Twenty-one emerging and established York University scholars have received new funding for research initiatives from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), totalling a combined $2,882,747, announced on Sept. 13 by the federal government.
Like the recently announced Insight Development Grants, the SSHRC’s Insight Grants support research projects by emerging and established scholars, but with a longer time frame: two to five years led.
The proiects funded by the Insight Grants represent a range of research scopes.
Some of the initiatives include: an examination of “ruralization,” the current practice in Canada of resettling government-assisted refugees to small cities or towns, led by political geographer Jennifer Hyndman ($238,057); the development of open-access virtual serious games to enrich the learning experiences of internationally educated nurses who are working towards registered nurse status in Canada, led by health scholar Celina Da Silva ($201,342); and a study on implicit racial bias and perceptions of trustworthiness, led by social psychologist Kerry Kawakami ($199,785).
Additional funded initiatives include: an exploration on the geographies of identity and belonging among Black African immigrants in Canada, led by human geographer Joseph Mensah ($202,920); an analysis of Ontario’s Psychotherapy Act and its impact on the training, delivery, medicalization and accessibility of such services, by social worker/psychotherapist Sheila Cavanagh ($198,882); and an investigation into the role of high-quality listening and the impact sharing experiences of gender discrimination within romantic relationships has on reducing sexism, by psychologist Amy Muise ($298,755).
“With SSHRC’s endorsement, York’s award-winning faculty are tackling complex issues of the human and social condition and creating positive change for individuals, communities and society at large,” said Amir Asif, vice-president research and innovation. “These grants reinforce the University’s incredible reputation in the social sciences and humanities, providing York researchers and their initiatives with the opportunity to challenge conventional thinking, contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and deepen the collective understanding about our world.”
The 21 York researchers were among 503 researchers at universities across the country to receive Insight Grants.
See below for a full list of York’s awardees.
Rabiat Akande, assistant professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Malcolm X, Black Globalism, and the Human Rights Critique of Imperialism
$105,275
Chaoran Chen, assistant professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Macroeconomic Analysis of Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Transformation
$82,202
Celina Da Silva, assistant professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health
International Educated NurseXcel: Virtual Serious Games
$201,342
Rachel da Silveria Gorman, associate professor, School of Health Policy & Management, Faculty of Health
Disability Data Justice from the Ground Up: A Co-Design Approach to Building AI Search Engines and Data Repositories for Local, National, and Transnational Disabled People’s Organizations
$83,251
Jennifer Hyndman, professor, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change
Refugee dreams, small town realities: Interrogating the ruralization of refugee resettlement to smaller centres in Canada
$238,057
This research initiative is hosted at the Centre for Refugee Studies, one of York’s Organized Research Units
Kerry Kawakami, professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Perceiving Trustworthiness on Black and White Faces: A Black Perspective
$199,785
Carlota McAllister, associate professor, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change
A Riparian Mode of Politics: Environmental Struggles and Watery Sovereignties in Post-Uprising Chile
$98,290
Nicole Mead, associate professor, Schulich School of Business
Belief in the Social Contract and Collective Climate Action
$90,278
Joseph Mensah, professor, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change
Gender dimensions of transnational ageing among Black African immigrants in Canada: Exploring the geographies of identity and belonging
$202,920
Moshe Milevsky, professor, Schulich School of Business
Longevity Risk Sharing and Pension Equity
$61,704
Amy Muise, associate professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Disclosing experiences of gender discrimination in romantic relationships as a novel route to sexism reduction: The role of high quality listening
$298,755
Emilia Nielsen, associate professor, Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Chronically Ill Research-Creation: Engendering Experimentations in Form and Content
$97,391
Laura Salisbury, associate professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
An Investigation into the Growth of Nonmarital Fertility in North America
$91,190
Patricia Wood, professor, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change
Modalities of Mobility: Infrastructural Citizenship and Urban Rail Transportation in Canada, Spain, and India
$189,871
Luke Zhu, associate professor, Schulich School of Business
Helping or Hindering? Understanding Workplace Help Rejection
$165,364
Chris Bell, professor, Schulich School of Business
Fairness heuristic and follower role adoption
$84,625
Sheila Cavanagh, professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Psychotherapy in Ontario: Training, Access, Quality, and Medicalization
$198,882
Jennifer Mills, professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Mitigating the negative effects of social media use on women’s body image
$160,716
Zachary Spicer, associate professor, School of Public Policy & Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
The Capacity to Innovate: Governance and Policy Implementation in Canada’s Municipalities
$57,954
Ela Veresiu, associate professor, Schulich School of Business
Championing Belonging and Inclusion of Ageing Menopausal Consumers in Canada’s Marketplace
$92,763
Xijuan Zhang, assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Creating Better Self-Report Measures
$84,132