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| Faculty member | Project title | Research grant | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deborah Davidson (co-investigator) | Healing Tattoos | SSHRC Insight Grant, $88,000 | 2020-2023 |
| Amber Gaszo | The Systems of Our Lives: Navigating Multiple Systems While Living on Low Income | SSHRC Insight Grant, $150,738 | 2020-2023 |
| Amber Gaszo | Myth or Reality? Examining Parent-Child Income Assistance Use in Ontario | SSHRC Insight Grant, $72, 570 | 2020-2023 |
| Harris Ali | COVID-19's Informational Virus: Analyzing the Viral Character and Effects of Social Media Misinformation (440307) (Nominated PI with Co PI – Dr. Fuyuki Kurasawa | $309,000 | 2020-2022 |
| Marcello Musto | Travels with Marx: Destinations, Reflections and Encounters | SSHRC Explore Grant, $7,000 | 2020-2022 |
| Marcello Musto | Alternative Socio-Economic Ideas, 1789-1871 | SSHRC Insight Development Grant, $70,305 | 2020-2022 |
| Lorna Weir | Project Partner, Canadian Council and Rehabilitation and Work, Disability Confidence. $1.3 million | 2020-2022 | |
| Carmella Murdocca (co-applicant) | Remembering and Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Dialogues | Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Connection Grant, $25,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Christopher Kyriakides (collaborator) | Equipping African Mothers with Refugee Backgrounds to Effectively Engage with Middle Schools | SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, $25,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Marcello Musto | Marx’s Capital: A Global History of Translation, Dissemination and Reception | Minor Research Grant, Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, $3,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Marcello Musto | Marx on Asia and the Development of Capitalism: New Insights After the MEGA2 | Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Seed Grant for Collaborative Research Initiatives, $5,000 | 2020-2021 |
| Deborah Davidson (co-investigator) | Arts-based participatory research approach: Potential for exploring Asian-Canadian youth identities through an intersectionality lens | SSHRC Insight Development Grant, $7,615 | 2020 |
| Luin Goldring | Non-status migrant exclusions and responses under COVID in the GTA | SSHRC COVID-19 Partnership Engage Grant, $24,984 | 2020 |
| Eric Mykhalovskiy (co-applicant) | ChemStory: community produced podcasts to spark conversations about Chemsex and HIV Prevention | CIHR Catalyst Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research $39,976 | 2020 |
| Lesley Wood | Imagining Abolitionist and Decolonizing Futures | SSHRC Connection Grant, $24,528 | 2020 |
| Cary Wu (principal investigator) | The Dynamics of Trust Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Outbreak | Canadian Institute of Health Research, $176,256 | 2020 |
| Cary Wu (co-investigator) | Evaluating the Governance of Emergent Pandemic Zoonoses: A Systems & Legal Analysis. | Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), $975,802 | 2020 |
| Cary Wu (principal investigator) | Scenic Urbanization: A Comparative Perspective | YCAR Canada-China Initiatives Fund, York Centre for Asian Research, $15,154 | 2020 |
| Mark Thomas | Clocked In - Work, Time, and Technology in the Digital Economy | SSHRC Insight Grant, $112,211 | 2019-2024 |
| Christopher Kyriakides (collaborator) | Promoting the Transition to Postsecondary Education for African Refugee Youth in Canadian Schools | SSHRC Insight Grant, $240,050 | 2019-2023 |
| Ann Kim (co-investigator) | 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, $285,882 | 2019-2023 |
| Sylvia Bawa | Arts-based participatory research approach: Potential for exploring Asian-Canadian youth identities through an intersectionality lens | Research/Dissemination Network on Canada's Human Rights Role in Sub-Saharan Africa (CARRISSA). $199,980 | 2019-2021 |
| Christopher Kyriakides (PI) | 2019-2021: Bordering (Mis)Trust: The Impact of Refugee Reception Discourses on National Belonging | SSHRC Insight Grant, $160,000 | 2019-2021 |
| Carmella Murdocca (co-applicant) | Identifying Indigenous Standards for Evaluating Indigenous Persons Courts | SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, $24,998 | 2019-2021 |
| Deborah Davidson (co-investigator) | SSHRC Insight Development Grant, $47,971 | 2019-2020 | |
| Amber Gaszo | Migration and Resilience in Urban Canada: Discovering Strengths and Building Capacities (or Building Migrant Resilience in Cities) | SSHRC Partnership Grant ($2.5 million) | 2019 |
| Eric Mykhalovskiy, (co-investigator) | 2019 FEAST Centre for Indigenous STBBI Research CIHR Centres for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and STBBIs Research - Indigenous populations, $5,000,000 | 2019 | |
| Christopher Kyriakides (co PI) | Civil Society and the Global Refugee Regime | SSHRC Partnership Grant, $2,625,000 | 2018-2025 |
| Hyun Ok Park | Core University Grant for Korean Studies. Academy of Korean Studies (Project Director), $1.1M | 2018-2023 | |
| Pat Armstrong | Changing Places: Paid and Unpaid Work in Public Places | SSHRC Insight Grant, $197,039 | 2018-2021 |
| Ratiba Hadj Moussa (co-applicant) | Crisis y representacion politica en el norte da Africa. Dispostivos institucionales y contestacion | financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, the Research National Agency and the European Funds for Regional Development, 65,000 Euros | 2018-2021 |
| Amber Gaszo | Stalled Mobility? Income Inequality and Intergenerational Relationships Among Newcomer South Asian and Chinese Households in York Region | SSHRC via the Building Migrant Resilience in Cities Partnership Grant, $39,201 | 2018-2021 |
| Harris Ali (nominated PI) | “The Role of Social, Cultural, and Environmental Factors in Improving Ebola Virus Disease Response and Resilience: Exploring the Potential of Community-Based Initiatives” | International Development Research Centre Grant, $360,000 | 2018-2020 |
| Carmella Murdocca (co-applicant) | Re-imagining “serving time” in Indigenous communities: Indigenous women and community leaders’ perspectives | SSHRC Special Call - Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation Connection Grant, $50,000 | 2018-2020 |
| Eric Mykhalovskiy (co-investigator) | Understanding contextual factors to effectively and equitably scale up GetCheckedOnline to diverse populations and geographic settings | CIHR Team Grant, $2,000,000 | 2018-2023 |
| Sylvia Bawa | Urbanization, gender and the global south: a transformative knowledge network | SSHRC Partnership Grant, $2.5 million | 2017-2022 |
| Mark Thomas (co-investigator) | Canada Labour Code Data Analysis Infrastructure | Canada Foundation for Innovation, $263,584 | 2017-2022 |
| Ann Kim (collaborator) | Using Research to Inform Best Practices for Language, Literacy, Learning, Social Integration, and Child and Family Wellbeing | SSHRC Partnership Grant, $2.5 million | 2017-2022 |
| Harris Ali (co-investigator) | Advanced Disaster, Emergency and Rapid Response Simulation | Collaborative Research and Training Experience Grant, $1,650,000 | 2016-2021 |
| Mark Thomas (co-investigator) | Spaces of Labour in Moments of Urban Populism | SSHRC Insight Grant, $196,406 | 2016-2021 |