Congratulations to our professors who have received SSHRC funding

Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Congratulations to our professors who have received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funding!

Insight Development Grants 2018-2019:

  • Abel Brodeur, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics
    Project: The Economic Causes and Consequences of Terrorism
  • Stephen Brown, Full Professor at the School of Political Studies
    Project: Foreign Aid and LGBTI Rights in the Global South: International and Local Dynamics
  • Christine Bruckert, Full Professor at the Department of Criminology
    Project: Workplace Violence and Elementary School Educators in Ontario
  • Benjamin Ferland, Assistant Professor at the School of Political Studies
    Project: The Responsiveness of Canadian Elected Representatives to Their Constituents: A Field Experiment
  • Christopher Huggins, Assistant Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies
    Project: Collaborative Governance and Dispute Resolution in the Mining Sector in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
  • Larisa Kurtović, Assistant Professor at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies
    Project: Watersheds: Postsocialist Infrastructure and the Politics of Water Supply in Postwar Bosnia Herzegovina
  • Adam Lavecchia, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics
    Project: Optimal Minimum Wage Policy: Theory and Evidence
  • Sandra Lehalle, Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminology
    Project: Dans l'ombre des prisons et pénitenciers canadiens: les proches de détenus et l'expérience carcérale élargie
  • Melissa Marschke, Associate Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies
    Project: Work in Fisheries: Explaining Unacceptable Labour Conditions in an Exceptional Sector
  • Erin Maloney, Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology
    Project: Impact of Parents' Math Attitudes and Homework Helping on Children's Success in Mathematics
  • David Moffette, Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminology
    Project: Marginalized Communities in Ottawa: Experiences with the Police
  • Meg Stalcup, Assistant Professor at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies
    Project: Viral Conspiracies: An Anthropology of Rumour, Media, and Emerging Infectious Diseases in Brazil
  • Christine Straehle, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
    Project: Asylum, Refuge and Justice an Ethics and Political Philosophy of Refuge
  • Myra Yazbek, Associate Professor at the Department of Economics
    Project: Measurement of Socio Economic Inequalities in Non-Income Dimension of Wellbeing

14 funded - 70% success rate 

This year, the University of Ottawa was granted funding for 28 out of the 43 different projects that were submitted which represents a success rate of 65% for a total of $1.569 M over two years. It should be noted that the national success rate is 59% for the Insight Development Grants. This year the SSHRC increased its overall funding for the competition, going from $21 M last year to $39 M this year.

Total of $751.124 over two years

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