Ten FASS Faculty Members Receive SSHRC Insight Development Grants
The Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grants support research in its early stages. They are valued at a maximum of $75,000 over 2 years and support research by both individuals and teams.
Congratulations to the following faculty members who received SSHRC Insight Development Grants in the February 2023 competition!
Beth MacLeod (Linguistics and Language Studies)
The project “Individual variation in the perception-production link: evidence from phonetic imitation,” with a co-applicant at the University of Ottawa, explores the link between the way an individual produces speech and the way that same individual will perceive others’ speech.
Cheryl Harasymchuk (Psychology)
With a collaborator at Illinois State University, the project “Friendship in Middle Adulthood: The Role of Self-Concept Clarity in Shaping Close Connections” explores challenges to maintaining close, adult friendships during periods of life transitions that alter people’s identity.
David Sidhu (Psychology)
The project “Name Sound Symbolism and Personality Judgments,” with two co-applicants at the University of Calgary, explores the relationship between sound and meaning in language, particularly how it relates to people’s names.
Jean-Michel Landry (Sociology and Anthropology)
With a co-applicant at the Université Saint-Joseph (Lebanon), “The Making of Religious Sects in Contemporary Lebanon” examines the political process by which the Lebanese state consents or refuses to grant the status of religion (or sect) to a particular spiritual tradition.
Johanna Peetz (Psychology)
“The role of similarity in financial values for relationship outcomes and impacts of financial stress” examines the impact of shared or different financial values in romantic relationships.
Julie Murray (English)
“A Literary History of ‘Women-as-Index’” uses literary analysis to explore the concept of women-as-index – which is used as a metric in the policy world of gender and development – in its own terms.
Lyndsey Hoh Copeland (Music)
“Sounding Indigenous in South Africa: Music and Performance Heritage in Khoisan Revival,” with Carleton collaborator Nduka Otiono (Institute of African Studies) as well as three other co-applicants and collaborators, aims to investigate and collaboratively archive the music and performance practices of people in South Africa’s Cape region who identify as Khoisan and are known as the “first people.”
Malini Guha (Film Studies)
“On Traction: Moving Images and their Realities” explores the idea of whether or not the concept of objective reality is productive for the study of moving image work made by Black, Indigenous and other artists of colour.
Tamara Sorenson Duncan (Linguistics and Language Studies)
“Examining Diverse Perspectives on Inclusion in French Immersion,” with Carleton co-applicant Alexandra Arraiz Matute (Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies) and six collaborators from other institutions, aims to bridge the gap between research and practice in providing equitable access to French immersion in Canadian schools.
Vivian Solana Moreno (Sociology and Anthropology)
“Intimate Transnational Aid: Regenerating Political Movements through Spanish-Sahrawi Relations” investigates the long-standing intimate ties between Sahrawi refugees in Spain and a large network of Spanish advocates in solidarity with the Sahrawi nationalist, anti-colonial movement (“the Polisario Front”).
Government of Canada announces recipients of 2023 SSHRC Insight Development Grants
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