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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lesley Wood | Intergenerational Movements and Social Media Silos. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. | 2024-2026 |
| Lesley Wood | Activism and the Academy: A Multimedia KMb Mini-Series. SSHRC Connections Grant. | 2021-2022 |
| Claudia Chaufan and Cary Wu | Geopolitics of Anti-Asian Racism in Times of COVID-19. SSHRC Insight Grant. | 2021-2022 |
| Cary Wu and Eric Mykhalovskiy | Trust and the Political Sociology of Health. SSHRC Insight Grant. | 2021-2023 |
| Michael Nijhawan | Autoimmunity, Self, and Society: A Sociological Approach to Chronic Illness in the Wake of SARS-CoV-2. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. | 2022-2023 |
| Marcello Musto | War and the Left: A Global History. SSHRC Partnership Development Grant. | 2023-2026 |
| Marcello Musto | The Global History of Karl Marx's 'Capital'. SSHRC Partnership Development Grant. | 2021-2022 |
| Marcello Musto | Alternative Socio-Economic Ideas, 1789-1871. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. | 2021-2022 |
| Carmella Murdocca | Colonial and Racial Genealogies of Socio-Legal Personhood. SSHRC Insight Grant. | 2022-2023 |
| Nancy Mandell | University to Work Transitions of International Students in Canada. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. | 2022-2023 |
| Emily Laxer | Politicians Against the Law: Populist Representations of Rights and Legality in Contemporary Canadian Politics. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. | 2021-2022 |
| Christopher Kyriakides | Refuge, Racisms, and Resistances: A Co-Created Analysis of the Experiences of Syrian and Ethiopian Refugees in Canada. SSHRC Partnership Development Grant. | 2022-2023 |
| Fuyuki Kurasawa | AI for Global Justice? Examining Evidentiary Politics from Below. SSHRC Insight Grant. | 2021-2023 |
| Johanne Jean-Pierre | Symposium: Designing a Flourishing Future and Researching with Black Communities in Canada. SSHRC Connections Grant. | 2023-2024 |
| Johanne Jean-Pierre | A Bilingual Study of the Institutional Resources that Promote Persistence and Academic Success among First Generation Graduate Students. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. | 2022-2023 |
| Ratiba Hadj-Moussa | Public Memory at the Edge: Alternative Memory in the Aftermath of Transitional Justice in Algeria and Tunisia. SSHRC Insight Grant. | 2022-2023 |
| Sheila Cavanagh | Psychotherapy in Ontario: Training, Access, Quality, and Medicalization. SSHRC Insight Grant. | 2024-2030 |
| Pat Armstrong | Learning from the Pandemic? Planning for a Long-Term Care Labour Force. SSHRC Insight Grant. | 2021-2023 |
| 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 |