Our world class research is constantly winning grant competitions and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |