World-class Research in a Capital Location

Carleton University is located in Ottawa, Canada — the nation’s capital. This allows unique access to our researchers across many disciplines to such places as Canada’s national labs and museums, Library and Archives Canada, federal government departments, and of course, Parliament Hill.

Carleton has long been known as a university that promotes research excellence and connectedness, and enjoys partnerships around the globe. We are known as a leader in research that focuses both on tangible outcomes and the development of knowledge with longer-term impacts.

Through the building of sustainable communities, we foster new ideas to create a more sustainably prosperous future for Canada and the world.

FASS Support for Research and Teaching Initiatives

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences recognizes excellence in the research and teaching initiatives of its faculty. To support these endeavours, the Faculty offers a number of opportunities designed to support and recognize the achievements of faculty members.

  • FASS Early Career Research Award (ECRA)
  • FASS Research Excellence Awards (REA)
  • FASS Teaching Development Awards (TDA)
  • Marston LaFrance Research Fellowship
  • Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA)
  • FASS Excellence in Teaching Awards (ETAs)

For more information on these awards, visit our award page.

Carleton Support for Research

Additional support for and information regarding research initiatives conducted both on campus and through research collaborations with external partners is available through the following offices at Carleton University:

The Carleton Office for Research Initiatives and Services (CORIS) offers guidance and access to application forms for internal and external research funding opportunities. CORIS can assist with applications for sabbaticals, research and teaching achievements awards, travel awards, NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR.  CORIS also offers a guide to conducting research at Carleton University.

Our Research

Read more about the research from FASS faculty.

Canada Falling Behind on Kid's Health

Physical Literacy is a Measure of an Overall Healthy Active Lifestyle and the Stats aren’t Good

Skulls for Sale

An Interview with History’s Professor Shawn Graham

Unsung Hero: Eldon Rathburn

For three decades, Eldon Rathburn composed music for films that helped define Canadian culture.

Bundles of Indigenous Knowledge

A Unique Learning Initiative

The Carleton Climate Commons

FASS community confronts climate change through the humanities and social sciences.

Preserving African Cinema

Carleton Professor Aboubakar Sanogo teams with Martin Scorsese.

From Code to Culture

English professor Brian Greenspan discusses the increasingly symbiotic relationship between humans and technology.

African Exchanges Fuel Innovation

Queen Elizabeth Scholars - African Exchanges Fuel Interdisciplinary Innovation.

States of Play

Film Studies Professor Aubrey Anable on technologized labour, casual gaming, and feeling through failure.

The Storytellers of Our Society

Professor Dan Irving researches trans people and communities as they navigate the Canadian labour force

The Origins of Exploring the Capital

History and Theory of Architecture Professor Peter Coffman and Instructor Andrew Waldron author an architectural guide to the City of Ottawa

Taste Shaming

Music Professor James Deaville on Billy Joel, Nickelback, Fifty Shades of Grey and Other Casualties of Taste Shaming

The Fog of Our New Political Reality

Historian Jennifer Evans leads innovative tool and course to contextualize right-wing fascism past and present.

Remembering The Beaver Hall Group

Brian Foss, Professor of Art History, has spent the bulk of the last decade researching an unsung, but instrumental collective of Canadian artists knows as the Beaver Hall Group.

Discovering the Quran

College of the Humanities Professor Mohammed Rustom is a member of a team of distinguished scholars who authored a game-changing book that interprets the Quran.

From the Nun to the Call-girl

Professor Patricia Smart pens an award-winning book on the personal writings of Quebec women and wins Gabrielle Roy Prize, the Académie des lettres medal and the Jean Éthier-Blais Prize.

The Surprising History of Katherine Parr

Professor Micheline White of the English and Humanities Department was working on a research project when she made an important discovery about Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII.

On Solid Ground

Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies Chris Burn studies the effects of climate change on permafrost.

Understanding Welsh to Standardize Inukt

Associate Professor Kumiko Murasugi is assisting Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami‘s (ITK) Atausiq Inuktut Titirausiq (AIT) Task Group.

Trudeaumania

History Professor Paul Litt Examines the Original Wave of Trudeaumania in New Book

Helping to Find a Way Home

Helping to Find a Way Home for Ottawa’s Homeless - Sociology Professor Jackie Kennelly leads the way to help the city’s young and homeless.

The Popular Culture Frontier

History Professor Mark Cronlund Anderson talks zombies, pop culture, media representation, and the relentless myth of the North American Frontier.

The Other NFB

Art History Professor Carol Payne curates exhibition on the NFB’s still photography meant to portray life in Canada.

Reassembling Indigenous Heritage

Professor Ruth Phillips is using digital technology to reassemble items of artistic, historical and linguistic heritage collected from the Indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes.