Multiple faculty receive SSHRC grants

October 4, 2024

Congratulations to our faculty members who recently received Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants!

Insight Grants:

• Antoinette Handley (Title of Project: Elite Power in Africa).
• Phillip Lipscy (Title of Project: Institutional Racism in International Relations).
• Kate Neville (& co-applicant Jessica Green) (Title of Project: The political economy of deep sea mining: Governance, financial power, and resistance).
• Andrea Olive (Title of Project: Biodiversity Conservation in Working Landscapes).
• Andy Sabl (Title of Project: Liberal Democratic Institutions: A Political Realist Approach).
• Semra Sevi (Title of Project: Gender and Political Representation).
• Alison Smith (Title of Project: The politics of the homelessness crisis in Canada).
• Lucan Way (Title of Project: The Sources of Democratic Resilience in an Age of Backsliding).

Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities, enabling scholars to address complex issues about individuals and societies and to further our collective understanding.

Insight Development Grants

• Andrew McDougall (& co-applicant Elizabeth Acorn) (Title of Project: The Supreme Court and the Canadian Economy: Assessing the impact of R. v. Comeau).
• Alexander Reisenbichler (Title of Project: Housing, Climate Change, and Public Policy in the United States and Germany).
• Robert Schertzer (Title of Project: Nationalist polarization and the fight over climate change: how nationalism is shaping the politics of climate skeptics and activists in the US and Canada).
• Semra Sevi (Title of Project: Do Chatbot Voting Aid Applications Help Young Independent Voters Embrace a Party?)

Insight Development Grants support research in its initial stages. The grants enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches and/or ideas.