York University researchers have received $5,786,741 in funding through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) Insight Grants competition, supporting 34 projects that advance knowledge in areas ranging from equity and inclusion to artificial intelligence (AI) and refugee education.
Building on an additional $1.7 funding York University researchers recently received through SSHRC Insight Development Grants, the now announced Insight Grants provide long-term funding for projects lasting two to six years, enabling emerging and established scholars to pursue innovative research in the social sciences and humanities.
York’s funded projects reflect the University’s commitment to interdisciplinary research and social impact.
“This outstanding result in the SSHRC Insight Grants competition reflects the depth and diversity of research excellence at York,” says Amir Asif, vice-president research and innovation. “Our researchers are leading critical work that addresses some of the most pressing challenges facing society today – from refugee education and immigrant career pathways to digital culture and equity in the workplace. These projects exemplify York’s commitment to purposeful research that drives positive change in Canada and around the world.”
York University researchers received SSHRC Insight Grants for a diverse range of projects. Several focus on refugee education and immigrant integration, exploring governance in refugee schooling and sustainable career paths for newcomers.
Themes of equity, diversity and inclusion are prominent, with studies examining workplace barriers and inclusive practices. Others investigate digital culture and technology, including platform-based work, AI in education as well as children’s media environments.
Additional projects address business ethics, refugee law, urban infrastructure and climate risk, reflecting the University’s broad commitment to tackling social, technological and cultural challenges through interdisciplinary research.
“It’s inspiring to see such a strong showing from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) in this year’s SSHRC Insight Grants program,” says J.J. McMurtry, dean, LA&PS. “Half of the funded projects are led by researchers from LA&PS, reflecting the Faculty’s deep commitment to addressing social challenges in today's world through interdisciplinary researech excellence and scholarship.”
In addition to LA&PS, faculty leading the projects also represent Glendon College, the Faculty of Education, the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change, the Faculty of Health, the Faculty of Science, Osgoode Hall Law School and the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design.
Below is a list of York recipients of the
Daniel Adler, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Project: Arguing for Assemblage: Diasporic Identities in Sculpture from a Pan-Pacific Perspective
Funding: $86,939
Alison L. Bain, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Project: Queer cultural infrastructure and the remaking of inclusive cities: within and beyond Rainbow Cities Network recognition
Funding: $282,004
Kelly Bergstrom, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Platforming Leisure: Navigating worker experiences of labour and leisure in the digital platform economy
Funding: $228,512
Marie-Helene Budworth, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Diversity at work: Beyond a monoracial framework
Funding: $85,155
Natalie Coulter, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Understanding Our Digital Futures: KidTech, AdTech and Branded Content in the DigiVerse
Funding: $291,354
Andrew C. Dawson, Glendon College
Project: Trust and Democratic Stability
Funding: $251,427
John R. Greyson, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Project: Vital Transgressions: Activism, Risk and Queer/Trans Cinemas Today
Funding: $314,525
John Ippolito, Faculty of Education
Project: The languages of everyday citizenship: Migrant views on naturalization in a host country
Funding: $99,800
Benjamin Kelly, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: The Politics of Repression in Ancient Rome: Discourses and Practices
Funding: $82,358
Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, Schulich School of Business
Project: Are Firms Reactive or Proactive to Climate Change Risk?
Funding: $78,500
Anja Krstic, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
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, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Examining Generative Artificial Intelligence in Post-Secondary English for Academic Purpose (EAP) Programs
Funding: $89,678
Matthew A. Leisinger, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Ralph Cudworth's Freewill Manuscripts
Funding: $77,009
Bernard V. Lightman, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: The collected letters of John Tyndall (1820–1893), influential Victorian scientist: editing and publishing volumes 18 to 21
Funding: $88,785
Muyang Li, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Shaping the Future of AI: Artificial Intelligence Governance in Global Dynamics
Funding: $93,966
Marcel Martel, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Un nouveau spiritueux: le cognac, la mondialisation et la tempérance au Canada et aux États-Unis, 1870–1933
Funding: $61,204
Gillian A. McGillivray, Glendon College
Project: From Paternalism to Precarity: Land, Labour, and Politics under a French Enterprise in Brazil
Funding: $79,715
Yuzhi Joel Ong, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Project: Memory Machines: emerging practices in environmental sensing and ecopoetics
Funding: $369,281
Poonam Puri, Osgoode Hall Law School
Project: Empowering the shareholder voice as a means to stakeholder democracy: a comparative analysis of shareholder proposals in Canada and the United States
Funding: $251,478
Jennine S. Rawana, Faculty of Health
Project: Enhancing real-time emotion regulation skills among emerging adults in a digital era
Funding: $67,258
Sean Rehaag, Osgoode Hall Law School
Project: The Refugee Law Lab at the Canada-US Border
Funding: $253,975
Antulio Rosales, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Crypto-bans versus crypto expansions: explaining variation in cryptocurrency mining prohibitions across global north and global south contexts
Funding: $279,986
Anoosheh Rostamkalaei, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Entrepreneurial outcomes and liability of poorness
Funding: $73,299
Shirin Shahrokni, Glendon College
Project: Not a Single Story: Impacts of Race, Gender, and Geographical Provenance on the Employment Trajectories of Highly Skilled Francophone Immigrants in Ontario
Funding: $86,192
Winny Shen, Schulich School of Business
Project: What will people say? How image risks impede equity, diversity, and inclusion involvement at work
Funding: $195,084
Rachel E. Silver, Faculty of Education
Project: Refugee Education Governance and Alternative Futures in Kenya
Funding: $266,953
Jane Tingley, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Project: Being in Relation
Funding: $277,120
Kurt F. Thumlert, Faculty of Education
Project: Embodied, tacit, and multimodal learning: Re-situating pedagogies of skilled practice in the age of AI and artifice
Funding: $96,386
Maggie E. Toplak, Faculty of Health
Project: Investigating the relationship between actively open-minded thinking and myside bias in adolescents and adults
Funding: $274,402
Fuminori Toyasaki, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Collaboration between Competitors in Product Innovation
Funding: $179,390
Antonella Valeo, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Context Matters: A Study of Corrective Feedback in Adult Language Teaching and Learning
Funding: $199,630
Alexandra E. Widmer, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Disability Matters: Kinship Networks, Integration and the Social Consequences of Medical Diagnoses in Vanuatu
Funding: $121,317
David Weitzner, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Humanistic Stakeholder Theory and a Minimalist Ethics Litmus Test for Firm Purpose
Funding: $190,790
Jelena Zikic, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Are alternative careers sustainable? Towards health and well-being of immigrants across Canada
Funding: $201,095