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