Research Recognition
Building understanding of the world around us
August 29, 2023
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Today, the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages announced $90M in funding to support the program. Supported by the (SSHRC), the program is designed to enable researchers to build knowledge and understanding about people, societies, and the world – past and present. In this latest funding round, 30 Queen’s researchers received more than $3M in support from the program’s Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants. The SSHRC announcement is part of a larger $960M suite of funding announced by the federal government.
"Canada’s researchers, scientists, students and institutions are increasingly working together across disciplines to find innovative solutions to local, national and global challenges," says Dr. Ted Hewitt, President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. "Their work and initiatives are vital to providing the tools, knowledge and insights needed to enhance the well-being and prosperity of Canadians and others around the world."
support research in its initial stages. The grant enables the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches, or ideas. Funding is provided for short-term research projects of up to two years. Whereas provide support for larger-scale research initiatives and offer funding for between two to five years. Both emerging and established researchers are eligible, and the program’s intention is to develop understanding from interdisciplinary perspectives and mobilize this knowledge. There is also a significant focus on providing high-quality research training experiences for students.
The Insight-funded Queen’s projects:
Insight
Una D’Elia (Art History): Fictive Flesh: Painted Sculpture in the Italian Renaissance – $199,631
(Dan School of Drama and Music): The Impact of Structural Features of Sound and Music on Player Experience in Video Games – $87,380
(Education): Learning to Love Learning: Taking Control, Responsibility, and Pride through Self-Regulated Learning and Assessment – $311,712
Gabrielle McIntire (English): Modernism and Mysticism: T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, W.B. Yeats, and Rabindranath Tagore – $113,939
Gabriel Menotti Miglio Pinto Gonring (Film and Media): Computational Cinemas: Exploring the Effects of Virtual Simulation Technologies in the Reconfiguration of Filmmaking Practices – $99,860
Julien Lefort-Favreau (French Studies): La liberté de publier. Politiques de l’édition équitable et bibliodiversité au Canada – $74,473
Katherine McKittrick (Gender Studies; Geography and Planning): Concertinas: Practicing Black Methodologies – $299,055
(Kinesiology and Health Studies): Reclaiming the Outdoors: Structures of Resistance to Historical Marginalization in Outdoor Culture – $253,915
Bronwyn Bjorkman (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures): Feature Interactions in Complex Paradigms: Competition and Upstaging – $172,752
(Law): Responding to Challenging Times: An Inflection Point for Family Justice in Ontario? – $223,837
(Smith School of Business): Benefiting the Impoverished within Developing Economies through Value Chain Interventions – $154,996
(Smith School of Business): Green Technology Choice for Decarbonization: Combining Market Forces and Policy Instruments – $108,220
Martin Hand (Sociology): Post-Pandemic Temporalities: Narratives, Contexts, and Experiences of Mediated Disruption, Synchronization, and Expectations beyond COVID-19 – $82,640
Insight Development
(Education): Disrupting the “Checkbox” Pedagogy: Advancing Critical Social Justice Education in Secondary English Language Arts Classrooms – $64,158
Leslie Ritchie (English): Black and White: The Spaces of Abolition in Eighteenth-Century Newspaper – $32,160
Myra Hird (Environmental Studies): Reducing Canada’s Plastics Waste: Exploring the Potential of a Contextual Engineering Approach to Engineering Plastics Design – $41,789
Sojung Bahng (Film and Media): Meta-Metaverse: Digital Art-Based Research on Reflective Approaches to the Metaverse – $70,414
Gabriel Menotti Miglio Pinto Gonring (Film and Media): Entangled Traditions: Mapping the Emergence Of New Media and Computer Arts in Postwar Brazil – $67,500
Vanessa Thompson (Gender Studies): Abolition Worlds. Transnational Movements within the Black Diaspora – $68,841
Mark Stoller (Geography and Planning): Facilitating Youth-Elder Engagement Through Participatory Film and Oral History in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut – $68,809
Kilian Atuoye (Global Development Studies): Equity and Community Wellbeing in Large Scale Land Acquisitions in Sub-Saharan Africa – $72,990
Ishita Pande (History): Still Cancer: A Patient’s History of Disease – $67,499
Hannah McElgunn (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures): (Re)Storying Hopi Ethnobotanical Knowledge: A Collaborative Approach to Oral History – $67,587
(Law): Sex in The Age of Gender: Conceptual Clarity as a Foundation For Reconciling the Interests, Rights, and Experiences of Women, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People in Canada – $27,448
(Nursing): Birth During COVID-19 – Understanding How a Pandemic Influences Experiences of Birth – $62,715
Surulola Eke (Political Studies): Beyond Social Norms and Customs: Researching Sustainable Formalization of Labour Relations in Agrarian Economies – $60,646
Tim Salomons (Psychology): Risk in a Painful Moment: Examining How Dynamic Increases in Social Disconnection Increase Suicide Capability – $68,906
Vera Vine (Psychology): Effects of Childhood Adversity on Adolescents’ Interoception and Emotion Awareness – $74,558
(Rehabilitation Therapy): Public Safety Personnel Mental Wellness: The Impact of Organizational Factors – $73,600
(Smith School of Business): Gender Equality and Engaged Fathers: The Role of the Marketplace in Bridging, or Not, the Gender Gap in Dual Career Households – $59,272
To learn more about this round of Insight grants, visit the . You can also read about Queen’s success in recent SSHRC Partnership, NSERC Discovery, and CFI JELF grants competitions in the ֱ Gazette.