SSHRC Insight Development Grants support early-stage Ryerson research

Researchers from faculties across Ryerson University have secured new Insight Development Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The grants will support 17 early-stage research projects covering a diverse array of disciplines and are worth a total of more than $1 million.

The new projects will investigate topics such as developing a framework to improve economic development planning in Ontario and children’s participation rights and their impact on team work in the operating room. Other projects will explore areas like the economic impacts of climate variability and examining the role of consultation in challenging racism.

“Ryerson faculty members from across the social sciences and humanities are exploring groundbreaking new areas of research, as well as novel methodologies, theoretical frameworks and ideas,” said Steven N. Liss, vice-president, research and innovation at Ryerson.

“These SSHRC Insight Development Grants will provide vital support for this early-stage research, enabling our researchers to extend our understanding of critical societal issues and contribute solutions to strengthen the economy, health and education in Canada. Congratulations to all the recipients and their teams.”

In SSHRC’s latest round of Insight Development Grants (external link, opens in new window) , over $32 million has been awarded to more than 1,045 researchers from 69 Canadian institutions, including the 17 researchers at Ryerson.

Ryerson recipients of SSHRC Insight Development Grants

Faculty of Arts

• Sarah Bull: Book-Making: Text Recycling, Industry, and the Nineteenth-Century Book

• Evan Cleave: Improving Economic Development Planning in Ontario: A Framework for Building Capacity and Ability

• David Day: Picking up the pieces of your life: Successful aging after a life of crime

• Rob Goodman: Black Cicero: Classical Rhetoric in Black Political Thought

• Craig Jennex: Collaborative Movements: Popular Music and Collective Dance in Canadian LGBTQ2+ Activism

• Karl Szpunar: Age-related differences in thinking about the future of society
  

Faculty of Communication and Design

• Shana Almeida: The Promise of Participation: Examining the Role of Consultation in Challenging Racism

• Yukari Seko: Lunchbox shaming: Asian immigrant families’ perspectives on Canadian school food environment

• Ger Zielinski: Buffering Online and Off: On Streaming Platforms, Creators, and the Turn to Embodied Festivality
  

Faculty of Community Services

• Eliza Chandler: Accessing the Arts: Centring disability perspectives in accessibility initiatives

• Sherry Espin: Children’s Rights in the Pediatric Operating Room: Implications for Teamwork

• Johanne Jean-Pierre: A bilingual study of the institutional resources that promote persistence and academic success among first generation graduate students

• Coralee McLaren: Dancing-bodies-moving-spaces: A radical approach to fostering movement in children with diverse physical abilities

• Karline Wilson-Mitchell: The Canadian Midwives of Colour History Project

Ted Rogers School of Management

• Yoontae Jeon: The Economic Impacts of Climate Variability: Evidence from the Weather Derivatives Market

• Kristyn Scott: Clarifying the nature of ambition and understanding it through the lens of others

• Hossein Zolfagharinia: Interdiction Policies for Illicit Drug Supply Chains: Considering Uncertain Outcomes and Networks with Partial Information

Read more about the SSHRC Insight Development Grants (external link, opens in new window) .