The Resource Centre offers members of the Department of Sociology research support for projects related to the Resource Centre’s mandate. RCPS affiliated research projects are highlighted below with associated links, where available. Sociology faculty members participate in listed projects as Principal Investigators, Co-Investigators and Collaborators.
For further information on projects, contact the faculty member.
| Sociology Member | Research Project | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Kristin Blakely kblakely@glendon.yorku.ca | ” Virtual Wraparound Care: Providing virtual support and care through the experience of early pregnancy loss”. MSH UHN Academic Medical Organization AFP Innovation Fund. PI: Catherine Varner. Co-applicants: Roopan Gill, Genevieve Tam, Kristin Blakely, Shelley McLeod, and Michelle Yee. Total funding: $170,387. | 2023/2024 – 2024/2025 |
| Kristin Blakely kblakely@glendon.yorku.ca | Co-designing a web-based education platform for patients with early pregnancy loss. MSH UHN Academic Medical Organization AFP Innovation Fund. PI: Catherine Varner. Co-applicants: Kristin Blakely, Shelley McLeod, Howard Ovens, Jackie Thomas, Modupe Tunde-Byass, Michelle Yee. Total funding: $72,016. | 2021-2022 |
| Kristin Blakely kblakely@glendon.yorku.ca | Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship Network, IIE-Net. Collaborator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Grant ($2,446,979 for 2020 – 2026), with Wendy Cukier (PI) and other co-applicants and collaborators. | 2020-2026 |
| Guida Man | COVID19: Exploring the Experiences of Anti-Chinese/Asian Racism in the GTA. SSHRC | 2021-2022 |
| Pat Armstrong | Covid-19, families, and long-term residential care. SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant | 2021 |
| Eric Mykhalovskiy | Centering Lived and Living Experiences of HIV Surveillance. SSHRC Connections Grant | 2021 |
| Guida Man | Inclusive Communities for Older Immigrants (ICOI): Developing multi-level, multi-component interventions to reduce social isolation and promote connectedness among older immigrants in Canada. SSHRC Partnership Grant | 2020-2027 |
| Deborah Davidson | Healing Tattoos. SSHRC Insight Grant | 2020-2023 |
| Guida Man | Transnational Migration and Social Reproduction: Eldercare Work of Chinese Immigrant Women Professionals in Canada. SSHRC Insight Grant | 2020-2023 |
| Amber Gazso | The Systems of Our Lives: Navigating Multiple Systems While Living on Low Income. SSHRC Insight Grant | 2020-2023 |
| Amber Gazso | Myth or Reality? Examining Parent-Child Income Assistance Use in Ontario, Canada. SSHRC | 2020-2023 |
| Harris Ali | Ebola project: Improving Ebola containment through community based initiatives | 2020-2022 |
| Fuyuki Kurasawa and Harris Ali | 2019-nCoV’s informational virus: Analyzing the viral character and effects of social media misinformation. CIHR Canadian 2019 Novel Coronavirus Rapid Research Funding Opportunity | 2020-2022 |
| Christopher Kyriakides | Brighter Futures: Equipping African Mothers with Refugee Backgrounds to Effectively Engage with Middle Schools. SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant | 2020-2021 |
| Carmela Murdocca | Remembering and Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Dialogues (This network brings together feminist scholars through an international seminar and book project to explore transnational dimensions of memorializing violence). SSHRC Connections Grant | 2020-2021 |
| Eric Mykhalovskiy | ChemStory: community produced podcasts to spark conversations about Chemsex and HIV Prevention. CIHR Catalyst Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research | 2020 |
| Lesley Wood | Scenic Urbanization: A Comparative Perspective. YCAR Canada-China Initiatives Fund, York Centre for Asian Research | 2020 |
| Lesley Wood | Imagining Abolitionist and Decolonizing Futures. SSHRC Connection Grant | 2020 |
| Cary Wu | Evaluating the Governance of Emergent Pandemic Zoonoses: A Systems & Legal Analysis. CIHR | 2020 |
| Cary Wu | The Dynamics of Trust Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Outbreak. CIHR Sociology member: Cary Wu | 2020 |
| Mark Thomas | 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. SSHRC Insight Grant | 2019-2024 |
| Nancy Mandell and Amber Gazso | Migration and Resilience in Urban Canada: Discovering Strengths and Building Capacities (or Building Migrant Resilience in Cities). SSHRC Partnership Grant | 2019-2024 |
| Ann Kim | Asian International Students to Canadian Universities: Examining the Racialization of Chinese, Indian and Korean Students in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg. SSHRC Partnership Grant | 2019-2023 |
| Christopher Kyriakides | Promoting the Transition to Postsecondary Education for African Refugee Youth in Canadian Schools. SSHRC Insight Grant | 2019-2023 |
| Guida Man | Migration and Resilience in Urban Canada: Discovering Strengths and Building Capacity. SSHRC | 2019-2022 |
| Nancy Mandell, Guida Man, Lawrence Lam and Amber Gazso | Stalled mobility? Income inequality and intergenerational relationships among newcomer South Asian and Chinese households in York Region. Sub-grant from SSHRC Research BMRI (Building Migrant Resilience in Cities/Immigration et résilience enmilieu urbain) | 2019-2022 |
| Sylvia Bawa | Research/Dissemination Network on Canada’s human rights role in Sub-Saharan Africa. (CARRISSA) | 2019-2021 |
| Christopher Kyriakides | Bordering (Mis)Trust: The Impact of Refugee Reception Discourses on National Belonging. SSHRC Insight Grant | 2019-2021 |
| Eric Mykhalovskiy | FEAST Centre for Indigenous STBBI Research. CIHR Centres for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and STBBIs Research – Indigenous populations | 2019 |
| Christopher Kyriakides | Civil Society and the Global Refugee Regime. SSHRC Partnership Grant | 2018-2025 |
| Pat Armstrong | Changing Places: Paid and Unpaid Work in Public Places. SSHRC Insight Grant | 2018-2021 |
| Eric Mykhalovskiy | Understanding contextual factors to effectively and equitably scale up GetCheckedOnline to diverse populations and geographic settings. CIHR Team Grant | 2018 |
| Mark Thomas | Canada Labour Code Data Analysis Infrastructure: Creation of a database of enforcement statistics related to the Canada Labour Code. Analysis of enforcement practices related to federal labour standards. Canada Foundation for Innovation | 2017-2022 |
| Deborah Davidson | Collaborator, Urbanization, gender and the global south: a transformative knowledge network. SSHRC Partnership Grant | 2017-2022 |
| Ann Kim | Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition (CYRRC): Using Research to Inform Best Practices for Language, Literacy, Learning, Social Integration, and Child and Family Wellbeing. SSHRC Partnership Grant | 2017-2022 |
| Guida Man | Developing a Comprehensive Understanding of Elder Abuse Prevention in Immigrant Communities. SSHRC Insight Grant | 2016-2022 |
| Mark Thomas | Spaces of Labour in Moments of Urban Populism: An analysis of the rise of populism in the context of austerity politics in North America. SSHRC Insight Grant | 2016-2021 |
| Fuyuki Kurasawa | Global Digital Citizenship Lab |