SSHRC Connection Grants to support six TMU-led initiatives

Six Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) researchers have received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada's (SSHRC) Connection Grant program to support knowledge mobilization initiatives. 

These Connection Grants will support a diverse range of events and project focuses, from Indigenous fashion design to emerging technologies in the workplace, that aim to fill knowledge gaps within the social sciences. The projects are led by faculty members from the Creative School, Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM), the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Community Services. 

“Congratulations to all of the TMU Connection Grant recipients,” said Steven N. Liss, TMU’s vice-president, research and innovation. “This funding will help facilitate important conversations, building connections between researchers and communities on topics ranging from online safety for children to increasing accessibility to Indigenous resources to new technologies at work, benefiting Canadians through these initiatives.”

SSHRC Connection Grant recipients

Faculty of Arts 

• Karl Szpunar: The Future of Future Thinking: Toward an Integrated Science of Prospective Cognition

Faculty of Community Services 

• Nicole Land: Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory Zine Conversation Series
• Jennifer Martin: Child Sex Trafficking and Online Child Sexual Exploitation: The Way Forward - A Shared Responsibility

Ted Rogers School of Management 

• Wendy Cukier: TechCentred: Canada's Workplace with New Technologies

The Creative School 

• Michael Doxtater: Global Indigenous Summit (GIS) provides cyber-access to online resources of Indigenous perspective on current relationships to land, history, culture, language, arts, in North America
• Riley Kucheran: Fashioning Resurgence 2024 Panel Series

Learn more about SSHRC’s Connection Grants. (external link, opens in new window)