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Queen's University researchers have secured more than $8.3 million through four Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) funding programs, supporting research that explores complex social, economic, and societal challenges and generates knowledge to help build a more resilient and equitable future.

This funding is part of a supporting 1,788 social sciences and humanities research projects and partnerships across the country. The national investment, announced July 21, includes funding through SSHRC's Insight Grants, Insight Development Grants, Stage 2 Partnership Grants, and Partnership Development Grants.

Projects at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ have been awarded 21 Insight Grants, 15 Insight Development Grants, one Partnership Development Grant, and one Stage 2 Partnership Grant. Together, these awards represent a total investment of $8,386,327 in research at Queen's.

"This federal investment reflects the important role of social sciences and humanities research in generating evidence and insights that can inform policy, drive innovation, and improve quality of life," says Nancy Ross, Vice-Principal Research. "It will support Queen's researchers as they pursue new research questions, develop innovative approaches, build partnerships, and generate knowledge that can help address complex challenges in Canada and globally."

The funded projects span a diverse range of topics, from understanding the experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ voters and exploring youth identity in Nunavut, to examining the social and economic impacts of artificial intelligence, developing approaches to wildfire management, and investigating the role of community-led agroecological innovations.

See the full list of Queen's-funded SSHRC projects below:

Stage 2 Partnership Grants

support large-scale, formal partnerships that advance research, training, and knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities with up to $2.5 million over four to seven years. Learn more about the ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ researchers advancing aging in community.

Catherine Donnelly (Rehabilitation Therapy) and Vincent DePaul (Rehabilitation Therapy): Aging in Community – $2,500,000

Partnership Development Grants

support the development of new and existing partnerships and the design and testing of collaborative approaches to research, knowledge mobilization, and training, providing up to $250,000 over one to three years.

Elijah Bisung (Kinesiology and Health Studies): TRANSFORM-WASH Africa: Designing water and sanitation systems to promote women's empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa – $200,000

Insight Grants

support large-scale research initiatives that advance knowledge and understanding in the social sciences and humanities.  Queen's researchers received a total of $4,520,851 through 21 Insight Grants, awarded over five years.

Michael Wheeler (DAN School of Drama and Music): Meta Physical Theatre – $494,700

Mark Stoller (Geography and Planning): Hivumuuniaqtugut: research, resistance, and the geographies of youth identity in the Nattilik Region, Nunavut – $481,015

Thashika Pillay (Education): Anti-colonial land-based climate justice pedagogies for Canadian secondary classrooms: Education for repair, healing, joy, and "relational renewal" – $379,736

Jean Côté (Kinesiology and Health Studies): Harnessing Interest to Sustain Youth Engagement in Sport: A Multi-Perspective Approach – $354,911

Norma Möllers (Sociology): Necro-extractivism: Algorithmic warfare, "kill clouds," and the racial political economy of security imperialism – $348,787

Vedat Verter (Smith School of Business): Designing Personalized and Adaptive Incentive Structures for Employee Well-being Program Engagement – $313,500

Tamara de Szegheo Lang (Film and Media): Dreamers of the Day: Uncovering the Lost Lesbian Decade in Canadian Filmmaking History, 1987-2003 – $302,180

Kristen Lowitt (Environmental Studies): Blue justice meets food justice in Great Lakes fisheries – $290,685

Anita Tusche (Psychology): Talking to Machines, Changing Ourselves: How AI Chatbots Are Reshaping Social Skills, Behaviors and Human Connection – $267,915

Benjamin Kutsyuruba (Education): Fostering Hope Through Educational Leadership – $212,650

Tandy Thomas (Smith School of Business): The Role of the Marketplace in Facilitating Gender Equity in Canadian Sports – $122,363

Elizabeth Kelley (Psychology): Development and Testing of a Measure of Quality of Life for Autistic Emerging Adults: A Participatory Action Study – $121,492

Abhimanyu Gupta (Economics): Flexible Dimension Inference with Dependent Data – $120,964

Kelsey Jacobson (DAN School of Drama and Music): Affecting Audiences: Theatre in an Era of Eroded Trust – $118,202

Fabio Colivicchi (Classics and Archaeology): In Search of the Etruscan Forum: Bringing Etruria into the Conversation on the Origins of Public Open Spaces – $114,933

Nahim Bin Zahur (Economics): Do Strategic Alliances Enhance Efficiency or Hurt Competition? Evidence from Container Shipping – $111,952

Thorsten Koeppl (Economics): Payments in Interconnected Economies: Competition, Fragmentation and Tokenization – $86,454

Wei Wang (Smith School of Business): Entrepreneurial Failures and the Redeployment of Human Capital – $79,699

Tara MacDonald (Psychology): Invalidated and Polarized: Does invalidation lead people to share biased digital media? – $76,819

Lisa Kerr (Law): Appeals from Inside: How Prisoners Access Justice at the Ontario Court of Appeal – $74,784

Sitian Liu (Economics): Agglomeration Effects among Academic Researchers – $47,110

Insight Development Grants

support research in its initial stages, enabling researchers to develop new research questions and explore new methods, theoretical approaches, or ideas. Queen's researchers received a total of $1,165,476 through 15 grants, awarded over two years.

Antonia Behan (Art History and Art Conservation): Past, Present, and Future of Craft in Sri Lanka: Crafting a Digital Critical Edition of A.K. Coomaraswamy's Mediaeval Sinhalese Art (1908) – $93,467

Vedat Verter (Smith School of Business): From Prevention to Recovery: An Integrated Two Stage Policy Framework for Wildfire Management – $92,642

Michelle Searle (Education): Learning in partnership: A multi-site, cross-institutional examination of community-engaged pedagogy in a Canadian context – $91,757

Diana Cordoba Blandon (Global Development Studies): Developing a Territorial Learning Framework for Community-Led Agroecological Innovations – $89,682

Benjamin Bolden (Education): The Choir Motivation Questionnaire: Investigating Motivational Diversity to Enhance Inclusion – $85,628

Vera Vine (Psychology): Natural emotion language and affective experience across adolescence – $84,997

Tim Salomons (Psychology): Examining the social, emotional, academic and economic benefits of a curriculum integrated post-secondary wellness course – $72,420

Quinn Albaugh (Political Studies): The Overlooked Rainbow Vote: Analyzing When, How, and Why 2SLGBTQ+ Voters Support 2SLGBTQ+ Candidates – $70,675

Shamel Addas (Smith School of Business): Beyond Human-in-the-Loop: Governing Dynamic Delegation to Agentic Technologies in High-Reliability Organizations – $70,189

Katherine Elizabeth Baisley (Political Studies): Reversing Declining Support for Trans Rights: Developing and Testing Cognitive Interventions Using Information and Frames – $68,029

Paula Lopez-Pena (Smith School of Business): Dismissive Managerial Practices, Worker Engagement, and Firm Performance – $66,459

Steven Lehrer (Economics): From DNA to Retirement: Genetic Risk, Epigenetic Aging, Retirement Timing and Economic Outcomes Later in Life – $65,39

Evan Jo (Smith School of Business): Two Trees and a Gardener: Asset Pricing with Real Capital Flows – $37,384

For more information about the SSHRC Insight and Partnership grants, visit the .