Our top notch research is frequently successful in grant competitions and winning other financial awards. We’re honoured to see our work recognized as being among the world’s best. We invite you to browse some of our best work listed below and seek inspiration for your projects.
| Faculty Member | Project Title | Research Grant | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chandan Narayan | Linguistic doppelgängers and the phonological nature of bilingual lexical processing | SSHRC Insight Development Grant | 2021 |
| Ibtissem Knouzi, Saskia Van Viegen and Olga Makinina | Fostering Instructor Professional Learning and Student Success through the Implementation of a Genre-based Pedagogy in an ESL Course | YUFA Teaching-Learning Development Grant | 2020 |
| Jacqueline Ng, Heejin Song and Olga Makinina | Bringing Canadian Culture into the ESL Classroom: Connecting Students with Communities in the Context of Blended Learning | YUFA Teaching-Learning Development Grant | 2020 |
| Olga Makinina, Jacqueline Ng and Heejin Son | Thinking about Contemporary Canada (ESL 1450) | Academic Innovation Fund (AIF). Category II: Curricular Innovation | 2020 |
| James Corcoran | English for Academic Purposes: Charting the Canadian Post-Secondary Landscape, Phase II | LA&PS Minor Research Grant | 2020 |
| James Corcoran | English for Academic Purposes: Charting the Canadian Post-Secondary Landscape, Phase I | SSHRC Explore Grant | 2020 |
| Sheila Embleton (with Dorin Uritescu and Eric Wheeler) | A Data-Driven Study of the Concept of Dialect | SSHRC Insight Grant $79,318 | 2019-2024 |
| James Corcoran | The Longer-term Impact of a Research Writing Course on Plurilingual Scholars’ Beliefs and Practices | Renison University College Grant | 2018 |
| Sheila Embleton (Project Member) Principal Investigator: Jonathan Edmondson | Names and Identity in Roman Spain, project ADOPIA | SSHRC Partnership Grant | 2018 |
| Sheila Embleton (with Roopa Desai Trilokekar, Qiang Zha and Ruth Hayhoe) | China, India and the Challenge to Canada’s ‘Diplomacy of Knowledge’: A Comparative Study of the Internationalization of Higher Education | SSHRC Insight Development Grant $71,275 | 2014-2016 |
| Geoff Lawrence | Examining Telecollaboration in Graduate Language Teacher Education | International Collaboration Grant $4,600 | 2014-2015 |
| Jessica Li | “Cultural Translation and Canadian-Chinese Studies” research workshop | SSHRC Connection Grant $9,043 | 2014 |
| Ruth King (Principal Investigator). Co-Investigators: Philip Comeau, Université du Québec à Montréal & Carmen L. LeBlanc, Carleton University; Collaborator: Gary R. Butler, York University | Dialect Contact and the Sociolinguistic History of Acadian French | SSHRC Insight Grant $242,907 | 2013-2019 |
| Sheila Embleton (with Dorin Uritescu and Eric Wheeler) | The Nature of Dialect: Exploring Dialect Relationships with an Expanded Online Dialect Atlas | SSHRC Insight Grant $128,605 | 2012-2016 |
| James Corcoran | English as the International Language of Science: Latin American Scholars’ Experiences with Writing for Publication | SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship | 2011-2015 |
| Sheila Embleton | The Romanian Online Dialect Atlas II | SSHRC Standard Research Grant $100,997 | 2008-2012 |