for Africa and South Asia (Strasa) project in Kenya.
Learn more on the Faculty of Environment website.
Dr. Galen Watts | Faculty of Arts
$73,239
Scripts, boundaries, and repertoires across Canada's diploma divide: A cultural-sociological study of rural working-class Canadians
Dr. Heather Whiteside | Faculty of Arts
$30,413
Canada Lands Company
Dr. Kaishu Wu | Faculty of Arts
$47,796
Cryptocurrency and tax avoidance
John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
Dr. Annemarie Dedek | Faculty of Science
$100,000
Translational approaches to studying chronic pain
Learn more on the Faculty of Science website.
Dr. Christian Euler | Faculty of Engineering
$84,721
Scalable biomanufacturing for a net-zero economy
Dr. Moojan Ghafurian | Faculty of Engineering
$95,000
Social robots for supporting older adults and children
Dr. Sheereen Harris | Faculty of Health
$100,000
Integrating behavioural science and digital health approaches to predict and promote physical activity
Dr. Neil Hester | Faculty of Arts
$22,000
Creation and validation of the Waterloo dress database to support impression formation research
Dr. Yilan Liu | Faculty of Engineering
$80,000
Developing synthetic symbiotic bacterial consortia for mixed plastic upcycling
Dr. Alana Lund | Faculty of Engineering
$110,000
Uncertainty-aware structural identification testbed for bridge infrastructure
Dr. Abiola Olaitan | Faculty of Science
$150,000
Developing a high-throughput genome-wide screening system to study stress defense mechanisms in clostridioides difficile
Learn more on the Faculty of Science website.
Dr. Elisabeth Prince | Faculty of Engineering
$92,689
Injectable filamentous hydrogels for regenerative medicine
Dr. Joshua Pulsipher | Faculty of Engineering
$80,000
CPU-GPU accelerated optimal process design and control to rigorously model space-time
Dr. Pezhouhan Tavassoti-Kheiry | Faculty of Engineering
$105,000
Developing next generation of green pavement technologies
The Insight Grant and Insight Development Grant projects are supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) projects are supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
