August 21, 2025
We are pleased to recognize the following faculty members for their success in the recent external research grant competitions. These awards highlight the depth, breadth, and impact of research excellence across our Faculty, while also strengthening our contributions to scholarship, innovation, and society at large. Congratulations to all recipients and their collaborators on these outstanding achievements.
SSHRC Insight Grants
Support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging scholars and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years.
Applicant: Dr. Mark Beauchamp
Co-investigator: Dr. Eli Puterman
Project: The ‘Global Goals Project’: An international randomized trial to examine the effectiveness of open goals to promote physical activity
Applicant: Dr. Peter Cole
Co-investigator: Dr. Patricia A. O’Riley
Project: Mutual Nurturance in the High Amazon for a World on Fire
Applicant: Dr. Anusha Kassan
Co-investigator: Dr. Suna Eryigit-Madzwamuse
Project: An Arts-Based Engagement Ethnography of Newcomer Student Wellness in French and English Institutions of Higher Education in Canada
Applicant: Dr. Maureen Kendrick
Co-investigator: Dr. Margaret Early
Project: Digital Multimodal Composing-To-Learn: Perspectives, Practices, and Possibilities for Multilingual Learners
Applicant: Dr. Guofang Li
Co-investigator: Dr. Lee Gunderson
Project: Investigating the Relationship between First Language Proficiency and English Reading Comprehension among Multilingual Learners in Upper Elementary Years in BC
Applicant: Dr. Amy Metcalfe
Project: Making a home on campus: The first 50 years of student housing at the University of British Columbia
Applicant: Dr. Anne Phelan
Project: Therapeutic Practices in Teacher Education: Impact and Significance
Applicant: Dr. Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen
Co-investigator: Dr. Sarah Horn
Project: Digital Childhood: Understanding the Effects of Screen Time on Development and Well-being in School-Aged Youth
Applicant: Dr. Robert VanWynsberghe
Project: When Strong Currents Meet: Swimming in the Waters of Transformative Social Innovation Pedagogies
Co-investigator(s): Drs. Mark Beauchamp, Marina Milner-Bolotin
Project: A Cross-Country Study: Investigating Inequalities in Adolescent Learning and Well-Being during COVID-19 and Mitigating Factors
Co-investigator: Dr. Sandra Zappa-Hollman
Project: Development and validation of an academic language socialization self-assessment tool
SSHRC Insight Development Grants
Support research in its initial stages. Funding is provided for short-term research development projects of up to two years that are proposed by individuals or teams.
Applicant: Dr. Shannon Bredin
Project: Empowering Change through Awareness: A Virtual Strategy to Address Emotional Abuse in Sport
Applicant: Dr. Glory Ovie
Project: Black Educators at the Intersections: Understanding the Experiences of Black Educators in Alberta and British Columbia K-12 Schools
Applicant: Dr. Leyton Schnellert
Co-investigator(s): Drs. Carly Christensen, Bathseba Opini
Project: Embedding Disability Justice as a Core Component within Teacher Education Programs
SSHRC Connection Grants
Support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives, which can often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.
Applicant: Dr. Shannon Leddy
Project: Learning with the Land Symposium
Co-investigator: Dr. Penney Clark
Project: History Education in Troubled Times: Perspectives from Canada
SSHRC Partnership Development Grants
Support the development of partnered research and related activities in the social sciences and humanities.
Applicant: Dr. Shannon Leddy
Project: Visual Storytelling in the Indigenous North
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants
Support short-term partnered research activities involving a postsecondary institution and a single organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sectors.
Applicant: Dr. Eli Puterman
Project: Stepping back to better move forward: Engaging with women living with HIV and the organizations that serve them to better understand factors that impact engagement in community-based physical activity programs
SSHRC Partnership Grants
Provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over four to seven years to advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities.
Co-investigator: Dr. Handel Wright
Project: Transforming the Lives of Black Children and Youths in Canada
SSHRC Destination Horizon Grant
Support researchers to build capacity, foster existing partnerships, and further develop networks and/or consortia with European Union and other “associated countries” researchers, with the ultimate goal of applying to Horizon Europe—Pillar II calls for proposals.
Applicant: Dr. Nancy Perry
Co-investigator(s): Drs. Leyton Schnellert, Kimberley Sinclair
Project: Fostering Self-Regulated Learning through Professional Learning and the Lens of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
NSERC Discovery Grant
Supports ongoing programs of research with long-term goals rather than a single short-term project or collection of projects. Can facilitate access to funding from other programs but are not meant to support the full costs of a research program.
Applicant: Dr. Hyusub Kim
Project: Computational Principles of Motor Skill
NSERC Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate
Support projects of varying scale and complexity, from short-term smaller projects involving one researcher to long-term projects involving researchers across several universities and/or partner organizations across multiple sectors.
Applicant: Dr. Jean-Sébastien Blouin
Project: Tread with Caution: Tracking Real-World Locomotor Biomechanics to Understand Trips, Slips, and Falls
CIHR Project Grants
Supports research projects proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers, at any career stage, in all areas of health.
Applicant: Dr. Eli Puterman
Co-investigator(s): Drs. Mark Beauchamp, Guy Faulkner, Ben Hives, Jasmin Ma, Bruno Zumbo
Project: Remote Exercise iNtErvention for Wellbeing (RENEW) Trial: A 2-arm Randomized at-home, App-Based Exercise Trial to Improve Adherence, Mental Health, and Wellbeing of British Columbian Healthcare Workers
Co-investigator: Dr. Mark Beauchamp
Project: Reframing retirement: An examination of identity change and self-regulation approaches to promote physical activity
Co-investigator: Dr. Hongxia Shan
Project: Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Immigrants in Canada: Nature, Scope, Drivers, and Implications
CIHR Project Grants: Cancer Research Priority Announcement
Supports cancer research and building capacity across the four pillars of health research to make important strides towards a cancer-free world.
Co-investigator: Dr. Mark Beauchamp
Project: A Two Arm Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating a Physical Activity Counselling Intervention for Young Adults Diagnosed with Cancer
CIHR Catalyst Grants
Fosters the creation and/or strengthening of partnerships that reinforce trust and mutual understanding between researchers, communities, community organizations, people with lived and/or living experience, knowledge holders, policy- and decision-makers and health providers.
Co-investigator: Dr. Liv Yoon
Project: Communities as ‘First Responders’ to Climate Change: Strengthening Social Connectedness Through Community Driven Research
Heritage Canada National Holocaust Remembrance Program
Supports initiatives that seek to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and help improve Canadians’ understanding and awareness of the Holocaust and contemporary antisemitism.
Co-investigator: Dr. Andrea Webb
Project: Developing Trauma-Informed Teaching Resources and Outreach Activities for Arts-Based Survivor Testimonies
The Learning Variability NeTwork Exchange (LEVANTE)/Jacobs Foundation
Supports researchers and practitioners as they expand scientific understanding to sustainably enhance education systems.
Applicant: Dr. Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen
Project: Pregnancy During the Pandemic
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) – Strategic Engagement and Research Program (SERP)
Supports research and events related to employment and social development issues and policy development by providing evidence-based information and fostering collaboration with domestic and international organizations.
Co-investigator: Dr. Liv Yoon
Project: A Study of Subsidized Housing Experiences as they Relate to the Climate Crisis
SDGs@UofT Catalyst and Synthesis Grant
Support multidisciplinary teams of researchers with projects that have high potential to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and inform future goals.
Co-investigator: Dr. Liv Yoon
Project: Co-designing Extreme Heat Resilience: A Socio-Technical Retrofit Strategy for Low-Income Housing
To learn more about these and other research funding opportunities, visit the Faculty of Education’s Office of Research in Education.
