{"id":14340,"date":"2016-04-06T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=14340"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:19","slug":"ian-wereley-among-top-25-sshrc-storytellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/ian-wereley-among-top-25-sshrc-storytellers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Wereley Among Top 25 SSHRC Storytellers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Ian Wereley Among Top 25 SSHRC Storytellers\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ian Wereley: Imagining Energy in Transition: Past, Present, Future\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LLVhgsPbLHc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced that Carleton\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/ian-wereley\/\">Ian Wereley<\/a> is among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLww1dvjSoO4MtngyjTfZQRJC2AAfaiFrD\">Top 25 finalists<\/a>&nbsp;in its 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca\/storytellers\">Storytellers<\/a> challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wereley is a doctoral candidate in Department of History who researches the history of oil and energy. His SSHRC Storytellers video, called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LLVhgsPbLHc&amp;list=PLww1dvjSoO4MtngyjTfZQRJC2AAfaiFrD&amp;index=18\">Imagining Energy in Transition: Past, Present, Future<\/a><\/em> examines what Canada stands to gain from shifting to alternative energy sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual contest challenges post-secondary students from across the country to demonstrate\u2014in three minutes or 300 words\u2014how SSHRC-funded research is making a difference in the lives of Canadians. The top entries this year addressed a range of issues\u2014from sustainable technologies and digital inequality to food security, transgender issues and special-needs education\u2014and highlighted how knowledge about the social sciences and humanities helps Canadians understand and improve the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wereley has received a cash prize of $3,000 and will go on to compete in the Storytellers Showcase at the <a href=\"http:\/\/congress2016.ca\/program\/events\/join-excitement-we-select-years-final-five-sshrc-storytellers\">2016 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences<\/a>, May 28 to June 3 at the University of Calgary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>History M.A. student was among last year&#8217;s Top 25 finalists in the <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2015\/history-grad-student-wins-national-storyteller-award\/\">2015 Storytellers challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced that Carleton\u2019s Ian Wereley is among the Top 25 finalists&nbsp;in its 2016 Storytellers challenge. Wereley is a doctoral candidate in Department of History who researches the history of oil and energy. His SSHRC Storytellers video, called Imagining Energy in Transition: Past, Present, Future examines what Canada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[146,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-student-projects","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14567,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14340\/revisions\/14567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}