Clearly one particular respondent the superfan is overrepresented. what does this situation describe

O'Reilly, Andrea | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York University)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York University)

O'Reilly, Andrea | Funded | Specific Research Grant(Non Leave) (York University)

Funders:
Specific Research Grant(Non Leave) (York University)

O'Reilly, Andrea | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York University)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York University)

O'Reilly, Andrea | Funded | Specific Research Grant(Non Leave) (York University)

Funders:
Specific Research Grant(Non Leave) (York University)

O'Reilly, Andrea | Funded | Aid to Research Workshop (York University)

Funders:
Aid to Research Workshop (York University)

, | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

, | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

Richardson, Julia | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund

Richardson, Julia | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund

Richardson, Julia | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

Richardson, Julia | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

, | Staunton Farm Foundation

Driver, Susan | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Bird, Kym | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York University)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York University)

Bird, Kym | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York University)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York University)

Bird, Kym | Funded | Specific Research Grant(Non Leave) (York University)

Funders:
Specific Research Grant(Non Leave) (York University)

Bird, Kym | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

Bird, Kym | Funded | Specific Research Grant (Non Leave) (York University)

Funders:
Specific Research Grant (Non Leave) (York University)

Bird, Kym | Funded | Specific Research Grant(Non Leave)

Funders:
Specific Research Grant(Non Leave)

Start Date:
Jul/2015
End Date:
Jul/2018

, | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund

, | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

Li, Lee | Funded | ATK Fellowship

Funders:
ATK Fellowship

, | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

, | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

, | Funded | Minor Research

Funders:
Minor Research

Higgins, Lesley J |

In collaboration with my colleague, Marie-Christine Leps, I am developing a book-length study, of Foucault, Woolf, and Ondaatje.

Lim, William | Funded | Junior Faculty fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty fund

Cysneiros, Luiz Marcio | Funded | ATK Fellowship (York Internal Grant)

Funders:
ATK Fellowship (York Internal Grant)

, | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund

, | Funded | ATK Fellowship

Funders:
ATK Fellowship

Erechtchoukova, Marina | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant)

, | Funded | AtK Fellowship

Funders:
AtK Fellowship

Erechtchoukova, Marina | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York Internal Grant)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York Internal Grant)

Erechtchoukova, Marina | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York Internal Grant)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York Internal Grant)

Domian, Dale | Funded | ATK Fellowship

Funders:
ATK Fellowship

Doorey, David J. | Funded | Junior Faculty fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty fund

Doorey, David J. | Funded | Junior Faculty fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty fund

Doorey, David J. | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

, |

Role: Principal Investigator

, | Funded | Specific Research Grant, (York Internal Grant) York University

Funders:
Specific Research Grant

Jacobs, Merle A | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

Jacobs, Merle A | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund

, | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York University)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York University)

, | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York University)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York University)

Neill, Deborah | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York University)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York University)

, | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York University)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York University)

, | Funded | Specific Research Grant (York University)

Funders:
Specific Research Grant (York University)

, | Funded | Specific Research Grant

Funders:
Specific Research Grant

McNab, David | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

McNab, David | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

Moghissi, Haideh | Funded | Specific Research Grant (Non Leave) (York University)

Funders:
Specific Research Grant (Non Leave) (York University)

Yu, Xiaohui | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York University)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York University)

Moghissi, Haideh | Funded | Specific Research Grant (Non Leave) (York University)

Funders:
Specific Research Grant (Non Leave) (York University)

Yu, Xiaohui | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York University)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York University)

Yu, Xiaohui | Funded | ATK Fellowship (York University)

Funders:
ATK Fellowship (York University)

Reiter, Ester | Funded | ATK Fellowship (York University)

Funders:
ATK Fellowship (York University)

Li, Xiaofei | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund

Van Esterik, Penelope |

Community Based Natural Resource Management: Research Capacity Development and Promotion at the NUOL, funded by IDRC. With Peter Vandergeest. Phase 1 completed December, 2002; phase 3 in proposal form.

Li, Xiaofei | Funded | Minor Research Fund

Funders:
Minor Research Fund

Li, Xiaofei | Funded | Minor Research Fund

Funders:
Minor Research Fund

Tegelberg, Matthew |

Funders:
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Grant for International Collaborations, York University

, |

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant), York University

Tegelberg, Matthew |

Funders:
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Minor Research Grant, York University

, |

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant), York University

, |

Funders:
ATK Fellowship (York Internal Grant), York University

Vanstone, Gail | Funded | Workshop/Conference (SSHRC)

Funders:
Workshop/Conference (SSHRC)

Vanstone, Gail | Funded | Standard Research (SSHRC)

Funders:
Standard Research (SSHRC)

Vanstone, Gail | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Vanstone, Gail | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Benslimane, Younes | Funded | Standard Research (SSHRC)

Funders:
Standard Research (SSHRC)

Benslimane, Younes | Funded | ATK Fellowship (York Internal Grant)

Funders:
ATK Fellowship (York Internal Grant)

Georgopoulos, George |

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant), York University

Kernerman, Gerald | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Kernerman, Gerald | Funded | ATK Fellowship (York University)

Funders:
ATK Fellowship (York University)

Kernerman, Gerald | Funded | Atkinson Research Incentive Grant

Funders:
Atkinson Research Incentive Grant
Atkinson Faculty, York University

Crosby, Alison D | Funded | International Development Research Centre

Collaborator: Dr. Malathi de Alwis
Collaborator Institution: Imperial Institute of Higher Education
Collaborator Role: co-Principal Investigator

Funders:
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Tahani, Nabil | Junior Faculty Fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund

Tahani, Nabil | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund

Tahani, Nabil | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

Ophir, Ron | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund

Ophir, Ron | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund

Ophir, Ron | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

, | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

Ophir, Ron | Funded | ATK Fellowship

Funders:
ATK Fellowship

, | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

Ng, Peggy | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

, | SSHRC

Funders:
SSHRC

Ng, Peggy | Funded | Specific Research Grant - Leave

Funders:
Specific Research Grant - Leave

Ng, Peggy | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

Ng, Peggy | ATK Fellowship

Funders:
ATK Fellowship

Ng, Peggy | Funded | ATK Fellowship

Funders:
ATK Fellowship

Khaiter, Peter | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Khaiter, Peter | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Simeon , James | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

Khaiter, Peter | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York University)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York University)

Simeon , James | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund

Khaiter, Peter | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Zikic, Jelena | Funded | Minor Research Grant

Funders:
Minor Research Grant

Huang, Jimmy | Funded | Ministry of Research and Innovation

Funders:
Ministry of Research and Innovation

Huang, Jimmy | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant)

Huang, Jimmy | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York Internal Grant)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York Internal Grant)

Huang, Jimmy | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant)

Huang, Jimmy | Funded | Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant)

Funders:
Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant)

Huang, Jimmy | Funded | ATK Fellowship

Funders:
ATK Fellowship

Huang, Jimmy | Funded | ATK Fellowship

Funders:
ATK Fellowship

Newman, Ruby | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund (York University)

Rossiter, Amy | Funded | ATK Fellowship (York Internal Grant), York University

Funders:
ATK Fellowship (York Internal Grant), York University

Judge, Joan | Funded | SSHRC

"A New Approach to the Popular Press in China: Gender and Cultural Production, 1904-1937""

The primary objective of the project is to restore complexity to early-twentieth-century Chinese history by liberating that history from its own reductive discourses on the failings of tradition and the promise of modernity. The database has been created to facilitate research on the project's instrument and object of investigation: the commercial periodical press, a new medium that dominated the contemporary print market and became one of the prime sites for the dissemination of knowledge and the production of culture in early twentieth century China. In particular, our focus is on four seminal women's or gendered journals-a key genre of the new media-published between 1904 and 1937. They include Nüzi shijie (Women's World, 1904-07), Funü shibao (The Women's Eastern Times, 1911-17), Funü zazhi (The Ladies' Journal, 1915-31), and Linglong (Elegance, 1931-37).

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Barbara Mittler
Collaborator Institution: Heidelberg University

Kroker, Kenton |

"Dreaming and Interdisciplinarity: Negotiating Difference in the International Association for the Study of Dreams" (Ryan Staples, lead author - in progress)

A reconstruction of the formation and structure of the IASD, with an emphasis on the challenges constructing and maintaining expertise in an interdisciplinary approach to the (notoriously) idiosyncratic experience of dreaming.

Judge, Joan | Funded | Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Heidelberg University

"Early Chinese Periodicals Online"

This project is an expansion of "A New Approach to the Popular Press in China." Building on the database constructed for that project, it will include up to 100 periodicals of various genres including entertainment journals and literary journals.

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Barbara Mittler
Collaborator Institution: Heidelberg University

Zhang, Tracy Ying |

"Fiddling with the Arts"

(2001) "Fiddling with the Arts". I wrote, directed, shot and edited this video with the support from the Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was screened at the CFAT scholarship award evening.

Higgins, Lesley J |

"Hopkins's Macabre Imagination"

My current Hopkins project concerns “Hopkins’s macabre imagination.”

Judge, Joan | Funded | SSHRC

"Quotidian Concerns: Everyday Knowledge and the Rise of the Common Reader in China, 1860-1940"

This project examines the processes of knowledge production and circulation that shaped modern China. The crucial eight decades it investigates encompassed China's protracted transition from Imperial to Republican rule, and from insular dynasty to global nation. They also witnessed an explosion of print arguably comparable in its social impact to the current Internet age. This project, an international collaborative effort that includes researchers in Europe, East Asia, and North America, is the first to devise methods for studying this burgeoning world of print that will allow us to penetrate the level of everyday knowledge, access the habits of mind that underpinned these historic and global shifts, and relate the lessons of China's early information age to today.

Role: Principal investigator

Zhang, Tracy Ying |

"Return"

(2000) "Return". I wrote, directed, shot, and edited this film with the support from the Atlantic Filmmakers’ Cooperative, Halifax, Nova Scotia. This short was screened at the AFCOO’s one-minute film award evening.

Orr, Deborah |

"Students' Voices for a Sustainable Future"

This anthology will be comprised of the writings of graduate and recent graduate students on Contemplative education with a focus on mindfulness as it relates to developing a sustainable future. Note that the book title has been changed to more accurately reflect its focus.

Zhang, Tracy Ying |

"Talking to You with Mouth Full"

(2006) "Talking to You with Mouth Full". Co-produced with Shanti Macfronton, Cassandra Savage, Benjamin Woo. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia. I participated in planning the documentary, shooting, and editing.

Zhang, Tracy Ying |

"The Flip Side: A Global Circus Story"

(2018) "The Flip Side: A Global Circus Story". I co-produced this film with Val Wang and participated in the planning and shooting. Winner of “Best Short Documentary” at the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival. Facebook @thefilpsidedoc

Film Festival Screenings
· The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival 2018, New York City, USA
· Asian American International Film Festival 2018, New York City, USA
· Boston Asian American Film Festival 2018, Boston, USA
· DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival 2018, Washington, DC, USA
· DisOrient Asian American Film Festival 2018, Oregon, USA
· Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2018, Seattle, USA
· Thunder Bay Vox Popular Media Arts Festival 2018, Thunder Bay, Canada

Conference and University Screenings
· Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Queens University, Kingston, ON, Canada (2018)
· Circus and Its Others, CIRQUEON – Centre for Contemporary Circus, Prague, Czech Republic
(2018)
· Circus Histories and Theories, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the
Witwatersrand, South Africa (2018)
· The Global Circus, Social Science Festival, Vanier College, Montreal, Canada (2018)
· Bentley University International Film Series (Fall 2018)
· Tufts University Asian American Studies Series “Expression Across Boundaries: Asian American Women and the Multimedia” (2019)

Neill, Deborah | Funded | SSHRC Insight Development Grant

"The Good Capitalists": John Holt & Co. in Western Africa, 1862-1914

This project explores the business of John Holt & Co., a merchant house who had plantations, factories, shipping facilities and retail stores across a diverse range of British, German, French and Spanish colonies in west-central Africa by the early 20th century. I examine its transnational business practices, its exploitation of workers and natural resources, and how it achieved success - often by using European military and political power to gain advantages over its rivals. I also look at the experiences of Africans who worked for or partnered with the company, showing how they faced significant racial discrimination in the company's culture but showed innovation and entrepreneurship in utilizing business opportunities to forge networks and partnerships of their own. In looking at Holt I more broadly examine the development of exploitative practices by western companies in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Start Date:
Apr/2014
End Date:
Apr/2018

Zhang, Tracy Ying |

"Women in Film Education: Participatory Photography at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema"

(2019) "Women in Film Education: Participatory Photography at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema". I produced and curated this digital exhibition in collaboration with ten women students from the film production program. //www.concordia.ca/finearts/cinema/research/women-in-film-education.html

Cumming, Peter E. | Funded | SSHRC . SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

"Youth and Community Development in Canada and Jamaica: A Transnational Approach to Youth Violence" ("Project Groundings")

Principal Investigator - Andrea Davis

Dauphinee, Elizabeth |

'Critical Methodologies, Narrative Voice, and the Writing of the Political: The Limits of Language'

2012-2013. Principal Investigator: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Connection
Grant for the project entitled ‘Critical Methodologies, Narrative Voice, and the Writing of the Political:
The Limits of Language'.

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

, | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research, Canada (SSHRC)

'Scarce Women' and 'Surplus Men'

An examination of the social transformation underway in response to female deficit and surplus men in China, India and Vietnam. The India study focuses on the states of Punjab and Tamil Nadu.

Role: Co-applicant

Collaborator: Dr. Daniele Belanger
Collaborator Institution: University of Western Ontario
Collaborator Role: Principal Investigator

Chatterjee, Soma | Funded | Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Minor Research Grant, York University

'Talented' citizens?: study-migration policies in traditional immigration and higher education destinations

This is the preliminary phase of a larger project on high skilled labour migration (including postsecondary international student migration), and the shifting nature of national membership in our world dominated by knowledge economic discourses. In this phase a comparative review of various study-migration policies of Canada, Australia, USA, UK and Germany, all introduced in response to the global race for professional talent, will be conducted. This review will build the foundation for the second phase of the study where I plan to explore postsecondary international students’ experience of navigating and making sense of the increasing entanglement between higher education and immigration policies of the aforementioned states, which construct them as 'knowledge diplomats' and 'ideal immigrants' but also maintains a gap between their economic welcome and political disenfranchisement.

Role: Principal Investigator

Luxton, Meg |

'Worked to Death:' Gendered-Racialized Dimensions of Economic Security For Later Life Canadians

Tungohan, Ethel |

2011-2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant (Collaborator). “From Migrant to Citizen: Learning from the Experiences of Former Filipina Live-in Caregivers Transitioning out of the Live-In Caregiver Program.”

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant

Tungohan, Ethel |

2013-2015 Grant Notley Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Principal Investigator). “The Temporary Foreign Worker Program: A Critical Analysis of Temporary Foreign Work from the Perspectives of Migrant Workers, Civil Society, and Policymakers.”

Funders:
Grant Notley Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Slowey, Gabrielle A |

2016-2017. Fulbright Canada. Research Grant. Inaugural Chair in Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College

2016-2017. Fulbright Canada. Research Grant. Inaugural Chair in Arctic Studies at Dartmouth College

Funders:
Fulbright Canada. Research Grant

Slowey, Gabrielle A |

2016-2018. SSHRC. Insight Development Grant. Co-applicant: Indigenizing the First Nations Land Management Regime (PI: Deb McGregor)

2016-2018. SSHRC. Insight Development Grant. Co-applicant: Indigenizing the First Nations Land Management Regime (PI: Deb McGregor)

Funders:
SSHRC. Insight Development Grant

Tungohan, Ethel |

2018 Homeward Trust Edmonton (Principal Investigator). Examining Precarious Migrants’ Experiences with Housing and Homelessness in Edmonton through Participatory Action Research

2018 Homeward Trust Edmonton (Principal Investigator). Examining Precarious Migrants’ Experiences with Housing and Homelessness in Edmonton through Participatory Action Research.

Funders:
Homeward Trust Edmonton

Tungohan, Ethel |

2018 SSHRC Insight Development Grant (Principal Investigator). “Permanently Temporary? An Analysis of Discourses and Policies on Temporary Foreign Work in Canada from 1973-2016.”

2018 SSHRC Insight Development Grant (Principal Investigator). “Permanently Temporary? An Analysis of Discourses and Policies on Temporary Foreign Work in Canada from 1973-2016.”

Funders:
SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Slowey, Gabrielle A | Funded | SSHRC Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation - Connection Grants

2018-2019. SSHRC. Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation - Connection Grants Canada. Principal Investigator. Spirit and Intent: The Yukon Umbrella Final Agreement Today and Tomorrow

“Spirit and Intent: The Yukon Umbrella Final Agreement Today and Tomorrow” (SP&I) is a knowledge mobilization project that consists of two phases: Phase 1 (November 2018-May 2019) is the focus of this grant application because it involves community outreach and engagement within the Yukon in the form of workshops and meetings to ascertain what Yukoners (in particular the parties to the agreements along with implementers and youth) want to know about the agreements, the challenges they have experienced and best practices. Phase 2, which will occur following the end of the grant period (May 2019-November 2019) sees this knowledge mobilization project culminate in a two and a half day conference in the Yukon that will bring together and feature original and current day negotiators, government leaders, Elders, youth and local experts – along with professors and students, investors and industry leaders – to explore, examine and explain the Umbrella Final Agreement (the UFA was the framework for negotiating individual Yukon First Nations Final and Self-Government Agreements), and the resulting Yukon First Nations Final and Self-Government Agreements. The lead Yukon-based organizer is Judy Gingell (Kwanlin Dun First Nation) and the applicant and institutional lead is Gabrielle Slowey (York University Robarts Centre). In addition to a focus on education and working in collaboration with Indigenous knowledge holders and Elders in this project, this project and team aims to identify new challenges and share best practices and lessons learned in the process of implementing the terms of the Umbrella Final Agreement.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Judy Gingell
Collaborator Role: Collaboarator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Nov/2018
End Date:
Nov/2019

Slowey, Gabrielle A |

2018-2021. SSHRC. Partnership Development Grant. Co-Applicant: Aandse: Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and the Transformation of University-based Knowledge (PI: Carolyn Podruchny)

2018-2021. SSHRC. Partnership Development Grant. Co-Applicant: Aandse: Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing and the Transformation of University-based Knowledge. (PI: Carolyn Podruchny)

Role: Co-Applicant

Funders:
SSHRC

Mulé, Nick | Funded | University of Toronto - Connaught Community Partnership Research Program

2SLGBTQ+ Ontarians’ experiences with social assistance: Conducting preliminary research to nurture partnerships in the area of 2SLGBTQ+ poverty and health

Two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (2SLGBTQ+) people experience both health
disparities and economic inequities relative to their heterosexual and cisgender (non-trans) peers.
Although poverty is widely understood to be a critically important determinant of health, few studies
have investigated the relationships between poverty and health in 2SLGBTQ+ populations, or the
possible social and structural relationships that sustain these inequities. Our project will address this
research gap, and in doing so will build an emerging multidisciplinary network, the Canadian Coalition
Against 2SLGBTQ+ Poverty (CCA2P). The research team is led by representatives from 2SLGBTQ+
community organizations and academic researchers from Canadian universities, and includes
community advocates and research trainees. Project activities will aim to a) support coalition-building
between academics, organizations and community members working on issues of 2SLGBTQ+ rights
and poverty, working to build a national multisectoral partnership; b) collaborate on communitydriven
research that examines 2SLGBTQ+ peoples’ experiences accessing social assistance in Ontario,
a community-identified research priority; c) meaningfully engage 2SLGBTQ+ people who identify as
having lived experience of poverty throughout research and coalition-building activities; and d)
collaborate on a funding proposal, informed by our preliminary data, to support national research and
partnership-building on this topic. By enabling a more fulsome understanding of 2SLGBTQ+ poverty
from diverse stakeholders, these partnership activities ultimately aim to address the economic and
associated health inequities currently experienced by 2SLGBTQ+ people in Canada.

Role: Collaborator

Funders:
University of Toronto - Connaught Community Partnership Research Program

Start Date:
Apr/2020
End Date:
Mar/2022

Medovarski, Andrea |

Settling Down and Settling Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women’s Writing

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Kernerman, Gerald | Funded | SSHRC Cluster Grant

A Canadian Refugee Research Network: Globalizing Knowledge

Role: Co-Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Cluster Grant

McGrath, Susan |

A Canadian Refugee Research Network: Globalizing Knowledge.

Strategic Knowledge Cluster Grant, 2008. ($2.1M over 7 years) . Applicant: S. McGrath with 10 co-applicants and 17 institutional partners.

Funders:
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

McGrath, Susan | Grand Challenges Canada

A community-based mental health intervention for maternal mental health in Rwanda.

Grand Challenges Canada Mental Health Grant, 2013-15. ($250,000) . Applicant: M. Hynie, co-applicants: Y. Bohr, S. McGrath, Benoite Umubyeyi, Marie Claire GASANGANWA, Regine King.

Funders:
Grand Challenges Canada

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

A Community-University Research Alliance for Southern Ontario's Social Economy

Role: Co-investigator; Principal Investigator for a sub-project

Funders:
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Grayson, J. Paul |

A Comparison of Contemporary Students to Those in the 1960s

On the basis of, among other sources, a replication of surveys conducted in the 1960s at Glendon College York University a comparison of the impact of the liberal arts experience on politics, religion, and the female experience of students in 1963-67 and 2013-17.

Heron, Barbara |

A Comparison of Development Worker Narratives: Late 1980s-Early 1990s vs. Post-2000

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Small Grants Program
Atkinson Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant)

Vizmuller-Zocco, Jana |

A helmet riddled with holes

A book reflecting the experiences of an Austro-Hungarian soldier during the First World War.

Start Date:
Mar/2014
End Date:
Dec/2019

Lockshin, Martin I | Funded | SSHRC

A History of Peshat (Jewish 'plain-meaning' Bible Exegesis)

Richardson, Julia | CIHR

A multimethod study of the management and prevention of medical errors in Canadian hospitals

Collaborator: Y.Chuang, L.Ginsburgh, P Norton, D. Tregunno, W. Berta & P.Ng

Bonnell, Jennifer L. |

A People’s History of Wildlife in British Columbia

Commissioned in 2018 by the BC Wildlife and Habitat Branch, Ministry of Land, Water, and Resource Stewardship, this project will produce a social history of wildlife and wildlife management in British Columbia from pre-colonization through to the present. Drawing upon scholarly literature, government reports, and over eighty interviews with retired and active wildlife biologists, Indigenous leaders, hunters, anglers, and trappers, naturalists, industry representatives, and wildlife conservation organizations, it will explore the ways that government, Indigenous communities, and stakeholder groups sought to shape and deliver, or responded to the consequences of, wildlife management policies and practices in the province.

Collaborator Role: To be published by the Royal BC Museum in 2023

Daley, Andrea | Funded | SSHRC Small Grants Program

A Retrospective Review of Women’s Psychiatric In-Patient Charts for Sexuality Content: a Pilot Study

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Dr. Lori Ross, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Ms. Lucy Costa, The Empowerment Council
Funders:
SSHRC Small Grants Program

Start Date:
Sep/2008
End Date:
May/2012

Steigerwald, Joan |

A Romantic Natural History

My SSHRC Insight Grant, A Romantic Natural History, explores the relationships between material entities and cultural transformation. The Romantic period was a time of tremendous changes in both the natural and human sciences that shaped many of our views of the modern world. In its attention to material entities, the proposed research project addresses tensions in modern scholarship in the humanities and social sciences between recent concerns with the material and the non-human world, on one side, and long-standing concerns with historical, social, and cultural framings of human understandings of the world, on the other. It questions oppositions between material objects and subjective perspectives, the nonhuman and the human. The project focuses on material entities newly encountered through natural historical inquiry in the Romantic period that cannot be simply individuated as objects and that cannot be understood as distinctly natural, artificial, or cultural. Examples include: the infusoria found in experiments and speculations on the origins and elements of life; sensitive plants crossing the plant-animal divide; living instruments such as frog legs and human sensory organs; racialized “Caucasians” and their others; hieroglyphs as natural languages. At the time, such hybrid material entities were regarded as crossing the boundaries of kinds of things, as at once unsettling and exciting, and as thus opening broad historical, cultural, and epistemic questions. Case studies will act as sites for fostering interdisciplinary research, examining the interplay of the study of material entities, cultural values, scientific inquiry, philosophical problems, and literary genres. Case studies of material entities provide a means to stage encounters between the different modes of inquiry, the different perspectives, the different kinds of texts and creative works seeking to comprehend them, reading each through and against its others.

Funders:
SSHRC

Malik, Sadia | Funded | International Labor Organization

A Situation Analysis of Residential Facilities for Working Women at/near their Work Places

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Dec/2009
End Date:
Dec/2010

, | SSHRC

A study of Canadian mining engineers in Australia and the Middle East

Butler, Gary R | Funded | S.S.H.R.C.

A Study of Folk Discourse Processes in Three Acadian Communities in Eastern Canada

Role: Principal and sole investigator

Funders:
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada

Chuang, You-Ta | Funded | SSHRC

Act up: From managing LGBTQ2S+ identity to changing workplace discrimination

This project brings together a group of established and emerging scholars, a LGBTQ2S+ advocacy organization leader in Canada, and two leading LGBTQ2S+ advocacy organizations in China (LGBT Rights Advocacy China and Diversity & Inclusion Consulting). The overall goal of this partnership is to develop strategies that LGBTQ2S+ employees can use to cope with and fight against workplace discrimination. A partnership between academics and non-academic partners in Canada and China is of critical and valuable. Having non-academic partners not only provides us the most relevant knowledge and the lived workplace discrimination experiences LGBTQ2S+ employees have but also helps to formulate effective, practical strategies that LGBTQ2S+ employees can use to cope with and fight against discrimination. Examining workplace discrimination against sexual minorities in both countries can offer richer and deeper understanding of this important and urgent issue, discover nuances between two countries, and develop “universal” strategies that help to reduce workplace discrimination. Most importantly, this partnership provides valuable opportunities for exchange of knowledge and experience between academics and non-academic partners to better understanding LGBTQ2S+ employees’ experiences in Canada and China.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Jing Wang, Chris Zhang, Jules Richardson

Peng, Songlan (Stella) |

Adaptability of Fair Value Accounting (FVA) in China: Case Study of an Emerging Economy Converging with IFRS

Collaborator: K. Bewley

Shabtay, Abigail | Funded | SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Adapting Drama-Based Methods for Research with Children and Youth (SSHRC-funded)

The overall aim of this research project is to identify best practices for using drama-based methods in participatory research with children and youth, using a rights-based and critical child and youth studies approach.

Role: Principal Investigator

Litoiu, Marin | Funded | Discovery Grants (NSERC)

Adaptive Software Systems

Funders:
Discovery Grants (NSERC)

Liegghio, Maria | Funded | SSHRC Connections Grant

Addressing trauma and fostering resilience in El Salvador

This project brings together scholars, researchers, students, professionals community leaders and members to explore "trauma" and "resilience" as organizing frameworks for violence prevention and intervention in El Salvador, and more broadly Central America.

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Feb/2020
End Date:
Jan/2022

Edmondson, Jonathan |

ADOPIA: Atlas Digital Onomastique de la Péninsule Ibérique Antique / Atlas digital onómastico de la Península Ibérica Antigua / Atlas digital onómastico da Península Ibérica Antiga / Digital Onomastic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula in Antiquity

A digital atlas of all personal names attested in the three Roman provinces (Lusitania, Baetica, Hispania Tarraconensis) in the Iberian Peninsula in Antiquity. A collaborative project involving partner institutions York University, Institut Ausonius (Université de Bordeaux - Montaigne, France), Centro CIL II (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain), Archivo Epigráfico Hispánico (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) and researchers in Canada, France, Spain and Portugal. //adopia.huma-num.fr.

Role: Co-Director (with Dr. M. Navarro Caballero, Directeur de Recherche, CNRS – Institut Ausonius, Université de Bordeaux – Montaigne)

Collaborator: Dr. Milagros Navarro Caballero, Directeur de Recherche
Collaborator Institution: CNRS – Institut Ausonius, Université de Bordeaux – Montaigne
Collaborator Role: Co-Director

Funders:
SSHRC-CRSH Partnership Development Grant
LA&PS Seed Grant for Collaborative Research

Start Date:
Sep/2016

Asgary, Ali | Funded | Ontario Government, York University

Advanced Disaster, Emergency and Rapid Response Simulation Facility, Ontario Research Fund (ORF), ORF Research Infrastructure

Role: Co-Lead

Funders:
Ontario Research Fund (ORF), ORF Research Infrastructure

Start Date:
Jul/2016
End Date:
Jun/2021

Asgary, Ali | Funded | NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE)

Advanced Disaster, Emergency and Rapid Response Simulation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Role: Co-PI

Funders:
NSERC

Start Date:
May/2015
End Date:
Jun/2021

Mulé, Nick | Funded | Standard Research (SSHRC)

Advocacy and Democratization: Permissiveness of Voices in Canada's Voluntary Sector

A study of how advocacy activities by charities and nonprofit organizations are regulated by the Canadian federal government.

Funders:
Standard Research (SSHRC)
Atkinson Incentive Award
SSHRC Small Grant Award
Atkinson Minor Research Grant
York Ad Hoc Research Grant

Start Date:
Apr/2006
End Date:
Mar/2010

Solis, Adriano O. | Funded | Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Agent-based and multi-scale mathematical modelling of COVID-19 for assessments of sustained transmission risk and effectiveness of countermeasures

The project brings together Canadian mathematics institutes, national and international co-investigators, collaborators, and team members, to mobilize a network of infectious disease modellers who will assess transmission risk, predict outbreak trajectories, and evaluate the effectiveness of COVID-19 countermeasures.

Role: Co-Applicant/Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Prof. Vijayakumar Murty
Collaborator Institution: The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences
Collaborator Role: Principal Applicant/Principal Investigator

Funders:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Start Date:
Mar/2020
End Date:
Feb/2022

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Alternative approaches to HRM

Hadj-Moussa, Ratiba |

Alternatives memories in Post conflict and authoritarian societies (SSHRC)

This project addresses the question of public memory in post conflict and authoritarian . Visual studies and digital media studies are its main research directions.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanity Research Council of Canada

Frederiksen, Soren | Funded | Junior Faculty Fund

An Actor Network Study of Fingerprinting in Canada

Funders:
Junior Faculty Fund

Malik, Sadia | Funded | Department for International Development and AusAid

An Analysis of Equity Issues in Public Spending on Mother and Newborn Child Health in Pakistan.

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Dec/2011
End Date:
Dec/2013

Toyasaki, Fuminori | Funded | York start-up fund

An analysis of fund-raising in disaster and emergency context

Current funding systems for disaster relief are considered to be one of the causes of inefficiencies in humanitarian operations. Aid agencies are currently facing multiple changes and challenges in their environment. I propose to engage aid agencies in a survey that will provide insights into the current state of their prevalent fundraising modes.

Collaborator: Wakolbinger Tina
Collaborator Institution: Vienna University of Economics and Business

Start Date:
Jun/2012

Toyasaki, Fuminori | Funded | NSERC Discovery Grants - Individual

An analysis of impacts of downstream infrastructure on environmentally friendly product designs

This project has two long-term objectives: 1. To develop models that address the impacts of downstream infrastructures in recycled end-of-life product operations on a number of important variables, including manufacturers’ investment in product design changes, manufacturers’ and recyclers’ profits, prices that end-users face, and social welfare. 2. To develop models that address the interaction between downstream infrastructures and different product generations associated with product design changes. The development of environmentally friendly product designs is widely recognized as an important characteristic of an environmentally sustainable economy. In achieving this goal, effective incorporation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is expected to lead to product design improvement and effective recycling, especially in complex and durable products such as electrical and electronic equipment and vehicles. The potential benefits associated with EPR laws are well understood in the EU and in Japan. Unfortunately, governmental institutions and industrial companies in Canada seem to be lagging behind in implementing EPR laws. Concerning the implementation of EPR, a fundamental question arises: How can policy-makers create incentives that encourage product design changes? To answer this question, one cannot ignore the impacts of downstream infrastructures on manufacturers’ operations as a whole. The suggested research framework will take into account important characteristics of recycling activities of end-of-life products that have not been included in previous work. Examples of these characteristics include economies of scale in recycling costs and existence of a non-profit organization that allocates products to recyclers.

Funders:
NSERC Discovery Grants - Individual

Start Date:
Jun/2009
End Date:
Apr/2014

Foster, Lorne | Funded | Toronto Police Services Board, Toronto Police Service

An Examination of Racial Disparities in Use of Force and Strip Searches in the Toronto Police Service

In 2019, the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) approved the Race-Based Data Collection, Analysis and Public Reporting Policy (Policy) to identify, monitor, and address systemic racial disparities in policing. The Policy builds on Ontario’s Data Standards and was guided by recommendations of its Anti-Racism Advisory Panel (ARAP). In alignment with the provincial Standards, the purposes of the Policy are to:
• use race-based data collection, analysis, and public reporting to identify, monitor, and eliminate potential systemic racism and racial bias;
• improve the delivery of police services;
• preserve the dignity of individuals and communities; and
• enhance trend analysis, professional development, and public accountability.

Employing a phased approach, the Toronto Police Service (TPS) will examine race data collected as of January 1, 2020 for two interactions: Use of Force (as per the Province’s regulation) and Strip Searches (in response to findings in Breaking the Golden Rule: A Review of Police Strip Searches in Ontario, 2019 (Office of the Independent Police Review Director, OIPRD).

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Funders:
Toronto Police Services Board, Toronto Police Service

Start Date:
Jul/2021
End Date:
Mar/2022

Buckley, Neil |

An Experimental Investigation of the Demand for Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)

Looking at behaviour attitudes and other factors affecting demand for vaping and other electronic nicotine delivery systems.

Collaborator Role: Principal Applicant

Funders:
Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)

Jones, Joanne | Funded | University of Waterloo Centre for Accounting Ethics

An Experimental Investigation of: Effects of Ethical Distance, Perceived Fairness, an Techniques of Neutralization On Accounting Students’ Likelihood to Whistle-blow

This study aims to increase our understanding of how to promote the likelihood that students will whistle-blow (during their academic and professional careers).

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Gary Spraakman
Collaborator Institution: School of Administrative Studies
Funders:
University of Waterloo Centre for Accounting Ethics

Start Date:
Jun/2009
End Date:
Jun/2011

Wahab, Amar |

An Exploration of Race, Gender and Sexuality in the LGBTQ+ community in Trinidad and Tobago

While there is a growing corpus of research on homophobia and LGBTQ+ rights activism in Jamaica, research on the rest of the Anglo-Caribbean remains very limited, despite the branding of the region as exceptionally queer/trans/homo-phobic. In addition, few of the existing scholarly studies explore gender and sexuality from the perspective of LGBTQ+ members’ experiences. This project will explore the politics of identity – specifically regarding the intersections of race, gender and sexuality – within the LGBTQ+ community in Trinidad and Tobago. It will foreground the experiences and voices of out LGBTQ+ folks, focusing on how they construct and negotiate their identities, relations and sense of community within the context of state-sponsored queer/trans/homo-phobia and the denial of non-normative gendered and sexual citizenship. This will simultaneously entail understanding the ways in which the LGBTQ+ community contests queer/trans/homo-phobic nationalism at institutional and cultural levels.

Start Date:
Dec/2020
End Date:
Jul/2021

Buckley, Neil | Funded | Strategic Research Grant, SSHRC

An investigation of alternative emissions trading policies under demand growth and volatility

Investigating cap-and-trade and baseline-and-credit performance standards emission trading schemes when demand is volatile.

Role: Applicant

Funders:
SSHRC

Matsuoka, Atsuko | Funded | the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation

Animal assisted interventions in the Nova Scotia health service sector

This study investigates current practice of animal-assisted interventions (AAI) in the province of Nova Scotia from the perspective of practitioners in the five health care professions, including occupational, recreational, and behavioural therapists, psychologists, and social workers. The purposes of this study are: 1) to gain a better understanding of how AAI are conducted in the province, the types of health concerns addressed, and the relationship between AAI services and other health services; 2) to develop a conceptual framework for best practices of AAI within the context of NS and 3) to bring curricular change initiatives using the research findings. We proposed to achieve the purposes through conducting constructivist grounded theory based in-depth interviews with practitioners and through advisory workshops.

Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
the Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation

Andrews, Kristin | Funded | SSHRC

Animals and Moral Practice

An examination of the nature of normative cognition and the evolution of moral cognition across species.

Foster, Lorne | Funded | Government of Ontario

Anti-Racism Directorate and the Government of Ontario Anti-Racism Act

The Government of Ontario is committed to maintaining an anti-racism strategy that aims to eliminate systemic racism and advance racial equity.

The strategy includes the following:
1. initiatives to eliminate systemic racism, including initiatives to identify and remove systemic barriers that contribute to inequitable racial outcomes;
2. initiatives to advance racial equity; and
3. targets and indicators to measure the strategy’s effectiveness.

Role: Expert Consultant

Funders:
Government of Ontario

Start Date:
Jan/2017
End Date:
Sep/2017

Erechtchoukova, Marina |

Application of machine learning algorithms to hydrological forecasting

Accumulated volumes of data on water quantity and quality coupled with meteorological data make data-driven analyses of water related problems an effective decision support tool for water resources management. The project is aimed at developing a framework for water resource assessment and management based on machine learning techniques. The framework relies on data which are routinely collected on stream watershed and become available to users almost in real time regime, e.g. water level or precipitation. The study will enhance the methodology and will form a basis for knowledge transfer activities by providing scientifically valid recommendations for improving black box models which can be integrated into early warning systems and used by local authorities for flood management, particularly, in watershed with rapidly changing land use.

Role: The project is an integral part of an ongoing research program on developing quantitative techniques for sustainable water resource management at the watershed level.

Collaborator Institution: Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

Emberly, Andrea |

Archival Research

Archival Research, Callaway Centre, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. Research conducted with the John Blacking Collection on the study of Venda children’s music held by the Callaway Centre for Research in Music Education. June - September 2003.

Foster, Lorne | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Major Collaborative Research Initiative)

Asia-Pacific Dispute Resolution Project: Understanding Integrated Compliance with International Trade and Human Rights Standards from a Comparative Perspective

This international collaborative research project — involving Canada, Japan, Indonesia, and China — examines legal consciousness and legal culture in human rights and international trade disputes.

Role: Canadian Team Member

Collaborator: PI: Pitman Potter
Collaborator Institution: University of British Columbia
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Major Collaborative Research Initiative)

Start Date:
Oct/2009
End Date:
Oct/2016

Chatterjee, Soma |

Asian International Students in Canadian Universities Examining Racialization Processes of/by Chinese, Indian and South Korean Students in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg

The main objective of this research project is to shed light on the experiences of international students as migrants to specific communities, beyond their academic affiliation, by using the ways in which racialization affects them on and off-campus, and has repercussions on their migratory experiences and trajectories as a whole.

For more detailed summary, see here: //ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/rais/

Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Yang, Zijiang | Funded | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage Grant

Assessing and predicting health science projects and collaboration

Role: Sole Principle Investigator

Funders:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage Grant

Anucha, Uzo | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Assets Coming Together for Youth: Linking Research, Policy and Action for Positive Youth Development

The Assets Coming Together for Youth Project (2009 – 2014) is a community-university research alliance that is focused on developing a comprehensive youth strategy that will outline how urban communities like the Jane-Finch community can build assets for youth.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC CURA

Start Date:
May/2009
End Date:
May/2014

Maiter, Sarah | SSHRC - CURA

Assets for Youth

Funders:
SSHRC - CURA

Su, Yvonne | Funded | SSHRC

Asylum-seeking in the Epicentre of COVID-19 - The Social Impact of COVID-19 on Venezuelan LGBTQI+ Asylum Seekers in Brazil

As COVID-19 causes nations to close their borders, asylum seekers are trapped and becoming targets of violence. A particularly precarious group are Venezuelan LGBTQI+ asylum seekers in Brazil, a global epicentre for COVID-19 with the highest infection rate and the second highest coronavirus deaths. Since 2015, more than 5 million have fled Venezuela and 264,000 have applied for asylum in Brazil. Under COVID-19, Venezuelan LGBTQI+ asylum seekers now face more challenges, including the loss of livelihood and an increased risk of gender-based violence, exploitation and abuse. Thus, research on the social impacts of COVID-19 will be important so policy makers can understand the protection gaps that existed for these asylum seekers during the pandemic.

This project builds on an existing partnership with Casa Miga, the only LGBT refugee centre in Brazil and one of the only centres in Latin America. Casa Miga is a LGBT-run non-profit shelter that is located in Manaus, one of the hardest hit city in Brazil by the coronavirus. The situation is increasingly dire as the public health care system in Manaus is completely over capacity with a shortage of ventilators, medical supplies and COVID-19 tests.

As the first foreign researchers to study Casa Miga, we can make novel and timely contributions to help Casa Miga address the challenge of a lack of capacity to undertake research to produce policy recommendations for politicians and humanitarian actors to help their residents. The sensitive nature of research on vulnerable groups is what has made this an understudied subject, but this is why this research needs to be done. At a time when vulnerable populations like Venezuelan LGBTQI+ asylum seekers are falling through the cracks, it is important to bring attention to the protection gaps that exist and the assistance that they need to survive, be healthy and feel safe.

Role: P.I.

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Sep/2020
End Date:
Aug/2022

Lee, Becky R |

At the Door of the Church: The Churching of Women in Pre-Reformation England

“At the Door of the Church” recovers and examines the churching rite, and the customs associated with it, as it was practised in England from its origins in the eleventh century to 1552 when its rubrics were changed to reflect Protestant sensibilities.

Su, Yvonne | Funded | SSHRC

At the Edge of Safety: Comparing Responses to Venezuelan LGBT Refugees in Brazil and Colombia amid COVID-19

LGBT Venezuelan refugees are one of the most vulnerable and overlooked groups in one of the largest and most underfunded crises in modern history. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), over 5.4 million people have left Venezuela due to violence, persecution and poverty, and the number of Venezuelans seeking refuge worldwide has increased by 8,000 per cent since 2014 (UNHCR, 2020). Many have fled to neighbouring Colombia and Brazil, which automatically grant refugee status to Venezuelan asylum seekers. However, protection gaps, poor funding as well as political and social tensions mean LGBT folks face unprecedented levels of homophobia, xenophobia, extreme violence and exploitation in their place of refuge (IOM, 2020; Valiquette, Su and Felix, 2020). Yet, an unlikely beacon of hope lies in the middle of the Amazon, at Casa Miga, Brazil’s only LGBT refugee centre. And in the border city of Cúcuta in Colombia, where La Casa que Abraza (The House that Hugs), provides a safe space for Venezuelan LGBT refugees in a region still facing insecurity from the country’s internal armed conflict. Both centres are run by LGBT people for LGBT people with the aim to provide services and assistance to LGBT refugees. But despite the significance of the essential service these institutions are providing, they remain scarce, underfunded and understudied. The aim of this study is to shine a light on the significance of peer-to-peer support for Venezuelan LGBT refugees in Brazil and Colombia.

Role: P.I.

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Aug/2021
End Date:
Jul/2023

Kernerman, Gerald | Funded | Atkinson Faculty, York University

Atkinson Junior Faculty Fund

Funders:
Atkinson Faculty, York University

Wicken, William Craig |

Becoming White, urban, and working class: Clinton Claus and the Migration of Six Nation People, 1870-1920

Role: Principal Researcher

Start Date:
Jan/2012

Goldstein, David | Funded | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Before ‘Farm to Table’: Early Modern Foodways and Cultures

I am one of three co-directors for the inaugural project of the Mellon initiative in collaborative research, based at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.

Role: Co-director

Collaborator Institution: Folger Shakespeare Library

Start Date:
Sep/2017
End Date:
Jun/2021

O'Reilly, Andrea | Funded | SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Being a Mother in Academia

Funders:
SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Winland, Daphne | Funded | SSHRC Insight Grant

Beyond Remittances: Croatian ‘expert expatriates’, ethnic citizenship and post-socialist strategies of diaspora enticement

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
May/2013
End Date:
Apr/2016

Weir, Lorna |

Biopolitics and Negative Power

In Fall-Winter 2014-2015 my focus is on social theory and biopolitics, exploring negative power and sacrificial practices.

Murray, Karen Bridget |

Biopolitics and Reproduction

Related research: "Governing ‘Unwed Mothers’ in Toronto at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 85, 2 (2004): 253-276; "Do Not Disturb: ‘Vulnerable Populations’ in Canadian Federal Government Policy Discourses and Practices," CANADIAN JOURNAL OF URBAN RESEARCH, 13, 1 (2004): 50-69; "Governmentality and the Shifting Winds of Policy Studies," CRITICAL PUBLIC POLICY: CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES, M. Smith and M. Orsini, eds. (Vancouver: UBC Press) : 161-184; "Bio-gentrification: Vulnerability Bio-value Chains in Gentrifying Neighbourhoods," URBAN GEOGRAPHY, 36, 2: 277-299.

Weir, Lorna |

Biosecurity and Genomics

1. I am continuing with my research and writing trajectory on biosecurity and genomics, projecting 2 articles during 2015 on synthetic biology and classified scientific research.

Foster, Lorne |

Blackness in Canada: Transforming the Nature and Not Just the Face of Social Science Research

The “Blackness in Canada” research project examines Black Canadian identity, practice, and experiences with the intent of building networks aimed at equity policy development, implementation, and outcomes.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Start Date:
Apr/2019
End Date:
Apr/2022

Carra-Salsberg, Fernanda | Funded | University of Exeter Press

Book in press

Child and Adolescent Migration, Mental Health and Language: Effects of Foreign Language Immersions. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press.

Sabiston, Elizabeth |

Book Project: Henry James and the Ladies: Female Imagination in James’s Fiction

Sabiston, Elizabeth |

Book Project: Ulysses Unchained: Wander-lust in the Works of Hédi Bouraoui

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BOOK: Pursuing Engagement: Indigenous Reconciliation in Canada

Turner, Alicia M | Funded | SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Buddhism Across Boundaries: Subaltern, Plebeian and Peripheral Networks in Colonial Southeast Asia

Across Southeast Asia, Buddhist nationalism is on the rise, presenting Buddhist identity in exclusivist ethnic and national terms. Nowhere is this more apparent at the moment than in Arakan state in Myanmar, where hope of new political freedoms immediately gave way to violence against Muslims fueled by Buddhist nationalist rhetoric. The current identification between Buddhism and nation in Southeast Asia, however, emerged under colonialism out of a more diverse milieu of Buddhist identities at the turn of the twentieth century. In colonial Southeast Asia multiple transnational and multi-ethnic Buddhist identities flourished and, moreover, Buddhism was a medium of connection across boundaries. “Buddhism across Boundaries: Subaltern, Plebeian, and Peripheral Networks in Colonial Southeast Asia” will explore the history of Buddhism as a medium for identity, engagement, and collaboration beyond the late modern limitations of nation and ethnicity, through the study of disparate but effective networks of Buddhist patrons, organizers, and supporters between 1880 and 1920. It promises to open up a new understanding of the complexities of Buddhist transnational organizing and the ways in which religion served as a means for collaboration and affinity. This two-year collaborative project with Brian Bocking, University College, Cork and Laurence Cox, National University of Ireland Maynooth works from the margins and fringes, rather than the colonial and Buddhist centres, starting in the outlying port cities that saw great flux and interactions of cultures: Akyab in Arakan, Tavoy in Tenasserim and Penang in the Straits Settlements, and in minority and mobile cultures: Chinese in Rangoon, Shan in Bangkok, Sinhalese in Penang, Irish in Southeast Asia. This project steps back from the focus on monks to look at networks that facilitated the travel of ideas and gave birth to new identities and associations. The practice of Buddhism represented the visions of those who made it financially possible—the networks of sponsors, each with their own interpretations of what it should mean to be Buddhist and modern. Investigating the changing role and meaning of Buddhism in the colonial world allows us to ask: How did religion function as a vector of connection outside of the centralizing forces of colonial subjectivity and subsequent nationalism? How did promoting Buddhism make connections across ethnic, class, and cultural boundaries and between those on the various margins of empire—even as they continually reinvented what “Buddhism” and “religion” would mean in practice? How did Buddhism become a medium for resisting both colonialism and the centralizing forces of burgeoning nationalism and official monastic orthodoxy?

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Laurence Cox and Brian Bocking
Collaborator Institution: National Univ Ireland Maynooth and Univ College Cork

Soennecken, Dagmar | Funded | German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Building a New EU Citizenship: Migration and Integration in Germany and the European Union

Collaborator: Willem Maas
Collaborator Institution: York University
Funders:
DAAD + CCGES

Yang, Zijiang | Funded | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage Grant

Building a novel interactive platform and recommendation system for creative learning

Role: Sole Principle Investigator

Funders:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage Grant

Asgary, Ali | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Building Bridges across Social and Computational Sciences: Using Big Data to Inform Humanitarian Policy and Interventions

Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Start Date:
Sep/2015
End Date:
Jul/2017

McGuire, Wendy |

Building Community Resilience, Access to Education and Economic Self-Sufficiency Through the Arts in Jane-Finch

Action research project will inform the development of a Community Arts Hub on Metrolinx property across from Yorkgate Mall.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: David Lidov
Collaborator Institution: Community Action Partnership Group

Start Date:
Aug/2017
End Date:
Dec/2018

Man, Guida | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Building Migrant Resilience in Cities/Immigration et résilience enmilieu urbain(BMRI)

SSHRC partnership grant $2.5 million. PI: Valerie Preston

Role: Collaborator

Funders:
SSHRC

Matsuoka, Atsuko | Funded | SSHRC

Building “Animals and Social Work”: Incorporating ¬Trans-Species Social Justice

Role: PI

Collaborator: John Sorenson
Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
May/2014
End Date:
Apr/2019

, | Funded | Standard Research

Business Strategy, Deferred Compensation and Organizational Performance

Funders:
Standard Research

Widmer, Sandra |

Calibrating Livelihood and the Gut: Australian Metabolism Science in Papua New Guinea (1960-1971)

Pacific Islanders have some of the highest rates of metabolic disease in the world. Often scientists attribute this to genetics and a transition to a processed food diet. My project presents another element in the regional and global history of how researchers understood metabolism at a time when global hunger, not obesity, was a concern. This metabolism research was also a precursor to microbiome research today.
In the 1960s, a team of Australian nutritionists travelled to Papua New Guinea (then an Australian colony) and compared the metabolisms of people who lived a subsistence lifestyle with those who worked for wages in towns, as well as White Australians in Australia. Subsistence livelihoods were of particular interest during the Cold War, as regional institutions, like the South Pacific Commission hoped that Pacific Islanders could transition to wage earners in capitalist economies.

As part of their research, these researchers collected and compared urine, expired air, breast milk and feces. The samples they could not analyze in the field, were sent back to a government lab at the Australian Institute of Anatomy (a leading national institution of the Australian Department of Health) in Canberra for analysis. These researchers cautiously published that in people practicing subsistence livelihoods, they had located gut microflora that would metabolise protein from nitrogen in the air. Their claims suggested that WHO universal standards of protein consumption might need to be changed to allow for differences between populations.

The objective of this research is to use historical methods and social theory to analyze metabolism research in Australian colonial nutrition science in the south western Pacific Islands. Within this 1960s research, I will document the scientific practices of the collection, storage and analysis of Pacific Islanders’ biological materials. I want to understand these technologies measuring metabolism as a means of how scientists calibrated the sexed, raced and age-related embodiment of food and waged or subsistence labour.

Berland, Jody | Funded | Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University

Canada Watch: The Politics of Evidence

Annual publication of Canada Watch, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, 2014

Foster, Lorne | Funded | Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, International Trade and Labour Program

Canada-China Forum on Industrial Relations and Employment Standards

Establishment of a cross-sectoral/community engagement partnerships with the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) and the Capital University of Economics and Business (CUEB), Beijing China.

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Collaborator Institution: Capital University of Economics and Trade (Beijing China)
Funders:
Ministry of Labour, Industrial Trade and Labour Program

Start Date:
Mar/2010
End Date:
May/2011

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

Canada-Latin America Knowledge Partnership Phase II

Role: Principal Investigator of sub-project

Funders:
International Development Research Center (IDRC)

Vosko, Leah F. |

Canadian Foundation for Innovation, John Evans Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant, “Canada Labour Code Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI),” Principal Investigator, January 2018

Canadian Foundation for Innovation, John Evans Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant, “Canada Labour Code Data Analysis Infrastructure (CLC-DAI),” Principal Investigator, January 2018

Funders:
John Evans Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant

Vosko, Leah F. |

Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant, “Global Employment Standards Database (GESD),” Principal Investigator, January 2012-December 2016

Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant, “Global Employment Standards Database (GESD),” Principal Investigator, January 2012-December 2016

Funders:
Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Leadership Opportunity Fund Grant

Saunders, Richard G | Funded | SSHRC

Canadian Mining and Resource Nationalism in Africa: Contestation and Developmental Implications

In the 2000s Canada developed legislative and regulatory measures to enhance transparency and encourage corporate social responsibility by national mining firms overseas. Recent initiatives, including Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act and the Canadian Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise, have promised to improve financial and contract transparency, strengthen miner-host country trust, and open paths to constructive engagement with host governments, communities and civil society organisations. These moves come at a time when many mineral-rich developing countries are experiencing a wave of 'resource nationalism', in which local governments, businesses, mining communities and policy activists are demanding greater local distribution of benefits from foreign mining. This project investigates the convergence of these two trends -Canadian regulatory innovation and rising host country demands on mining investors - in the context of Southern Africa, a key destination of recent Canadian offshore mining activity and a region currently enmeshed in resource nationalist mining reforms.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Apr/2020
End Date:
Mar/2023

Yang, Zijiang | Funded | BELL Canada Enterprise Research Grant

Capital risk management

Funders:
BELL Canada Enterprise

Lai, Poland |

Challenges of Regulatory Compliance in the Long-Term Care Sector in Ontario

It is hard to ignore the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the long-term care system in Canada. In Ontario, the COVID-19 pandemic draws attention to long-standing issues with the funding, regulation and oversight of long-term care homes (nursing homes). It is probably not controversial to suggest that long-term care is highly regulated in Ontario and elsewhere. Rules in the form of formal law (e.g. provincial statutes and regulations) are intended to protect the human rights of residents, reduce safety risks to residents and workers and promote accountability in the long-term system. However, a highly prescriptive regulatory regime alone is not enough to protect long-term care residents and workers. Compliance with regulatory requirements is also an important component. Rules that are not followed rarely achieve their public policy objectives.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Samuel, Jeannie |

Challenging inequalities in Peru: Learning from human rights-based approaches to health over time.

Funded by SSHRC Insight Development Grant.

Role: Principal Investigator

Armstrong, Pat |

Changing Places: Unpaid Work in Public Places

The goal of this project is to identify promising practices for family engagement now and in the future, with a view that includes but goes beyond safety to make care as good as it can be and brings joy to families, residents and staff.
This goal of identifying principles and processes for family engagement in the post-COVID-19 environment is shared with our partner Family Councils Network Four and collaborating organizations.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant

Bonnell, Jennifer L. |

Changing the Narrative: Bringing Indigenous History to Black Creek Pioneer Village

“Changing the Narrative: Connecting Indigenous and Settler Histories at Black Creek Pioneer Village” is a two-year public history project between York University researchers, Jumblies Theatre, and Black Creek Pioneer Village (BCPV), a museum owned and operated by Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. The project’s overarching goal is to bring Indigenous content, perspectives, and voices to the interpretation of early non-Indigenous settlement of the region at BCPV.

Sharma, Isha | Funded | Academy of Indian Marketing and Sheth Foundation

Charting the course for inclusive services: Perspectives from the differently-abled consumers

Funded by AIM-Sheth Foundation, the study focuses on identifying the characteristics of service inclusivity from the perspective of consumers with locomotor disability

Hae, Laam |

Childcare Co-ops and Participatory Community Planning in South Korea

This project interrogates the transformative possibility of childcare co-op projects that some progressive faction in South Korea have developed as part of their community based activism. I will examine how issues of social reproduction and gender division of labor are contested and reconciled in these projects.

Williams, Deanne |

Childhood, Education, and the Stage in Shakespeare's England

Shabtay, Abigail | Funded | SSHRC Connection Grant

Children, Youth and Performance Conference III: Performative Praxis (SSHRC-funded)

The goal of this initiative is to facilitate conversations about the applications and implications of performance work with, by, for and about children and youth. This project is an interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge among researchers, practitioners, artists, and community organizers whose work focuses on performance and young people.

Role: Principal Investigator

Shabtay, Abigail | Funded | SSHRC

Children, Youth and Performance Conference IV: Reflective Resurgence (SSHRC-funded)

This conference connects academic researchers, practitioners, artists, educators, students and community organizers, focusing on new approaches and reflections regarding performance work with, by, for and about children and youth. It is driven by the themes of [1] equity, diversity and inclusivity in the performing arts; [2] digital and hybrid performances by, with, for, and about children and young people; [3] sustainability and well-being in child-centred performance work; [4] queerness in performances and theatre for young audiences; and, [5] learning and unlearning through the performing arts.

Role: Principal Investigator

Man, Guida |

Chinese Grocery Store Worker Project – Improving Work in the Ethnic Economy

Collaborator Institution: Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter

Soennecken, Dagmar | Funded | SSHRC

Civil Society and the Global Refugee Regime (LERRN), SSHRC, 2018-2025

LERRN aims to better understand and enhance the role of civil society in responding to the needs of refugees in the global south. Civil society plays a large role in developing innovative responses to refugee situations and has the power to be a driver of change within political communities.

The Partnership’s goal is to enhance the understandings of the global refugee regime and empower society to directly contribute to the improved function of the regime, thereby ensuring more predictable protection and solutions for refugees and enhancing their lived experience. The project officially launched in October 2018 and will run until December 2025.

LERRN is the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network. We are a team of researchers and practitioners committed to promoting protection and solutions with and for refugees. Our goal is to ensure that refugee research, policy and practice are shaped by a more inclusive, equitable and informed collective engagement of civil society. Through collaborative research, training, and knowledge-sharing, we aim to improve the functioning of the global refugee regime and ensure more timely protection and rights-based solutions for refugees.

Our work is focused in the global South, which hosts 85% of the world’s refugees, and responds to the needs and opportunities identified by our partners in major refugee-hosting countries.

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Role: co-applicant

Collaborator: James Milner
Collaborator Institution: Carleton University
Collaborator Role: principal investigator

Stalker, Glenn J | Funded | SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Climate Change and Subjectivity: Transversal Ecologies

Role: PI

Funders:
SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Start Date:
Jul/2012
End Date:
Jul/2014

Agrawal, Niru | Funded | York University

Climate change and the Rideau Canal Skateway

To establish a comprehensive understanding of the effects of climate change on the Rideau Canal Skateway of Canada, the longest natural skating rink in the world.

Role: PI

Funders:
York University

Start Date:
May/2017
End Date:
Apr/2018

Thomas, Mark P | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Clocked In – Work, Time, and Technology in the Digital Economy

Working time patterns in contemporary labour markets. The ways in which new technologies are reshaping the organization of working time. Currently funded through a SSHRC Insight Grant.

Role: Principal investigator

Thomas, Mark P | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards for Workers in Precarious Jobs

Canadian-based case study research on the enforcement of employment standards, with a focus on connections between an 'enforcement gap' and conditions of precarious employment. The potential for strategies to re-regulate employment standards enforcement through proactive approaches. Currently funded through a SSHRC Partnership Grant.

Kroker, Kenton |

Co-editor, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine (2015-19)

Co-editor of CBMH/BCHM (with Erika Dyck)

Start Date:
May/2015
End Date:
May/2019

Toyasaki, Fuminori | Funded | Junior Faculty Grant

Collection system design, strategy choice and financial incentives for product recovery

Collection represents the first phase of product recovery operations. This research project addresses a methodology for selecting collection strategies by simultaneously optimizing the service area of each collection facility and the financial incentive provided by the collector for each returned product. We represent the collection system via a continuous model, and use a stochastic utility choice model to incorporate the customers’ return decisions. This enables us to model and analyze the collector firm’s profit function under drop-off and pick-up collection strategies, and establish the analytical properties of the optimal collection area and subsidy decisions under each strategy. We show that higher subsidies induce the collector to install less collection facilities under the drop-off strategy, but more facilities under the pick-up strategy. The impact of cost, product and market parameters on the financial subsidy and collection area size, as well as on the choice of the collection strategy is also haracterized. We identify the variable collection cost parameters and the amount of used products in the market area as the main determinants of the collection strategy choice, and illustrate our results with numerical examples.

Collaborator: Boyaci Tamer and Verter Vedat
Collaborator Institution: Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
Funders:
Junior Faculty Grant

Ehrlich, Carl S. |

Commentary on the Book of Chronicles

A commentary on the biblical book of Chronicles for Das Alte Testament Deutsch (the Old Testament in German).

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Communicating across ideological differences: Theory and practice

Razack, Narda |

Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) Assets Coming Together for Youth (ACT for Youth) with university and community partners

Rossiter, Amy | Toronto Dominion Bank

Community-university research partnership with PEACH (Promoting Economic Action and Community Health)

Role: Researcher

Funders:
Toronto Dominion Bank

Chatterjee, Soma |

Competing or complementary?: A study of Indigenizing and internationalizing initiatives in key Canadian postsecondary institutions

This project is part of a larger, multi-sited project on the role of the postsecondary education in facilitating reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada, USA and Australia. It builds on my scholarly interest in two apparently disparate but deeply conceptually connected developments in postsecondary education in these countries – international student recruitment, and enhancing Indigenous content in teaching and learning.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
MITACS

Soennecken, Dagmar | Funded | European Centre of Excellence

Conference: Adversarial legalism à l’Européen, April 28-29, 2011

On April 28 and 29, 2011, EUCE York, in cooperation with York’s Centre for Public Policy & Law (YCPPL), Office of the Principal, Glendon College, the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost and the Law and Society Program in the Department of Social Science, are pleased to present “Adversarial legalism à l’Européen”, a two-day conference which will bring together younger and more established scholars from the EU, the United States and Canada who are working on law and politics in a comparative context.

Role: Main Organizer

Funders:
York, EU Centre of Excellence
York, Centre for Public Policy & Law
York, LAPS, Office of the Dean
York, Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost
York, LAPS, Department of Social Science (Law & Society Program)
York, Glendon, Office of the Principal

Start Date:
Apr/2011
End Date:
Apr/2011

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CONFERENCE: Encounters in Canada: Contrasting Indigenous and Immigrant Perspectives

Indigenous peoples are the original caretakers of Canada, but their encounters with settlers have been marred by assimilation and territorial dispossession over hundreds of years. The result has been significant alienation between Indigenous peoples and Canadian governments. Conversely, immigrants to Canada, which for the purposes of this conference include early colonists, recent immigrants, refugees and displaced persons, have often viewed the country as a haven or land of opportunity. However, many are sorely unaware of Indigenous history, rights and contributions to Canada’s development. No people or community can speak for another; individual and group knowledge is intrinsic and internal. However, in keeping with the ideal of “mutual sharing” emphasized in the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, respect and trust can be fostered through shared difference. While the specific experiences of Indigenous peoples, immigrant communities, refugees and Canadian-born citizens are very different on many levels, connections can be developed through dialogue and reciprocity. Indigenous peoples as well as immigrant and refugee communities experience discrimination, racism, stigmatization and marginalization. These encounters represent a wider systemic problem in Canadian political, legal, sociocultural and historical contexts. Efforts to overcome exclusion can be built through increased awareness and knowledge-building, with support from allies. This conference aims to fill this gap in knowledge and will bring together leaders from government and the judiciary, legal scholars, academics and practitioners to formulate practical solutions. The primary objective is to build bridges – cultural, political, intellectual and social connections – between those who share the lands of what is now Canada. The underlying rationale of the conference stems from the fact that Canada is now shared by Indigenous peoples, descendants of early settlers and more recent immigrant and refugee communities. These communities encounter Canada in very different ways based on racial identity, ancestral heritage, cultural background, community belonging, language and spiritual practice. Bridging the chasm that exists between Indigenous peoples and all newcomers, whether early or contemporary immigrants or refugees, is urgently needed in order to end discrimination and achieve equitable quality of life for all who live in this country. To this end, the objective is to understand how Indigenous peoples and various immigrant groups experience their lives in Canada. How are the challenges they face different? Are there shared goals and experiences upon which to build future alliances to achieve improved quality of life in Canada?

Role: Founder and Principal Academic Organizer

Nastovski, Katherine | Funded | SSHRC

Confronting Global Capital: Strengthening Labour Internationalism and Transnationalism Today

In October 2017, I served as one of the principal organizers of a community-engaged, union-supported conference entitled “Confronting Global Capital: Strengthening Labour Internationalism and Transnationalism Today,” for which I was awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant of $24, 973.

Collaborator Institution: McMaster University

Start Date:
Jul/2015
End Date:
Feb/2018

Bunting, Annie | Funded | SSHRC Partnershiip

Conjugal Slavery in War: Partnerships for the study of enslavement, marriage and masculinities

This SSHRC-funded Partnership Grant (2015-2020) documents cases of so-called forced marriage in conflict situations, places this data in historical context, and impacts the international prosecution of crimes against humanity as well as local reparations programs for survivors of violence. See: csiw-ectg.org

Start Date:
Apr/2015
End Date:
Mar/2020

Krikorian, Jacqueline D. |

Constitution-Making and the Emergence of the British North America Act, 1867

Although there is a considerable body of scholarship that focuses on Canadian Confederation, there is relatively little research on the making of the BNA Act, 1867. This project remedies this gap in the literature by undertaking the first comprehensive analysis of the emergence of the BNA Act, 1867. More specifically, it draws upon historical institutionalism to help explain the nature, origins and processes that led to its adoption. This study considers not only the architects' interests and goals in drafting Canada's first constitution, but it also assesses the institutional influences and constraints affecting its development in the decades prior to its adoption.

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

Constructing a North-South Knowledge Community for Development Research and Practice

Funders:
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Yang, Zijiang | Funded | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage Grant

Content recommendations in a live customer environment

Role: Sole Principle Investigator

Funders:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage Grant

Huang, Jimmy | Funded | Research Tools and Instruments (NSERC)

Context-aware information retrieval and semantic text analysis for very large unstructured data

Funders:
Research Tools and Instruments (NSERC)

Mutimer, David | Funded | SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

Controlling excessive and destabilising arms: A comparative analysis

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Neil Cooper, Keith Krause, Nic Marsh
Collaborator Institution: University of Bradford, Small Arms Survey, PRIO

Start Date:
Aug/2011

Porporato, Marcela |

Controls to Coordinate or to monitor: an empirical assessment of their impact on performance

Management control systems are mainly used to reduce the uncertainty in highly uncertain environments such as joint ventures, providing evidence on how management control systems are used and contribute to improve organization's performance.

Ng, Peggy | Funded | Environment Canada

Copula Model with Autocorrelated Discrete-Continuous Mixture Margins with Application in the Uns of Indices of Climate Extremes in Climate Change Detection Studies

Funders:
Environment Canada

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

Corporate Governance, Economic Reform and Development: The Case of India

Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

Corporate Social Responsibility and Societal Control

Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada, SSHRC, Round 1 of MCRI

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada

, | Funded | SSHRC

Corrections Canada: Looking at Experiences of Risk and Masculinity among Corrections Officers

Role: Primary Investigator

Toyasaki, Fuminori | Funded | The Candian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)

Countermeasure to supply chain disruptions in medical and pharmaceutical industries associated with COVID-19

The intended research project focuses on the supply chain disruptions that medical/pharmaceutical industries are currently facing in the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak, due to the suppliers’ strategic hoarding and consumers’ panic buying behavior under psychological and behavioral uncertainties. Specifically, this proposed research project explores: factors that delay the resilience of medical/pharmaceutical industries’ supply chain disruptions caused by the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak; and the feasibility of two countermeasures that we propose: (1) establishing a collaborative stock sharing/transshipment system; and (2) making an incentive contract with a potential second source that can produce highly customized medical/pharmaceutical items (e.g., ventilators, protective clothing for or a new drug for novel viruses).

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

Collaborator: Solis Adriano, Asgary Ali and Wakolbiger Tina
Collaborator Institution: York University and Vienna University of Economics and Business
Funders:
Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)

Start Date:
Mar/2020
End Date:
Dec/2022

Solis, Adriano O. | Funded | Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Countermeasures to the supply chain disruptions in medical and pharmaceutical industries

Disasters and emergencies such as the current COVID-19 pandemic cause major problems and challenges for medical and pharmaceutical supply chains. The objective of this research project is to identify key operational levers that can enhance supply chain resilience of organizations in pharmaceutical and medical industries to aid them in the current crisis and also prepare them for future emergencies and disruptive situations.

Role: Co-Applicant/Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Prof. Fuminori Toyasaki
Collaborator Institution: School of Administrative Studies, York University
Collaborator Role: Principal Applicant/Principal Investigator

Funders:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Start Date:
Mar/2020
End Date:
Feb/2022

, | Funded | SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Country Image Measurement and Its Implications for Country Branding

Collaborator: Louise Heslop and Roland Thomas
Funders:
SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Matsuoka, Atsuko | Funded | Attorney General

Court-based Family mediation with South Asians in Peel

Role: Investigator

Funders:
The Ministry of Attorney Genearal

Armstrong, Pat |

covid and families

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
sshrc

Das Gupta, Tania | Funded | Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

COVID-19 and Punjabi Migration

In partnership with Punjabi Community Health Services (PCHS), this project’s goals are to discover the shifting needs, obstacles, concerns and coping strategies around settlement among young newcomer Punjabis (ages 18–35) in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) arising as a result of COVID-19.

Role: Principle Investigator

Collaborator: Dr. Sugandha Nagpal
Collaborator Institution: O.P. Jindal Global University, India
Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
May/2021
End Date:
Dec/2021

Solis, Adriano O. | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

COVID-19: Building disaster preparedness and resilience via analytics of a fire department's responses to emergency incidents in a pandemic—Case of Vaughan, Ontario

The research project applies data analytics to enable evidence-based planning and decision-making with respect to disaster and emergency mitigation, preparedness, and response strategies and initiatives, which may potentially be applied as further stages/waves of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis unfold, as well as when new pandemics arise in the future. This knowledge mobilization project has the Vaughan Fire and Rescue Service (VFRS) as partner organization.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Prof. Ali Asgary
Collaborator Institution: York University
Collaborator Role: Co-Applicant/Co-Investigator

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Start Date:
Sep/2020
End Date:
Aug/2021

Murnaghan, Ann Marie | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

COVID-19: Mapping Canada's potential to shift to a cycling nation post-pandemic through a Canada-Wide, coordinated bike count

Collaborator with Sara Kirk, Dalhousie University, Alexander Soucy, St. Mary's, Meghan Winters, SFU, Karen Laberee, Victoria, Anders Swanson, Winnipeg Trails Association, Kate Walker, Velo Canada Bikes.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted contemporary life globally. It is also exposing inequities within communities, disproportionately impacting women and racialized communities. Current physical distancing measures have forced us to acknowledge the limitations of our existing transportation modes, and we are seeing a "bicycle bump" as people reliant on public transit, who are also often those from low income neighbourhoods, look for different ways to safely move around.

The response to the pandemic has opened up an opportunity to re-imagine what Canadian cities can look like. It has also identified a need for better data on cycling across Canada, as a mode for everyday transportation, for post-pandemic planning purposes and because cycling is also a viable means to address climate change. The goal of this Partnership Engage Grant is to connect researchers and cycling advocates from across Canada to better understand these cycling trends regionally and nationally in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The partner organization is Vélo Canada Bikes (VCB), a national non-profit organization, established in 2012 to provide a strong national voice for everyday cycling in Canada.

Our goal in this partnership is to establish cordon counts in 12 communities across Canada, selected based on region (Western, Central, Eastern, Northern and Atlantic Canada), size and potential for accelerating cycling. There are two objectives: 1) To collect objective data on cycling in 12 cities across Canada, with a focus on measuring cycling rates in pop-up cycling lanes, on closed streets, and along transit routes, and 2) To catalyze citizen engagement, by mobilizing citizens from diverse communities across Canada and promoting cycling as one solution to the dual, and related, threats of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.

Cordon counts provide useful information about trips from and to zones within a community based on a specific geographic boundary, or screen line, as well as providing greater detail on the spatial distribution of cycling in a city. Volunteer cordon counts already take place in cities around the world, but only take place in a handful of cities in Canada. We will use an established protocol to ensure that communities undertake the same process for data collection. We will include a particular focus on collecting data on gender and race. Participating communities will implement a standard protocol to generate data that will allow for comparison nationally and with the potential for application internationally. Count data will be collected using the CounterPoint mobile application. CounterPoint is an award-winning app that is free to use and designed to leverage the power of citizen science and
crowdsourcing to help the world understand how people move.

This VCB-academic partnership will enhance the quality and quantity of data that can be collected and ensure that a standard protocol is applied to data collection and analysis. Analysis will be facilitated through the academic team associated with this partnership. These represent diverse disciplines and expertise, including experience in conducting and analyzing cycling counts, citizen science, gender-based analysis and population health. The data collected will be made available to academic teams across Canada through a data-sharing agreement. The proposal directly addresses the objectives of the SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants COVID-19 Special Initiative by focusing on understanding the differentiated social impacts of the pandemic, building longer-term resilience and rethinking communal approaches to mobility for Canadians.

Role: Collaborator

Collaborator: ara Kirk, Dalhousie University, Alexander Soucy, St. Mary's, Meghan Winters, SFU, Karen Laberee, Victoria, Anders Swanson, Winnipeg Trails Association, Kate Walker, Velo Canada Bikes
Funders:
Partnership Engage Program Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Shabtay, Abigail | Funded | SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (COVID-19 Special Initiative)

COVID-19: Re-Conceptualizing Young People's Theatre's Collaborative Playwriting Program for Digitally Mediated Spaces (SSHRC-funded)

The overarching goal of this project is to address a children's theatre's challenge of re-conceptualizing its collaborative playwriting for an online context, and gain an understanding children's perspectives, engagement and reception of the program.

Role: Principal Investigator

Liegghio, Maria |

Covid19: Fostering Child, Youth, and Family Resilience

This 4-year study examines the impacts of the Covid19 pandemic on the resilience of Canadian children, youth, and families. A comparison will be conducted between Québec and Ontario as distinct socio-economic and political contexts. The study uses a modified community-based participatory action research approach and a mixed methods design. The research questions are: 1) in what ways are Canadian children, youth, and families in specific socio-political contexts "responding to" Covid19 pandemic-related adversities based on the resources available to them, and 2) what are the Covid19 pandemic-related experiences of children, youth, and their families that contribute to the reasons for which they access mental health services?

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC - Insight Grant

Start Date:
Jun/2021

Liegghio, Maria |

Covid19: Impacts on the Provisioning and Resilience of Youth Living in Poverty

Using a remote photo voice method we explore the impacts of the Covid19 pandemic on the provisioning and resilience of youth from lone mother households living in poverty.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant

Start Date:
Sep/2020

Porporato, Marcela | Funded | Chartered Professional Accountants Ontario (CPA Ontario)

CREATE AWARENESS ON THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION THROUGH RESEARCH AND TEACHING

This study intents to advance our knowledge base on global fraud, money laundering and corruption practices that affect Canadian companies and professionals. Given the importance of educating current and future professional accountants in the fight against corruption, we believe this research can help to understand how practicing accountants, and other Canadian professionals view/use research.

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Feb/2021
End Date:
Jan/2022

Shabtay, Abigail | Funded | SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant

Creating Children's Theatre in a Digital World (SSHRC-funded)

The overarching goal of this project is to address a touring theatre organization's challenge of developing live performances for children in an online setting during the pandemic.

Role: Principal Investigator

Heron, Barbara | Funded | IRDC

Creating Global Citizens? The Impact of Learning/Volunteer Abroad Programs

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Rebecca Tiessen
Collaborator Institution: Dalhousie University
Collaborator Role: Co-Investigator

Funders:
IRDC

Asgary, Ali | SSHRC

Crisis Management: Case of School Shooting

Sloos, Renée | Funded | SSHRC Insight

Crisis responses, policing and police encounters with psychiatrically "at risk" children and youth

This project focuses on the lived experiences of children and youth diagnosed with mental health issues who have encounters with police services.

Start Date:
Sep/2018

Liegghio, Maria | Funded | SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Crisis responses, policing and police encounters with psychiatrically "at-risk" children and youth

The purpose of this 2 year, community-university partnership is to pilot a study - its methods, questions, and theoretical orientation - to explore crisis responses, policing, and police encounters with children and youth in need of, or involved with the child and youth mental health system.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Start Date:
Sep/2018
End Date:
Nov/2022

Knouzi, Ibtissem |

Critical transitions in the English writing development of multilingual writers in English-medium universities

This exploratory cross-sectional study aims to examine multilingual international students’ experiences and the factors that promote or hinder their appropriation of genre-specific skills/knowledge taught in three instructional contexts: low pre-admission, advanced pre-admission, and post-admission ESL courses .

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC-Explore

Start Date:
Mar/2020
End Date:
Mar/2021

Li, Muyang | Funded | SSHRC

Cross-Ideology News Consumption and Public Trust in COVID-19 Vaccines: A Canada versus the U.S. Comparative Study

This project aims to compare how news outlets in Canada and the U.S. communicate COVID-19 vaccines and the risks of the Coronavirus to the public, and the extent to which cross-ideology news consumption shapes public trust in vaccines.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Sep/2021
End Date:
Sep/2023

Hayward, Mark | Funded | SSHRC

Crossmedia Economies of Ethnic Media in Canada, 1975-1990

This project examines the development of third-language media in Canada and the ways in which it made use of multiple forms of media to reach communities across Canada.

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Jan/2013
End Date:
Mar/2018

McGuire, Wendy |

Cultivating a Critical Social Work Habitus: Understanding the Role of Emotion in Translating Critical Social Work Knowledge into Practice

This study explores the use of two tools to help undergraduate social work students identify, express and respond to emotion in relation to critical theory. It is hypothesized that students who become more adept at recognizing and expressing emotion will develop a critical social work habitus that enables them to translate theoretical knowledge into practice across a wide range of situations.

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Sep/2014
End Date:
Jul/2016

Butler, Gary R | Funded | Secretary of State of Canada

Cultural Adaptation and Retention: The African-Caribbean Narrative Tradition in Toronto

Role: Principal and sole investigator

Funders:
Secretary of State of Canada (Multiculturalism and Citizenship)

End Date:
Jan/2001

Butler, Gary R | Funded | S.S.H.R.C.

Cultural Assimilation and Dissimilation: The African-Caribbean Narrative Tradition in Toronto

This project traces the tradition of oral narrative from its roots in West Africa to the Caribbean (in particular, Trinidad & Tobago). It focuses on how the elements of this traditional culture had evolved in the new urban context of the Caribbean community in Toronto.

Role: Sole & Principal Investigator

Funders:
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada

End Date:
Sep/2001

Daley, Andrea | Funded | SSHRC - Insight Grant

Cultural Representations of Gender in Psychiatric Narratives

The proposed 3-year study examines representations of femininities and masculinities as they exist within the contemporary psychiatric medical chart. The objectives of the proposed research include: 1) Exploring how psychiatric narratives (re)produce and sanction particular femininities as idealized /marginalized and particular masculinities as hegemonic /marginalized; 2) Exploring how psychiatric discourses organize gender relations between women and men; 3) Investigating the role of psychiatric institutions in organizing gender relations among women and men; 4) Empirically grounding psychiatric consumer/survivor (C/S) movement critiques that challenge institutionalized oppressions related to mental distress and gender, sexuality, race and class.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC - Insight Grant

Start Date:
Jun/2014
End Date:
Mar/2017

Karpinski, Eva C. |

Curating Lives: The Ethics and Politics of Feminist Critical Biography

A book manuscript in which I examine the concept of feminist critical biography as a method of reading biographical narratives, both visual and textual, at the intersections of gender, genre, ethics, and politics of personal, institutional, and cultural production. Looking at the biographer as a “curator” of a writer or artist’s life, I explore the rules of engagement with other people’s lives, and especially the differences between autobiographical and biographical strategies of writing and representation. As an intersubjective genre, biography is a cultural practice of recuperation and appropriation of the individual historical subject at the same time as it participates in the construction and preservation of collective public memory. I frame my analysis within larger questions of the aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and ideological role of biography in contemporary culture. Working from an interdisciplinary conjunction of feminist autobiography studies, women’s history, art history, cultural studies, and popular culture, I cover different biographical genres and media, including literary biography, fictionalized biographical novel, biographical memoir, postmodern hybrid biography, biographical film documentary, and graphic biography.

Role: Principal Investigator

Murnaghan, Ann Marie | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Curating the story museum: Transmedia practices, participatory exhibits, and youth citizenship

You can learn more about our Curating Story project at curatingstory.com

Role: Co-investigator

Collaborator: Naomi Hamer
Collaborator Institution: Ryerson University
Collaborator Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Start Date:
Jun/2018
End Date:
Jun/2022

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CURRENT RESEARCH: Indigenous Transformative Justice to Reduce Incarceration and Recidivism in Canada

The research examines how and why Indigenous incarceration rates remain startlingly high across Canada, both federally and provincially. Emphasis is placed on criminal court procedures and judicial decision-making. Principles of Indigenous justice are evaluated for their inclusion in the criminal justice system to reduce incarceration and recidivism rates.

Role: Principal Investigator

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CURRENT RESEARCH: Upholding the Spirit of the Royal Proclamation: An Analysis of Canadian Government Policy on Indigenous Land Negotiations

Role: Principal Investigator

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CURRENT RESEARCH: “Growing Public Awareness of Indigenous Criminal Injustice?: Implications for Institutional Legitimacy and the Indigenous-Canada Relationship"

Role: Principal Investigator

Hayden, Wilburn | Funded | LA & PS Internationalization Initiatives Fund

Curriculum Assessment & Planning, Salahaddin University- Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq April 10 – 21, 2013

The primary objective of the project was to explore potential collaboration between the School of Social Work and Salahaddin University’s Social Work Education Department.

Role: Principle Investigator

Funders:
LA & PS Internationalization Initiatives Fund

Start Date:
Apr/2013
End Date:
Apr/2013

Yang, Zijiang |

Customer relationship management using machine learning and statistical approaches

This research will be applicable to Canadian small business owners. Customer Relationship Management has become a vital function to business operations nowadays and there is ever increasing demand for Canadian business owners to have accurate classification models to precisely predict customer behaviors in order to increase businesses’ profits.

Funders:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Persram, Nalini |

D is for Dharavi

Entrepreneurial innovation and cultural creation in Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, in Mumbai, India. Lessons for the "First" World/Global North.

Role: Director, Writer, Knowledge Mobilizer

Collaborator Institution: Derek Jarman Lab
Collaborator Role: Cinematography, editing, production, post-production, dissemination, knowledge mobilization

Funders:
YCAR

Start Date:
Jan/2017

Magee, Joanne |

DAIS and Tax

Working with students and practitioners to contribute to learning materials on data analytics and information systems (DAIS) competencies that apply to tax.

Mulé, Nick |

Dark Tribe: Subaltern Gay Male Sex

This study looks at male-to-male sexual activity in the subaltern world of male sexual spaces. The importance of such spaces is examined regarding opportunities, safety, etiquette, status, safer sex practices, negotiation and navigation of sexual expression through sexual activity and time-limited communal engagement for sexual pleasure and affirmation, and how all of this contrast normative societal expectations.

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Apr/2018
End Date:
Mar/2022

Toyasaki, Fuminori | Funded | NSERC Disvocery Grant

Data analysis of R&D partnerships to design a decision making support system for use in alliance formation

Innovation is widely recognized as a highly important consideration for many firms. Studies indicate that innovation and new product development often help to retain customer interest while having positive effects on both the financial and market position of firms. Process innovation can also lead to an increase in efficiency of operations and production. However, despite the potential advantages of innovation through research and development (R&D), attempting innovation can be risky. There is potential that firms will not be successful in their attempts to develop new solutions. There is also risk associated with competitors copying new ideas and with the fact that partners may be uncooperative or opportunistic.

In the face of pandemics such as COVID-19, unusual and unprecedented circumstances may influence the outcomes of an R&D partnership. Travel restrictions can prevent firms from meeting international partners, supply shortages can lead to delays in the research process, and economic hardships can result in funding changes. However at the same time, pandemics can enhance the cooperative attitude of firms in working together to develop new medical solutions, leading to an increase in knowledge sharing. Via connections to R&D research groups, we study both the positive and negative effects of COVID-19 on the R&D process, and we use the results of this study to create an additional R&D partner selection model for use in pandemics. Further, we investigate the managerial implications of our results, and use them to develop strategies for R&D project management during pandemics. By gaining a better understanding of the antecedents for successful R&D partnership, we establish results that will prove to be of interest to both academics and practitioners alike.

Collaborator: Richard Abigail
Collaborator Institution: University of Indianapolis
Funders:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Start Date:
Apr/2021

Goldstein, David | Funded | Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council

Dawnside

A book of poetry that uses the language of space science to explore the nature of fatherhood.

Pike, Kelly | Funded | Durham University through Higher Education Funding Council for England/Global Challenges Research Fund

Decent Work Regulation in Africa

The project on Decent Work Regulation in Africa is a collaboration between Durham University (UK), the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and York University (Canada). DWR-Africa is led by Professor Deirdre McCann of Durham Law School and funded through the UK Global Challenges Research Fund. A central aim of the Project is to establish a Regional Network of researchers and policy-makers with an interest in effective labour regulation. DWR-Africa responds to UN Sustainable Development Goal 8: to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all. To achieve this objective, effective labour regulation is crucial. Strong labour laws are a vital component of development policies, capable of supporting inclusive growth, sustainable prosperity, and the wellbeing of workers and their families. Yet the regulatory strategies that can effectively achieve decent work – especially in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) – have yet to be designed.

A Pilot Project on Enforcing Labour Laws in Southern Africa is being led by Dr Shane Godfrey of the Institute of Development and Labour Law, University of Cape Town and Professor Kelly Pike of the School of Human Resource Management, York University, Toronto. The project aims to better understand the limitations and strengths of multi-stakeholder models in South Africa and Lesotho. The focus is on whether these models provide a better way to enforce labour rights. To investigate this question, fieldwork was carried out in the garment sectors in South Africa and Lesotho during 2018. This research involved interviews with stakeholders in both countries including government officials, employers, unions, NGOs and other local initiatives, and workers themselves.

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Deirdre McCann; Shane Godfrey
Collaborator Institution: Durham University; University of Cape Town
Collaborator Role: Principal Investigator; Co-Investigator

Funders:
Durham University, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Global Challenges Research Fund

Chatterjee, Soma |

Decolonial solidarity and social change in the context of xenophobic nationalism: Dialogues and deliberations in the postsecondary educational site

The project aims to engage student voices and perspectives on the deeply entangled political phenomena of migration (e.g., via dominant and subaltern, “outside-of-state” forms), various disparate diasporic formations (e.g., non-status workers, asylum seeker and international students), and xenophobic white nationalism (a reactionary force). A series of conversations on global social movements and transnational solidarity are organized to both enhance student learning about the application of critical social work tools in responding to reactionary forces, and engage student perspectives on critical decolonial solidarity.

Role: Co-facilitator

Funders:
YUFA Teaching/Learning Development Grant

, | SSHRC Standard Research Grants

Deferred Compensation and Organizational Productivity

Heron, Barbara |

Desire for Development Research Project

Funders:
Atkinson Junior Faculty Fund Grant

Asgary, Ali | Funded | SSHRC

Determinants of Business Continuity Planning in Canada: Estimating Business’ Willingness to Pay for Power Outage Mitigation and Preparedness Using Stated Choice Analysis

Role: Principle Investigator

Porporato, Marcela |

Determinants of the Use of Management Control Systems in Companies Operating under Turbulent Conditions

This study investigates the role that management control systems (MCS) play in the performance of the organizations operating under turbulent conditions. Two sets of companies are studied as turbulent conditions: international joint ventures (JVs) in the auto and motor industry and manufacturing companies located in a regional economy of a less developed country (LDC).

Man, Guida | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Developing a comprehensive understanding of elder abuse prevention in immigrant communities

Older adults are the fastest-growing age group in Canada. In 2011, an estimated 5 million
Canadians were 65 or older, and by 2050, about one in four Canadians is expected to be 65 or over. Elder abuse is already a growing problem with significant societal implications and, given these demographics, is critical to address. Scholars are increasingly focusing on elder abuse, but little is known about the risk factors -- which include complex social variables -- for elder abuse within immigrant communities or what interventions might best prevent elder abuse in these communities.

Purpose: The purpose of this multidisciplinary study is: first, to develop a comprehensive classification of risk factors for elder abuse in immigrant communities: because immigrants represent an increasingly large proportion of older adults in Canada, it is critical to clarify these complex variables and how they combine to increase older immigrants' risk of elder abuse; and second, to identify the most appropriate and culturally relevant strategies to address the risk factors in immigrant communities in Canada. The study builds on the literature and our own work in this area, and addresses a knowledge, policy, and practice gap identified by various stakeholders across Canada.

Theoretical approaches: Theoretically, our study is guided by the intersectionality perspective and an ecological framework, allowing us to critically examine the complexity surrounding multiple dimensions of social identity (e.g., gender, race, class, culture, immigration status) and how these interrelate at the micro (individual and family), meso (community), and macro (societal) levels.

Consistent with this theoretical framework, we will use a collaborative, community-based,
mixed-methods approach to enable stakeholders to actively determine where research should be
conducted, which factors are relevant to abuse, and strategies consistent with cultural beliefs, values, and preferences of the immigrant communities.

Research plan: We will conduct structured group interviews with older women and men who have experienced abuse, family members, and formal and informal leaders from immigrant communities, and social and settlement service providers in the Greater Toronto Area. We will include two established and two recent communities from both the East Asian and South Asian immigrant communities: Chinese, Korean, Punjabi, and Tamil. Our team has expertise conducting research on elder abuse in immigrant communities in Canada, has well-established working relationships with these communities, and has conducted research of this scale on related topics. Quantitative and qualitative data collected via structured group interviews will be analyzed at the level of particular group interview, subgroups, and communities, and will be integrated across communities to identify common and unique risk factors and intervention strategies. We will pay particular attention to various social dimensions including gender,
age, culture, length of stay in Canada, fluency in English, employment and income, and extended familyco-residence.

Potential impact: The proposed approach is comprehensive in that it will incorporate local knowledge and expert contributions from immigrant women and men, family members, community members, and service providers and policymakers at each phase of the study. As a result, the findings will be relevant so as to contribute to the well being and social needs of older men and women in immigrant communities. The findings will contribute empirically and theoretically, as well as to policy debate and practice change, which will have local, national, and international significance.

Role: CI

Collaborator: Sepali Guruge
Collaborator Institution: Ryerson University, York University
Collaborator Role: PI

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Aug/2016
End Date:
Aug/2022

Sloos, Renée |

Developing a framework of best practices for multi-sector collaboration fostering integration in child and youth mental health systems

Mitacs-funded research fellowship. This project examines collaborations between health care , social care, and education service providers involved in the delivery of mental health care for children, youth, and families to identify practices that lead to effective inter-sector partnerships.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Dr. Maria Liegghio
Collaborator Role: Post Doctoral Supervisor

Start Date:
May/2020
End Date:
Apr/2023

Liegghio, Maria |

Developing a framework of best practices for multi-sector collaboration fostering integration in child and youth mental health systems

Post-doctoral Visitor: Dr. Renée Sloos

Role: Principal Investigator, Post-doctoral Supervisor

Funders:
MITACS Accelerate Grant

Start Date:
May/2020

Jones, Joanne | Funded | Atkinson Teaching Research, Experiments, Engagement and Sharing (TREES) grant

Developing Critical Thinking in Accounting Education

This project involves the development of an accounting skills workshops for accounting students to assist them in developing their critical thinking and specific job skills.

Collaborator: Gary Spraakman
Funders:
Atkinson Teaching Research, Experiments, Engagement and Sharing (TREES) grant

Start Date:
Jul/2009
End Date:
Jul/2010

Chatterjee, Soma |

Developing Responsible Global Citizenship through the Teaching of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Society

The purpose of this project is to explore cultural representations and diasporic imagination in the study of language and literatures. In so doing it aims to bring together literary studies with the study of these issues as dealt with in disciplines of social work, sociology and the larger transnationalism and diaspora studies.

Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
Scheme for the Promotion of Academic Research and Collaboration (SPARC) Grant: A Govt. of India Initiative

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya | Funded | Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute

Development in the Aftermath of the Global Crisis

A grant for developing a research partnership with the Center for Development Studies, Kerala, India on development and the global financial crisis

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator Institution: Center for Development Studies, Kerala, India
Funders:
Shastri Indo - Canadian Institute

Asgary, Ali | Funded | Precarn

Development of a Rule-Based Structural Fire Threat Assessment System for Canadian Fire Departments

Funders:
Precarn

Spraakman, Gary | Funded | CGA-Canada

Differential Use of Controls Between Firms Pursuing Fusion Strategies and those Pursuing Integration Strategies

Funders:
CGA-Canada

Berland, Jody | Funded | SSHRC

Digital Animalities: Media Representations of Non Human Life

An interdisciplinary collaborative study of animals in digital media in the context of environmental risk with 10 co-investigators and collaborators.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Jul/2015
End Date:
Jun/2019

Sanders, Leslie |

Digital Interactive Environments and New Curriculum for Schools

Role: PI: Professor Leslie Sanders, York University

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Council, Canada

Agrawal, Niru | Funded | SSHRC

Disaster and Emergency Management Systems in Canada: Taking Stock

To assess how disaster and emergency management institutions perceive their importance in terms of Canadian society and the emergency management community. We propose to engage emergency management institutions in a survey that will provide insight into the current state of disaster and emergency management in Canada and answer questions such as: are there issues within the system that affect disaster management? Are the majority of emergency managers satisfied with their institution’s mandate and performance? Is the level of education and training of emergency managers adequate? If not, is there a demand to acquire higher education and/or training? Is there disconnect between policy decisions, research and practice?

Start Date:
Jul/2008
End Date:
Jun/2010

Su, Yvonne | Funded | SSHRC

Displaced, Resettled and Isolated - Impact of COVID-19 on Disaster-affected Households in Resettlement Sites in Tacloban, Philippines

As Southeast Asia’s COVID-19 hot spot, the Philippines has implemented one of the world’s strictest lockdowns. The highly urbanized city of Tacloban, home to 250,000 people, has enforced strict community quarantine measures that has greatly limited the ability of citizens to work, travel and access their basic needs. Tacloban is also still recovering from Typhoon Haiyan’s destruction in 2013, the strongest storm ever recorded. With tens of thousands of people displaced to resettlement sites on the city’s outskirts with limited access to health services, livelihoods, transportation, COVID-19 is a clear threat to their lives and livelihoods.

The vulnerability of disaster-affected households is exacerbated by the double isolation of being forcibly displaced as well as COVID-19 quarantine measures. Working closely with the Church, this study is the first and only formal academic study so far, to examine how COVID-19 has deepened disaster-affected households’ vulnerabilities. Researchers will conduct key informant interviews, surveys and focus group discussions across four COVID-19 affected resettlement sites. This research will contribute to the advancement of knowledge and produce social benefits by collecting timely data on marginalized resettlement communities. Specifically the short-term outcomes are: 1) rapid research on the most pressing needs of disaster-affected households in resettlement sites amid COVID-19, 2) identification of how COVID-19 has deepened pre-existing vulnerabilities faced by these households and 3) the co-creation of recommendations for how to prioritize limited resources to mitigate the impact of subsequent waves of the virus. The potential long-term benefits and outcomes as a result of the knowledge mobilization activities are 1) a stronger understanding of the impacts of COVID-19 and how it has deepened the existing vulnerabilities faced by on disaster-affected households in resettlement sites by politicians, humanitarian actors and the general public, 2) a consideration of the co-created recommendations by local, national and humanitarian actors, and 3) more media and academic interest in studying and assisting this precarious and neglected population.

Role: P.I.

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Dec/2020
End Date:
Nov/2022

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Disproportionality of African-American children in the U.S. child welfare system: Implications for foster care placement and permanency

Role: Principal Investigator

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Diversity and Leadership in Canada

This manuscript will show the statistical profiles of corporate executives and board directors and identify barriers to leadership for women, racialized minorities, persons with disabilities and Aboriginal peoples.

Albo, Gregory A |

Divided Province: Ontario in the Age of Neoliberalism

2018 ‘Divided Province: Ontario in the Age of Neoliberalism’
Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
$8000

Funders:
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Emberly, Andrea |

Doctoral field research, Limpopo, South Africa.

Research on the musical cultures of children in South Africa and the use of music in children’s media and educational programs. Funded by SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Doctoral Fellowship. February 2005 - July 2007.

Kroker, Kenton |

Doctoral Supervision - Ryan Staples

Doctoral Supervisor (Humanities) of Ryan Staples: "Dreaming and Personhood: On Desire and Objectivity" (in progress)

Role: Doctoral Supervisor

Kroker, Kenton |

Doctoral Supervisor - Dorian Deshauer

Primary supervisor (Science & Technology Studies) of Dorian Deshauer: "Inventing Psychiatric Drug Maintenance" (defended 2018)

Lovejoy, Paul | Funded | Trans-Atlantic Platform for Social Innvation

Documenting Africans in Trans-Atlantic Slavery (DATAS)

“Documenting Africans in Trans-Atlantic Slavery (DATAS)” (www.datasproject.org) develops an innovative method to explore African ethnonyms from the era of trans-Atlantic slavery, circa 1500-1867. Ethnonyms index African identities, places and historical events to reconstruct African culture that is linked to a history of slavery, colonialism and racism. The project centres on the need to understand the origins and trajectories of people of African descent who populated the trans-Atlantic world in the modern era. The development of a method for analysing demographic change and confronting social inequalities arising from racism constitutes a social innovation. The team’s methodology implements a research tool developed in Canada for handling ethnonyms that can be applied in a trans- Atlantic context from France and the United Kingdom to Brazil, the Caribbean and Africa. This innovation confronts methodological problems that researchers encounter in reconstructing the emergence of the African diaspora. A methodology for data justice is salient because ethnonym decision-making used in our digital platform, requires a reconceptualization of the classification systems concerning West Africans. This methodology depends on an open source relational database that
addresses important decisions that researchers face in the field about how to develop best practices and a controlled vocabulary for four reasons. First, scholarly expertise on West Africans is scattered globally. Second, the slave trade was transnational, rarely limited to one country or population, and the transfer of Africans across borders reflects this global relationship between colonial and colonized. Third, DATAS makes available a vast amount of information of immense value to marginalized communities deprived of information on their own history. Fourth, the trans-Atlantic and trans-national nature of this project complements the aims of a platform predicated on global collaboration. The project treats ethnonyms as decision making tools as a method whose concepts require rethinking entrenched assumptions about demography, data justice and research transparency.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC
British Research Council

Medovarski, Andrea |

Documenting and Assessing Alternative Pathways to University for ‘Non-traditional’ Students

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Brenda Spotton Visano (principal investigator) and Leslie Sanders
Funders:
Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario

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dushani project 1

test summary

, | Funded | NSERC Discovery Grant

Dynamic Pricing of Perishable Items Under Competition

Funders:
NSERC Discovery Grant

Karakul, Mustafa | NSERC

E-commerce revenue management realistic and practical models for multiple products

Funders:
NSERC

Widmer, Sandra |

Eating for Trillions: The Social Lives of Direct to Consumer Microbiome Tests

This project looks at how Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) microbiome test users in an urban post-industrial context understand their bodies. Analyzing their experiences is significant as a way of understanding the accelerating biologization of human relations in the “postgenomic condition” (Reardon 2017). The microbiome is a term that scientists use to refer to the combined genetic material (the genome) of the microbes in a human body. DTC microbiome tests examine a tiny fraction of the trillions of cells in a human body that belong to microscopic microbes, like bacteria, fungi and viruses (e.g. Paxson 2008; Yong 2016). The tests can be seen as an example of precision medicine, a form of medicine that offers therapeutics optimized with genomic profiling. DTC test companies’ marketing strategies hinge on convincing consumers to purchase their analysis in order to optimize personal wellness. The project combines online ethnography with participant observation with food fermenters in Toronto, as well as interviews with naturopaths and other health professionals, DTC testing company, health food marketers.
The project will also situate DTC test users’ lived experiences of their bodies and frequent experiences of precarity and uncertainty in a wider social and political context o in political economies of North American biotechnology and biomedicine (Lorimer 2017).

Funders:
SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

Economic Policy, Displacement and Development Ethics: An Indo-Canadian Dislogue

Role: Collaborator

Funders:
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute

, |

EDITED BOOK: Encounters in Canada: Comparing Indigenous, Settler and Migrant Perspectives

Edited Volume (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) (under contract)

Role: Co-Editor (with David McNab and H. Thomas Wilson)

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EDITED BOOK: Pressing Problems and Changing Challenges: Examining the Most Significant Issues Facing Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Edited Volume (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) (under contract)

Tusikov, Natasha | Funded | Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Contributions Program

Effects of Informal Online Regulatory Regimes on Privacy

The goal of this project is to examine the potential effects on Canadians’ privacy of non-legally binding or ‘informal’ regulatory regimes that are undertaken by globally operating Internet firms and online payment providers. In particular, the project explores risks to Canadian’s privacy resulting from the involvement of Internet companies in informal regulatory agreements with intellectual property rights holders. The expansion of e-commerce facilitates the ability of consumers to acquire counterfeit goods and copyright infringing content such as unauthorised downloads of music, film, and software. To address this behaviour, multinational rights holders, such as Nike, Gucci, Proctor and Gamble, and Microsoft are forming enforcement partnerships with large, mostly U.S.-based Internet firms and payment providers like Google, PayPal and Visa. Instead of using legislation or judicial remedies like litigation or court orders, however, these rights holders are increasingly using non-legally binding regulatory agreements. These agreements, which do not have the force or legitimacy of law, are composed of broadly worded minimum guidelines to direct Internet firms’ enforcement efforts. Under these agreements, Internet firms and payment providers act voluntarily to remove Internet content from websites determined to be illicitly distributing counterfeit products or copyright-infringing material.

Yang, Zijiang | Funded | NSERC Discovery Grant

Efficiency analysis and prediction in the financial services industry

Funders:
NSERC

Man, Guida | Funded | Community Investment Funding Program of the City of Toronto

Elder Abuse in the Chinese Canadian Community in Toronto

Role: Research Advisor

Collaborator Institution: Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter

Start Date:
Sep/2015

Man, Guida | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Eldercare Within Chinese Immigrant Families

sshrc small grant

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Oct/2016

doyle, kerry | Funded | AIF

eLearning & General Education Course Design

The goal of this project was to develop a blended eLearning course to serve as a Humanities General Education course offered through York University's Writing Department. The new blended course reflects the university’s emphasis on enhancing the first year experience through “attention to the development of fundamental and transferable skills including effective communication, critical thinking, research and information literacy, and collaboration” (Building a More Engaged University: Strategic Directions for York University 2010-2020). Our challenge was to determine how online learning technology will best serve the goals of our specific course while enriching the learning experience of our students.

Role: Project Lead

Collaborator: Ron Sheese
Collaborator Institution: York University
Collaborator Role: Project Advisor

Start Date:
Sep/2013
End Date:
Sep/2014

Campeanu, Radu | Funded | NSERC

Electron and Positron Impact Collisions with Atoms and Molecules

Funders:
NSERC grant

Start Date:
Apr/2015
End Date:
Apr/2020

Coulter, Natalie H. | Funded | SSHRC

Embodying the Tween: Living Girlhood in Global and Digital Spaces

The purpose of this project is to explore the tensions between the commercial constructions of youth cultures and the lived experiences of the embodied young person. It will address how the tween girl is framed by and how she engages with such framings. This research has two foci. The first is an exploration of how the cultural industries of girlhood, including digital media and global transmedia properties contribute to the synergistic forces of global capitalism to produce the tween as a global assemblage. The sites of this research include online advergames such as Moshi Monsters and Movie Star Planet, and the websites of media companies such as Disney and Nickelodeon, and digital market research companies such as KZero. The second foci is to explore what girls do with the tween cultures that are produced for them but rarely by them by asking how they negotiate these resources of subjectivity in their everyday lives by looking at the immaterial labour of their participation in digital media and social media networks.

Role: Principle Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Jan/2013
End Date:
Dec/2016

Albo, Gregory A |

Empire’s Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan

2011 ‘Empire’s Ally: Canada and the War in Afghanistan’
Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
$8000

Funders:
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Razack, Narda | Funded | Facult of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies

Engaging global dialogue: decolonizing pedagogy and partnerships. LA&PS Grant for International Collaboration.

This collaborative research project between York University (YU) and Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) aims to explore two critical areas of development for internationalization agreed upon at the first Global Inclusive Dialogue, South Africa, January 2014. //www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20140118132339578
1. ‘the creation of equal and ethical higher education partnerships.’ York and JMI have a signed agreement for research collaboration, student exchanges and collaborative partnerships. We will explore the partnership thus far to analyze the process, ethics and equity in the planning, and partnering for education. Research continues to reveal that imperialism often pervades Global North/South encounters and exchanges. Our goal is to identify and grapple with obstacles, which get in the way of achieving respectful and ethical North/South collaborations.
2.”… increasing focus on the internationalization of the curriculum and of related learning outcomes”. In this era of globalization and internationalizing higher education, many professionals are finding it necessary to rethink research, pedagogy and practice to be especially mindful of diversity among our student body. Many social work educators are responding to these changes by paying attention to the international in the curriculum. The aim is to review and discuss how our curricular is educating students for social work practice in a globalized and transnational age.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Dr. S. Sajid,
Collaborator Institution: Jami MIlia University, Delhi, India.
Collaborator Role: Collaborator for the research in India

Funders:
LAPS

Start Date:
Jun/2015

Corcoran, James | Funded | SSHRC (York University LA&PS)

English for Academic Purposes across Canada: Charting the Post-Secondary Landscape

Mixed methods investigation into the diverse English as an additional language programming taking place at Canadian colleges and universities. This investigation also endeavours to better understand the lived experiences and professional satisfaction of EAP administrators and instructors at Canadian post-secondary institutions.

Role: Lead Investigator

Collaborator: Julia Williams
Collaborator Institution: Renison University College - University of Waterloo
Funders:
SSHRC Explore

Start Date:
Sep/2019

Corcoran, James |

English for Research Publication Purposes: The Longer Term Impact of Pedagogical Interventions

A qualitative investigation of the longer term impact of a particular intensive pedagogical intervention on plurilingual scientists' research writing beliefs, practices, and outcomes.

Start Date:
Jan/2019

Luxton, Meg | Funded | SSHRC

Ensuring Social Reproduction: A Longitudinal Study of Households and Social Policy in Three Ontario Centres

Funders:
SSHRC

Huang, Jimmy | Funded | Ontario Early Researcher Award

Enter the Proposal Title in Non-Technical Language

Funders:
Ontario Early Researcher Award

Splettstoesser , Ingrid |

Entrepreneurial research case

Research case about a business start-up, with a marketing colleague. Moving towards electronic marketing for the business, including development of a revised business strategy.

Mulé, Nick | Funded | SSHRC CURA Grant

Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights

Envisioning Global LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Human Rights is an international research project that fosters links between Canada and the Global South and will document and analyze i) criminalization of LGBT people, ii) flight from violence and persecution, iii) resistance to criminalization, and iv) the interaction between International Treaty Body Human Rights Mechanisms and LGBT rights initiatives.

Role: Co-Applicant

Collaborator: Nancy Nicol - Principal Investigator
Funders:
SSHRC CURA Grant

Start Date:
Apr/2011
End Date:
Mar/2016

Mulé, Nick | Funded | SSHRC CURA Letter of Intent Grant

Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights (LOI)

Role: Co-Applicant

Collaborator: Principal Investigator: Nancy Nicol
Funders:
SSHRC CURA Letter of Intent Grant

Start Date:
Apr/2010
End Date:
Mar/2011

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Equity through reaching white allies

Coulter, Natalie H. | Funded | SSHRC

Ethical, Accessible Research Data Management for the Jane Finch Community

The Jane Finch Community Research Partnership (JFCRP) is a collaborative endeavor between York university and community members of the Jane Finch Community. The goal is to produce the Community Research Portal called Jane Finch Collections (JFC) that can be accessed by the Jane Finch community. //janefinchresearch.ca/

Role: Collaborator

Funders:
SSRHC Connections: Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative

Adelson, Naomi | Funded | Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Ethics in Conditions of Disaster and Deprivation: Learning from Health Workers' Narratives

Role: Co-Investigator

Funders:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Harland, Philip A. |

Ethnicity, Diaspora, and Ethnographic Culture in the Greco-Roman World (SSHRC Insight Grant, 2019-2024)

The overarching goal is to understand how hegemonic ethnic stereotypes and prejudice relate to minority perspectives and experiences in an eastern Mediterranean diaspora context (ca. 450 BCE-212 CE).

Start Date:
Apr/2019
End Date:
Apr/2024

Soennecken, Dagmar | Funded | European Commission

European Centre of Excellence

The European Union Centre of Excellence (EUCE) was established at York University in the Fall of 2009 with the receipt of a grant from the European Commission in Brussels.

Role: Co-applicant, Board Member

Funders:
European Commission

, |

European Migrant "Crisis," Refugee Integration, and the Neo-Nationalist Right

Role: Principal Investigator

Pike, Kelly | Funded | International Labour Office

Evaluation of ILO Workplace Cooperation Program

The Workplace Cooperation Program is an initiative of the International Labour Office (ILO) and a major retailer in the global garment industry. The program aims at training workers and managers to more effectively address and resolve non-compliance issues. This project serves as an evaluation of the program.

Role: Project Lead

Funders:
ILO

Coulter, Natalie H. | Funded | SSHRC

Evangelisms, Entanglements and Superfans: Young People’s Creative Labour in the Visibility Economy

The goal of this project is to explore how young people’s creative labour (both online and offline) is becoming entangled with the promotional activities of children’s media and entertainment industry. This project will seek wider clarity on the commercial epistemologies that ideologically define childhood through the logics of marketplace, the immaterial labour of young people’s fandom, and the fetishization of authenticity in the visibility economy.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC, IDG

Start Date:
Sep/2019
End Date:
May/2022

Chuang, You-Ta |

Everyone Accounts: A revisit of LGBTQ2+ Employees Workplace Behavior of Disrupting Workplace Heterosexism and Advocating Equal Treatment in China

To understand the motives, processes, and behaviors LGBTQ2+ employees exert toward disrupting
workplace heterosexism and advocating equal treatment in China

Role: Co-Applicant

Collaborator: Chris Zhang
Collaborator Institution: Wilfrid Laurier University
Collaborator Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Jul/2022
End Date:
Jun/2024

Erechtchoukova, Marina | Funded | BRAIN, Ontario Research Fund (ORF), Research Excellence

Evidence-based Learning and Mining from Educational Resources

The goal is to develop a framework for selecting online course materials that are compliant with both Ontario curriculum standards and recognized pedagogical theories using text mining techniques. The project is aimed at helping students to achieve high levels of understanding of the covered materials.

Start Date:
Feb/2016

Lawrence, Geoff | Funded | SSHRC

Examining Language Teaching Technology Use in Post-Secondary English for Academic Purpose (EAP) Programs

This 3-year SSHRC-funded project examines how educational technologies are being used in post-secondary EAP programs across North America.

Role: Principal Investigator

Daley, Andrea | Funded | Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Gender and Health

Examining pathways to effective depression treatment for sexual and gender minority women in Ontario.

Epidemiological studies demonstrate that sexual minority women (including lesbian and bisexual women) are at high risk for depression, lifetime suicidality, and other mental health problems. Although no population-based data are available regarding gender minority women (including transgender and transsexual women), the available research suggests that they too are at high risk for depression. Results of the few studies to examine patterns of mental health service utilization among lesbian, bisexual, and trans (LBT) women indicate that despite elevated rates of mental health service use, LBT women report very high rates of unmet need for mental health care (in a recent survey, over 50%). However, it is unknown whether this unmet need is explained by levels of need that exceed the capacity of services, or lack of effectiveness of services. Research is therefore needed to understand the barriers to effective depression treatment for sexual and gender minority women in Ontario. This project will improve understanding of the barriers to effective depression treatment for sexual and gender minority women in Ontario and ultimately facilitate the removal of barriers, improving access to prompt and effective diagnosis and treatment. A combination of qualitative, quantitative, and community-based research approaches will be used to: describe the barriers to effective depression treatment encountered by LBT women in Ontario; compare the mental health service utilization patterns of LBT and heterosexual women in Ontario; and use the knowledge gained to inform service delivery.

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Principal Investigator: Dr. Lori Ross
Collaborator Institution: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Start Date:
Apr/2010
End Date:
Apr/2012

MacKinnon, Kinnon |

Examining the support needs of people who detransition: A trans-inclusive constructivist grounded theory

This project responds to care providers' needs for information on detransition. The objectives of this project are as follows:

• To identify the psychosocial support needs of people who detransition;
• To develop recommendations for care providers who work in gender-affirming care (e.g., physicians, psychologists and social workers).

Role: Principal investigator

Start Date:
Jun/2021
End Date:
Jun/2022

Murray, Karen Bridget |

Experiential Learning in Political Science

This project aims to develop and apply experiential teaching and learning techniques to ignite in students a passion for studying politics and power. For further information on how I have used experiential learning, please see the Department of Political Science Newsletter (2015), p. 3, //www.yorku.ca/laps/pols/documents/FINAL-2015LAPSPoliticalScienceNewsletter.pdf.

Buckley, Neil | Funded | Standard Research Grant, SSHRC

Experiments on Majority-Rule Voting over the Public Provision of Private Goods

Investigation of the public provision of private goods such as health care and education using financing schemes allowing individuals to top-up, opt-out or exit public provision.

Role: Co-applicant

Funders:
SSHRC

Daley, Andrea | Funded | Canadian Institute of Health Research - Institute of Gender and Health

Exploring and enhancing access to home care services for LGBT communities in Ontario.

This research project is the second phase in a comprehensive research program that explores access and equity related to in-home care for diverse members of Ontario’s LGBT populations with a focus on Community Care Access Centres and their role in coordinating care through contracted service provider agencies. The first phase of this study explored the literature on access to home care and collected interview and documentary data from key informants on processes that foster the development of LGBT-positive health care provision with a goal of creating an organizational tool on access and equity for home care agencies. This arm of the research program will provide baseline data, an environmental scan, which offers insight into the current state of home care for LGBT people in Ontario from the perspective of service users, direct service providers and provider organizations with a focus on developing strategies for change.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Co-principal Investiator: Dr. Judith MacDonnell
Collaborator Institution: Toronto Central Community Care Access Centre, Rainbow Health Ontario
Funders:
Canadian Institute of Health Research

Start Date:
Apr/2011
End Date:
Apr/2014

Derayeh, Minoo | Funded | Kanishka

Exploring Innovative Approaches to Islamic Education: Fostering Understanding, Dialogue, and Community Co-existence in Canada

The focus of the project was exploring Identity Discourses of the Muslim Diaspora in Canada. The research covered Muslim Diaspora youth in Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and Montreal.

Role: Co-PI for Toronto Research

Collaborator: Anila Asgar
Collaborator Institution: McGill University

Daley, Andrea | Funded | Practice-Based Research Award, Sunnybrook Health Sciences

Exploring meanings of caring among health care professionals providing cancer care.

This study uses guided meditation, art and small group discussion to explore meanings of caring among health care providers within a Regional Cancer Centre. The study consists of two phases. In Phase 1, profession-specific focus groups will be conducted each with nurses, radiation therapists, physicians, social workers, pharmacists and dietitians within an Oncology Program at a Regional Cancer Centre. In Phase 2, findings from Phase I will be presented to interprofessional focus groups to explore similarities and differences in meanings of caring. The purpose of the proposed study is to develop an understanding of the similarities and differences in the meaning of caring among health care providers working in an Oncology Program of a Regional Cancer Centre and to develop educational initiatives by which interprofessional groups can learn with, from, and about each others' perspectives on caring.

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Co-Principal Investigators: Kari Osmar, Tracey Das Gupta
Collaborator Institution: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Funders:
Practice-Based Research Award, Sunnybrook Health Sciences

Start Date:
Oct/2009
End Date:
Apr/2011

Van Viegen, Saskia |

Exploring multilingual assessment in the educational context

This project investigates approaches to multilingual assessment in the secondary educational context in order to address varied teaching and learning needs of bi/multilingual students from immigrant and refugee backgrounds enrolled in Ontario schools. Reflecting the complex, dynamic language practices of bi/multilingual speakers and communities, this approach recognizes the rich linguistic resources of bi/multilingual students, providing them with an opportunity to demonstrate their academic knowledge and literacy skills using the full range of their linguistic repertoire. SSHRC Insight Development Grant.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Ahmed, Anwar Uddin |

Exploring the Role of Emotions in Multilingual Students’ Academic Writing: A Pilot Study

This study aims to investigate the inter-relationship between multilingual students’ emotions and their development of academic writing in English.

Gazso, Amber |

Exploring the Welfare-to-Work Experiences of Ontario Works’ Recipients Living with Addiction

Chakraborty, Kabita |

Extreme Love: Young People's experiences at the intersection of intimacy and violence in urban India

The project “Extreme Love: Young People’s Experiences at the Intersection of Intimacy and Violence in Urban India” explores young people’s experiences of violence in premarital dating/courtship processes in India. The context of the project is a globalizing and rapidly modernizing India where intimate culture is changing for young people. For modern youth in urban spaces, the importance of obtaining premarital relationship experience sits in contrast with continued social stigma around mixed-sex dating. As a result, young people participate in the world of youth romance in secret. Secret relationships, however, are complicated by particular types of violence endemic to the relationship process. While research on married couple’s experiences of violence in relationships is rich, little is known about young people’s experiences. Thus, the key issues to be addressed in the research are: mapping the various types of violence endemic in youth premarital relationships and documenting young people’s lived experiences of violence within the context of premarital relationships.Knowledge about how young people experience violence, how they manage violence in the context of secret relationships, and their understanding of gaps in support, create new knowledge about youth culture in India. The research, then, speaks to the recent “youth turn” within the field of Children’s Studies, and specifically addresses the call within the field for more diverse understandings of childhood and youth from the Global South.

Role: PI

Funders:
SSHRC Insight

Mitchell, Allyson |

FAR

FAR is a feminist art project situated on 64 acres of conservation-protected, organic farmland in rural Ontario, Canada.

FAR is an expansive site for queer and feminist artists to come, to live, to conceptualize and produce land art projects alongside the 12 principles of permaculture: observe and interact, catch and store energy, obtain a yield, applying self-regulation and feedback, value renewables, produce no waste, design from patterns to details, integrate don’t segregate, use small slow solutions, use and value diversity, use edges and value the marginal, creatively use, and respond to change (Waddington, ethical.net, 2019). FAR will also serve as a sanctuary and respite for artists and activists wishing to simply develop ideas, plan, write, research, rest and recharge.

Start Date:
Mar/2021

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Fashion, Photography and Female Agency in Iran

For more than a century in Iran, the female body has been the site for authorities to assert and exercise their political and ideological control over half of the population. This project explores how women in the Islamic Republic of Iran re-imagine and enforce their agency in the virtual space and redefine their identity by creating distinctively individualized styles in garments in the 21st century. While the representation of women and outfits used in photographs in the virtual space do not always take up the dress code boundaries formulated by the Islamic government, they are deliberately depicted by citizen journalists to contest the ‘image’ of the Muslim woman that was favored and propagated by theologians.

atest1, jhjhj |

fayyaz test project 1

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Collaborator: test collaborator

Start Date:
Feb/2023
End Date:
Dec/2023

atest1, jhjhj |

fayyaz test project 2

test project 2

Role: test role

Collaborator: test collaborator
Collaborator Institution: test institution
Collaborator Role: test collaborator role

Funders:
test1
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Start Date:
Mar/2021
End Date:
Sep/2025

atest1, jhjhj |

fayyaz test project 3

test project 3 summary

Role: project role test 1

Collaborator: test collaborator
Collaborator Institution: test institution
Collaborator Role: test collaborator role

Funders:
test1

Start Date:
Feb/2022
End Date:
Nov/2024

atest1, jhjhj |

fayyaz test project 5

test summary 5

Collaborator: test collaborator

Start Date:
Mar/2019

Bischoping, Katherine |

Feminist Reflexivities

This project, undertaken with Amber Gazso, examines various analytic strategies for being reflexive, i.e., for considering how, as knowers, we are implicated in the knowledge that we produce. These examinations have included (1) in Analyzing Talk in the Social Sciences, looking at how narrative, conversation, and discourse analysts each conceive of reflexivity, (2) in a chapter in press, contrasting how standpoint theory and discursive positioning analysis help to make sense of an awkward moment in an interview, and (3) in a forthcoming article, reflexively analyzing the relation of emotions to ethics.

Role: Co-organizer

Collaborator: Amber Gazso
Collaborator Institution: York University
Collaborator Role: Co-organizer

Start Date:
Jan/2016

Comninel, George C |

Feudal Foundations of Modern Europe

An examination of continuities and discontinuities between Rome and early medieval Europe; the origin of feudal society on the Continent; the divergence of English forms of state and society; and the parallel but different paths of modern social and political development leading to Absolutist society in France and capitalism in England.

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

Fighting Urban Poverty Central America

Role: Principal investigator

Funders:
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

Butler, Gary R | Funded | S.S.H.R.C.

Folkloristics and Conversational Discourse in Acadian Culture

Role: Principal and sole investigator

Funders:
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada

Bonnell, Jennifer L. |

Foragers of a Modern Countryside: Honeybees, Agricultural Modernization and Environmental Change in the Great Lakes Region

This transnational study explores the effects of agricultural modernization and the corresponding transformation of rural and suburban ecosystems upon honey bees and their keepers. My research to date has concentrated on the evolving relationship between fruit growers and beekeepers surrounding the advent of insecticide spraying legislation in Ontario in the early 1890s; and beekeeper and state responses to the emergence of American foulbrood, a bacterial disease that decimated apiaries from the 1880s to the 1940s.

McGrath, Susan |

Forced Migration in Latin America: Networking for Regional and Policy Responses, 2010. ($15,000).

Funders:
International Development Research Council

McGrath, Susan | National Science Foundation

Forecasting the Break

Community and Capacity for Large-Scale, 2013-2014. ($309,000) . Data-Intensive Research in Forced Migration Studies. Applicant: S. Martin, co-applicants: J. Collman, S. Berkowitz, L. Singh & S. McGrath.

Funders:
National Science Foundation

Albo, Gregory A |

Freeing Public Transport: Progressive Transit Struggles in Europe & North America

2014 ‘Freeing Public Transport: Progressive Transit Struggles in Europe & North America’
Rosa Luxemberg Stiftung Conference Support, Toronto
$20000 approximate

Funders:
Rosa Luxemberg Stiftung Conference Support

Zhang, Tracy Ying |

From China to the Big Top: Chinese Acrobats and the Politics of Aesthetic Labor, 1950–2010

Dr. Zhang’s second major project uses “acrobatics” as an entry point to investigate the body as both a subject of labor and a cultural medium in the processes of nation-state building, international diplomacy, and cultural trade. This research has produced multiple presentations, two book chapters, and articles in academic journals, such as “The Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture”, “The Journal of International Labor and Working-Class History”, “The International Journal of Cultural Policy”, and “Feminist Media Studies”. Currently, she is working on a book project, investigating the intertwined politics of gender, race, precarious labor, and performing bodies by tracing the global circulations of “Chinese circus” across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Malik, Sadia | Funded | Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research

From Territorial Security to Human Security: The Role of Public Health in National and Global Security Frameworks.

In this research project, I aim to answer the following questions:
1) Why has the human security paradigm with its emphasis on public health not been institutionalized in the national and global security frameworks?
2) The Covid-19 pandemic is a stark reminder of the fact that the nature of threats to security has changed. What is the scope of institutionalizing health security in national and international security paradigms today?
3) What is Canada’s role in the context of shifting global order to institutionalize global health security?

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health Research, Canada

Start Date:
Jun/2020
End Date:
Jun/2021

Matsuoka, Atsuko | SSHRC

Gender and Reconstruction in Eritrea

Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

, | Funded | York University

Gender Equality and Democracy in Iranian Cinema

This project examines Iranian films produced since 1990 in order to explore the way cinematic productions created a democratic and pluralistic aura in the representation of gender. It employs a comparative study of Iranian movies made in the 20th century, before and after the Islamic revolution in 1978-9, with the films produced in the past twenty years. It will shed light on the aesthetic redefinition of gender identity that has deconstructed the conventional gender roles in Iranian cinema. The history of Iranian cinema depicts that modernity, democracy and gender equality are increasingly becoming more visible and a thorough study of these concepts would be of great cultural value.

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

Gender Perspectives from the Global South

Development & Dissemination of Gender-Related Teaching Material

Role: Principal investigator

Funders:
International Development Research Center (IDRC)

Agrawal, Niru | Funded | Academic Innovation Fund York University

Geoinformation based disaster & emergency management

The project has two main objectives: i) to set-up a prototype training facility which will allow students to be trained in simulation of emergencies and the on-scene response and evacuation; ii) use spatial analysis and modeling leading to effective communication for situation visualization awareness, understanding, decision making, and resource allocation.

Role: Co-PI

Funders:
Academic Innovation Fund York University

Start Date:
Apr/2012
End Date:
Mar/2014

Coulter, Natalie H. | Funded | SSHRC Connections

Global Girlhoods: From Imaginings to Embodied Experiences

A symposium that seeks to reposition, relocate, and reframe girls within the context of both girl and child studies by asking: How do we delineate the boundaries of girlhood? Which girls are visible and which are invisible in these boundaries? What are the everyday practices of actual girls that work to challenge these narrow definitions and representations? How do girls themselves negotiate, engage, take up, resist, or reassemble the cultural frames of girlhood offered to them? What do girls’ responses reveal about this contemporary moment of girlhood?

Role: Principle Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Connections

Start Date:
Jan/2019
End Date:
Dec/2020

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Global leadership: rhetoric and reality

Tusikov, Natasha | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Reearch Council of Canada (Insight Development Grant)

Governing Knowledge and Data in Smart Cities

Natasha Tusikov is the principal investigator of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2019-2022) entitled “Governing Knowledge and Data in Smart Cities,” in cooperation with Dr. Blayne Haggart and Dr. Nicole Goodman (Brock University), and Dr. Zachary Spicer (University of Western Ontario). This project investigates the central role that the control of data plays in smart cities. The project examines the interaction between state and non-state actors in regulating the creation and use of information within the knowledge-based economy. The project will assess the choices, practices, and norms that shape data collection, analysis, and use, the devices that capture data, and the relationships among government, private sector, and civil society in these processes.

Murray, Karen Bridget |

Governing Poverty in the Post-Industrial City

This study aims to document the governmental and political character and implications of shifting poverty mentalities, practices and dynamics in post-industrial inner-city locales (Boston, Dublin and Vancouver). The research documents and analyzes how certain people and places are rendered governmentally visible in relation to poverty and its various elements of disadvantage, often in ways that dovetail with gendered and racialized divisions. Methodologically, this research involves extensive archival research, field interviews, and photography. Theoretically, the objective is to understand how shifting forms of urban poverty governance relate to changing notions of democracy and citizenship, including the extent to which poverty and disadvantage become fields for authoritarian practices. Politically, this research unsettles conventional policy discourses and practices, as well as mainstream policy silos, by investigating how urban poverty governance aligns with wider political aims, such as the production of wealth, the securing of a willing and able workforce, and the promotion of order and stability. In this way, this research strives to open up space for new ways of thinking and acting upon mass inequalities that define the global present. Related research: "Bio-gentrification: Vulnerability Bio-value Chains in Gentrifying Neighbourhoods," URBAN GEOGRAPHY, 36, 2 (2015): 277-299; "The Silence of Urban Aboriginal Policy in New Brunswick," in URBAN ABORIGINAL POLICY MAKING IN CANADIAN MUNICIPALITIES, Evelyn Peters, ed. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press) ; "Making Space in Vancouver’s East End from Leonard Marsh to the Vancouver Agreement," BC STUDIES, 169 (2011), 7-49; "From Africville to Globalville: Race, Poverty, and Urban Governance in Halifax, Nova Scotia," in RACE, NEIGHBORHOODS, AND THE MISUSE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL, James Jennings, ed. (New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2007) , 133-143; "The Voluntary Sector and the Realignment of Government: A Street-level Study," CANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, 49, 3 (2006), 375-392 (With Jacqueline Low). Please also refer to the RELATIONAL POVERTY NETWORK website at //depts.washington.edu/relpov/governing-urban-poverty-boston-dublin-vancouver/

, | Funded | SSHRC

GRAND

GRAND, Network Centre for Excellence Network Investigator, NI: Barbara Crow, PI: Diane Gramola, “Confronting Pain, Redefining Mobility,” and PI: Catherine Middleton, “Digital Infrastructures: Access and Use in the Networked Society”.

O'Reilly, Andrea | Funded | Workshops and Conference (SSHRC)

Grandmothers and Grandmothering Conference

Funders:
Workshops and Conference (SSHRC)

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

Grassroots Networks and Women's struggle against poverty

A study of the Women's Development Network in Costa Rica

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Halsall, Alison |

Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis

My monograph focuses on graphic narratives for and about children and youth, from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, varied regions of the world, wide-ranging gender identities and levels of ability. All of the graphic texts that this project analyzes feature particular predicaments and challenges experienced by young people that can deepen young readers' sociopolitical understanding of te world and move them towards an awareness of social justice.

Role: Primary Investigator

Start Date:
Jan/2018
End Date:
Jan/2023

Malik, Sadia | Funded | South Asia Network for Economic Research Institutes

Growth, Employment and Poverty in Current Financial Crisis in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: Exploring the Nexus and Estimating the Impact of the Crisis

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Mar/2010
End Date:
Mar/2011

Davis, Andrea A. |

Handbook to Black Canadian Literature

The Handbook to Black Canadian Literature, co-edited with Leslie Sanders, is a comprehensive introduction to Black Canadian literatures consisting of 40 original essays of approximately 8,000 words each organized in five sections: (1) Historical Frame, (2) Region, (3) Genre, (4) Major Writers of Influence, and (5) New Directions. The handbook is under contract with New York: Routledge, expected publication 2022.

Role: Edited Volume for research and teaching

Collaborator: Leslie Sanders
Collaborator Institution: York University
Collaborator Role: Co-editor

Start Date:
Sep/2020
End Date:
Sep/2022

Whitfield, Agnès | Funded | SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Hannah Josephson: Translating Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion

This project seeks to re-contextualize Hannah Josephson's translation of Bonheur d'occasion within a comprehensive vision of the translator as active cultural agent. In the fields of Canadian literary translation and Canadian literary institutions, this project offers a well-researched case study of the complex inter-connections between Québécois, Canadian, American and French literary circles that continue to affect Canadian-Québec letters. Finally, through its methodology, it makes a contribution to the emerging field of translation agency within the international discipline of translation studies.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Start Date:
Apr/2006
End Date:
Mar/2010

McNab, David | Funded | Strategic Research - SSHRC

he Borders of Knowledge: An Analytical Study of the Intersection of Community-based Oral History and the Written Records Regarding the Life and Writings of William A. Elias (1856-1929)

Funders:
Strategic Research - SSHRC

Buturović, Amila | Funded | SSHRC

Herbs, Stars, and Amulets: Interconfessional Health and Healing in Ottoman Bosnia

"Herbs, Stars and Amulets: Interconfessional Health and Healing in Ottoman Bosnia" investigates the theories and practices of healing in Ottoman Bosnia as they intersect mainstream healthcare practices, religious beliefs, and folk customs. Medical pluralism that we see nowadays existed in premodern times as well, but the hierarchies of authority were allocated in different ways, allowing knowledge to slip through various forms and practices. The study gives this issue a more detailed cultural lens as it examines what kind(s) of medical knowledge circulated in Ottoman Bosnia, and how different medical practitioners benefited from and competed with each other. Deeply steeped in the region's cultural history, this study counteracts the region's current political climate that systematically endangers social intimacy among different ethnoreligious groups through the campaigns of ethnic division and exclusivist discourse.

Matsuoka, Atsuko | Funded | SSHRC

Highlighting the role of resilience, leadership, and capacity-building among immigrant seniors in addressing elder abuse within immigrant communities

Elder abuse and neglect has been identified as a key concern that significantly affects the quality of life and the full contributions of older persons to society. While interest in addressing elder abuse has increased, considerable gaps remain in the social sciences literature. One main gap is the limited research about elder abuse and neglect within immigrant communities. A second main gap is related to the portrayal of older adults as vulnerable and lacking agency; few studies have focused on leadership, resilience, and capacity-building activities among specific organizations and among older individuals themselves. In this project, we will host a series of planned knowledge mobilization activities focusing on leadership development, capacity-building, and resilience among older immigrants in an effort to address elder abuse.

Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Figueredo, Maria L | Funded | Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University

Hispano Canadian Performance and Installation Poetry: Dialogando con el Mundo

This project analyzes multiple cultures of the Americas through the 21st century art installation, electronic and video poem publications, and performance/spoken word poetry of the Hispanic diaspora in Canada. By examining these works, the project builds upon my working corpus, which I have compiled since 2014. The results of my prior analyses are available in my publications to date. Based on this groundwork on poets that I have already identified as working through poetry actions, the current list of contemporary poets includes: Sergio Faluótico, Melisa Machado, Rocío Cerón, Alberto Río, Miguel Avero, Orientación Poesía, Enrique Winter, Cecilia Vicuña, among other, from across the Americas.

The Summer 2020 portion of the project adds new voices to be studied, expanding the research to include Hispano/Latinx Canadian poets who are currently working in this field. The main questions guiding the inquiry include the following:

What have been the effects of this poetry art actions, performances and/or installations?

Why have these poets extended the reach of poetry beyond the traditional book format?

What is poetry for each author? What is its current role in society?
How do these definitions and spatial associations link with the hybrid and hyphenated concepts of identity that blur an easy connection to either place of belonging--to that of birth and/or of migration?

The data is collected in a variety of ways including observation, interviews and literature review. The project aims to understand the connections or un-relatedness between contemporary writers across the Americas creating poetry in Canada. In the 21st century this can include existing conditions about relationship, political dislocation, gender identity and agency. The project will examine the various approaches of Hispano Canadian poets that merge performance art, installation-making and digital media devices such the Internet and computer-generated hypertexts in their work, to ascertain why they chose certain sites for their works, and how they overcome challenges in the professional, personal and socio-political spheres.

My project proposes to compare and contrast the use of the arts—poetry-based, though not confined to the traditional book in print format—as vehicles for agency and reaffirming multicultural and transcultural actions in the world.

Prioritizing the focus on the effects of digital spaces of encounter in contrast with live performances bridges various aspects of the performative in relation to spoken word, visual and sound elements in relationship to subjectivity. Each work reveals the innovative and ever changing textures of these artistic creations into dialogue within larger national and global conversations.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Natasha Sarazin
Collaborator Institution: York University
Collaborator Role: Research Assistant

Funders:
LA&PS

Start Date:
May/2020
End Date:
Aug/2020

Hayward, Mark | Funded | SSHRC

Histories of Mechanology

This collaborative project examines the history of mechanology, the science of machines, as it developed over the course of the 20th century. Examining the work of Franz Reuleaux, Jacques Lafitte, Gilbert Simondon and John Hart, this project situates their philosophical inquiries into 'the machine' in relation to attempts to theorize media and mediation during the same period.

Role: Co-PI

Collaborator: Ghislain Thibault
Collaborator Institution: Université de Montrèal
Collaborator Role: Co-PI

Start Date:
Mar/2015

Neill, Deborah |

History of the Anti-Alcohol Campaigns

Funders:
SSHRC Small Grants Program
Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES)
York Internal Grant - Minor Research Grant
York Conference Travel Fund

Anucha, Uzo | Teasdale-Corti Global Health Partnership Program (CIHR, IDRC, Health Canada and CIDA)

HIV Prevention for Youth: Mobilizing Nigerian Schools and Communities

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale
Collaborator Institution: University of Windsor
Collaborator Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Teasdale-Corti Global Health Partnership Program (CIHR, IDRC, Health Canada and CIDA)

Magee, Joanne |

Home Office Expenses

Examines the statutory rules, case law and CRA Administrative practice relating to home office expenses, including the rules for employee taxable benefits and deductions and the rules relating to business income earned personally or through a corporation.

, | Start Me Up Niagara, National Homelessness Initiative National Research Program

Homeless Employment Access in Regional Niagara

, | Funded | Homelessness Partnering Initiative

Homelessness and Poverty

Role: Research Consultant

Funders:
Homelessness Partnering Initiative

Good Gingrich, Luann | Funded | D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation

Homemaking across borders: Stories of making a Dietsche life

D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation

Role: Principal Investigator

Li, Muyang |

How Algorithmic Imaginaries Fuels Conspiracy Theories

The conventional thinking about algorithmic harm to democracy emphasizes the detrimental effects of algorithms that have built-in bias or are in some other way inattentive to pre-existing social inequity. Based on this perspective, there is now a common belief that improving algorithms should suffice to solve the problem of algorithmic harm. This, however, is true only to an extent. How algorithms work and how people think algorithms work are two interrelated but distinctive aspects involved in accessing algorithmic harm.

This project introduces a cultural perspective to understand how algorithms could be used against democracy by exploring how algorithmic imaginaries—the way people imagine, perceive, and experience algorithms—are used to develop a particular type of conspiracy theories.

Zikic, Jelena | Funded | SSHRC Special Call for Management, Business and Finance

Immigrant Professionals: Organizational and personal employment barriers

Funders:
SSHRC Special Call for Management, Business and Finance

Soennecken, Dagmar | Funded | German Science Foundation (DFG)

Immigration Policies in Comparison

This research project, housed at the Social Science Research Centre (WZB) in Berlin, compares immigration policies across all OECD countries from 1980 to 2010. It is funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) from 2011 to 2015 and headed by Dr. Marc Helbling.

Role: collaborating country expert

Collaborator: Dr. Marc Helbling
Collaborator Institution: Social Science Research Centre (WZB), Berlin
Collaborator Role: principal investigator

Funders:
WZB

McGrath, Susan |

Impact of Collective Trauma on Community Practice

SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2007. ($90,000) . Applicant: Bill Lee. Co-applicants: S.McGrath, K. Moffatt & U. George

Funders:
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Porporato, Marcela |

Impact of Management Control Systems’ Intensity of Use on Joint Venture’s Performance: an Empirical Assessment

Kwon, Sung |

Impact of Technology and Regulatory Changes on Earnings Persistence

This paper examines systematic differences in earnings persistence between pre-SOX and post-SOX periods in the presence of economic- and/or accounting-driven factors. Prior research (Chen et al., Accounting Horizons, 2014; Lobo and Zhou, Journal of Accounting, Auditing, and Finance 2010; Kwon et al., Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2006) finds that (1) firms with more conservative accounting generate less persistent earnings than firms with less conservative accounting; (2) firms subject to SOX are more conservative in financial reporting in the post-SOX period; and (3) there exists a higher level of accounting conservatism in HT firms vis-à-vis low-tech firms. Consistent with these results, we document in this paper that firms that are subject to SOX show a lower level of earnings persistence in the post-SOX period even after economic and/or accounting factors identified in prior research are controlled. Further evidence shows that HT firms vis-à-vis NHT firms experience a more significant reduction of earnings persistence in the post-SOX period.

Role: Co-Author

Collaborator: Myungsun Kim, PhD, Associate Professor of Accounting
Collaborator Institution: University at Buffalo - SUNY
Collaborator Role: Co-author

Start Date:
Oct/2014

Pike, Kelly |

Impacts of COVID-19 on Faculty and Staff

The goal of this project is to investigate the impact of current working arrangements at York University (among academic and administrative staff), arising from adaptations to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Role: York University Research Lead

Start Date:
Mar/2020

Peng, Songlan (Stella) |

Implementation of fair value accounting: an assessment of dislcosure quality

Collaborator: K. Bewley

Van Viegen, Saskia |

Implementing English language proficiency (ELP) assessment standards in British Columbia Education.

The BC Ministry of Education has recently developed English Language Learning (ELL) Standards for use in BC Education. This project examines the effectiveness of these standards, identifies language assessment practices among ELL teachers, and promotes effective use of the ELL Standards. Joint project with: Margaret Early, UBC; Valia Spiliotopoulos, UBC.

Funders:
UBC Dept. of Language and Literacy Education Ritsumeikan Seed Grant

Thomson, Kelly | Funded | SSHRC Public Outreach Program, Special Call for Management, Business and Finance

In Search of Relevance: Facilitating Dialogue between Research and Practice

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Martha Rogers and Gervan Fearon
Funders:
SSHRC Public Outreach Program, Special Call for Management, Business and Finance

Spotton Visano, Brenda | Funded | SSHRC

Including Us All: Community-Based Finance for Community Capacity Building

“Including Us All” is a research and outreach project that seeks to increase financial inclusion by expanding the capacity of local community groups in inner-city, low-income communities, mainstream and alternative financial industry stakeholders, and government policy makers in Canada to understand and use research about financial education and financial services on the “fringe” of the Canadian financial services industry, including micro-credit programs, payday and other high-cost consumer loans.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator Institution: Black Creek Financial Action Network (cec.info.yorku.ca/bcfan/)
Funders:
SSHRC-Public Outreach Grant
SSHRC-Public Outreach Grant
Faculty of LA&PS-GCE Grant
Prosper Canada/PEACH (Promoting Education and Community Health)

Man, Guida | Funded | SSHRC $2.5 million

Inclusive Communities for Older Immigrants (ICOI): Developing multi-level, multi-component interventions to reduce social isolation and promote connectedness among older immigrants in Canada.

2020-27

Role: Collaborator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
May/2020

Gazso, Amber | Funded | SSHRC

Income Inequality in Mid-Life, Looking Toward the Later Years: A Canada/U.S. Longitudinal Comparison

Start Date:
Sep/2010
End Date:
Sep/2014

, | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Initiatives in the New Economy, special development fund for innovative approaches. Women on the Edges of New Economies

Good Gingrich, Luann | Funded | SSHRC – Insight Development Grant

Insights from Canada’s settlement industry: Exploring agency data on temporary residents

SSHRC – Insight Development Grant

Agrawal, Niru | Funded | NSERC CREATE ADERSIM

Integrated approach for resilience estimation and disaster risk reduction

A new approach has been proposed to integrate quantitative and qualitative methods to estimate disaster resilience by incorporating public perception. Resilience is determined based on objective and subjective point of views and used to develop disaster risk reduction methodology.

Role: co-PI

Funders:
NSERC CREATE ADERSIM

Start Date:
Sep/2016
End Date:
Aug/2017

Yang, Zijiang |

Integrating artificial intelligence, operations research, and big data analytics for decision

The proposed research will provide an innovative and unique approach to address key issues to apply artificial intelligence, operations research, and big data analytics for decision and risk analysis. It will open up new possibilities for decision and risk analysis in the big data era. It is also the target of this research to parallel the proposed algorithms using Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Hadoop and Apache Spark to accelerate their execution.

Funders:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Yang, Zijiang | Funded | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Individual Discovery Grant

Integrating Data Envelopment Analysis, Partial Least Squares and Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Risk Management in Financial Decision Domains

The proposed research will provide an innovative and unique approach to address key issues to apply operations research, statistical and artificial intelligence approaches for risk management. It will open up new possibilities for risk management in financial decision domains. It is also the target of this research to gain benefits to financial organizations through such activities as credit approval, and loan portfolio and security management.

Role: Sole Principle Investigator

Funders:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Individual Discovery Grant

Wood, Lesley |

Interface: a Journal for and about Social Movements

An international journal for social movement activists and scholars.

Richardson, Julia | Funded | SSHRC INE Skills Research Initiative

International Faculty in Canadian Universities: Recruitment, Retention and Management

Funders:
SSHRC INE Skills Research Initiative

Thomson, Kelly | Funded | OHCRIF

International students as "ideal" immigrants: Ontario Employers' perspective

Role: Co-Investigator

Funders:
OHCRIF

Tusikov, Natasha | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Reearch Council of Canada (Insight Development Grant)

Internet Governance, Intellectual Property and the Exercise of Power in the 21st Century

This project explores the nature, limits and possibilities of global governance of what British International Political Economist Susan Strange (1994) calls the “knowledge structure,” that part of the political economy involving control over the production, control, and legitimization of knowledge. It focuses on two key and related aspects of the knowledge structure: internet governance; and intellectual property (IP) and data governance. In other words, our research focuses on the means by which information (in the colloquial sense) is communicated, and the means by which information is turned into economically and socially valuable commodities. While these issues are usually examined in isolation, in practice they are intimately related, with IP governing the content flowing over the network and internet governance setting the terms of access and use of the network itself.

Richardson, Julia | Centre for Work and Families

Investigating the experiences of employees engaging in flexible work practices

Richardson, Julia | SSHRC and HRSDC

Investigating the experiences of international academics at six Universities across Canada

Collaborator: with K.McBey & S.McKenna

Knouzi, Ibtissem |

Investigating the role of aspects of classroom discourse: Questions and examples

The study analyses a data set consisting of 70 hours of classroom video footage to understand understand when and how questions and examples are introduced in the class dialogue, who poses questions and offers examples, and how the introduction of these two elements determines the direction and substance of the subsequent conversational moves in the class.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Dean's Award for Research Excellence2020

Start Date:
May/2020
End Date:
Sep/2020

, | Funded | University of Alberta, SSHRC

Iranian Cinema and Persian Literature

This project studies Iranian cinema as the dominant form of cultural expression after the revolution in 1978-9, replacing Persian Poetry.A number of art-house films are explored to depict art-house cinema is influenced by Persian literature.

Asgary, Ali | SSHRC

Joint Emergency Preparedness Program - Program Safety Canada

Funders:
SSHRC

O'Reilly, Andrea | Funded | Research and Transfer Journals (SSHRC)

Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering

Funders:
Research and Transfer Journals (SSHRC)

Buckley, Neil | Funded | Standard Operating Grant, CIHR

Judgments of Equity in Health Care Resource Allocation

Eliciting preferences over health care resource allocation according to theories of efficiency and equity.

Role: Co-applicant

Funders:
CIHR

Zikic, Jelena | Funded | SSHRC

Knowledge Mobilization Grant: Recruiting, (Re)training, and Retention of Immigrants in the Canadian Workforce

Funders:
SSHRC

Persram, Nalini | Funded | York University

Knowledge Through Motion: Concept Formation Through the Phenomenological-Neurological-Somatic

This transdisciplinary project draws on: the social sciences, the humanities, neuroscience and areas that focus on certain forms of aesthetic expression, concentration and movement, perception, somatics and kinesthetics (eg. dance and yoga) and their collective relation to concept formation.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
York University

Start Date:
Jul/2015
End Date:
Jun/2018

, | SSHRC The Initiative on the New Economy Skills Research Grant

Labour and Skill Shortages in Canada

Van Viegen, Saskia |

Language and Literacy Learning Among Youth Refugees in Canadian Secondary School Classrooms.

The study addresses three urgent needs: (a) to help education systems and community groups understand how to support youth refugees to catch up to their same-age peers in school as quickly as possible; (b) to support youth refugees, for whom limited prior schooling, limited first language literacy and challenges of academic language learning (compounded by socio-emotional challenges) often present a barrier to learning, social adjustment and academic success; and (c) to develop innovative policies and pedagogical practices that engage with the digital, multimodal literacy practices of today's youth. SSHRC Insight Grant. Joint project with: Maureen Kendrick, UBC (PI); Margaret Early, UBC; Shelley Taylor, Western University.

Role: Co-investigtor

Funders:
SSHRC Insight Grant

Van Viegen, Saskia |

Language and Literacy Learning Among Youth Refugees in Canadian Secondary School Classrooms.

Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Insight Grant

Vosko, Leah F. |

Law Commission of Ontario, Research grants to prepare two monographs for Vulnerable Workers Taskforce Co-Investigator with Mary Gellatly, Mark P. Thomas, Eric Tucker and Co-Investigator with Andrea Noack , Summer 2011

Funders:
Law Commission of Ontario, Research grants

Daley, Andrea | Funded | Interprofessional Education Initiatives Fund. York University, Faculty of Health

Learning and training needs of interdisciplinary home care service providers in relation to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities: An opportunity for interprofessional education.

This qualitative research project explores the learning and training needs of interdisciplinary home care service providers in relation to LGBTQ service recipients. Profession-specific focus groups will be conducted each with nurses, personal support workers, therapists (social workers and occupational therapists) and TC CCAC care coordinators.The objectives of the proposed study are to: 1. Develop understanding of the similarities and differences in learning and training needs among interdisciplinary providers including nurses, personal support workers, therapists (social workers, occupational therapists) and care coordinators in relation to in-home health service provision to LGBTQ people. 2. Build on existing interprofessional LGBTQ learning and teaching modules for health care providers by identifying knowledge and practice skills that are unique to the provision of in-home health services. 3. Strengthen the existing faculty partnership between the Schools of Nursing and Social Work at York University as established in Phase 1 of the research project. 4. Develop capacity-building and curriculum development opportunities in the Schools of Nursing and Social Work in the areas of undergraduate, graduate and continuing education.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Principal Invesigator: Dr. Judith MacDonnell
Funders:
Interprofessional Education Initiatives Fund. York University, Faculty of Health

Start Date:
Jan/2010
End Date:
Apr/2011

Soennecken, Dagmar | Funded | SSHRC Small Grants

Legal Mobilization in Germany and EU: The Transformation of Governance

Funders:
York SSHRC Small Grants

Start Date:
Jan/2013
End Date:
Dec/2013

McGuire, Wendy | Funded | SSHRC, LA&PS

LGBTIQ+ Refugee Digital Storytelling Project

Seven male refugees from West Africa participated in this project. Over two weekends, they worked with Community Story Strategies to create a 3-4 minute digital story about the experiences that led them to Canada. All men came from countries where their LGBT status put them at high risk of prison, torture and possibly death. Digital storytelling was used a research methodology that put control in the hands of the participants to tell their stories in their own way and for their own use.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Reverend Kevin Downer
Collaborator Institution: Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto
Collaborator Role: Research partner

Start Date:
Nov/2015
End Date:
Nov/2016

Mulé, Nick | SSHRC Insight Grant Award

LGBTs and the UN: Recognition and Legitimization

A study of the degree of recognition and legitimization of LGBT populations in UN policy.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Small Grant Award
Atkinson Minor Research Grant
York University Junior Faculty Fund
SSHRC Insight Grant
SSHRC Small Grant
Atkinson Minor Research Grant

Bunting, Annie | Funded | SSHRC Partnershiip

Life of the Law podcast on Uganda

//www.lifeofthelaw.org/2018/01/uganda/

Role: Co-producer

Collaborator: Life of the Law, and Gladys Oroma

Start Date:
Jan/2017
End Date:
Jun/2018

Nielsen, Emilia |

Life Writing and Life-Altering Illness: Counternarratives of Chronic Illness

While biomedical research into the management of chronic disease is well established, the experiential knowledge of patients remains undervalued as a means of understanding the impact of living with chronic illness. Many chronic illnesses disproportionately affect women, yet an intersectional analysis is too often absent when calculating the societal impact of disease (Driedger & Owen, 2008; Moss & Dyck, 2002; Wendell, 2001). Therefore, in this two-year research-creation project, I will examine life writing by women diagnosed and treated or living with a chronic illness in order to better understand the personal challenge it presents to quality of life—physically, emotionally, spiritually and economically.

Role: Principle Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC IDG

Lawrence, Geoff | Funded | SSHRC

LINCDIRE - Linguistic and Cultural Diversity Re-Invented

LINCDIRE (LINguistic and Cultural DIversity Reinvented - funded through a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant) is a project with partners in Canada, the USA, and France designed to formalize an international partnership focusing on enhancing linguistic and cultural awareness, and to develop an online environment to foster plurilingualism in language education practices. The goal of LINCDIRE is to form a partnership among institutions with expertise in different languages and cultures that can allow for the development of a plurilingual theoretical framework to guide pedagogical innovation in language teaching and learning.

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

Linkages between Human Security and Human Development in South Asia

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Canadian International Development Agency

, | HRSDC Research Grants

Linkages Between Workplace Skills Training and Firm Productivity: Analysis Using WES 1999-2004

Swift, Karen | SSHRC

Linking Research, Policy and Action for Positive Youth Development in Marginalized Urban Communities

Zacharias, Robert | Funded | SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Literary Tourism in Canada

“Literary Tourism in Canada” is the first extended exploration of the practice and significance of literary tourism in Canada, and the first theorization of literary commemoration sites using humanities-based modes of inquiry to conceptualize literary tourism as a public reading practice. The project examines the 9 National Historic Sites in Canada associated with literary authors, as well as Project Bookmark - a national literary trail with 29 sites across the country.

Role: Principal

Funders:
SSHRC

Sanders, Leslie |

Literature for all: Promoting inclusive education through digitizing textual and contextual materials

Role: PI: Professor Leslie Sanders, York University

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Council, Canada

Dao, Nga |

Living Delta Hub

The Living Delta Hub focuses on 3 major deltas in Asia: The Red River, The Mekong & the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna. We aim to safeguard delta futures through more resilient communities and sustainable development and to address the significant challenges currently confronting these delta SESs in a transdisciplinary manner that responds to the interlinked agenda of the SDGs.

Start Date:
Jan/2019
End Date:
Dec/2024

Cohn, Daniel | Funded | LAPS [YORK U.] Minor Research Grant and YORK U. / YUFA Sabbatical Fellowship

Local Black Out in Effect? Media Coverage of Local Suburban Politics

There has long been concern regarding declining levels of civic literacy, which can be described as the ability to understand political processes such as elections, community consultations, and associational meetings, as well as awareness of these processes. This is said to be a key factor in explaining declining levels of civic participation, such as voting. Research has linked levels of civic literacy to media consumption. Communities with higher levels of newspaper readership tend to have higher levels of civic literacy (see for example Henry Milner, Civic Literacy: How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work, University Press of New England, 2002). Therefore media consumption and the content of media available to citizens is a key concern for political scientists interested in understanding declining voter turnout rates and especially the consistently low turnout rates for local elections. This research project is concerned with the supply-side of the media-audience relationship. In the Greater Toronto Area and many other large urban areas more people live in suburban municipalities than the core city. Cohn in his 2013 presentation to the Canadian Political Science Association AGM (Local Black Out in Effect?) showed that Canadian newspaper coverage of local elections is weak and worse still does not reflect this population distribution, paying very little attention to local politics outside of core municipalities. This deficiency is seen as a serious challenge for the promotion of civic literacy. The present phase of the project is adding data from a second election for each of the three urban areas studied for Cohn's 2013 paper and also adding data from non-major papers (weekly community papers).

Role: P.I.

Funders:
LAPS [York University] Minor Research Grant
York University / YUFA Sabbatical Fellowship

Good Gingrich, Luann | Funded | CURA (SSHRC)

LONE Mothers: Building Social Inclusion

Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
CURA (SSHRC)

Salisbury, Laura |

Long Run Trends in Assortative Mating and Socioeconomic Mobility in the United States and Canada

We provide new evidence about long-run trends in the transmission of economic status across generations for both men and women. Most historical studies of intergenerational mobility rely on linking individuals across multiple census records using surnames, and married women have historically changed their surnames upon marriage. As such, it is difficult for most such studies to say anything about mobility among women. In the proposed work, we circumvent this problem using a methodology that relies on the socioeconomic content of first names. We measure trends in assortative mating and in the geography of intergenerational mobility within North America. This work will focus on the role of institutions in shaping long-run mobility trends, emphasizing on the complex interrelationship between intergenerational mobility and marriage institutions. By sorting individuals into families, marriage plays a critical role in the transmission of human capital and wealth across generations.

Role: Applicant

Collaborator: Claudia Olivetti and M. Daniele Paserman
Collaborator Institution: Boston College and Boston University
Collaborator Role: Co-applicants

Funders:
SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Start Date:
Jul/2016
End Date:
Jul/2018

Maiter, Sarah | SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Lost in Translation: Child Protection Services to Ethnic Minority Families When Language Barriers Exist.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator Institution: Catholic Children’s Aid Society & British Columbia Ministry of Children & Family Development.
Funders:
SSHRC Standard Research Grant.

, | HRSDC Research Grants

M&E Investments, Workplace Training and Firm Productivity

Thomson, Kelly | Funded | Great West Life Assurance Co.

Make More: A Community-University Research Alliance for Facilitating Professional Success of Internationally Educated Professionals in Business

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Great West Life Assurance Co.

Jones, Joanne | Funded | Great West Life Foundation

Make More: A Community-University Research Alliance for Facilitating Professional Success of Internationally Educated Professionals in Business

This project examines the career transitions of internationally trained accountants who have successfully resumed their careers in Canada.

Role: Co-investigator

Collaborator: Kelly Thomson
Collaborator Institution: York University
Collaborator Role: Principal investigator

Funders:
Great West Life Foundation

Mazepa, Patricia A |

Making Media Public

Role: Co-Director

Collaborator: David Skinner
Collaborator Institution: York University
Collaborator Role: Co-Director

Start Date:
Apr/2010
End Date:
Jun/2013

Yu, Xiaohui | Funded | NSERC

Managing and Mining Urban Spatio-Temporal Data

The wide-spread use of smart phones, sensors and other IoT devices in cities world-wide has given rise to a huge volume of urban spatio-temporal data, which often present themselves as high-velocity continuous streams with considerable noise and uncertainties. These data record a vast amount of movement information of people, vehicles, etc., and serve as the backbone of a variety of applications, such as urban traffic management, road network planning, location-based services, and environmental monitoring. While governments, businesses and other organizations have realized the tremendous value of urban spatio-temporal data, how to effectively tap into this potential is still an elusive goal.

The unifying theme of the project is to address the challenges arising from managing and mining urban spatio-temporal data. Some of the questions we strive to answer are: How to improve the quality of such data to provide a reliable basis for data analytics? How to efficiently process continuous queries (such as k nearest-neighbor queries) and discover patterns over spatio-temporal streams? How to construct a probabilistic model to capture the underlying intention of movement? How to use this model to support advanced applications, such as traffic flow forecasting, dynamic navigation, and next location prediction?

Novel models and methods developed from this project will help lay the data management and analytics foundation for a wide spectrum of applications, and provide a better understanding of human mobility patterns.

Role: Principal Investigator

Cohn, Daniel |

Managing by Hierarchy vs. Managing by Contract

Over the last twenty-five years there has been a major shift within many states towards a series of delivery models generically described as “alternative service delivery”. This includes contracting-out service delivery to private for-profit firms, as well as hybrid solutions such creating internal markets, partnerships to deliver services with community organizations and also public-private partnerships (where private for-profit firms partner with the state in a collaborative venture) to name just a few. What all of these approaches have in common is that the traditional approach to the delivery of services, the deployment of resources via an organization arranged in a bureaucratic hierarchy is suspended. Instead a contract is entered into between the state organization acting as a purchaser and another party, with the services being delivered according to the terms of this contract. Using the existing literature, as well as interviews with current public managers in local government, the Ontario public service and the public service of Canada, this research seeks to uncover the different skills, tools and preparation needed to manage by contracts as opposed to managing organizations. Ultimately, this information will be used to assess and advocate for improvements in the curriculum of public administration programs so as to better prepare graduates for management positions in a world where managing by contract will be an everyday part of their work.

Buckley, Neil | Funded | Standard Research Grant, SSHRC

Managing common pool resources through output-sharing partnerships

Investigation of the use of sharing externalities to offset the tragedy of the commons.

Role: Co-applicant

Funders:
SSHRC

, |

Managing in the networked, ‘flexible’ organization

Gazso, Amber | Funded | SSHRC

Managing Poverty Intergenerationally in Diverse Families: Piecing Together a Network of Social Support

Start Date:
Sep/2008
End Date:
Sep/2012

Anderson, Katharine | Funded | SSHRC RDI

Marine Observations Networks

A. the study of marine observation practices and exchange networks after the coming of radio to the breakdown of scientific exchange in WWII B.the study of ships logs as resources to track hurricane frequency during WWII

Cameron, Barbara | Funded | CURA (SSHRC)

Martha Jackman Social Rights Accountability Project

Funders:
CURA (SSHRC)

Comninel, George C |

Marx and the First International

An exploration of the contributions of Karl Marx to internationalism in modern capitalist society.

O'Reilly, Andrea | Funded | Workshops and Conference (SSHRC)

Maternal Health and Well-being

Funders:
Workshops and Conference (SSHRC)

MacDonald, Margaret |

Maternal Health in Senegal

This is a multi year ethnographic reseach project, a collaboration with an NGO based in Dakar, Senegal that delivers maternal health programs in rural and remote areas of the country. The purpose of the research is to better understand the logic underlying global maternal health interventions and the experiences of local health professionals and community members they affect.

Yang, Zijiang | Funded | Canada Foundation for Innovation, New Opportunity Fund

Mathematical and statistical analysis of complex systems, large data sets and performance analysis

Funders:
Canada Foundation for Innovation, New Opportunity Fund with Huaiping Zhu and Steven Wang

Buckley, Neil | Funded | Leaders Opportunity Fund, CFI; Ontario Research Fund-Research Infrastructure, OMRI; McMaster University

McMaster Decision Science Laboratory (McDSL)

The installation of a decision science laboratory created to collect behavioural data from various quantitative and qualitative contexts, including computer mediated decision-making experiments using virtual reality.

Role: Co-applicant

Funders:
CFI

, | Funded | SSHRC

Men behind bars: Masculinity and risk in Canadian Prisons

Role: Primary Investigator

Angermeyer, Philipp S. |

MIAM 2015

International Colloquium on Multilingualism and Interpreting in Settings of Globalisation: Asylum and Migration, February 19-20, 2015 at Ghent University, with Katrijn Maryns and Mieke van Herreweghe

Role: Co-organizer

Collaborator: Katrijn Maryns
Collaborator Institution: Universiteit Gent

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya | Funded | Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute

Millennium Development Research Grant : Developing Sustainable Value Chains for alternative development

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Shastri Indo - Canadian Institute

Yang, Zijiang | Funded | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage Grant

Mining and parsing information from ecommerce websites

Role: Sole Principle Investigator

Funders:
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Engage Grant

, | Funded | Standard Research (SSHRC)

Missing in Karelia: Canadian Victims of Stalin's Purges

Funders:
Standard Research (SSHRC)

McGrath, Susan |

Mobilizing a Regional Research Network to address forced migration issues in Latin America.

Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grant, 2011. ($15,000)

Funders:
Association of Universities and Colleges Canada

Adelson, Naomi | Funded | Aboriginal Healing Foundation

Models and Metaphors of Healing in the Aboriginal Context

Role: Co-Investigator

Funders:
Aboriginal Healing Foundation

Murray, Karen Bridget |

Modern Statehood and the Residential School System

In my recent article in the CANADIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, I examine the relationship between the pan-territorial residential school ideal and Canada's quest for recognition as a modern state. Related research: "The Silence of Urban Aboriginal Policy in New Brunswick,"in URBAN ABORIGINAL POLICY MAKING IN CANADIAN MUNICIPALITIES, Evelyn Peters, ed. (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012) ; "Reclaiming the People’s Memory," CANADA WATCH (2015), //robarts.info.yorku.ca/files/2015/09/CW_Fall2015_FINAL.pdf; and "Facing Down R. B. Bennett," ActiveHistory.ca.

Clements, Elicia A. | Funded | SSHRC

Modernist Literary Opera

An examination of the literary and musical exchange of ideas and techniques found in the works of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, Langston Hughes and William Grant Still, and W.H. Auden and Igor Stravinsky.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

O'Reilly, Andrea | Funded | IOF (International Opportunities Fund) (SSHRC)

Mother Centres, Feminist Pedagogy, and Young Motherhood: Creating Empowerment Programming for Young Mothers

Funders:
IOF (International Opportunities Fund) (SSHRC)

Matsuoka, Atsuko | Funded | CIHR and Justice Canada

Moving forward: Development of a program of research on prevention of abuse and neglect, and health promotion among older immigrant women

The project aimed to 1) establish collaborative research networks and partnerships; 2) convene a symposium for knowledge sharing/exchange, identify gaps, and build consensus on the priority research directions; 3) disseminate the knowledge gained from the symposium; 4) develop a shared program of research; and 5) refine priority research questions and prepare grant applications.

Role: Co-Prinipal Investigator

Funders:
CIHR

Karpinski, Eva C. |

Multilingualism: Realities, Theories, Histories, and Literatures

An internationalization grant project prepared together with my York colleagues Elena Basile and Paola Bohorquez. In collaboration with Italian and Polish scholars, we have formed the Research Group on Multilingualism and Translation/Groupe de recherche sur le multilinguisme et la traduction. We want to explore the topic of multilingualism from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspective, focusing on several overlapping sites of research on multilingualism as a social and literary phenomenon that attracts a lot of attention in the era of the Internet and globalization. A day-conference titled « Multilingualism and Translation: A Workshop on Methods, Concepts and Areas of Research » took place on November 8, 2013, at York University. We are planning to publish an edited collection on the subject of multilingualism

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Nov/2013

Moghissi, Haideh | Funded | Ford Foundation

Muslim Diaspora, Heightened Identity, Gender and Cultural Resistance

Funders:
Ford Foundation

Moghissi, Haideh | Funded | Ford Foundation

Muslim Diaspora, Islamicphobia and Challenges to Multiculturalism

Funders:
Ford Foundation

Gazso, Amber |

Myth or Reality? Interrogating the Intergenerational Welfare Dependency Hypothesis in Ontario, Canada

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natalie project

natalie summary

, | Funded | Standard Research - SSHRC

Negotiating Late Capitalism as Non-Immigrant Labour in the US: H-Categoy Temporary Visa Workers and US Society

Funders:
Standard Research - SSHRC

Neill, Deborah | Funded | SSHRC/Hannah History of Medicine Fellowship

Networks in Tropical Medicine

This book was published by Stanford University Press in 2012.

Razack, Narda |

New Opportunities for Innovative Student Engagement (NOISE for Social Change).

Weir, Lorna |

Normalisation Now

I am putting together a collaborative project on contemporary techniques of normalization, with funding applications in Fall 2015.

Anderson, Katharine | Funded | SSHRC SRG

Oceans and Expeditions Between the Wars

This historical project explores how the ocean was defined, observed and imagined in the 1920s and 1930s. It uses the definition of particular spaces in the ocean - such as coral reefs and deep water life - as a focus for understanding a key period in modern oceanography, ecology and natural history.

Foster, Lorne |

Ontario Public Service Review of the Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Program and Related Components of the Respectful Workplace Policy

This project involves a whole-of-government program evaluation on behalf of the Cabinet Office and the Government of Ontario of the Workplace Discrimination and Harassment Prevention (WDHP) Program and related components of the Respectful Workplace Policy (RWP).

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Funders:
Anti-Racism Directorate, Government of Ontario

Start Date:
Jan/2017
End Date:
Jun/2018

Mulé, Nick | Funded | Health Canada, Primary Care Transition Fund

Ontario Rainbow Health Partnership Project

A project to create community-based health and wellness programs for LGBTQ populations in Ontario.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Andrea Daley, Susan Gapka, Richard Hudler, Beth Jackson, Gillian May, Dick Moore, Dave Vervoort.
Funders:
Health Canada, Primary Care Transition Fund

Start Date:
Apr/2004
End Date:
Mar/2006

, | Start Me Up Niagara and Social Assistance and Employment Opportunities Division, Community Services Department, Regional Municipality of Niagara

Ontario Works Recipients Survey

Collaborator: Principal Investigator for Social Assistance Advisory Committee

Bischoping, Katherine |

Oral Histories of Lei Feng

Little known in the West, kindly and thrifty soldier Lei Feng (1940-1962) was established as a Chinese national hero by Mao Tsedong in 1963. The Chinese curriculum has since exhorted even its youngest students to “Learn from Lei Feng!” This project, undertaken with Zhipeng Gao, first used oral history data to examine how Lei Feng is remembered by different cohorts in China. Subsequently, we have contrasted how scholars and ordinary Chinese speak about China's generations, asked how the "truth" or "authenticity" of the Lei Feng stories is taken up in China and North America, and discussed the varied conceptions of "thrift" throughout contemporary Chinese history.

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Zhipeng Gao
Collaborator Institution: York University, Graduate Program in Psychology
Collaborator Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Foster, Lorne | Funded | Ottawa Police Service

Ottawa Police Service Traffic Stop Race Based-Data Collection, Project I

This project involves the collection and analysis of all police traffic stops over a three-year period in city of Ottawa.

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Funders:
Ottawa Police Service, City of Ottawa

Start Date:
Oct/2013
End Date:
Jul/2016

Foster, Lorne |

Ottawa Police Service Traffic Stop Race-Based Data Collection, Project II

This research project provides an evidence-based comparative analysis of three subsequent years of race data collected by Ottawa Police following the landmark 2013–2015 “racial profiling” study in Ottawa.

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Funders:
Ottawa Police Service, City of Ottawa

Start Date:
Jun/2016
End Date:
Oct/2019

Pybus, Jennifer | Funded | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) UK

Our Data Ourselves

The Our Data Ourselves project examined ways of understanding and reclaiming the data that young people produce on smartphone devices. More specifically, it explored the growing usage and centrality of mobiles in the lives of young people between the ages of 14 and 18 years old, questioning what data-making possibilities exist if users can either uncover and/or capture what data controllers such as Facebook monetize and share about themselves with third-parties. We therefore designed MobileMiner, an app we created to consider how gaining access to one’s own data not only augments the agency of the individual but of the collective user. Finally, we explored the data productions from everyday use of mobiles during two hackathons that we held.

Role: Research Associate

Collaborator: Tobias Blanke
Collaborator Institution: University of Amsterdam
Collaborator Role: Primary Investigator

Funders:
Arts and Humanities Research Council

Start Date:
Oct/2013
End Date:
Dec/2015

Mutimer, David |

Out of the Darkness: The ongoing crisis of Canadian military identity

Role: Principal Investigator

Karpinski, Eva C. |

Out of the Shadows: Experiencing Cancer and Sexuality

Out of the Shadows: Experiencing Cancer and Sexuality, is a qualitative research investigation into the issues of sexuality as they affect people living with cancer. It is done in collaboration with a team of researchers from several universities, led by Dr. Carla Rice, CRC from the University of Guelph.

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Over-education among Canadian Immigrants: Causes and Consequences

Matsuoka, Atsuko | Funded | CIHR, Planning Grants

Partnering to promote health care equity for ethnic minority older adults

Recent immigrant older adults and some visible minorities who have aged here experience health inequities in Canada. These are primarily related to difficulties with the complex process of accessing suitable care. However, Canadian research on the topic is extremely fragmented and hard to find and knowledge users charged with designing policy and programs do not have the evidence they need to help them to address access barriers experienced by ethnic minority older adults. Effort is needed to consolidate existing evidence and design research that fills knowledge gaps with respect to access so as to generate a decision-making tool that can guide knowledge users in their decisions across different health and social care contexts. This project intends to address this gap.

Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
CIHR

Samuel, Jeannie |

Partners for realizing rights? Exploring pathways to cooperation between National Human Rights Institutions and citizen-led accountability networks in Guatemala.

2020-2021. Funded by SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant.

Role: Principal Investigator

Maiter, Sarah | SSHRC - CURA

Partnerships for Children and Families

Role: Co-Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC - CURA

Mulé, Nick | Funded | LA&PS Minor Research Grant

Party 'N Play - Long Play (PNPLP)

This multi-modal research study examines men who engage in sex with other men (MSM) in Toronto and the use of methamphetamines in direct relation to sexplay, a practice known in North America as “PNP” (party and play). The project title acknowledges, on the one hand, the kinds of durational sex practices which often accompany meth use and, on the other, the vinyl long play record (or “LP”) which carries importance as a tool that accompanies sexual play.

Funders:
LA&PS, York University

Start Date:
Dec/2020
End Date:
Jul/2022

Kitzmann, Andreas | Funded | SSHUR

Patch Up: Synthetic Sound and Modular Thought

I am interested in exploring analogue things in a digital age in order to identify conditions of authenticity, legitimacy and creativity ….. as key drivers of the way we project our identities onto digital and analogue objects and the intimate technologies we own, thus adding to the discourse around digitization of everyday things. This project has two manifestations, the first being a workshop in conjunction with Ryerson University and the second an edited book, under contract with Routledge. The volume is co-edited with Einar Engstrom, Ezra Teboul and Claes Thoren.

Role: Principle Investigator, along with Jason Nolan, Kurt Thumlert, Heidi Chan, Einar Engstrom and Claes Thoren.

Collaborator: Jason Nolan
Collaborator Institution: Ryerson University
Collaborator Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Jun/2021

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Pedagogy for the privileged: Building theory, curriculum and critical practices

Foster, Lorne | Funded | Peel Regional Police

Peel Regional Police Traffic Stop Race-Based Data Collection Strategy

The Peel Regional Police (PRP) project examines the full range of police-civilian interactions, including stop and question activities, charges, arrests, releases, and use of force.

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Funders:
Peel Regional Police

Start Date:
Mar/2021
End Date:
Mar/2024

Porporato, Marcela |

Performance Measurement Practices in Canadian Governments: effectiveness and efficiency models. Co-authored with Nelson Waweru

Huang, Jimmy | Funded | Discovery Grants (NSERC)

Personalizing and Searching Medical Data for Cost Effective Health Care

Funders:
Discovery Grants (NSERC)

Lovejoy, Paul | Funded | SSHRC

Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Ransoming Practices

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Jennifer Lofkrantz
Collaborator Role: Co-applicant

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Mar/2014
End Date:
Aug/2015

Wood, Lesley | Funded | SSHRC

Policing Protest: the diffusion of new tactics

A study of the changes to the policing of protest in Canada and the United States, 1995-2010

Brooke, Stephen J | Funded | Social Science and Research Council of Canada Insight Program

Politics and Emotion in Britain, c. 1970 to c.2000

‘Politics and Emotion in Britain, c. 1970 to c. 2000,’ is a five-year project that will examine the relationship of emotion to politics in late twentieth-century Britain, focusing on emotions such as hatred, fear, compassion, empathy and hope and their connections to race relations, social diversity, economic change, humanitarian efforts, and attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Insight

Start Date:
Apr/2020
End Date:
Apr/2025

Magee, Joanne |

Post Secondary Education

This is an update on early work on the same subject. This update incorporates changes to education-related federal and provincial personal tax credits and TOSI.

Emberly, Andrea |

Postdoctoral research, Tshakhuma Village, Limpopo, South Africa.

Carried out follow-up research on Venda children’s music and dance as a Postdoctoral Fellow for the University of Western Australia. August 30 - October 1 2009.

Emberly, Andrea |

Postdoctoral research. John Curtin School for the Arts, Perth Modern, and Lakeside School students Seattle.

Carried out interview studies on how teenagers use music to regulate personal and social behaviour including use of web-based technologies.

Adebayo, Damilola |

Power to the People: Electricity and Urban Life in Twentieth-Century Nigeria

A revised version of my doctoral dissertation, this monograph project investigates the evolution and impact of electricity generation, supply, and consumption in Southern Nigerian cities from its inception in 1898, through independence (1960), the Civil War (1967-1970), and to the eve of the OPEC-led international oil boom in the early 1970s.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)

Start Date:
Jan/2021
End Date:
May/2023

Boon, Marcus |

Practice: Towards a History of Aesthetics After Art, 1900 - Present

Chatterjee, Soma |

Practicing theory, theorizing practice

Review of critical Social Work theories and their practical application in key Social Work fields.

Role: Principal investigator

Funders:
Dean's Award for Research Assistantship - Liberal Arts and professional Studies

Start Date:
May/2018
End Date:
Aug/2018

Asgary, Ali | Funded | International Development and Research Centre (IDRC)

Predictive modeling and forecasting of the transmission of COVID-19 in Africa using Artificial Intelligence

York University has joined forces with epidemiologists, modelers, physicists, statisticians, software engineers, and data scientists across Africa to integrate the power of predictive modelling and simulations with the capacity of a comprehensive COVID-19 monitoring dashboard that will be used to predict epidemic trends and inform decision-making and real-time management across Africa.

Role: Co-Applicant

Funders:
International Development and Research Centre (IDRC),

Start Date:
Jan/2021
End Date:
Dec/2022

Magee, Joanne |

Private corporations and Investment income: Canadian controlled vs. others

When corporations that are CCPCs are continued in foreign jurisdictions, the corporation is no longer a CCPC and the additional refundable tax no longer applies to investment income. This project examines the extent of the problem and possible fixes.

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Professionalization of HRM and HRM professionals

MacLennan, Anne F. |

Programming, practices, production and policy: Canadian community radio

Canadian radio's potential for representative and inclusive broadcasting has yet to be realized. This research will work to expand the possibilities of radio within the context of current programming, practice, production, and policy realities. For this project community radio is defined as locally specific ` managed by and broadcasting to and for its constituent communities. Canadian community/campus radio is tasked with the representing "diverse cultural groups, including official linguistic minorities" (CRTC 2010-499). Community radio responds to the needs of community/-ies served in distinct and specific ways depending on the local and social context, meaning practices on the ground vary considerably in their negotiations of local factors. We argue that Canada's community/campus radio stations face financial, practical and other challenges to work within the limitations of their resources and policy. This research will investigate the challenges and best practices of Canadian stations through interviews in order to share their innovations and initiatives to help to sustain and advance the goals of community/campus radio stations in Canada. The parallel CRTC reassessment of radio makes it significant.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Katie Moylan
Collaborator Institution: University of Leicester

Start Date:
May/2018
End Date:
Apr/2022

de la Cour, Lykke |

Psychiatric Institutionalization as an Expansion of the Medical Colonization of Aboriginal populations in Ontario,1940s-1970s

Role: Principle investigator

Start Date:
Sep/2017
End Date:
Sep/2018

Anucha, Uzo | Funded | SSHRC Strategic Dissemination Grant

Public Outreach Dissemination project: "A Community Dialogue on Hidden Homelessness among Newcomer Canadians"

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: The Homeless Coalition of Windsor-Essex Region; The City of Windsor
Collaborator Role: Community Partners

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Mar/2008
End Date:
Mar/2009

, | Funded | SSHRC

Public Reason, Democratic Freedom and the Idea of a New Beginning

Funders:
SSHRC

Mulé, Nick | Funded | SSHRC Insight Grant; Inside Out/OUTtv Post-Production Fund

Queer Liberation Theory: Resurrection and Development

A community-based research study with social justice group Queer Ontario involving academics, activists and artists, exploring the principles and tenets of the gay liberation movement of the late 1960s/70s and their utility today. With further funding this project has been internationalized looking at the historical gay liberation movements of Australia, Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States as well as queer mobilizations in non-Western regions of the world.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator Institution: Queer Ontario
Collaborator Role: Advisory

Funders:
Inside Out/OUTtv Post-Production Fund
York Minor Research Grant
SSHRC Small Grant
York Minor Research Grant
SSHRC Small Grant
SSHRC Insight Grant

Start Date:
Oct/2010
End Date:
Mar/2022

Driver, Susan | Funded | Standard Research (SSHRC)

Queer Youth Online Dialogues

Funders:
Standard Research (SSHRC)

Oikawa, Mona | Funded | SSHRC

Racial Formation in a Settler Society: Japanese Canadians' Relationship to Colonialism

Funders:
SSHRC

Asgary, Ali | Funded | DRDC

Radar-based All-Weather Roadway Safety System

Radar-based All-Weather Roadway Safety System for First Responders

Role: Co-PI

Collaborator: Dr. Peter Park
Collaborator Institution: York Regional Police, AUG signals
Funders:
DRDC

Start Date:
Jul/2018
End Date:
Jun/2021

Mulé, Nick | Funded | Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Rainbow Health Ontario

Ontario Rainbow Health Resource Centre: A Proposal for Educational and Capacity Building Services to Improve the Health and Wellness of Sexual and Gender Minority Communities in Ontario.

Role: Co-Applicant

Collaborator: Andrea Daley and Anna Travers
Collaborator Institution: Sherbourne Health Centre
Funders:
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Start Date:
Nov/2008
End Date:
Nov/2011

Sorge, Antonio |

Re-Centering the Mediterranean: Refugee Resettlement on the Sicilian Borderland

Since 2011, ethnographic research on Sicily has examined how refugees are integrated within their host communities, as well as the roadblocks to successful recognition of the social, cultural, and economic needs of newcomers. A period of fieldwork on Lampedusa allowed me to examine the discordant dynamics of hospitality and anti-immigration sentiment at the local level, while on neighbouring Sicily I have examined the rising support for neo-nationalist right-wing movements within rural communities over the alleged demographic and cultural threat posed by refugees, as well as the rejection of this discourse by refugee rights advocates. This work also examines a broad-based movement in Italy to settle refugees in declining rural towns in order to secure the demographic viability of these sites, and includes specific attention to the reconfiguration of the island of Sicily as a place of both departures and arrivals, and indeed a transnational space defined by connections with a vibrant global Sicilian diaspora throughout Europe, the US, and Canada.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2019)

Zikic, Jelena | Funded | SSHRC

Re-Invention of Retirement: A Study of Baby Boomer Professionals in Two countries

Funders:
SSHRC

MacKinnon, Kinnon |

Re/DeTrans Canada

The Re/DeTrans Canada study is a qualitative, interview-based study led by Dr. Kinnon MacKinnon (Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, York University). The project seeks to build knowledge and supports for detransitioners, retransitioners, people who stop transitioning, and those who experience shifts in gender identity after initiating a gender transition. The full research team is composed of Drs. Alex Abramovich, Hannah Kia, Travis Salway, Ashley Lacombe-Duncan, Lori Ross, along with PhD candidate, Florence Ashley and research assistant, Gabriel Enxuga

Role: Principal investigator

Start Date:
Aug/2021
End Date:
Aug/2023

McGuire, Wendy |

Reading and Writing Fiction: Storytelling as a Pedagogical Tool for Exploring Identity, Oppression and Intersectionality in a Graduate Social Work Class

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Oct/2017
End Date:
May/2019

Anderson, Katharine |

Reading Instruments: Objects, Texts and Museums

material culture; gravitational measurement; geophysical prospecting; scientific instruments; research methods

Role: collaborator; author

Collaborator: Elisabeth Neswald (Brock), Melanie Frappier (Dalhousie), Henry Trim (UBC), Jan Hadlaw (AMPD, York)

Asgary, Ali | Funded | GEOIDE

REAL-TIME MULTI-CRITERIA SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS: IMPROVING FIRE RESPONSE IN CANADIAN COMMUNITIES

Role: Principle Investigator

Asgary, Ali | Funded | NSERC

Real-time oil spill detection using Laser-Induced Fluorescence LIDAR, Internet-based Temporal-GIS, and Mobile Emergency Asset Management

Goldstein, David |

Recipes for Authorship: Poetry, Plagiarism, and the Invention of the English Cookbook

This monograph maps the connections between lyric poems and recipes in early modern England. I argue that culinary and medical recipe writing formed a chief model for poetic form and production for authors from Skelton through Milton, while recipe book authors developed new techniques for asserting individual authority in a genre formerly marked by anonymity.

Cameron, Barbara | Funded | SSHRC (CURA)

Reconceiviing Human Rights Practive for the New Social rights Paradigm

Funders:
SSHRC (CURA)

, | Funded | Minor Research Grant, Atkinson Faculty, York University

Recovering Cultural Material of the Lower Stl'atl'imx from the American Museum of Natural

Funders:
Minor Research Grant, Atkinson Faculty, York University

, | Funded | Strategic Research

Recruiting, (Re)training and Retaining Immigrants in the Canadian Workforce

Funders:
Strategic Research

Hwong, Thaddeus |

Redistribution in Civil Society

Quests to advance redistributive policies, one data point at a time.

Role: Principal investigator

Pybus, Jennifer | Funded | King's College London

Refugee Sensing SIMs

A collaboration with UK based artist Liz Hingley, selected as an artist in residence at Somerset House at King's College London.

Role: Collaborator

Collaborator: Liz Hingley
Funders:
King's College London

Start Date:
Nov/2020
End Date:
May/2022

Jones-Imhotep, Edward | Funded | SSHRC

Reliable Humans, Trustworthy Machines: A History of the Technological Self

Supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant, this project examines how modern observers from the late-18th to the mid-20th centuries saw the failure of machines as a problem of the self — a problem of the kinds of people that failing machines created, threatened, or presupposed.

Role: Principal Investigator

Crosby, Alison D | Funded | SSHRC

Remembering and Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Dialogues

How colonial, imperial, militarized and state violence are remembered and memorialized—through, for example, memorials, museums, archives, performances, and art installations—are sites of constant contestation and anxiety. Questions of who and what gets remembered or forgotten, whose loss mourned and grieved, and how, what kinds of memorialization processes are assigned cultural value and how others are made absent, are shaped by racially gendered histories, ideologies, subjectivities and imaginaries. They also emerge within and are shaped by–sometimes in resistance to–transnational relations, discourses, ideologies, market flows, border controls, migration patterns, legal frameworks, media culture and more. Invoking a broad, critical and intersectional understanding of the transnational that attends to the particularities of place-based struggles and difference experiences as the grounds from which to explore connections, similarities and coalitional possibilities within, across and through borders and contexts, this project centrally asks what a transnational feminist lens might reveal about the space of remembrance and memorialization. Simultaneously, it seeks to explore what the lens of memory and memorialization may conversely illuminate about our transnational feminist engagements, scholarly, artistic, activist and otherwise.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Malathi de Alwis, Heather Evans, Honor Ford-Smith, Shahrzad Mojab and Carmela Murdocca
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
York University
University of Toronto

Start Date:
Jan/2019
End Date:
Dec/2021

Murnaghan, Ann Marie | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Remembering Indiantown: Witsuwit'en Experiences in Smithers, 1921-1967

Co-investigator with Tyler McCreary, Florida State and Paul Bowles, University of Northern British Columbia.
When Smithers, BC, first incorporated in 1921, an Indigenous community known as Indiantown was already on the fringes of the developing town. The reasons that Witsuwit'en and other Indigenous people came to Smithers varied. Some were already living in the area when the settlers arrived. Others had been compelled to relocate after eviction from their previous homes by settlers seeking farmland or the federal Indian agent deciding they did not qualify to live on reserve. Others still moved to the emerging railway entrepôt to access jobs and opportunities in the developing northern economy.

For a half-century, Indiantown was a vital centre for Indigenous life in the frontier town. Within settler society, Indigenous people faced discrimination in health care, education, policing, and the labour market. Although their labour helped build the town, Indigenous families remained at the fringe of the community. But despite their poverty, Witsuwit'en families were able to build a place for themselves from which they could both participate in the local economy and maintain connections to broader networks of kin.

For decades, municipal officials in Smithers had discussed proposals to displace the ten to fifteen predominantly Witsuwit'en families from the townsite. But there were never resources or mechanisms to remove them. As the town developed in the postwar period, pressure to redevelop Indiantown increased. Immigration and technological change had decreased the need for Indigenous labour in the north. Simultaneously, the introduction of water and sewer systems transformed the built environment; Indiantown--which had never been extended those services--became a locus of concern as a site of dereliction and disease.

In the 1950s and 1960s, municipal authorities began to enforce housing standards, while provincial social workers targeted poor Indigenous homes in a wave of child apprehensions. The imposition of middle class, white norms to evaluate the Indiantown community had devastating effects. Families lost children to state apprehensions and homes to municipal redevelopment projects. Eventually the municipality redeveloped the area into a new business district and redesigned residential neighbourhood. With the removal of the last house in 1967, Indiantown disappeared. Although this displacement had tremendous impacts on Witsuwit'en families, it was quickly forgotten by the settler community. In recent years, tensions over this history undermined efforts to build relationships between Witsuwit'en hereditary chiefs and municipal officials in Smithers. In 2016, Witsuwit'en and Smithers leaders decided to partner in a research project, led by Tyler McCreary, to explore the historical relationships between the Witsuwit'en and settler communities. The book, "Shared Histories" (McCreary 2018), told that story.

In Remembering Indiantown, we seek to extend the conversation about this history to the broader public through curating a museum exhibit on the history of Witsuwit'en families in Smithers, with a launch ceremony. The exhibit will be mixed media--including text, photographs, maps, and video clips of elders documenting the history of Indiantown. The five themes emphasized in the exhibit will be the foundations of the Indiantown community, its contributions to Smithers community and economy, the inclusion and exclusion of Indiantown residents in Smithers, the eventual displacement of Indiantown, and finally its enduring legacy.

The exhibit and its public launch are being developed in coordination with a Witsuwit'en advisory committee to guide the project to address community concerns and interests. This participatory community-based design reflects the guiding principles of Indigenous research paradigms (Pualani Louis, 2007).

Role: Co-investigator

Collaborator: Tyler McCreary and Paul Bowles
Collaborator Institution: Florida State University and University of Northern British Columbia
Collaborator Role: Co-investigators

Funders:
Connections Program, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Start Date:
Feb/2020
End Date:
Aug/2022

, | Funded | Discovery Grants (NSERC)

Requirements-Driven Software Customization

Funders:
Discovery Grants (NSERC)

Mulé, Nick | Funded | Clusters (SSHRC)

Research Cluster on Gender and Sexual Diversity and Health and Wellbeing

A research project to create research clusters across Canada that would address the health and wellbing of LGBTQ populations.

Role: Co-Applicant

Collaborator: Co-applicants Shari Brotman and Bill Ryan
Funders:
Clusters (SSHRC)

Start Date:
Apr/2005
End Date:
Mar/2006

Emberly, Andrea |

Research on children’s music in refugee communities in Western Australia.

Funded research on the ways in which music can be used to help refugee children achieve wellbeing needs and goals (social, cultural, and physical). Jan 2011-present.

Emberly, Andrea |

Research on children’s music in remote Aboriginal communities in the Kimberley.

Funded research on music in children’s lives in remote Aboriginal communities and the integration of traditional music into the school classroom as a way to support language revitalization. Continued research funded by three-year Australian Research Council Linkage grant (2013-2016 – postponed to 2014-2017) and by York University minor research grant.

Emberly, Andrea |

Research on the role of ethnomusicology archives.

Funded research on ethnomusicology archives and the John Blacking Collection at the Callaway Archive, UWA. Research includes current co-curating of a John Blacking exhibition to open at the University of Western Australia, Perth Nov.1, 2013 and at the University of Venda, Thohoyahdou, Limpopo, South Africa in July 2014.

Emberly, Andrea |

Research on Venda children’s musical cultures, Tshakhuma Village, Limpopo, South Africa.

Continued research on issues pertaining to music, education and culture in Venda communities. Currently supported by a SSHRC Insight Development grant (2014-2016) to explore the loss of initiation ceremony and music and the impact this has on children’s lives and cultural education.

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Research Project

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Research Project

Simeon , James | Funded | Workshops and Conference, CIDA

Research Workshop on Critical Issues in International Refugee Law

Funders:
CIDA

Simeon , James | Funded | Justice Canada

Research Workshop on Critical Issues in International Refugee Law

Funders:
Justice Canada

Simeon , James | Funded | Law Society

Research Workshop on Critical Issues in International Refugee Law

Funders:
Law Society

Simeon , James | Funded | SSHRC

Research Workshop on Critical Issues in International Refugee Law

Funders:
SSHRC

Simeon , James | Funded | The Netherlands Consulate in

Research Workshop on Critical Issues in International Refugee Law

Funders:
The Netherlands Consulate in

Davis, Andrea A. |

Resisting White Supremacy in the African Diaspora: Moving Towards Liberation and Decolonization

Edited Journal Special Issue, Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal, University of Texas at El Paso, Spring 2021

Role: Co-editor

Collaborator: Sarita Cannon and Crystal Guillory
Collaborator Institution: San Francisco State University and University of Houston - Downton
Collaborator Role: Co-editors

Start Date:
Jun/2020
End Date:
Jun/2021

Saunders, Richard G |

Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa: Policy Challenges and Emerging Opportunities

Since the early 2000s, resurgent international minerals markets, disappointing tax revenues and weak economic spillovers from the mining sector have contributed to a rising wave of 'Resource Nationalism' (RN) in mineral-rich countries. RN refers to the use of discretionary policies by governments to regulate and control the resource industries with the aim of achieving economic and political benefits. While governments, local business and civil society in many countries have broadly called for the strengthening of benefits from mining, states' policy interventions have differed significantly in practice and have resulted in diverse development outcomes. In Africa there is renewed focus by governments, social stakeholders and international development agencies on how to harness the mineral sector's potential. Typically, however, these national-level debates have been isolated from and mostly uninformed by each other. The evidence surrounding recent policy practices and their outcomes has been scattered, anecdotal and thin. The proposed project seeks to address knowledge gaps in RN policy debates in Southern Africa and facilitate the flow of information surrounding RN innovations across national borders.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
May/2020
End Date:
Apr/2023

Lai, Poland |

Respecting the Needs and Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Receiving and Providing Care in a Post-Pandemic World

In Canada, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the implementation of numerous laws, policies and guidelines in all levels of government, but how do these affect people with disabilities? Political, fiscal and regulatory decisions made by different levels of government as well as the healthcare system may not always support the rights of people with disabilities. This mixed methods project will critically analyze the impact of relevant laws, policies and guidelines related to care and caregiving on the needs and rights of people with disabilities in Ontario. It seeks to incorporate the lived experience of persons with disabilities into the analysis.

Swift, Karen | SSHRC

Risk and Risk Assessment in Child Welfare

Litoiu, Marin | NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grant

Scalable Adaptive Web Services

Funders:
NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grant

MacDonald, Margaret |

Scaling Up and Counting Down

This research project traces the development of global policy since the 1980s to promote safe motherhood and reduce maternal mortality. Drawing on visual, documentary, and narrative data from key governmental, NGO and UN organizations, I am orienting this project around key debates and emerging tools in the effort to address maternal mortality in low resource settings: the controversial place of traditional birth attendants in maternal health; the production and uses of photography and film in international campaigns as affective, aesthetic information about maternal mortality; and the emergence of new biomedical-technical solutions embedded in feminist politics around reproductive health. This project intersects with my research in Senegal mentioned above.

Daley, Andrea |

Schizophrenia and Caregiving Study

Role: Research Coordinator/Assistant

Start Date:
Oct/2005
End Date:
Aug/2006

Anderson, Katharine |

Scientific Voyage Narratives: HMS Beagle and beyond

Annotated edition with a critical introduction of the 1839 Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of HMS Adventure and HMS Beagle. 4 vols. by Philip Parker King and Robert Fitzroy (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011).

Studies of the voyage narrative as a genre of scientific publication in the nineteenth century.

Reiter, Ester | Funded | Standard Research (SSHRC)

Secular Jewish Culture and Community

Funders:
Standard Research (SSHRC)

Soennecken, Dagmar | Funded | European Centre of Excellence

Securitization in the EU: Legal and Policy Implications for Canada, Dec 2/3, 2011

Role: Main Organizer

Funders:
York, EU Centre of Excellence
DAAD
York, Nathanson Centre

Start Date:
Dec/2011
End Date:
Dec/2011

Mulé, Nick | Funded | Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)

Sexual and Gender Diversity: Vulnerability and Resilience

A series of research studies and development projects to address the health and wellbeing of LGBTs across Canada.

Role: Collaborator, Affiliate Researcher and Chair

Collaborator: Principal Investigator: Danielle Julien
Funders:
Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)
(FQRSC) fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture, Quebec

Start Date:
Apr/2006
End Date:
Mar/2011

Lovejoy, Paul | Funded | SSHRC

SHADD: Testimonies of Enslaved Africans from the Era of Slavery

The SHADD Biography Project focuses on the enforced migration of “Atlantic Africans,” that is enslaved Africans in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade, through an examination of biographical accounts of individuals born in Africa who were enslaved in the 16-19th century. The focus is on testimony, the voices of individual Africans. The Project is named for Mary Ann Shadd, abolitionist, Canadian, first woman newspaper editor (Voice of the Fugitive) in North America, in recognition of her political and intellectual commitment to document the Underground Railroad and resistance to slavery in North America. SHADD also identifies the website Studies in the History of the African Diaspora---Documents (www.harriettubmaninstitute.ca/SHADD), which houses facsimile and transcribed versions of testimonies. The SHADD Biography Project seeks to use an online digital repository of autobiographical testimonies and biographical data of Atlantic Africans to analyze patterns in the slave trade from West Africa, specifically in terms of where individuals came from, why they were enslaved, and what happened to them. The Project focuses on people born in Africa and hence in most cases had been born free rather than on those who were born into slavery in the Americas. Our contribution will add specifically concentrate on those who experienced the “Middle Passage,” i.e., the Atlantic crossing, which is often seen as a defining moment in the slavery experience. The genre “slave narrative” is thereby expanded through a study of accounts of slaves born in Africa. The SHADD Project focuses on biographical testimony as the fundamental unit of analysis, whether text arises from first person memory or via amanuensis, and whenever possible is supplemented with biographical details culled from legal, ecclesiastical, and other types of records. The Project will integrate testimonies and other data from several projects. This includes the research of the co-applicants and collaborators, who want to integrate databases in a fashion that will be innovative and creative. Lovejoy brings a range of testimonies focusing on the Central Sudan but including Yoruba, Nupe and other West African cases; Lovejoy is currently working with co-applicant, Kolapo, and collaborators, Kelley and Akurang-Parry, in the generation of materials on West Africa, along with Schwarz. In addition, Lovejoy, Schwarz and Banting Fellow Bezerra are working on biographical information about individuals taken off slave ships by the British navy and designated "Liberated Africans," who can be followed in the documentary record. In collaboration with Co-applicant, Le Glaunec, and Collaborator, Landers, these West African and “Liberated African” data will be combined with data from the French Caribbean, including information from fugitive slave advertisements, and in the case of Spanish and Portuguese colonies, from baptismal and other documentation maintained by the Church. Our intention is to identify individuals in the several collections of documents that amount to massive amounts of material. Individual testimonies are assembled on Google Drive, from where documents are transcribed into files on individuals and then verified. Specific bodies of data will be the focus of PhD and MA research projects. The Project contributes to an understanding of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its impact on West Africa as gleaned from biographical accounts. Scholars in several disciplines other than history, including literature studies and sociology will benefit from the project, which also will interest individuals undertaking genealogical research.The SHADD website allows students, the scholarly community, and the general access to the extensive data in an interactive form.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Sean Kelley
Collaborator Institution: University of Essex
Collaborator Role: Co-applicant

Funders:
SSHRC
SSHRC

Start Date:
Apr/2014
End Date:
Mar/2023

Lovejoy, Paul | Funded | SSHRC

SHADD: Testimonies of Enslaved Africans from the Era of Slavery

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Bell, Shannon M |

Shooting Theory

Since 2007 I have been working on Shooting Theory – bringing together digital video technology and print textual philosophy/theory through imaging philosophical/theoretical concepts. The intended end product is a scalar and print book.

Role: To bring digital technology and political theory together.

Start Date:
Jun/2007
End Date:
Aug/2020

Heron, Barbara |

Short-Term Development Postings Survey Project

Funders:
Atkinson Minor Research Grant (York Internal Grant)

Hayden, Wilburn |

Silos in Canada: A Look at Race within the Mosaic Society

This is on-going research that looks at black Canadians historical and comtemporary within the context of multiculturalism.

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Single parents and the meaning of work: Understanding the labour market and exclusion in the new economy

, | Labour Market Research Network Research Grants

Skill Acquisition of Dropouts and Subsequent Labour Market Behaviour Canadian

Grayson, J. Paul |

Skills for Success in University

On the basis of needs assessment conducted at York, Western, Waterloo, and the University of Toronto development of online courses to deal with students' skill deficiencies.

Tusikov, Natasha | Funded | SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

Smart Cities in Global Comparative Perspective: Worlding and Provincializing Relationships.

The Toronto portion of this seven-city study focuses on interviews with policymakers, industry actors and civil-society organizations.

Hayden, Wilburn |

Social condition of blacks living in the Appalachian Region of the USA

Role: Principal Investigator

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Social determinants of health across the lifespan

Langlois, Ganaele M. | Funded | SSHRC

Social Media Campaigns: Tracking Digital Politics across Web 2.0. 2012-2017. ($385,000).

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
May/2012
End Date:
Dec/2017

Vizmuller-Zocco, Jana |

Social media conferences

With my colleague, Prof. Roberta Iannacito Provenzano, we have organized two international conferences held at York University ("Social Media: Implications for the University", 2013, and "Social Media: Implications for Politics, Religion, and Gender", 2014), and we are organizing the third one, entitled "Social Media: Implications for Policing and Crime" 2016.

Role: co-organizer

Collaborator: Prof. Roberta Iannacito Provenzano
Collaborator Role: principal organizer

Peng, Songlan (Stella) |

Social movement theory and fair value accounting: a case study

Collaborator: K. Bewley

Swift, Karen |

Social policy in Canada

Role: Principle Researcher

Cameron, Barbara | SSHRC Community-University Research Alliance Grant

Social Rights Accountability

Role: Co-Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Community-University Research Alliance Grant

Vosko, Leah F. |

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada Grant, “Liberating Temporariness: Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway to Social Inclusion,” Co-Investigator with Robert Latham and Valerie Preston, Fall 2010

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Vosko, Leah F. |

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant, “Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards for Workers in Precarious Jobs,” Principal Investigator, March 2013

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Partnership Grant,

Vosko, Leah F. |

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant, “A New Approach to Labour Market Membership: Canadian Employment Policy in Focus,” Principal Investigator, Spring 2010-2013

Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Razack, Narda | UPCD Tier 11 Program AUCC/CIDA

Social Work in Nigeria Project (SWIN)

Role: Team member

Funders:
UPCD Tier 11 Program AUCC/CIDA

Bischoping, Katherine |

Sociological Books and their Covers

This project in intertextuality involves visual sociology analysis of the covers of sociology's classics from around the world. A first inquiry, with R. Abdelbaki, K. Ahmed, K. Banasiak, and D. Gul Kaya, compared covers of Edward W. Said's Orientalism from Islamicate contexts with those from non-Islamicate contexts. A second inquiry, with S. Chapman-Nyaho and R. Raby, looked at how covers of Discipline and Punish can transcend a narrow focus on the prison and the Panopticon. A third inquiry will be on The Souls of Black Folk.

Thomas, Mark P | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Spaces of Labour in Moments of Urban Populism

An analysis of the rise of populism in the context of austerity politics in North America. The implications for labour movements in terms of engagement with forms of both left- and right-wing populism. Currently funded through a SSHRC Insight Grant.

Halsall, Alison |

Special Issue of International Research in Children's Literature (IRCL) on "Possible & Impossible Children: Children's Literature and Childhood Studies."

This is a special issue that collects some key papers from the 2017 IRSCL Conference, held at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Lande, Kevin |

SSHRC Insight Development Grant: "Forms of Mind"

"Forms of Mind" examines the role that sensory perception plays in our knowledge of the world, with a special focus on the form or code in which information is packaged in perception.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Jul/2020
End Date:
Jun/2022

Wang, Jing |

SSHRC Insight Grant 2019-2023

Collaborator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Apr/2019
End Date:
Mar/2023

Wang, Jing | Funded | SSHRC

SSHRC Insight Grant 2020-2023

Principal (Sole) Investigator

Start Date:
Jun/2020
End Date:
May/2023

Wang, Jing |

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant 2022-2025

Co-investigator

Wang, Jing |

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant 2021-2022

Principle Investigator

Role: Principle Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Jun/2021
End Date:
May/2022

Man, Guida | Funded | SSHRC Sub-Research Grant, (BMRI) Building Migrant Resilience in Cities/Immigration et résilience enmilieu urbain (PI: Valerie Preston)

Stalled Mobility? Income Inequality and Intergenerational Relationships Among Newcomer South Asian and Chinese Households in York Region

Income equality has declined for newcomers and there is every reason to believe that intergenerational mobility may have also stalled. Evidence suggests that recent migrants are experiencing lower rates of employment and living on the margin of skilled labour for a longer period of time after their arrival than cohorts who landed between 1961 and 1991 (Ruddick, 2003; Green et al, 2016). Racialized migrants are particularly susceptible to experiencing employment precarity and low- income (Fuller, 2015; Galabuzi, 2006). Even though newcomers were doing better financially by 2010 compared to the past thirty years, still the rate of low-income for recent migrants was 2.5 times higher than the rate for the Canadian-born (Statistics Canada, 2014). Racialized newcomers contend with income instability and establishingsocial supports in finding employment and negotiating family relations. Ethno-racial, diverse, and multi-generational households are the fastest growing form in urban Canada (Statistics Canada, 2017) suggesting that income in/security may be intergeneratinally shared in households. Newcomer income insecurity strains may be exacerbated by generational differences, such as in perceptions of how children should integrate into their new country and retain cultural knowledge and tradition (Hassan et al., 2008). South Asian and Chinese women’s greater responsibility for caregiving may reflect cultural discourses of loyalty and filial piety and the lack of affordable child care (Spitzer et al., 2003). There is limited research that addresses what enhances or hinders newcomers’ economic resilience and how, these factors affect their settlement in Canadian society. Clearly there remains a complex story to be told about recent immigrants and their continuing economic vulnerability in Canada. We explore how social, economic and cultural capital and strategies employed by newcomer South Asian and Chinese households impact their survival and intergenerational family relationships. Secondary questions include: How is income inequality differently experienced in the family households of recent Chinese versus South Asian migrants? What new income strategies do newcomers adopt? How do these strategies affect opportunities for income mobility for younger generations? How might intergenerational family relationships be preserved or strained by the income strategies of newcomers?

Role: CI

Collaborator: Nancy Mandell, Amber Gazo, Larry Lam
Collaborator Institution: York University
Collaborator Role: CI

Funders:
SSHRC

Man, Guida | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Stalled Mobility? Income Inequality and Intergenerational Relationships Among Newcomer South Asian and Chinese Households in York Region

2019-22 Co-Investigator with Nancy Mandell, Amber Gazso, and Lawrence Lam. ($39,201). Sub-grant from SSHRC Research Grant (BMRI) Building Migrant Resilience in Cities/Immigration et résilience enmilieu urbain (PI: Valerie Preston)

Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Kelly, Benjamin |

State Capacity in Roman Egypt: A Quantitative Approach

The objective of this project is to develop quantitative methods to measure temporal variations in ‘state capacity’ in Roman Egypt from ca. 30 BC to ca. AD 300. ‘State capacity’ refers to a state’s ability to implement its official goals. The study will focus on three datasets relevant to these goals: edicts and letters issued by the provincial governor; petitions to judicial authorities; and poll‐tax receipts.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Cornelius Christian
Collaborator Institution: Department of Economics, Brock University
Funders:
LA&PS Minor Research Grant

Albo, Gregory A |

State Restructuring and Capital Accumulation in Turkey

2015 ‘State Restructuring and Capital Accumulation in Turkey’
MITACS Globalink Research Award, Toronto
$5000

Funders:
MITACS Globalink Research Award

, | Funded | SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Stories from the land: Regenerating Lower Stl’atl’imx knowledges and practices

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Dr. Peter Cole
Funders:
SSHRC Standard Research Grant

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Stories Securing Bodies: Alternative geopolitics and biopolitics for peace

This asks what an alterbiopolitics might be, and how it might work together with an altergeopolitics. I am extending my dissertation research by creating a public digital archive of stories from conflict zones in Colombia shared by international accompaniers, and engaging in an online collaborative analysis with them of what worked well in those stories. I am also interviewing some of the Colombians profiled, with a focus on how sharing their story affected their security. I intend to propose best practices for sharing stories online from conflict zones for purposes of solidarity and peace building.

Kong, Ying |

Strategic Analysis on National Pharmacare Program Conflict Using Graph Model for Conflict Resolution

Funders:
RDI (SSHRC)

Liegghio, Maria | Funded | SSHRC Insight Grant

Supporting resilient outcomes: Understanding the emotional, instrumental and financial contributions of youth in low-income lone mother households

The purpose of this study is to explore youth resilience, poverty and provisioning in the Global North, specifically in two major Canadian urban centres – Toronto and Vancouver. The aim is to understand the emotional, instrumental, and financial formal and informal activities and roles youth living in poverty undertake to meet their own needs and those of other family members; that is, how children and youth help families "make ends meet".

Role: Co-investigator

Collaborator: Dr. Lea Caragata (principal investigator)

Start Date:
Apr/2019

McGrath, Susan | Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC),

Synthesizing Indigenous and International Social Work Theory and Practice in Rwanda.

Partnership Development Grant, 2013-15. ($200,000) . Applicant: S. McGrath, co-applicants: S. Dudziak, J. Hahirwah, M. Hynie, R. King, C. Kalinganire & C. Rutikanga.

Funders:
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Zhang, Tracy Ying |

Take Us Seriously: Gender, Equality, and Inclusion in Film Production Education

Dr. Zhang’s Mitacs-funded study on gender and film production education has generated a virtual exhibition called “Women in Film Education: Participatory Photography at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema” and a policy report, entitled “Take Us Seriously: Gender, Equality, and Inclusion in Film Production Education”. This project directly contributes to equity, diversity and inclusion in Canadian higher education by exposing female students’ challenges as well as their experiences of empowerment in film school.

Maiter, Sarah | SSHRC - CURA

Taking Culture Seriously in Community Mental Health

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: P. I. Joanna Ochocka, Community Psychology, Waterloo University, and other University and Community Partners.
Funders:
SSHRC - CURA

Wicken, William Craig |

TARR Centre records and oral history: Preserving and Creating Mi'kmaw Records for Future Generations

This project done through the leadership of the Mi'kmaw Studies programme at Cape Breton University , the Treaty and Aboriginal Rights Research Centre at Shubenacadie, NS (TARR) and the Union of Nova Scotia Mi'kmaq, will investigate records that are currently held by the TARR Centre in order to preserve them for future research. The project will also begin a pilot oral history project of Mi'kmaw elders who have been involved in Mi'kmaw politics since the 1960s.

Start Date:
Sep/2021

Good Gingrich, Luann | Funded | SSHRC Insight Grant

TASC (Tracing and Addressing Social Exclusion in Canada)

Long title: Advancing social inclusion in Canada’s diverse communities: Neighbourhood, regional, and national comparisons

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Apr/2015
End Date:
Mar/2021

Razack, Narda | IASSW

Task Force on International Exchanges and Research; International Association of Schools of Social Work

Role: Chair and Principal Investigator

Funders:
IASSW

Chatterjee, Soma |

Teaching migration and Indigenous self determination relationally

This was an upper year undergraduate course on migration and refugee protection where I challenged the very idea of immigrant settlement (a historically popular area of social work practice) as an innocent, desirable enterprise for social work. Instead, I placed Canada within a global system of nation states, and actively oriented the discussion toward the global project of imperial dispossession even if ‘the global’ seems vast and distant, and therefore, impossible to comprehend. I introduced content aimed to bridge the purported gap between the local and global modes of displacement; in the process, made both relentlessly visible. This is currently being developed as a graduate course.

Role: N/A

Funders:
Indigeneity in Teaching and Learning Fund. Office of the Vice President Academic & Provost, York University

Vizmuller-Zocco, Jana |

Technology-driven unemployment: dilemmas for ethics and social welfare

Call for papers for the forthcoming Special Issue of the journal Ethic and Social Welfare

Role: co-editor

Collaborator: Prof. Antonio Marturano
Collaborator Institution: Universita` Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Collaborator Role: co-editor

Start Date:
Dec/2016
End Date:
Apr/2018

Daley, Andrea | Funded | SSHRC Doctoral Student Award

Telling, Knowing, and Being Understood: Negotiating Lesbian In/Visibility within the Spaces of Psychiatric and Mental Health Services

This study explores through in-depth interviews the sexuality-related experiences of lesbian/queer women within the context of psychiatric and mental health support services.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Doctoral Student Award

Start Date:
Sep/2003
End Date:
Jan/2008

Dao, Nga |

Territory and Politics of Resources: everyday lives and landscapes in the Northwest Vietnam.

In this project, I will focus on the impacts of mining in the Northwest uplands of Vietnam as part of a broader study of how development discourse and resource politics have shaped and reshaped this borderland over the past three decades.

Start Date:
Aug/2020
End Date:
Jul/2022

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Langlois, Ganaele M. |

Textile as Communication

Communication Beyond Words: Textile and Social Change explores the potential of textile as a universal medium of communication capable of addressing systemic global inequalities.

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Jul/2018
End Date:
Jun/2020

Dufour, Caroline | Funded | Atkinson Junior Faculty Research Grants

The Agenda-Setting Process of Administrative Reform Policy in Ontario and Québec.

Start Date:
May/2003
End Date:
Sep/2003

McKeen, Wendy | Funded | Standard Research (SSHRC)

The Changing of Discourse on Single Mothers and Welfare: The Voice of Feminists Within the Nested Policy Debates of Ontario 1980-2000

Funders:
Standard Research (SSHRC)

Lawrie, Paul |

The Color of Hours: Race, Time and the Making of Urban America

My current SSHRC (Insight Grant) funded project The Color of Hours: Race, Time and the Making of Urban America links African American, Labour and Urban histories to the emerging field of time studies to chart the temporal geographies of race in postwar Detroit. Time –much like race- possesses an ostensible ‘naturalism’ which often obscures the various historical factors which went into its making. How peoples and societies choose to mark time –via the rhythms of nature or the rigidity of the clock- varies across historical contexts. My research asks if time is indeed relative –as something born of specific historical contingencies- than how do different peoples experience time differently? Moreover, how does the experience of time create racial inequality within cities? Time and race intersected to shape the landscape of postwar Detroit in a number of ways: from vagrancy statues to curfews, time work management and transit. Positing time as a past, present and future agent of racial identity, reveals new insights into the spatial and temporal dynamics of urban race relations from the assembly line to the city streets. This project draws on a myriad of primary sources from transit schedules, curfew/vagrancy statutes, municipal housing authorities and industrial management literature to define the temporal geographies of race in postwar Detroit.

Funders:
SSHRC

Whitfield, Agnès | Funded | SSHRC-Heritage Canada Virtual Scholar

The Contribution of Literary Translation to an Appreciation of Linguistic Duality

This study seeks to assess how literary translation can enhance an understanding of the value of linguistic duality in Canada and promote stronger links between Francophone and Anglophone Canadians.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC-Heritage Canada Virtual Scholar Program
Heritage Canada

Start Date:
Apr/2006
End Date:
Mar/2008

Whitfield, Agnès | Funded | SSHRC International Initiatives Project Grant

The Contribution of Literary Translation to Intercultural Understanding: Developing a Model for Reciprocal Exchange

Working in the context of literary translation in Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia and Romania, this project seeks to identify the components of a much-needed multi-lateral model of reciprocal literary exchange.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Jan/2007
End Date:
Dec/2009

Grayson, J. Paul |

The Development of a Cultural Capital Based Model of Student Outcomes

A comparison of the predictive power of the College Impact Model as embodied in NSSE with a model based on cultural capital.

Good Gingrich, Luann | Funded | SSHRC – Immigration and the Metropolis Program

The dynamics of social exclusion and inclusion for immigrants and racialized groups in Canada

SSHRC – Immigration and the Metropolis Program

Role: Principal Investigator

Malik, Sadia | Funded | Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada

The Effect of Retirement on Physical and Mental Wellbeing of the Elderly Population in Canada

Retirement represents a major transition in life as it entails lifestyle changes, particularly in relation to physical mobility, mental engagement, dietary habits, and social engagement, which can affect the physical and mental wellbeing of the aging population. With this rationale, several studies have investigated the causal effect of retirement on various mental and physical wellbeing indicators. Interestingly, these studies find conflicting evidence: positive effects stem from continued physical mobility, a stable flow of regular income, increased life satisfaction, and the preservation of self-esteem through involvement in productive societal roles; negative effects tend to arise from work related stress and a reduction in leisure and family time. The consensual evidence on the subject is however limited. Furthermore, almost all studies relate to a nonCanadian context (USA, Australia, Japan, and some European countries), but these too are limited by small samples that are not always representative at thenational level, lack of attention to reverse causality in the relationship between retirement and health, and lack of adequate controls due to data limitations. There are only three studies pertaining to Canada which are rather outdated and fail to adequately address the reverse causality and selfselection problems in order to derive unbiased estimates of the causal effect of retirement on physical and mental wellbeing.

In this research project, we utilize data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), which is nationally representative and consists of information on more than 50,000 senior citizens who are followed in subsequent waves of data collection. This data set allows us to fill gaps in the literature on retirement and its impact on wellbeing in at least three important ways. First, it follows individuals before, during, and after their retirement, thereby permitting to study the transition in wellbeing over time with and without retirement. Second, the longitudinal characteristics of the data allow us to control for unobserved individual level characteristics that might be related to both wellbeing and retirement. Third, and most importantly, the data set contains extensive information on retirement that includes, in particular, the reasons for retirement, enabling us to address the self-selection problem in ways not possible by earlier data sets. This information is critical for us to separate between respondents who retired due to health-related reasons and those who did not, thereby affording us a unique opportunity to isolate the exogenous source of variation in wellbeing. In employing the CLSA data, we propose to conduct a multivariate analysis of the effect of retirement on various indicators of physical and mental health such as the ability to move around and function independently, morbidity, and mental health indicators of the elderly population while controlling for other factors such as age, race, gender, socioeconomic status, and marital status that may affect the health of the population under study. We also propose to investigate the differential impact of retirement on health by gender, type of employment, type of retirement (full versus partial), and the education level of the retirees.

Although Canada does not have a mandatory retirement age, there are incentives built into the income security programs of Canada such as the National Pension Plan and Old Age Security that encourage retirement at a particular age. The findings of the study will help policy makers justify these incentives or provide an argument for altering the existing incentives. The findings may also be useful for individuals in deciding whether to choose to retire or continue to work.

Role: Co-investigator

Collaborator: Ida Ferrara
Collaborator Institution: York University
Collaborator Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Start Date:
Jul/2021
End Date:
Jul/2023

Kwon, Sung |

The Effects of R&D levels and relative cost of Real and Accrual manipulations on Earnings Management

Firms with intensive R&D and intangible activities (high-tech) have incentives to choose real over accrual-based earnings management than those with less activity (low-tech). Real earnings management techniques have greater benefits than accrual methods because they receive less scrutiny and are less easily detected by regulators and investors. We find that high-tech firms exhibit more real and less accrual-based earnings management than do the low-tech firms. Using a 2SLS regression analysis, we find that R&D activities facilitate the choices of real over accrual methods for high-tech firms when compared to the matched low-tech firms. Our evidence is important, because it shows that the choices of real versus accrual-based earnings management depend perhaps on R&D and intangible activities. In further tests, we investigate whether the choices of earnings management techniques enhance comparability. We find that the choices appear to make accounting amounts (earnings and equity book value) comparable for high-tech and low-tech firms that report economic gains. Thus, our evidence suggests that R&D and intangible activities facilitate the choices of real versus accrual-based earnings management which in turn make accounting amounts comparable.

Role: Co-Author

Collaborator: Gordian A. Ndubizu and Hai Q. Ta
Collaborator Institution: Drexel University and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Collaborator Role: Co-authors

Start Date:
Jul/2012

Kwon, Sung |

The Effects of the Clawback Provision on the Asymmetric Sensitivity of CEO Bonus to Earnings

Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) sets forth a clawback provision that enables a publicly traded company to recover bonuses and other performance-based compensation from the chief executive officers (CEOs) if their company is required to restate financial statements due to material noncomplicances, as a result of misconduct, with financial reporting requirements under the security laws. In this paper we examine the effect of regulatory changes on the sensitivity of CEO bonus to earnings in the cases of good news and bad news in the periods before and after SOX. We find that asymmetric sensitivity of bonus to earnings exists before SOX but disappears in the post-SOX period. This is consistent with the reduced impact of settling up problems due to the clawback provision. This finding shows that regulatory changes affect compensation contracts and has implications for regulators, managers, politicians, investors, and academics in their assessment of the equitable relationship between executive efforts and executive bonus compensation.

Role: Co-Author

Collaborator: Professors Jennifer Yin and Gordian Ndubizu
Collaborator Institution: University of Texas at San Antonio and Drexel University
Collaborator Role: co-authors

Start Date:
May/2015

Anucha, Uzo | Funded | StreetKids and The Applied Social Welfare Research and Evaluation Group

The Evaluation of StreetJibe

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Feb/2007
End Date:
Aug/2009

Dufour, Caroline | Funded | SSHRC-Small grant

The history of budgeting at York University

Role: Co-Researcher

Collaborator: Ken Ogata and Gary Spraakman
Collaborator Institution: School of administrative study
Collaborator Role: Main researcher and co-researcher

Start Date:
Sep/2009

Dufour, Caroline |

The history of food safety administration in Canada

Collaborator Institution: "History of Public Administration Group" of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences

Start Date:
May/2012
End Date:
Mar/2014

Malik, Sadia | Funded | Sightsavers International, U.K.

The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health in Pakistan: Evidence Based Policy Advocacy

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Aug/2010
End Date:
Dec/2010

Richardson, Julia |

The impact of international mobility in the global mining industry

Jones, Joanne | Funded | Deloitte/CAAA Research Grant

The Impact of Oversight Board Inspections on Audit Firms' Reflexive Practices

This research project examines how auditors perceive the impact of Auditor Oversight Boards on their reflexive practices and, ultimately, audit quality

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
Deloitte/CAAA Research Grant

Start Date:
Jun/2009
End Date:
Jun/2011

Dufour, Caroline |

The influence of central budget agencies on the development of public administration: the case of Canada

Start Date:
Mar/2010
End Date:
Jul/2011

Crosby, Alison D | Funded | SSHRC

The Inhabitance of Loss: A transnational feminist project on memorialization

This project uses a transnational feminist lens to examine when and how survivor-led initiatives to memorialize loss in Guatemala and Sri Lanka create new articulations of agency, voice and community within and across national borders.The project is a collaborative initiative with Sri Lankan cultural anthropologist Dr. Malathi de Alwis, along with Maya k’iche’ anthropologist Dr. Irma Alicia Velasquez Nimatuj, and Heather Evans (PhD student, York University).

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Malathi de Alwis
Collaborator Institution: Open University, Sri Lanka
Collaborator Role: Research Collaborator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Apr/2014
End Date:
Mar/2019

Angermeyer, Philipp S. |

The Integration of Text, Sound and Image into the Corpus-Based Analysis of Interpreter-Mediated Interaction

Online database of interpreter-mediated interaction //www.yorku.ca/comindat/comindat.htm

Halsall, Alison |

The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader

The first of its kind, The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader will honour LGBTQ+ work that emerged from and was influenced by comics’ post-WWII convulsions and transformations, the emergence and flourishing of the underground and alternative comix movement, the expansion of voices and cultures represented within mainstream comics, and the history of LGBTQ+ liberation to become what nonetheless remains an underrepresented sub-category in comics scholarship: LGBTQ+ comics, their critical implications, their provocative current iterations, and their future directions.

Role: Co-editor

Collaborator: Jonathan Warren

Start Date:
Aug/2018
End Date:
Dec/2022

MacDonald, Margaret |

The Making of Informed Choice in Midwifery in Canada

This project looks closely at what I call the making of informed choice in midwifery in Canada, with a focus on the province of Ontario -- one of my long term ethnographic field sites -- exploring its changing meaning in theory and practice as one of the central tenets of the midwifery profession.

Zhang, Tracy Ying |

The making of ‘valuable’ carpets in Lhasa

Dr. Zhang’s first major project is an ethnographic and historical study of artisanal labor in Tibetan capital city Lhasa, where handmade wool carpets are marketed as indigenous cultural exports. One of the main contributions of this project is its nuanced analysis of the linkages between gendered labor processes and the marketing of indigenous cultural goods under shifting political regimes. Research results have appeared in three peer-reviewed journals, one book chapter, and many academic talks. A forthcoming publication will appear in a book, called “The Tibetan Cultural Boom in the People’s Republic of China” (Lexington Books).

Albo, Gregory A |

The New Austerity, Social Movements and New Organizational Strategies

2011 ‘The New Austerity, Social Movements and New Organizational Strategies’
Sabbatical Leave Fellowship, York University
$11,950

Funders:
Fellowship, York University

Albo, Gregory A | Funded | York University

The New Austerity, Social Movements and New Organizational Strategies

2017 ‘The New Austerity, Social Movements and New Organizational Strategies’
Sabbatical Leave Fellowship, York University
$8000

Funders:
Fellowship, York University

Albo, Gregory A |

The New Economy, Union Strategies and Canadian Capitalism in Comparative Context

2009 ‘The New Economy, Union Strategies and Canadian Capitalism in Comparative Context’
Research Grant, Faculty of Arts, York University.
$2300

Funders:
Research Grant, Faculty of Arts, York University

Winland, Daphne |

The New Face of Diaspora: Neoliberalism in action

Allen, Kenzie |

The Poet as Ethnographer, Artist, and Enemy of the State

A survey of documentary poetics, focusing on representation and artifice, archives and inventions, and methods and impacts.

Mulé, Nick | Funded | SSHRC - Partnership Engagement Grant

The political economy of precarious work: Stories of economic insecurity and work among sexual minority men

The goal of this project is to build knowledge and understanding regarding the labour market experiences of sexual minorities experiencing economic insecurity. We are meeting this goal by asking “What are the stories of economic insecurity and work among sexual minorities?” TNG works to support those facing economic insecurity to find employment. Sexual minorities are overrepresented among those in poverty, face income inequities, and are discriminated against in the labour market, resulting in working conditions characterized by precarity. Previous research describes the economic disparities of sexual minorities and describes their experiences of discrimination in the workplace. However, to date, no research has been done on this topic, leading to a knowledge gap and a lack of best practices to support sexual minorities navigating the labour market. This project advances previous research by characterizing the labour market experiences of those employed by precarious working conditions. This project assists TNG to better understand the needs and experiences of the sexual minority populations they work with.

Role: Co-Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC - Partnership Engagement Grant

Start Date:
Dec/2020
End Date:
Nov/2021

Malik, Sadia | Funded | Sightsavers International, U.K.

The Productivity Gains of Rehabilitating the Blinds in Pakistan

Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Jan/2011
End Date:
Apr/2011

Anucha, Uzo | Funded | Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing; HRSDC; and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

The Role of Affordable Housing in the Well-Being of Children - An Exploratory Longitudinal Study

Role: Principal Researcher

Collaborator: Lisa Smylie and Daphne Jeyapal
Collaborator Institution: University of Windsor and University of Toronto
Collaborator Role: Co-Investigators

Funders:
Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing
HRSDC
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Start Date:
Mar/2008
End Date:
Dec/2009

Kelly, Benjamin |

The Roman Imperial Court: Methods, Models, and Materials

This project is funded by an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Its major outputs are two edited volumes, which are forthcoming with Cambridge University Press: The Roman Emperor and his Court, ca. 30 BC - ca. AD 300. Volume 1: Historical Essays and The Roman Emperor and his Court, ca. 30 BC - ca. AD 300. Volume 2: A Sourcebook.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Insight Grant

Maiter, Sarah | SSHRC Standard Research Grant

The Self-Other Issue in the Healing Practices of Racialized Minority Youth

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: P.I. Dr. Martha Kwee Kumsa, Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, Dr Miu Yan, School of Social Work, University of British Columbia, Dr. Adrienne Chambon, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
Funders:
SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Karpinski, Eva C. |

The Silent Book: Crafting Memories from A Life with Cancer.

It is a visual and textual collaborative project (with Pam Patterson) that attempts to address several complex and perplexing questions pertaining to living in the postcancer body. It approaches women’s health narratives from an interdisciplinary perspective, with the help of oral history, discourse analysis, and visual research methods. We envision the book as combining journal entries; transcripts of conversations exploring common themes and unique perceptions of cancer embodiment; quotations from famous and ordinary cancer survivors; citations from the popular scientific and medical lore on breast cancer; statistical data that patients are bombarded with; oppositional knowledge and alternative approaches; graphic memoir strips; photographs and artwork, both original and historical. This polyphonic text aims to construct an archive of personal memories that speak of women’s experiences of the body and sexuality during their cancer journeys, the body’s medicalization, pain, and empowerment, as well as of spiritual and intellectual transformations that can lead survivors toward breast cancer activism.

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Anucha, Uzo | Funded | AUCC/CIDA

The Social Work in Nigeria Project

Role: Project Director

Collaborator: Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Edo State; Nigerian Association of Social Workers
Collaborator Role: Community Partners

Funders:
AUCC/CIDA
York University, University of Windsor, University of British Columbia
University of Benin

Start Date:
Jan/2006
End Date:
Jul/2012

Ufodike, Akolisa |

The Sociology of Exclusion and the Sociology of Inclusion

I'm conducting a knowledge synthesis study of accounting research that investigate questions related to discrimination and marginalization. This project is targeting a a special issue call from Accounting Perspectives. I successfully leveraged $5000 of LAPS funding for this critical project which advances important and timely conversations about anti-black racism within the accounting discipline (and business more broadly). The project also helps advance conversations on discrimination against Indigenous peoples and other marginalized people.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
LAPS Black Scholar Research Fund

Dufour, Caroline | Funded | Institute of Public Administration of Canada

The Style of Expenditure Budget of the Ministry of Finance of Ontario, 1961-1985

Start Date:
May/2006
End Date:
Aug/2007

Davidson, Deborah |

The Tattoo Project: Creating a Digital Archive for Commemorative Tattoos

The Tattoo Project is one of originality and social innovation. No such project or archive exists. Tattoo research offers critical insight into highly significant aspects of culture, discourses within it, and social relations. While the cultural significance of tattoos is well established. While there is a significant body of literature about tattoos as body modification, there is no significant body of literature on tattoos as commemoration. Our project is a form of public scholarship in public mediated digital space.

Rossiter, Amy |

The uses of theories of recognition for social work theory and practice.

Derayeh, Minoo | Funded | Standard Research (SSHRC)

Theistic and Atheistic Notions of Evolution in Islamic Societies: Exploring Muslim Teachers' Students' and parents' Understanding of Evolution

Funders:
Standard Research (SSHRC)

Good Gingrich, Luann | Funded | SSHRC - Standard Research Grant

Theorizing “choice” and voluntary social exclusion: A study of transnational livelihoods and women from Mexico

SSHRC - Standard Research Grant

Role: Principal Investigator

Halsall, Alison |

Those 'dreadful' Victorians: Penny Dreadful as Neo-Victorian Speculative Fiction

Hayden, Wilburn | Staunton Farm Foundation

To establish social work behavioral health services in a rural primary care center run by nurse practitioners

, | Staunton Farm Foundation

To plan and coordinate a rural behavioral health conference

Hayden, Wilburn | Staunton Farm Foundation

To plan and coordinate a rural behavioral health conference for May

, | DH/HS Region IV

To provide statewide training in KY and TN for Family Workers

Hayden, Wilburn | DH/HS Region IV

To provide statewide training in KY and TN for Family Workers

Berland, Jody | Funded | SSHRC

TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies

Editor, Editor Emeritus

, | SSHRC Knowledge Impact in Society Research Grants

Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative

, | Funded | Alzheimer Society of Canada

Toward developing an assistive technology framework for older adults with dementia: A user-centred design approach

Foster, Lorne | Funded | Ontario Human Rights Commission

Towards a Policy Framework to Address Competing Human Rights Claims

Policy Dialogue and special journal publication on Competing Human Rights Claims in partnership with the York Centre for Public Policy and Law and the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC).

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Collaborator Institution: Ontario Human Rights Commission
Funders:
Ontario Human Rights Commission
Law Society of Canada
York Centre for Human Rights

Start Date:
Sep/2009
End Date:
Dec/2010

Mulé, Nick | Funded | York University Internal Grant

Towards Equitable Health & Social Service Policy and Illness Prevention Strategies for LGBTs

This study reviewed public health policy and recognition of LGBTs at the federal and provincial (Ontario) levels of government.

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Co-Investigator: Miriam Smith
Funders:
SSHRC Small Grant

Start Date:
Apr/2010
End Date:
Mar/2011

Chen, Stephen |

Towards Exploration-only, Exploitation-only Hybrid Search Techniques

Our research on thresheld convergence has shown how concurrent exploration and exploitation can interfere with subsequent exploration.

Role: Principal Investigator

Albo, Gregory A |

Transcending Pessimism, Reimagining Democracy: Festschrift for Leo Panitch

2017 ‘Transcending Pessimism, Reimagining Democracy: Festschrift for Leo Panitch’
York University, Centre for Social Justice
$15,000

Funders:
York University, Centre for Social Justice

Cavanagh, Sheila | Funded | SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

Transgender and Performance Ethnography

Role: Principle Investigator

Start Date:
Sep/2015
End Date:
Sep/2018

Albo, Gregory A |

Transit Justice in Ontario

2014- ‘Transit Justice in Ontario’
2016 Centre for Social Justice, Student Research Support
$16000

Funders:
Centre for Social Justice, Student Research Support

Van Viegen, Saskia |

Translingual reading in the post-secondary context.

Working from a multilingual paradigm, wherein students’ linguistic resources are seen as part of a singular, dynamic and integrated linguistic system, this study examines the reading processes and strategy use of bi/multilingual adolescent readers (ages 17-21 years) at the post-secondary level. Knowledge in this arena is critically important both to support the disciplinary teaching and learning needs of these youth, and to generate theories and models of reading that reflect current understandings of bi/multilingualism as translanguaging/translingual practice. York University LAPS Minor Research Grant.

Role: Principal investigator

Funders:
York University LAPS Minor Research Grant.

Cowdy, Cheryl | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Transmedia Texts, Young People, and Cultural Change.

This two-year project explores the possibilities of readerly experience created by multimedia and transmedia texts, those created by children and disseminated on the internet, as well as those created by adults for consumption by children and young people. It considers the possibilities of experience created by textual narratives and by their various digital extensions. Primary texts in the study include digital stories created by children and young people, digital novels such as the_Inanimate Alice_ project, and the multimedia book by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral, _Chopsticks_, in addition to the latter’s various digital extensions, including a tumblr site, and interactive iPad application.

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Jul/2013
End Date:
Jun/2015

Nastovski, Katherine |

Transnational Horizons: Workers in Canada Enter the Global Sphere

I am currently completing a manuscript entitled Transnational Horizons: Workers in Canada Enter the Global Sphere (under contract with the University of Toronto Press). This book will be the first full-length study of the efforts of workers and workers’ organizations in Canada to act transnationally.

Start Date:
Apr/2019

Man, Guida | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Transnational Migration and Social Reproduction: Eldercare Work of Chinese Immigrant Women Professionals in Canada

2020-23
$ 99,980

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
May/2020

Man, Guida | Funded | SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Transnational Migration Trajectories of Immigrant Women Professionals in Canada: Strategies of Work and Family

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Tania Das Gupta, Roxana Ng, Kiran Mirchandani
Collaborator Institution: York University, University of Toronto
Collaborator Role: Co-investigators

Funders:
SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Start Date:
Apr/2009
End Date:
Mar/2015

Maiter, Sarah | SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Understanding Risk and Protective Factors for Families from Ethnically/Racially Diverse Backgrounds Receiving Child Protection Service

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Standard Research Grant

Crosby, Alison D | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Understanding women’s struggles for justice, healing and redress: A study of gender and reparation in postwar Guatemala

This eight-year feminist action research project examined a group of Mayan women’s collective struggle for justice in the aftermath of harm suffered during the height of Guatemala’s genocidal violence in the early 1980s, a harm these protagonists contend is irreparable yet must be redressed. The project was a collaboration with Professor M. Brinton Lykes (Boston College), along with research partner the National Union of Guatemalan Women (UNAMG). Crosby and Lykes co-authored the book Beyond repair? Mayan women's protagonism in the aftermath of genocidal harm (Rutgers University Press, 2019), published in Spanish as Más allá de la reparación: Protagonismo de mujeres mayas en las secuelas del daño genocida (Cholsamaj, 2019; translated by Megan Thomas).

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Professor M. Brinton Lykes
Collaborator Institution: Boston College
Collaborator Role: Research Collaborator

Funders:
Standard Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

Start Date:
Apr/2009
End Date:
Oct/2013

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

Universitas Network

International University Partnerships for Local Human Development and Poverty Reduction

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

Universitas: Education and Training for Decent Work, Human Development and International Co-operation

Role: Principal investigator

Funders:
International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva

Medovarski, Andrea |

Unmanageable Stories: Cultural Representations of the Middle Passage

Role: Principal Investigator

Funders:

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Insight Development Grant

York University, Department of Faculty Relations

Yang, Zijiang | Funded | NFID

Using statistical and machine learning approaches to investigate the factors affecting fire incidents

Role: Sole Principle Investigator

Funders:
NFID

Higgins, Lesley J |

Virginia Woolf monograph

Together with colleague Marie-Christine Leps, I am completing a monograph on Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje.

Berland, Jody | Funded | SSHRC

Virtual Menageries

A study of the use and impact of animals in new media sites.

Start Date:
Jul/2012
End Date:
Jun/2015

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Visit: davidtoews.org

Whitfield, Agnès | Funded | Éditions québécoises de l'oeuvre

Vita Traductiva

Agnes Whitfield is the founding director of Vita Traductiva, an international peer-reviewed publication series in Translations Studies at Éditions québécoises de l’œuvre.

Role: Founding Director/Directrice fondatrice

Funders:
Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University
Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, France
University of Oslo, Norway
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Whitfield, Agnès |

Voice in Translation

Agnes Whitfield is a founding member of Voice in Translation, an international research group, exploring how the concept of voice can illuminate our understanding and practice of translation.

Funders:
Fondation des Sciences de l'homme
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University

Start Date:
Oct/2010

Soennecken, Dagmar | Funded | SSHRC, Horizon 20/20

Vulnerabilities under the Global Protection Regime (SSHRC/H2020), 2019-2023

This research study examines how protection seekers experience their ‘vulnerabilities’ and how these experiences are continuously shaped and produced in interaction with the legal and policy frameworks and implementation practices of the relevant decision-makers. We use the term ‘protection seekers’ to describe those migrants seeking legal protection status under national and international law.

The select countries are in Europe (Belgium, Germany, Italy, Norway), North America (Canada), the Middle East (Lebanon) and Africa (Uganda and South Africa).

The vulnerabilities encountered by protection seekers will be documented and analyzed with a dynamic approach, which studies the evolution of vulnerabilities over time from the introduction of an application for a ‘protection status’ to a final decision on the application.

//sites.google.com/uottawa.ca/h2020-vulner-research-project

//www.vulner.eu/

Role: co-applicant

Collaborator: Delphine Nakache
Collaborator Institution: University of Ottawa
Collaborator Role: principal investigator

Start Date:
Feb/2020

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Jacobs, Merle A |

War and forced migration in the Middle East.

(A Eight-year Internationally collaborative, a multilateral partnership project with Universities in Kurdistan)
“War and forced migration in the Middle East”.
(A Eight-year Internationally collaborative, multilateral partnership project)
Team from DES include Professor L. A. Visano and Professor M. A. Jacobs.

Phase 1) assessing the life conditions of refugees and Internally Displace People (IDP) within the Iraqi Kurdistan camps and shelters. In this part, the quality of life indicators, the indicators of a dignified and just-able life condition are going to be evaluated, while the effect of services provided to the migrants and refugees within the camps also will be investigated.
Phase 2) Canadian refugees and immigrants originated from the Middle East including Iraq would be analysed for their life conditions and how their resettlement is being experienced after fleeing from their homes and shelters. Has the new sanctuary been able to provide relief from the trauma or has added new suffering to their lived experience

, |

Water Security for Northern Peoples: threats to the quantity and quality of northern freshwater systems

Positive water balances in northern regions are an essential component for a multitude of ecosystem services, as well as for access to clean and available freshwater for northern peoples. This project seeks to bridge work in physical and human geography, to understand the impact of environmental change on water quantity and quality in the Arctic, and to develop locally supported, sustainable political and social systems to maintain water security.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Patricia Wood
Collaborator Institution: York University
Collaborator Role: Principal Investigator

Start Date:
Aug/2014

Foster, Lorne | Funded | Waterloo Regional Police Board

Waterloo Regional Police Human Rights-Based Data Collection Strategy

The development of a human rights-based data collection system that ensures privacy, involvement of affected communities, and limits the use of the data to human rights-related purposes only, for the advancement of community safety and well-being; and to utilize said data with a view to eliminating systemic racism in the delivery of services in policing, promoting transparency and accountability, and enhancing Black, and other racialized and Indigenous communities’ trust in policing throughout the Waterloo Region.

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Funders:
Waterloo Regional Police

Start Date:
Jan/2022
End Date:
Jan/2025

Zikic, Jelena | Funded | SSHRC Small Research Grant awarded at York

What can job seekers do to improve their job search clarity and job search self-efficacy?

McGuire, Wendy |

What Difference Does God Make to LGBTIQ+ Human Rights Movements?

This Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CB/PAR) project is a long-term study the role of God, religion and spirituality in social movements both for and against LGBT+ human rights. It explores the social justice strategies and priorities of social movement actors within the partnering organization, Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, and with other local and global LGBTIQ+ social movement actors.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator Institution: Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto
Collaborator Role: Research partner

Redding, Arthur |

What Would Robert Mitchum Do? Pulp Culture and Postwar American Virilities

The manuscript is under contract to Palgrave Macmillan.

Funders:
SSHRC

Foster, Lorne | Funded | Windsor Police Service, City of Windsor

Windsor Police Service Human Rights Project Evaluation

An evaluation of the implementation of the Human Rights Project Charter by the Windsor Police Service (WPS).

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Funders:
Windsor Police Service, City of Windsor

Start Date:
Apr/2015
End Date:
Jan/2016

Goldstein, David | Funded | SSHRC

With Whom We Eat: Literature and Commensality

In his essay “On Experience,” the sixteenth-century philosopher Michel de Montaigne asserts, “We should not so much consider what we eat as with whom we eat.” My next monograph, With Whom We Eat: Literature and Commensality, explores the concept of commensality—the relationships produced by acts of eating, the “with whom” of food—in imaginative literature from the ancient, early modern, and contemporary periods. The project seeks to define commensality as fundamental to a cultural understanding of food, to explore the centrality of the concept in literary texts, and to demonstrate the importance of literary criticism to the burgeoning discipline of food studies—a discipline in which the study of imaginative writing is often marginalized. The project views literary history from the perspective of food in order to divine what we can learn from them in the context of our own relationships to eating.

Role: Principal Investigator

Lee, Becky R |

Women and Religion in Diasporic Canada: Histories, Beliefs, and Practices

Co-edited with Dr. Sailaja Krishnamurti, the essays collected in this volume explore the complex ways that women in diasporic communities have shaped, challenged and transformed diasporic religious practice in Canada’s complex cultural landscape. Contributors reflect on the experiences of women in Canada with diasporic connections to the Americas, Africa, and West, South and East Asia. Women in these communities have navigated the politics of gender, race, and identity in Canada while negotiating relationships to homelands, ethnic communities, and religious groups and institutions.

Role: Co-editor

Collaborator: Dr. Sailaja Krishnamurti
Collaborator Institution: Saint Mary's University, Halifax
Collaborator Role: Co-editor

Start Date:
Jul/2015
End Date:
Sep/2017

Luxton, Meg |

Women's Human Rights, Macroeconomics and Policy Choice

, | Funded | YUFA Sabbatical Research Grant

Women's Work is Never Done: Eldercare Within Chinese Families in Hong Kong

The proposed study is a pilot project which expands on one of the applicant’s ongoing research on Eldercare Amongst Recent Chinese Immigrant Families in Toronto, supported by a SSHRC Small Grant (2016-2018) and a Minor Research Grant (2017-18). The proposed study during the applicant’s sabbatical leave aims to explore how carework is carried out by adult Chinese women in Hong Kong for their aging parents who reside either in Hong Kong or transnationally in Canada. Carework can be expressed in both tangible and intangible ways. Tangible carework includes the material forms of care such as economic support and the physical labour involved in the care of a family member; while intangible forms of carework includes emotional labour, such as expressing feelings of love and providing emotional support.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator Institution: Visiting Fellow, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Funders:
YUFA

Start Date:
Nov/2018

, | Funded | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant

Women, Provisioning and Community

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Principal Investigators: M. Reitsma-Street, Co-applicants: S. Baker Collins, E. Porter, & S. Neysmith
Funders:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant

Good Gingrich, Luann | Funded | LA&PS Seed Grant for International Collaborations; LA&PS Minor Research Grant

Women’s work in a border town: A community-based pilot project with Central American migrant women in southern Mexico

LA&PS Seed Grant for International Collaborations

Role: Principal Investigator

Singh, Parbudyal | Funded | SSHRC

Work intensity and working long hours in Canada

SSHRC Standard Grant 2009-2012

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Dr. Ron Burke
Collaborator Institution: Schulich Schulich of Business
Funders:
SSHRC

Rossiter, Amy |

Works in partnership with PEACH, a Jane/Finch agency which serves youth

Rossiter, Amy |

Works in several capacities with Camphill Communities

Valeo, Dr. Antonella | Funded | SSHRC

Writing Assessment in the ESL Classroom: Teachers’ Beliefs and Practices.

Role: Co-investigator

Funders:
SSHRC Insight Grant

Start Date:
Jul/2014
End Date:
Jul/2019

Luxton, Meg |

Young Adults and the Potential Transition from Minimum to a Living Wage: Retail, fast Food and Daycare

Based on focus groups and interviews, this project asks how young adults are getting by on minimum wage jobs in downtown Toronto.

Funders:
SSHRC

Coulter, Natalie H. |

Young People’s Media Industries in Canada

Canadian children’s and youth media has largely been ignored as a field of study in Canadian communication studies. The children’s and youth cultural industries in Canada are successful both nationally and globally. Scholarship in this area needs to be constitutively integrated into to scholarship on the Canadian mediascape, as does young people’s presence as active participants in Canadian media culture.

Start Date:
Jan/2012
End Date:
Dec/2016

, | Funded | Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies

Young Punjabis and Sex Selection in Canada

The study aims to understand the experiences and views of Canadian Punjabi women and men on issues around the practice of sex selection in their community. The exploration is being undertaken from the standpoint of women and men in the age group 18-35 years in the Peel Region of Ontario.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator Institution: Punjabi Community Health Services (PCHS)

Davis, Andrea A. | Funded | SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

Youth and Community Development in Canada and Jamaica: A Transnational Approach to Youth Violence

The project brought together three community organizations and 18 researchers from six universities in Canada and Jamaica, organized in three research clusters. It sought to realize critical social improvements in the lives of youth, ages 16 to 29, by exploring new approaches to research on the effects of violence on Black youth.

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Vermonja Alston; Erna Brodber; Karen Burke; Mirna Carranza; Peter Cumming; Donald Davis; Asheda Dwyer; Honor Ford-Smith; Cecil Foster; Carl James; Michele Johnson; Donna Hope; Naila Keleta Mae; Richard Maclure; Jalani Niaah; Sonja Stanley Niaah; L'Antoinette Osunide Stines; Ronald Westray
Collaborator Institution: McMaster University; University of Guelph; University of Waterloo; University of Ottawa; University of the West Indies (Mona); Nia Centre for the Arts; Jamaica Youth Theatre; Woodside Community Action Group
Collaborator Role: Co-researchers and partners

Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Jul/2011
End Date:
Apr/2014

Pybus, Jennifer | Funded | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) UK

Zones of Data Translation

This interdisciplinary collaboration brought together our research in mobile tool development and critical data literacies, alongside the Tactical Tech Collective. The aim was to empower data publics by asking the following questions:
1. How is Tactical Tech mobilising the workshop as an interdisciplinary tool to study the material environment of social big data? How can this then be harnessed by humanities researchers for greater impact and engagement?
2. How can we leverage the results of previous research to engage new audiences beyond the classroom and the academic workshop?
3. How can the methodology inform the development of new collaborative spaces to facilitate innovative humanities research that can engage the general public, augmenting knowledge exchanges between experts and non-experts?

Role: Primary Investigator

Collaborator: Mark Coté and Tobias Blanke
Collaborator Institution: King's College London
Collaborator Role: Co-Investigators

Funders:
Arts and Humanities Research Council

Start Date:
Jun/2018
End Date:
Nov/2019

Wahab, Amar |

‘No Country for Refuge: A Critical Case Study of Venezuelan Migrants, Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Trinidad and Tobago,’

The principal goal of this two-year research project is to critically investigate the production and contestation of the ‘refugee crisis script’ in the global South based on a case study of state regulation and violence against Venezuelan migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Trinidad and Tobago. The research will explore the multiple and complex ways in which stakeholders of the specific ‘crisis’ actively engage the process of ‘migration management’ as a discourse of national security. The study will specifically focus on: (1) the government of Trinidad and Tobago’s management policies and practices of regulating Venezuelan migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees; (2) the interventions of non-governmental organizations (local and international) in mediating an imminent humanitarian crisis in Trinidad and Tobago, and: (3) the voices and experiences of Venezuelan migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as their individual and collective responses to social, political, economic, and xenophobic anti-migrant/refugee violence. The project will attempt to place these stakeholders into conversation to open up possibilities for transformative social justice knowledge production through collaboration.

Start Date:
Jul/2020
End Date:
Jun/2022

Halsall, Alison |

’What is the use of a book… without pictures or conversations?’: Incorporating the Graphic Novel into the University Curriculum.

Orr, Deborah |

“ Mindfulness and Contemplative Education Website”

, | Funded | SSHRC

“Active Ageing, Mobile Technologies: Access to Communication for the Elderly"

“Active Ageing, Mobile Technologies: Access to Communication for the Elderly,” PI: Kim Sawchuk, Co-PI: Barbara Crow, Line Grenier, Chui Yin Wong, Mireia Fernandez, SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.

, | Funded | SSHRC

“Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT): Experiencing a Digital World in Later Life"

“Ageing, Communication, Technologies (ACT): Experiencing a Digital World in Later Life,” PI: Kim Sawchuk, Co-PI: Barbara Crow, Catherine Middleton, Eugene Loos, Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä, Josep Blat, Josephine Dolan, Lesley Murray, Line Grenier, Loredana Ivan Margarida Romero, Murray Forman, Sara Cohen, Shannon Hebblethwaite, Stephen Katz, and Wendy Martin

Mukherjee-Reed, Ananya |

“Evaluating fair trade from the perspective of small producers: justice, development, democracy”

Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant

, | Funded | Infrastructure Canada

“ICT Infrastructure as Public Infrastructure: Connecting Communities to the Knowledge-Based Economy and Society”

“ICT Infrastructure as Public Infrastructure: Connecting Communities to the Knowledge-Based Economy and Society,” PI: Catherine Middleton, Co-PI: Andrew Clement, Barbara Crow and Graham Longford. Submitted to Peer Reviewed Research Studies, Infrastructure Canada.

, | Funded | SSHRC

“Imagining Future Research Challenges”

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies, “Imagining Future Research Challenges,” PIs: Barbara Crow and Jennifer MacTavish, Joint Panels with York and Ryerson Universities.

Role: Co-PI

Collaborator: Jennifer MacTavish
Collaborator Institution: Canadian Association of Graduate Studies

Martínez-Osorio, Emiro |

“New World Commodities, Petrarchism and Veiled Ladies in Juan de Castellanos’ “Elegy XIV”

, | Funded | Office of the Privacy Commission of Canada

“Pilot Project: Privacy, Communication and Seniors”

“Pilot Project: Privacy, Communication and Seniors,” with Kim Sawchuk. York Centre for Public Policy and the Law, PI: Les Jacobs, “Privacy Rights Mobilization among Marginal Groups: Fulfilling the Mandate of PIPEDA,” Office of the Privacy Commission of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

, | Funded | SSHRC

“Redressing Silences, Confronting Mobility: Seniors, Cell Phones and Ageing”

“Redressing Silences, Confronting Mobility: Seniors, Cell Phones and Ageing,” (Research Time Stipend awarded), PI: Barbara Crow, Co-PI: Kim Sawchuk, SSHRC Standard Research grant.

Halsall, Alison |

“Sartorial Modernism: Anthropologie’s “HD in Paris” and “Vanessa Virginia” as Popular Clothing Brands.”

, | Funded | Ministry of Research & Innovation, Ontario

“Taking Ontario Mobile”

“Taking Ontario Mobile,” Grant in Support of Science and Research, Ministry of Research & Innovation, PI: Sara Diamond, Kathleen Webb, and David Findlay Subcontracted for Report on Mobile Inclusion and Facilitation of Four Roundtables with Provincial Ministries.

, | HRSDC Research Grants

“The Incidence and Determinants of Training Among Older Workers

Persram, Nalini |

“The Rape of Sheba and the Saudi Starvation of Yemen"

Starvation, War and Cultural Genocide

Role: Principal Investigator

Collaborator: Abdulqadir Al-Emad
Collaborator Role: Researcher

Funders:
YCAR

Start Date:
Mar/2017

, | Funded | SSHRC

“Track, Report, Connect, Exchange—Transforming Humanities Graduate Education for the Future of Canada”

“Track, Report, Connect, Exchange—Transforming Humanities Graduate Education for the Future of Canada,” PI: Paul Yachnin, Co-PIs: Paul Keen, Julia Wright, Martin Kreiswirth, Noreen Golfman, Mary-Ellen Kelm, Anthony Pare, Susan Porter, Frederic Bouchard, Heather Zwicker, Lisa Hughes, Sandy Welsh, and Barbara Crow, August

Cothran, Boyd |

“Vessel of Globalization: The Many Worlds of the Edwin Fox”

“Vessel of Globalization: The Many Worlds of the Edwin Fox” is an historical project with the overarching goal of exploring the crucial late 19th and early 20th century phase of globalization using the ship the Edwin Fox as a vehicle. Built in Calcutta in 1853, the ship was the last of the so-called “Moulmein traders.” By the time it was decommissioned in 1883, it had sailed around the world more than thirty times and played an active role in many of the developments that constituted the beginnings of modern globalization. Afterwards it served until 1905 as a floating freezing unit for the nascent frozen meat trade from New Zealand to Great Britain.

Globalization is a concept developed by social scientists to describe a late 20th-century phenomenon that seemed novel; however, the development of regular and sustained patterns of global exchange capable of producing profound change in society is a process with deep historical roots. The period from 1800 to 1914 was particularly crucial, witnessing the rapid expansion and intensification of trade around the globe; the spread of industrialization to many regions; the great thrust of Western imperialism; the unprecedentedly large migrations of people, both free and forced; the systematic dispossession of Indigenous Peoples and their replacement with settler populations; the integration of settler colonies into imperial markets; and sweeping environmental change. These are the specific issues we will probe through the Edwin Fox, whose life coincides with the years that have been called the “inner focal point” of this period. In addition to its main job of transporting basic commodities such as rice, tea, and timber around the world, it carried British troops to and from the Crimean War and to India to suppress the “Mutiny” of 1857; indentured labourers from China to Cuba and from Mauritius back to India; convicts, some of them convicted in Canada, from Great Britain to Australia; and settlers from Great Britain to New Zealand.

By focussing on the life of one quite ordinary ship between 1853 and 1905, this study of the Edwin Fox will make an entirely original contribution to our knowledge of these crucial decades in global history. While some scholars have used individual men or women or commodities to explore this story, ours will be the first to use the voyages of a single ship to do so. Despite their ubiquity and their centrality to the long-distance movement of goods and people well into the 20th century, ships themselves have largely evaded global historians’ sonar. This unique perspective will permit a more intimate understanding of the human agencies and the human costs involved in the most important period of global integration to occur prior to the one we have been experiencing since the 1990s.

This project involves original research in archives in Australia, Canada, Cuba, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom where holdings relating to the Edwin Fox have been identified, and Cuba. Sources include Lloyd’s List, which will provide the data for the interactive digital map; ship’s records, which will tell us more about the career and crews of the Edwin Fox; convict records, which will allow us to narrate the stories of some of the prisoners the Edwin Fox carried to Australia; and first-hand accounts of immigrants who sailed on it from Great Britain to New Zealand, which we will use to discuss the immigrant experience. These archival findings will be the basis of a microhistory of the Edwin Fox which will be contextualized using diverse secondary literatures to explore the broader themes of globalization. The primary outputs will be: a publicly available interactive digital map of the voyages of the Edwin Fox that will appeal to multiple audiences; two conference presentations and two articles, one in a scholarly journal and one in a popular history magazine with a global reach. After the research phase supported by the IDG ends, we will produce a short, well-illustrated book written in a lively and engaging style directed at a popular as well as scholarly audiences.

Role: Co-Investigator

Collaborator: Adrian Shubert

Simeon , James | Funded | SSHRC - IOF

“War Crimes and Refugee Status: The Application and Interpretation of International Humanitarian and International Criminal Law to the Adjudication of Refugee Status in Canada and the United States,”

Role: Co-Applicant

Collaborator: Kate Jastram
Collaborator Institution: University of California at Berkeley
Funders:
SSHRC

Start Date:
Apr/2009
End Date:
Mar/2010

, | Funded | SSHRC

“Wireless Communications and the Marconi Galaxy: Culture, Technology and Myth-Making”

“Wireless Communications and the Marconi Galaxy: Culture, Technology and Myth-Making,” PI: Barbara Crow, Co-PI: Elena Lamberti, Michael Longford, Kim Sawchuk and Seth Feldman, SSHRC International Opportunities Fund.

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