The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently unveiled the recipients of its fall 2019 round of Partnership Grants, including two McGill-led projects, totalling $5 million. SSHRC also unveiled the recipients of the round’s Partnership Development Grants and Postdoctoral Fellowships, in which 18 McGill applicants received over $2 million in funding.
The grants offer a funding boost to social sciences and humanities researchers at McGill to investigate a wide range of topics, including mapping Montreal’s LGBT+ activist cultures, and exploring mechanisms of institutional change in arctic science.
Of the SSHRC-funded projects announced Canada-wide, 60 McGill researchers will participate, as either principal investigators, collaborators, or co-applicants.
Partnership Grant recipients
The recipient of one of McGill’s two $2.5 million Partnership Grants is Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, Professor in the Departments of Sociology and of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health. As a Canada Research Chair in Policies and Health Inequalities, Prof. Quesnel-Vallée’s research examines the contribution of social policies to the development of social inequalities in health over the course of an individual’s lifespan. With SSHRC’s support, she will create a Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making (CAnD3) to collaboratively develop and deliver an innovative training program for the next generation of population researchers. This “Population Analytics in an Aging Society Training Program” aims to enhance the skills of data-to-decision-making population researchers to ensure that they can provide accurate and impactful insights on urgent social, economic, and health issues for aging societies.
Delphine Collin-Vézina, Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, also received $2.5 million in funding from a Partnership Grant. Prof. Collin-Vézina conducts collaborative research with organizations that provide services to children and youth living in vulnerable contexts. SSHRC’s funding will support her efforts to organize a Canadian Consortium on Child Trauma and Trauma-informed Care. The Consortium aims to improve the quality of life and development of children and youth by incorporating appropriate care practices necessary for those who have experienced trauma. The Consortium will ensure that trauma-informed care policies, procedures, and practices are adopted across provincial, linguistic, and service sectors to empower families, communities, and organizations impacted by this devastating issue.
Partnership Development Grant recipients
Among McGill’s four Partnership Development Grant recipients is Christian Ehret, Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, who received almost $200,000 in funding for his project, Designing equitable urban learning ecologies for prosocial development with digital media. Prof. Ehret’s project will establish a youth-to-youth mentoring structure for a digital media and learning program, which will lead to certifiable outcomes for socially marginalized youth.
Complete list of McGill recipients:
SSHRC Partnerships Grants [October 2019 Competition]
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée
Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making (CAnD3): Developing Talent for Population Analytics in Aging Societies
$2,499,996
Delphine Collin-Vézina
Canadian Consortium on Child Trauma and Trauma-informed Care: Developing cohesive intersectoral practices and policies to support trauma-impacted children and youth
$2,499,658
SSHRC Partnership Development Grants [November 2019 competition]
Jan F. Adamowski
#CitiSciWater – Exploring the potential of scalable, user-centric citizen science platforms and tools to co-create actionable knowledge and transform water governance
$198,569
Matthieu Chemin
The Causal Effects of Judicial Efficiency on Economic Activity: Evidence from a Partnership between McGill University, the World Bank, and the Kenyan Judiciary
$189,668
Christian Ehret
Designing equitable urban learning ecologies for prosocial development with digital media
$199,763
Elizabeth J. Wood
From the Ground Up: Building Teaching and Learning at Edu2 through an Innovative Partnership Ecosystem for the 21st Century
$199,694
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships [September 2019 Competition]
Pierre-Luc Brisson
Fear: A Social and Political History in the Age of Roman Overseas Expansion (264-146 BCE)
$90,000
Thara Charland
Montréal imaginaire : Ville et bande dessinée
$90,000
Alvin Y.H. Cheung
Abusive Legalism: Autocratic Use of Sub-Constitutional Law
$45,000
Emily M. Colpitts
The impact of anti-feminist backlash on efforts to prevent and address sexual violence at Canadian universities
$90,000
Vincent Denault
L’influence des croyances sur le mensonge sur l’évaluation de la crédibilité des témoins enfants et adolescents
$90,000
Pascale Dubois
The role of basic psychological needs in promoting self-determination in adolescents with learning difficulties
$90,000
Jordan B. Kinder
Between Foreclosure and Possibility: Energy Imaginaries in the Contemporary Canadian Mediascape
$90,000
David Myles
Digitally Queer: Mapping Montréal’s LGBT+ Activist Cultures
$90,000
Ashlee-Ann Pigford
Exploring mechanisms of institutional change in arctic science
$90,000
Valérie Poirier
La pollution par le bruit à Montréal, 1945-1980
$90,000
Ksenia K. Polonskaya
Duties and Mandates of Arbitrators: Pluralist Account of International Investment Law
$90,000
Maxwell James Ramstead
Foundations of social-cultural computational research: Theoretical, methodological, and ethical foundations and a network for the interdisciplinary study of interacting human minds
$90,000
Daniel A. Stadnicki
Ideal Time: The Backbeat as Aesthetic Technology of Modernity
$90,000
Didier Zuniga
The relations that matter: vulnerability, agency, sustainability
$90,000