Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded $5,786,741 in federal funding to York University researchers as part of the Insight Grants program. The funding supports 34 projects and builds on an additional $1.7M in funding that York researchers recently received through SSHRC Insight Development Grants, supporting scholars in the social sciences and humanities. Half of the funded projects are led by researchers from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), who are listed below.
Kelly Bergstrom, Department of Communication & Media Studies
Project: Platforming Leisure: Navigating worker experiences of labour and leisure in the digital platform economy
Funding: $228,512
Marie-Helene Budworth, School of Human Resource Management
Project: Diversity at work: Beyond a monoracial framework
Funding: $85,155
Natalie Coulter, Department of Communication & Media Studies
Project: Understanding Our Digital Futures: KidTech, AdTech and Branded Content in the DigiVerse
Funding: $291,354
Benjamin Kelly, Department of History
Project: The Politics of Repression in Ancient Rome: Discourses and Practices
Funding: $82,358
Anja Krstic, School of Human Resource Management
Project: Increasing gender equality: An examination of why and how gender roles influence men's parental leave-taking decisions
Funding: $112,174
Geoffrey P.J. Lawrence, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
Project: Examining Generative Artificial Intelligence in Post-Secondary English for Academic Purpose (EAP) Programs
Funding: $89,678
Matthew A. Leisinger, Department of Philosophy
Project: Ralph Cudworth's Freewill Manuscripts
Funding: $77,009
Bernard V. Lightman, Department of Humanities
Project: The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820–1893), influential Victorian scientist: editing and publishing volumes 18 to 21
Funding: $88,785
Muyang Li, Department of Sociology
Project: Shaping the Future of AI: Artificial Intelligence Governance in Global Dynamics
Funding: $93,966
Marcel Martel, Department of History
Project: Un nouveau spiritueux: le cognac, la mondialisation et la tempérance au Canada et aux États-Unis, 1870–1933
Funding: $61,204
Antulio Rosales, Department of Social Science
Project: Crypto-bans versus crypto expansions: explaining variation in cryptocurrency mining prohibitions across global north and global south contexts
Funding: $279,986
Anoosheh Rostamkalaei, School of Administrative Studies
Project: Entrepreneurial outcomes and liability of poorness
Funding: $73,299
Fuminori Toyasaki, School of Administrative Studies
Project: Collaboration between Competitors in Product Innovation
Funding: $179,390
Antonella Valeo, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
Project: Context Matters: A Study of Corrective Feedback in Adult Language Teaching and Learning
Funding: $199,630
Alexandra E. Widmer, Department of Anthropology
Project: Disability Matters: Kinship Networks, Integration and the Social Consequences of Medical Diagnoses in Vanuatu
Funding: $121,317
David Weitzner, School of Administrative Studies
Project: Humanistic Stakeholder Theory and a Minimalist Ethics Litmus Test for Firm Purpose
Funding: $190,790
Jelena Zikic, School of Human Resource Management
Project: Are alternative careers sustainable? Towards health and well-being of immigrants across Canada
Funding: $201,095
Congratulations to all grant recipients and their team of researchers.
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