Fifteen TMU researchers awarded 2025 SSHRC Explore Grants
Toronto Metropolitan University is pleased to announce the 15 recipients of the 2025 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Explore Grant competition.
“It’s my pleasure to see our researchers awarded an opportunity to further their work,” said Steven N. Liss, vice-president, research and innovation at TMU. “It is especially encouraging to see so many early-career researchers among those receiving funding. These grants will be vital in enabling continued progress of their scholarly, research and creative activities.”
This year’s recipients come from six of TMU’s faculties, including the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, The Creative School, The Ted Rogers School of Management, the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Community Services and the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science. Award recipients are selected through an internal adjudication process, with recipients selected by a representative committee.
These grants will help TMU researchers in the humanities and social sciences advance their knowledge on a broad range of subjects, including data privacy, Indigenous housing solutions, political polarization in Canada and entrepreneurship.
Funding for these awards is provided through the SSHRC Institutional Grants. SSHRC Explore Grants support small-scale innovation and experimentation in the social sciences and humanities. They help researchers undertake stand-alone projects or conduct pilot work towards a larger application. Notably, the grants also enable researchers to hire students. Those hired benefit from valuable opportunities for research training and professional growth.
SSHRC Explore Grant recipients
Faculty of Arts
- Alexandra Fiocco: Fostering Well-being and Aging in Place Among Older Adults Living in Low-income Housing
- Elizabeth Podnieks: Assemblages of Military Selves: World War One, Canadian Nursing, and Auto/Biographical Narratives in the Major Margaret Clothilde Macdonald Archives
- Jumoke Verissimo: Ancestral Mist: Reclaiming Afro-Brazilian Returnee Memory: A Pilot Study of Home Relations
Faculty of Community Services
- Eliza Chandler: Decolonizing Access to Education: Critical Perspectives from Students with Precarious Immigration Status
Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
- Dorothy Johns: Towards a Culturally-Informed Modular Design Framework for Housing Solutions in Northern Indigenous communities
- Dustin Valen: The Architecture of Aging: Designing for Long-term Care in Postwar Toronto
Lincoln Alexander School of Law
- Jake Effoduh: Codes for Algorithmic Justice: Regulatory Solutions for AI Bias Against Black Canadians
- Priscylla Joca Martins: Pathways to Multi-Jurisdictional Water Equity: Integrating Environmental and Ecological Justice for All Beings
- Kathleen Hammond: Period-Tracking Apps and Privacy Concerns: Improving Data Privacy Protection in Canada
Ted Rogers School of Management
- Mahdi Roghanizad: Trust Accuracy in Face-to-Face and Video Interactions
- Kristyn Scott: How Moral Foundations and Gender Stereotypes Shape Preferences for Tyrannical Leaders
- Vess Stamenova: The Canadian Landscape of eHealth Access Through the Lens of Patients, Physicians and Nurses Experiences with the Healthcare System: a Secondary Data Analysis of Canada Health Infoway Surveys
The Creative School
- Sibo Chen: Toward a Unified Conceptual Framework for Analyzing Political Polarization (Phase I)
- Osmud Rahman: Structural Inequalities in Canada's Creative Industries: Challenges and Opportunities
- Charlie Wall-Andrews: Stage Fright: A Configural Analysis Unraveling the Fear of Success Among Artist Entrepreneurs
Learn more about SSHRC Institutional Grants (external link, opens in new window) .