Congratulations to the seven CMS affiliates from UBC on being awarded funding through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Learn more about the recipients and their projects.
Insight Grants
Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging scholars and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years.
- Efrat Arbel (Peter A. Allard School of Law)
Punishment without Crime? A Lived-Experience Evaluation of Canada’s Immigration Detention Pilot in Federal Prisons - Thomas Lemieux (Vancouver School of Economics)
UBC Co-applicants: Fortin, Nicole (Vancouver School of Economics); Saggio, Raffaele (Vancouver School of Economics)
Unions in Canada: Going Beyond the Wage Gap
Insight Development Grants
Insight Development Grants support research in its initial stages. The grants enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches and/or ideas. Funding is provided for short-term research development projects of up to two years that are proposed by individuals or teams.
- Sophie Borwein (Political Science)
The Politics of Prosperity: Growth Narratives and Support for Democracy - Annamma Joy (Management, UBCO)
Beyond Prediction: Integrating Interpolation and Conceptual Blending to Better Understand Human Meaning-Making - Xiaojun Li (Political Science)
Can Western Influencers Change How Canadians See China? Creator-Mediated Public Diplomacy in the Digital Age - Madeleine Ransom (Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, UBCO)
UBC Co-applicants and Collaborators: Irani, Pourang (Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, UBCO); Robinson, Pamela (Economics, Philosophy and Political Science, UBCO)
Advancing AI Literacy through Trustworthy AI - Karis Shearer (Creative and Critical Studies, UBCO)
Kalevan Naiset: Reading epic poetry in Finnish migrant-settler communities in Northern Ontario.
