Seven FPA faculty members awarded grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
The SSHRC grants will support FPA research efforts in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, and here at home.
The prestigious SSHRC Insight Grants, which offer financial support for long-term research projects of three to five years, are intended to build knowledge across disciplines and sectors, support new research approaches on complex topics, provide student experience, and influence society.
The SSHRC Insight Grants were awarded to the following faculty members:
Law and Legal Studies: Dawn Moore will examine the victims’ perspective on how visual evidence is used in domestic violence cases.
African Studies: Blair Rutherford will conduct a study of the role of women in artisanal and small-scale mining in three conflict-affected African countries: Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, and Kenya.
NPSIA: Jean Daudelin will study informal markets and urban violence in Latin America.
Political Science: Jeremy Paltiel will study China and the Asia-Pacific in Canadian foreign policy.
In addition, three FPA faculty members were awarded Insight Development Grants, which back “research in its initial stages, enabling the development of new research questions, as well as new methods, theoretical approaches and ideas”.
Insight Development Grant winners:
NPSIA: Inger Weibust will conduct a study on monitoring/benchmarking regimes in federal systems and at the international level.
Economics: Hashmat Khan will examine “Booms, Busts, Incentives, and the Environment”.
EURUS: Crina Viju will look at whether Central and Eastern European countries are winners of the EU’s shift in trade policy.
According to Karen Schwartz, the FPA Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Affairs, these awards will be “instrumental in furthering the Faculty’s mission to contribute to better societies and a stronger democracy”.
Monday, February 2, 2015 in Celebrating Excellence, Groundbreaking Research, News
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