From immigration to supply chains, SSHRC funding supports diverse range of projects

Researchers from across Toronto Metropolitan University have received support for their projects through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). SSHRC recently announced these awards from its various funding programs, including its Partnership Development, Knowledge Synthesis, Insight, Connection and Aid to Scholarly Journals Grants.

A total of 20 grants have been awarded to 18 Toronto Metropolitan University researchers through these SSHRC programs, addressing important societal topics ranging from immigration to telling pandemic stories to supply chains. The total funding is valued at $1.67 million.

The SSHRC’s Partnership Development Grant will support research examining perspectives on immigration to small and mid-sized cities. This grant program funds formal partnerships in designing and testing new approaches to research and related activities, developing best practices and models with the potential to be adapted or scaled up.

Funding to explore how civic engagement can counter social isolation and loneliness among youth has been provided through a Knowledge Synthesis Grant. These grants provide funding to create reports and briefs that can assist in highlighting best practices, be used in decision-making or help develop future research agendas. 

Eleven researchers from four faculties have received SSHRC Insight Grants, supporting both individual and team research excellence. The projects supported in this round of funding will explore topics ranging from telling COVID-19 stories to increasing the sustainability and resiliency of meat supply chain networks to the legacies of Cold War-era acoustic surveillance. 

Five researchers from two faculties are receiving SSHRC Connection Grants, which help to fund events and outreach activities developed to facilitate knowledge mobilization. They will lead projects such as a conference on refugee family reunification trajectories in Canada to a symposium, podcast and speaker series about the strategies of mobilizing scholarship for social justice and making connections to current equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives. 

Two faculty members’ research dissemination efforts are being supported by SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals grants, which enable further knowledge mobilization of scholarship through Canadian scholarly publications. The grants will support journals highlighting childhood studies and fashion research.

“Many congratulations to all of the researchers who have received funding through these programs. The social sciences and humanities research and scholarly activities they are undertaking are driving vital conversations, change and understanding about critical societal issues,” said Steven N. Liss, Toronto Metropolitan University’s vice-president, research and innovation. 

Toronto Metropolitan University project being funded by SSHRC Partnership Development Grants 

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration

• Melissa Kelly: Comparative Perspectives on Immigration to Small and Mid-Sized Cities

Toronto Metropolitan University project being funded by SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants 

Leadership Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University 

• Karim Bardeesy: The Role for Civic Engagement in Countering Social Isolation and Loneliness Among Youth in Canada

Toronto Metropolitan University projects being funded by SSHRC Insight Grants 

Faculty of Arts

• Irene Gammel: Telling COVID-19 Stories 
• Craig Jennex: Collective Movements: Popular Music Practices and the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movement in Canada, 1964-1984
• Paul Moore: Multicultural Moviegoing: Diasporic Cinema in Ethnic Community Newspapers in Canada, 1946 to 1986

Faculty of Community Services

• Henry Parada: Arab Refugee Families’ Experiences in the Ontario Child Welfare System 
• Kristin Snoddon: The institutionalization of deaf interpreters in Canada

Ted Rogers School of Management

• Claire Deng: Management Accounting and Control for Conservation: The Recovery of Species at Risk in Canada
• Hong Yu: Shopping for Self vs. for Elderly: Modeling Baby Boomers’ In-Store Fashion Shopping Experiences
• Hossein Zolfagharinia: Managing Meat Supply Chains Under Demand and Supply Uncertainty: Working towards Sustainable and Resilient Networks 

The Creative School

• Marusya Bociurkiw: The Personal Is Digital: Remediating and Digitizing Canada’s Intergenerational Feminist & Queer Media Heritage
• Anika Kozlowski: Let’s stop shifting the burden! Exploring barriers and opportunities for managing post-consumer clothing and textiles within Canada 
• John Shiga: Ambient Governance: Socio-Environmental Legacies of Cold War Undersea Acoustic Surveillance in Atlantic Canada

Toronto Metropolitan University projects being funded by SSHRC Connection Grants 

Faculty of Community Services

• Idil Abdillahi: Blackness, Gender, and New Surveillance Technologies in Canada
• Usha George: Increasing Capacity for Refugee Family Reunification in Canada
• Henry Parada: Strengthening Institutional Responses: Exploring Intersections of Child Protection, Immigration, and Criminal Justice to Better Support Caribbean and Latin American Children and Youth in Canada

The Creative School

• Marusya Bociurkiw: From Protest to EDI: Remediating the Student Advocacy Archive
• Riley Kucheran: Fashioning Resurgence 2022 

Toronto Metropolitan University projects being funded by SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals Grants 

Faculty of Community Services

• Nicole Land: Journal of Childhood Studies

The Creative School

• Alison Matthews David: Fashion Studies

Learn more about SSHRC’s recent grant announcements.  (external link, opens in new window) 

Related links:

Grants support Ryerson research projects across the social sciences and humanities (June 2021)

Updated on July 26, 2022.