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SSHRC Announces Latest FPGA Research Winners

July 22, 2025

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The Faculty of Public and Global Affairs is celebrating its latest winners of research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), including a Partnership Grant won by James Milner, Professor of Political Science and director of the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN). Congratulations to all of the winners!

Partnership Grant

To provide support for new and existing formal partnerships to advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities.

Reimagining responses to forced migration through the Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN)

James Milner, Political Science

Amount Awarded: $2,499,826

Insight Grants

To support research initiatives of up to five years.

The Art of Eight Limbs: A Longitudinal Study of Embodied Performance of Muay Thai by Women and Non-binary

Vicky McArthur, Media Production and Design

Amount Awarded: $278,550

Watching Territory: Creative Interventions into Examining Surveillance in Rural Northern Ontario

Stefy McKnight, Media Production and Design

Amount Awarded: $239,265

Insight Development Grants

To support research in its initial stages.

Electrification contestation: Overcoming resistance to net-zero transitions in Canada

Daniel Rosenbloom, School of Public Policy and Administration

Amount Awarded: $74,820

Parents’ experiences of symbiotic harms in the Youth Criminal Justice System

Dale Spencer, Law and Legal Studies

Amount Awarded: $62,220

Pricing uncertainty in the cross section of asset returns with a large news corpus

Ba Chu, Economics

Amount Awarded: $49,630

Digital transformation and geopolitics: Balancing development, agency, and global actors in Ghana

Isaac Odoom, Political Science

Amount Awarded: $74,116

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant

To support short-term partnered research activities involving a postsecondary institution and a single organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sectors

Counting on Adivasi women leaders: How electoral quotas shape ecological governance in Maharashtra, India

.Gopika Solanki, Political Science

Amount Awarded: $24,983

SSHRC Connection Grant

To support short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization events and activities.

Credible econometrics

Matt Webb, Economics

Amount Awarded: $25,000