TMU researchers awarded more than $2.7M in SSHRC funding
The Government of Canada has announced new funding to support the research of thirty-one faculty experts from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU).
A variety of innovative projects across disciplines, from migration to climate vulnerability to mental health, will be supported by more than $2.7 million in Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funding through Insight Grants, Insight Development Grants and Knowledge Synthesis Grants.
“I want to congratulate all the TMU recipients,” said Steven N. Liss, vice-president, research and innovation at TMU. “These projects will help transform our understanding of diverse societal issues and move us toward a more equitable and sustainable society for all.”
SSHRC Insight Grants
Eleven emerging and established TMU researchers from six faculties will launch multi-year projects to advance knowledge and understanding across various topics, including migrant experiences, political lobbying, Black archival history in Canada and more.
CERC in Migration and Integration
- Marshia Akbar: Navigating the Identity Spectrum: South Asian Diversity in Canada and Its Impact on Employment Integration
- Jérémie Molho: Highly Skilled Migrants in Global Cities (SKIM): Exploring Complex Pathways, Motivations, and Experiences
Faculty of Arts
- Bryan Evans: Who is Heard?: Business and Public Interest Lobbying in Canada
- Laura Fisher: Girl on the Line: Sex Work, Suffrage, and Life Writing in Circulation, 1911-1930
- Jeta Mulaj: Stable Justice
- Nima Naghibi: Tehranto: Stories of Home and Belonging from Toronto's Iranian Diaspora
Faculty of Community Services
- Eliza Chandler: Access Activations: Advancing Cultural Accessibility
- Beverly-Jean Daniel: Exploring Self-Harm and Suicide Amongst Black Canadian Young People
Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- Helen Stopps: Neighbourhood-Level Climate Vulnerability in Canadian Cities
Ted Rogers School of Management
- Eugene Chan: The Role of Perceived Economic Mobility in Canadians' Acceptance of Genetically-Modified Foods
The Creative School
- Cheryl Thompson: Assessing the Social Capital of Ontario's Archives and the Possibilities for 'Third Places'
SSHRC Insight Development Grants
TMU researchers across seven faculties have secured eighteen Insight Development Grants to support their early-stage, short-term research on various topics, including learning disabilities at work, Black motherhood and visual communication, from insects to AI.
Faculty of Arts
- Craig Jennex: We're Here to Listen: The Golden Age of LGBTQ2+ Phonelines in Canada, 1972-2004
- Emmanuel Kyeremeh: Are Immigrants Distressed? Exploring African Immigrants' Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in the Greater Toronto Area and Stakeholder Collaborations
- Lahoma Thomas: Examining the Contours of State Violence in Democracies
Faculty of Community Services
- Idil Abdillahi: Evolving Landscape of 'Equity Cluster Hiring' in Canadian Higher Education Institutes
- Priscilla Boakye: Exploring Black Mothers Transition to Motherhood in the First-year Following Childbirth
- Barbara Chyzzy: Hidden Homelessness Among Pregnant Women and Gender Diverse People in Ontario
Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- Julia Jamrozik: Narratives of Collectivity: Social Infrastructures and Adaptive Reuse
- Dustin Valen: Mosquito Wars: Tropical Fears, Environmental Technics, and the American Home
Faculty of Science
- Krystal Nunes: Fostering Resilient Students: Developing Evidence-based Interventions to Combat Fear of Failure and Support Equitable Help-seeking in Undergraduate Science Courses
Lincoln Alexander School of Law
- Edward Bechard-Torres: The Emerging Dignity and Equality-Promoting Models of Corporate Governance in the Global South
Ted Rogers School of Management
- Joseph Aversa: Understanding Community Vitality through Smartphone Data
- Kiana Basiri: Housing Market Reactions to Quantitative Easing during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Andre Laplume: Migrant Entrepreneur Responses to Institutional Complexity
- Kristyn Scott: Challenging Stigma and Building Inclusion: Understanding Learning Disabilities at Work
- Dongning Yu: Smart City and Firm Value
The Creative School
- Lisa Cox: Breaking Boundaries in Ballet: Reimagining Narratives for Queer and IBPOC Voices
- Greg Elmer: Contesting the Ticker: The Birth of Modern Finance News
- Carolyn Kane: Chromatic Ecologies Beyond the Anthropocene: Visual Communication from the Insect to AI
SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants
Two TMU researchers secured SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants to examine the fusion of culture and digital technologies under the theme Evolving Narratives of Cultures and Histories.
The Creative School
- Cheryl Thompson: Cross-disciplinary Analysis Towards Devising a Methodology for Digital Black Archival Collections
CERC in Migration and Integration
- Masoud Kianpour: Understanding Cultural and Identity Narratives in the Age of Advanced Digital Technologies
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Twenty TMU researchers receive SSHRC funding for research development and knowledge mobilization. (2024)