Faculty from across York University have received more than $1.3 million in funding to lead collaborative, community-based research projects through the 2024 Partnership Development Grants competition.
Seven faculty members from York University have been awarded Partnership Development Grants by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), securing a combined total of $1,397,010 in funding. The grants support one- to three-year initiatives that foster new or existing research partnerships with the goal of advancing knowledge and mobilizing outcomes that benefit academic and non-academic communities.
“This remarkable success in the SSHRC Partnership Development Grants competition highlights York’s strength in building meaningful research collaborations that span disciplines and sectors,” says Amir Asif, vice-president research and innovation. “These projects demonstrate how our researchers are partnering with communities to co-create knowledge that informs policy, advances equity and addresses complex global challenges. They reflect York’s ongoing commitment to research with real-world impact.”
These grants build in a wave of other recent funding announcements by SSHRC, including an additional $1.7 million funding York University researchers recently received through Insight Development Grants, and $5.7 million from Insight Grants.
Faculty leading the projects represent the Faculty of Health, the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and the Schulich School of Business.
The following York researchers were awarded funding as part of the 2024 competition:
Charles Cho, Schulich School of Business
Project: Bridging worlds: Collaborative solutions for global biodiversity accounting and reporting
Funding: $199,976
Amrita Daftary, Faculty of Health
Project: Developing a global framework to address gender-based violence in women affected by TB
Funding: $200,000
Ester E. Amanda De Lisio, Faculty of Health
Project: Unidivercidade Nem Davida: Insurgent Geographies of Puta/Trans Activisms in Rio de Janeiro
Funding: $200,000
Lyndsay Hayhurst, Faculty of Health
Project: Partnering for the Planet: Co-Creating Gender-Just Climate Solutions through Sport for Development and Peace
Funding: $199,961
Johanne Jean-Pierre, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Inspiring adolescents to become first-generation university students through bilingual short films
Funding: $199,384
Joan Judge, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Vernacular medicine and modes of knowing in China: historical and global contexts
Funding: $199,329
Yvonne Su, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Project: Sanctuaries of Hope: Co-Creating Knowledge, Policies, Workshops and Participatory Films on South-South Queer Migration with Bogotá’s LGBTQ+ Houses
Funding: $198,360
These awards reflect York University’s continued leadership in collaborative, equity-focused and community-engaged research across global contexts.