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Dec. 4, 2015

2015 Insight Grants to 91做厙輦⑹ researchers

WSE scholars receive research funding

December 7, 2015 - The SSHRC Insight program supports research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. The funding is geared to both long-term research, as well as for early stage research.

The 2015 round of Insight grants marks the highest number received by 91做厙輦⑹ researchers since the program was launched in 2011. The maximum value of an Insight grant is $500,000 over three to five years. 

Faculty of Arts:

  • Shelley Alexander ($111,254.00):Human-Coyote Relationships in the Foothills Parkland Region of Alberta. Department of Geography
  • Bart Beaty ($280,879.00): What Were Comics?: Understanding Typicality in the Cultural Industries.
  • Susan Bennett ($103,382.00): Brand Performance and the Mega-Event Experience. Department of English
  • Christian Bok ($97,564.00): Conceptual Literature: Writing at the Limits of Writing. Department of English
  • George Colpitts ($87,385.00): Treaty Trade: Cash and the Monetization of Aboriginal-Newcomer Relations in Canada 1874-1925. Department of History.
  • Hendrik Kraay ($114,937.00): From Entrudo to Carnaval in Brazil. Department of History.
  • Sheri Madigan ($128,715.00): Person and Environment Influences in the Development of Prosociality in Young Children. Department of Psychology.
  • Maribeth Murray ($245,332.00): Northern Seas: An Interdisciplinary Study of Human/Marine and Climate System Interactions in Arctic North America over the Last Millennium. Department of Archeology.
  • Alan Smart ($94,828.00): Formalizing Hong Kong: Explaining governmental strategies to formalize urban informality. Department of Anthropology.
  • Charles Tepperman ($88,840.00): Mapping an Alternative Film History: A Database of Significant Amateur Films (1928-1971). Department of Communication and Culture
  • Melanee Thomas ($213,546.00): Psychological Orientations to Politics, Gendered Stereotype Threat, and Democratic Citizenship. Department of Political Science.
  • Trevor Tombe ($90,922.00): The Gains from Trade and Labour Mobility. Department of Economics.
  • Aritha Van Herk ($132,840.00): A Creative Biography of Canadian Writer Robert Kroetsch. Department of English.

Faculty of Social Work:

  • Betty Bastien ($247,861.00): Atsimapi: Cultural Competencies for Restoring Good Relations in First Nation Communities.

Haskayne School of Business:

  • David Alexander ($99,500.00): Financial Decision-Making, Monetary Policy, and Asset Prices Under Incomplete Information.
  • Susan Graham ($273,997.00): Communicative Development During the Preschool Years. Department of Psychology

Werklund School of Education:

  • Yan Guo ($90,025.00): Examining EAL Policies and Practices in Alberta and Community Advocacy. Division of Teacher Preparation.

Faculty of Environmental Design:

  • Jason Johnson ($443,500.00): Constructing Digital Futures: Community Based Innovation.

Cumming School of Medicine:

  • Bonnie Lashewicz ($293,018.00): More Than Meets the Eye: Illuminating and Expanding the Impacts of Relational Autonomy for Adults with Developmental Disabilities. Community Health Sciences.

2015 Insight Development Grants to 91做厙輦⑹ researchers

Faculty of Arts:

  • Stefan Staubli Muehlenbachs ($30,215.00): How Does Raising Women''s Full Retirement Age Affect Labor Supply, Income, and Mortality? Department of Economics.
  • Candace Konnert ($34,039.00): Planning for Future Dependency: A Mixed Methods Study. Department of Psychology.
  • Charles Tepperman ($34,098.00): Film Production Culture in Canada: Case Study of a Creative Producer. Department of Communication and Culture.
  • Kunio Tsuyuhara ($51,180.00): A New Approach to International Trade and Labour Market Research. Department of Economics.
  • Bart Beaty ($65,272.00): Understanding Charlie Hebdo in its Cultural Contexts. Department of English.
  • Joanna Redden ($71,500.00): Big Data and Social Governance: Investigating the United States and the United Kingdom. Department of Communications and Culture.
  • Sheri Madigan ($73,600.00): An Individual Participant Data Review on the Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment. Department of Psychology.
  • Dean Curran ($74,308.00): Who are the "Risk Takers"? Department of Sociology.
  • Michael Adorjan ($67,428.00): Cyber-Risk,Youth and Community: Digital Citizenship in Canada. Department of Sociology.

Werklund School of Education

  • Miwa Takeuchi ($41,204.00): Interaction and Collaboration for Mathematics Learning in Diverse Canadian Classrooms.
  • Gregory Lowan ($48,337.00): From Reticence to Resistance: Exploring Educators Engagement with Indigenous Environmental Activism.

Haskayne School of Business

  • Mohammad Keyhani ($49,410.00): The Performance and Exit Tradeoffs of Startups.

Cumming School of Medicine:

  • Gerald Giesbrecht ($70,870.00): Parenting in the Dark: Does the Cry-it-Out Sleep Training Method Harm Attachment or Promote Self-Regulation? Department of Pediatrics.