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EDUC

Congratulations to the Recent Faculty of Education Grant Recipients!

By Ayla Collins

 

Congratulations to the following faculty members on winning numerous prestigious research grant awards! These successes speak to the excellence and capacity of our scholars.

SSHRC Insight Grants

Applicant: Dr. Lesley Andres (EDST)
Collaborator: Dr. Wolfgang Lauterback (U Potsdam)
Education work and income inequality across the life course: A Canadian and German longitudinal analysis
$70,820 | 3 years

Applicant: Dr. Mona Gleason (EDST)
Talking back to Victoria: Parental advocacy for rural education in British Columbia, 1920 to the present
$76,805 | 3 years

Applicant: Dr. Jennifer Katz (ECPS)
Collaborators: Mr. Kevin Lamoureux (U Manitoba), Dr. Laurence Katz (U Manitoba)
Supporting mental health in our schools: Building resiliency with DBT
$177,703 | 3 years

Applicant: Dr. Guofang Li (LLED)
Co-Investigator: Dr. Lee Gunderson (LLED)
Behind the model minority mask: Identifying early factors in Cantonese- and Mandarin-speaking children’s divergent literacy and academic trajectories in Canadian schools
$275,737 | 5 years

Applicant: Dr. Moss Norman (KIN)
Co-Investigators: Dr. LeAnne Petherick (EDCP), Dr. Heather McRae (U Manitoba), Dr. Michael A. Hart (U Manitoba)
Collaborators: Dr. Andrea Bundon (KIN), Mr. Edward M. Albert (U Manitoba), Mr. Gerald Mason (Fisher River Cree Nation)
Restor(y)ing place-based Indigenous physical cultural identities: Examining the relationships between movement, land, language, and masculinities
$192,982 | 5 years

Applicant: Dr. William Pinar (EDCP)
Curriculum studies in Canada: Intellectual histories, present circumstances, and future prospects
$187,609 | 4 years

Applicant: Dr. Alison Taylor (EDST)
Co-Investigators: Dr. Hongxia Shan (EDST), Dr. Robert Sweet (Lakehead U),  Dr. Wolfgang Lehmann (U Western Ontario), Dr. Kiran Mirchandani (U of T)
Collaborator: Dr. Milosh M. Raykov (U Malta)
The hard working student: A Canadian study
$243,621 | 4 years

Applicant: Dr. Taylor Web (EDST)
Co-Investigators: Dr. Kalervo Gulson (U New South Wales), Dr. Sam Sellar (Manchester Metropolitan U)
The education of and by machines: The impact of artificial intelligence on education policy
$129,686 | 3 years

Applicant: Dr. Brian Wilson (KIN)
Collaborator: Mr. Bradley J. Millington (U Bath)
Real Utopian experiments in environmentalist sport: a focus on golf
$112,566 | 5 years

Applicant: Dr. Meghan McDonough (U Calgary)
Co-Investigators: Dr. Peter Crocker (KIN); Dr. Jennifer Hewson (U Calgary)
Social support for social participation and physical literacy for older adults
$84,000 | 2 years

Applicant: Dr. Brenda Poon (UBC HELP)
Co-Investigators: Dr. Janet Jamieson (ECPS), Dr. Magdalena Janus (McMaster U), Dr. Anat Zaidman-Zait (Tel Aviv University)
Adoption of a response to intervention model across different educational contexts
$188,656 | 4 years

 

SSHRC Partnership Development Grants

Applicant: Dr. Stephen R.J. Sheppard (UBC Forestry)
Co-Investigators: Dr. Stephen Petrina (EDCP), Dr. Frank Fracchia (SFU), Dr. Ian Mauro (U Winnipeg), Dr. Jiaying Zhao (UBC)
Scaling up social mobilization on climate change with digital tools
$199,981 | 2 years

Applicant: Dr. Rita Irwin (EDCP)

Co-Investigators: Dr. Alexandra J. Lasczik (Southern Cross U), Dr. Anita E. Sinner (Concordia U), Dr. Joaquin Roldan (Universidad de Granada), Dr. Jun Hu (Hangzhou Normal U), Dr. Koichi C.T. Kasahara (Tokyo Gakugei U), Dr. Ricardo Marin Viadel (Universidad de Granada), Dr. Valerie J. Triggs (U Regina)

Collaborators: Dr. Adrienne R. Boulton (Kwantlen Polytechnic U), Dr. Amy Cutter-Mackenzie (Southern Cross University), Dr. Belidson Dias (Universidade de Brasília), Dr. Carleton D. Leggo (LLED), Dr. Lidia Suyapa S.D. Cálix Vallecillo (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras), Dr. Paloma Palau-Pellicer (Universitat Jaume I), Dr. Takashi Takao (Tokyo Gakugei U), Madame Li Tang, Mrs. Maria del Rosario Tatiana Fernández Méndez (Universidade de Brasília), Ms. Michele D. Sorensen (U Regina), Professor Darlene St. Georges (U Lethbridge)

Mapping a/r/tography:  transnational storytelling across historical and cultural routes of significance

$200,000 | 3 years

Applicant:Dr. Sterett Mercer (ECPS)

Co-Investigators: Dr. Joanna Cannon (ECPS), Ms. Kate Raven (Learning Disabilities Association of Canada)

Collaborators: Ms. Thealzel Lee

Assessment for effective intervention in written expression for students with learning disabilities.

$199,633 | 3 years

 

NSERC Discovery Grants

Applicant: Dr. Gunter Sigmund (KIN)
Engineering approaches to preventing or mitigating whiplash injuries
$45,800 per year | 5 years

Applicant: Dr. Darren Warburton (KIN)
Cardiovascular physiology in the extremes: mechanisms of adaptation
$67,500 | 1 year

 

CIHR Catalyst Grant: Personalized Health

Applicant: Dr. JoAnne Arcand (University of Ontario Institute of Technology)
Co-Investigators: Dr. Jillianne Code (EDCP), Dr. Justin Ezekowicz (U of A), Dr. Manon Lemonde (University of Ontario Institute of Technology), Dr. Susanna Mak (U of T), Dr. Jeff Sommers (Heart & Stroke Foundation), Dr. David Blackburn (U Saskatchewan), Dr. Anna Farmer (U of A)
Title of Project: Improving heart failure outcomes through apps that support self-management and adherence
$141,708 | 2 years

 

National Indian Brotherhood Trust Fund 

Applicant: Dr. Darren Warburton (KIN)
Co-Investigators: Dr. Shannon Bredin (KIN), Dr. Jan Hare (LLED), Dr. Moss Norman (KIN)
Collaborators: Dr. Rosalin Miles, Gail Sparrow
Strengthening Indigenous Education in Health and Well-being
$100,000 | 1 year

 

International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching Collaborative Research Grant

Applicant: Dr. G. Zhu (Texas A & M)
Co-Investigator: Dr. Guofang Li (LLED)
Examining the relationship between student teachers’ emotional labor strategy, teaching achievement goal, and self-efficacy
£1000

 

Rossy Family Foundation

Applicant: Dr. Guy Faulkner (KIN)
Development of the Canadian Campus Wellbeing Surveillance System
$193,000

 


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