Four professors from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) have been awarded funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), receiving Connection Grants and Partnership Engage Grants.
Jake Pyne from the School of Social Work received $23,498 in funding for his project No for now: Building educator capacity to simultaneously support transgender students and parent-child relationships. The project will provide tools to educators to support transgender students and their families.
Kelly Thomson and co-applicant Marcela Porporato from the School of Administrative Studies received $24,988 in funding for their project Gender and Microinclusion in STEM Workgroups. They will be researching gender inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) work environments, working in partnership with Santex in Argentina.
Hannah Johnston from the School of Human Resource Management and sava saheli singh from the Faculty of Education received $24,750 in funding for their project Strengthening Educators' Collective Capacity to Bargain for Digital Rights. Working with applicant Vera Khovanskaya from the University of Toronto and in partnership with the Canadian Teachers’ Federation, they will be researching how educators can advocate for digital rights in the procurement and use of educational technologies.
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