Three Thompson Rivers University (TRU) researchers received more than $163,000 through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grants program, announced on Friday, September 13 by the Government of Canada. The program supports research in its initial stages, and funding is provided for short-term research projects of up to two years.
"The awarding of federal grants through the Insight Development Program is a wonderful achievement for our faculty members," said TRU Vice-President Research Dr. Shannon Wagner. "Tri-Council funding is an important recognition of research quality and receiving these grants reflects the continued excellence of TRU researchers."
The Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, minister of National Revenue, on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced an investment of over $502 million in funding nationwide to support over 6,900 of Canada's outstanding scholars, including early-career researchers.
"Better support for the next generation of researchers and more modern science and research infrastructure is key to supporting the secure and thriving economy of tomorrow," said Bibeau. "By supporting researchers at all levels and promoting diversity, we are reinforcing Canada's leadership in tackling challenges and improving quality of life for all."
Projects awarded funding
Dr. Nancy Southin, Management, Information and Supply Chain, Reducing forced labour in Canadian supply chains challenges with implementing Bill S-211. Southin will be investigating the implementation of new Canadian legislation by businesses in Canada. Bill S-211, An Act to enact the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act and to Amend the Customs Tariff, requires firms to report what they are doing to assess, identify and eliminate the incidence of forced or child labour in their supply chains. Southin and TRU's Dr. Stuart Milligan (Management, Information and Supply Chain) will be interviewing managers to learn about the challenges encountered by firms when creating their initial reports and the changes firms need to make to more actively reduce forced and child labour.
Dr. Patrick Brouder, Tourism, Arctification' in Tourism: Perspectives from Canada. In northern Europe, there is evidence of Arctification wherein Arctic discourse is used in northern European tourism promotion and tourism is at the vanguard of this place-making phenomenon. This project will compare recent work in northern Europe with the current situation in Canada. This project allows a number of TRU undergraduate and graduate students to examine Arctification in the Canadian context. By connecting with community partners in northern Canada and academic partners from across the circumpolar north, our student researchers will gain unique insights on northern tourism, and the project team will make policy recommendations for a more sustainable development of tourism in northern Canada.
Dr. Sarah Moritz, Anthropology, Restor(y)ing Salmon Lineages: Relational Ecologies across Salish Worlds in the Pacific Northwest. Moritz will document the life histories and salmon narratives of Coast and Interior Salish fishers, with particular attention to women's stories, generating a multilingual (Salishan and English) living oral history atlas (SOHA: Salish Oral History Atlas) that maps out connections of time and place. Combining ethnographic and Indigenous research methods with archival research and participatory deep mapping, Moritz will examine how these stories function to bolster hereditary and matriarchal governance, Indigenous knowledge systems and intercommunity relationships across saltwater and freshwater bridges.
The Research Support Fund provides a portion of the costs associated with managing the research funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Natural Science and Engineering Council (NSERC), such as salaries for staff who provide administration support, training costs for workplace health and safety, and library maintenance.
