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External Awards
Tri-Agency Grants
Many funding agencies exist. In Canada the benchmark index upon which a University research enterprise is measured is the amount of external funding secured by faculty researchers, particularly research funding that is sponsored by the Tri-Agencies, which refers to:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC)
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and
- Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR)
2024
Trevor King, Faculty of Health, Community and Education: The impact of exercise and wildfire smoke exposure on the vasculature. Grant Amount: $165,000
Gabriel Jarry-Bolduc, Faculty of Science and Technology: Positive spanning sets: theoretical advancements and their usefulness in optimization algorithms. Grant Amount: $155,000
Nausheen Sadiq, Faculty of Science and Technology: Chitosan-Based Membranes For In Vitro Permeability Analysis of Trace Elements from Cosmetic and Personal Care Products Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). Grant Amount: $175,000
2023
Adam Humeinuk, Faculty of Science and Technology: C*-covers of operator algebras and noncommutative convexity. Grant Amount: $95,000
Benjamin Daniels, Faculty of Science and Technology: The long-term evolution of stratigraphic architecture in ancient foreland basins: implications for natural resource exploration. Grant Amount: $130,000
Trevor Day, Faculty of Science and Technology: The Integration of Respiratory and Renal Acid-Base Responses to Acute and Chronic Blood Gas Stressors. Grant Amount: $325,000
Gwen O'Sullivan, Faculty of Science and Technology: Characterization of smoke from wildfires for source apportionment and human health risk assessment in urban environments. Grant Amount: $180,000
2021
Margaret Stewart, Faculty of Science and Technology: Hydrothermal ore-forming processes in modern and ancient arc-backarc systems. Grant Amount: $130,000
2020
Michael Asmussen, Faculty of Science and Technology: The Foot-Ankle Complex: The Mechanisms Contributing to its Stability. Grant amount: $140,000 (including $12,000 Discovery Launch Supplement)
Jeella Acedo, Faculty of Science and Technology: Genome-Guided Discovery of Bacteriocins. Grant amount: $150,000 (including $12,500 Discovery Launch Supplement)
2019
Jared Fletcher, Faculty of Health, Community and Education: Changes in tendon compliance and muscle energetics of in vivo human skeletal muscle. Grant Amount: $132,500
Felix Nwaishi, Faculty of Science and Technology: Response of peatland ecosystem functions to novel restoration techniques. Grant Amount: $125,000
Mchelle DeWolfe, Faculty of Science and Technology: Volcanic, structural, and tectonic controls on volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits: Archean to present. Grant Amount; $125,000
Jennifer Scott, Faculty of Science and Technology: Climatic forcing and tectonic control on environments in evolving lake basins of Africa and North America. Grant Amount $150,000
Yasaman Amannejad, Faculty of Science and Technology: Evaluation and Testing Framework for Cloud and Edge Computing Applications. Grant Amount: $120,000
2018
Andria Dawson, Faculty of General Education: Forests in flux: reconstructing ecotone shifts to improve understanding of climate-vegetation feedbacks. Grant Amount: $125,000
Jonathan Mee, Faculty of Science and Technology: The maintenance of polymorphisms in natural populations: genetic and environmental correlates of withinspecies diversity. Grant Amount: $196,000
Bob Uttl, Faculty of Arts: Prospective Memory. Grant Amount: $140,000
For a full list of NSERC grant recipients, please visit their website.
2022
Katherine Boggs, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Community Science Liaison Program. Grant Amount: $120,000
2021
Katherine Boggs, Faculty of Science and Technology: Encouraging Vaccine Confidence in School-Aged Children Across Western Canada. Grant amount: $49,700
2019
Katherine Boggs, Faculty of Science and Technology. PromoScience Supplement for Collaboration – Community Science Liaison Program Meetings YK and NWT. Grant Amount: $14,980
PaminiThangarajah, Faculty of Science and Technology. Explore STEM. Grant Amount: $13,700
For a full list of NSERC grant recipients, please visit their website.
2021
Michael Asmussen, Faculty of Science and Technology: CRAFT Simulator: A Robotic Device for the Identification of Human Foot Structure and Function. Grant Amount: $124,925
For a full list of NSERC grant recipients, please visit their website.
2025
Ranjan Datta, Faculty of Arts (Principal Investigator), Emdad Haque (University of Manitoba), Tanvir Chowdhury (University of Calgary), Yvonne Su (York University): Sustainable Resettlement or Re-displacement? Examining the Long-Term Impacts of Post-Cyclone Disaster Adaptation in Rural Coastal Indigenous Communities in Bangladesh. Grant Amount: $25,000
2024
Rachel Pettigrew, Faculty of Business,Communication Studies & Aviation: Employees Accessing Fertility care: Perceptions of Effective and Supportive Government and Employer Policies. Grant Amount: $24,960
2023
Ran Ju, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies: Co-Design Strategic Communication Resources with Immigrant Entrepreneurs to Foster Social Inclusion. Grant Amount: $24,979
2022
Ranjan Datta, Faculty of Arts: Creating Meaningful Engagement and Positive Impacts on Children's Climate Disaster Education within and from Western Canada Black Communities (J. ACHARIBASAM). Grant Amount: $90,000 (Postdoctroal Fellowship Grant)
2021
Leah Hamilton, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies: Co-Designing Effective Public Health Advertisements with Newcomer Women. Grant Amount: $24,636
Rachel Pettigrew, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies: Advancing women's representation on boards: Understanding women's experiences, perceived barriers, and available supports on the pathway to board service. Grant Amount: $24,942
2020
Rajbir Bhatti, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies: COVID-19: Examining Supply Chain Design, Risk Exposure & Response And Designing Initial Risk. Grant amount: $22,062
Connie Van der Byl, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies: Leading Canada’s Parks System Through COVID-19. Grant Amount: $23,040.
2019
Ran Ju, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies: Understanding Chinese Immigrants' Use of Social Media as a Communication Tool in the Acculturation Process. Grant Amount: $20,924
2018
Cynthia Gallop, Faculty of Health, Community and Education: Exploring Experiences of Indigenous youth involved in the Canadian Corrections System. Grant Amount: $22,823
For a full list of SSHRC grant recipients, please visit their website.
2025
Shelley Boulianne, Faculty of Business, Communication Studies & Aviation: Artificial intelligence (AI) and evidence-based public policy in information and communication technology (ICT). Grant Amount: $67,104
Celeste Pang, Victor Perez-Amado (Toronto Metropolitan University), Gloria Perez-Rivera, and Dr. Brittany Jakubiec (Egale Canada). Faculty of Arts: Queering Home: Using Photovoice to Explore 2SLGBTQ+ Adults’ Shared Housing Models and Practices. Grant Amount: $68,764
Leah Hamilton & Corinne Mason, Faculty of Business, Communication Studies & Aviation: Tracing the impacts of the anti-2SLGBTQIA+ legislation in Alberta on queer families. Grant Amount: $75,000
Kristen Schaffer, Faculty of Health, Community and Education: Exploring the radical possibilities of artists-in-residence in a department of education. Grant Amount: $67,768
Gloria Perez-Rivera, Faculty of Arts: Examining the financialization of migration and housing nexus through a multi-sited ethnography among Latin American migrants to Canada. Grant Amount: $70,049
2024
Rebecca Gilmour, Faculty of Arts: Function on the Frontier: Trabecular bone responses to pathological conditions among Roman civilians (Carnutnum, Austria). Grant Amount: $68,354
Chi Dara, Faculty of Arts: Building Black and Racialized immigrant community adaptability to circularity and decarbonization efforts in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta. Grant Amount: $73,535
Joanne Park, Faculty of Arts: Connections that Matter: Examining Social Support's Role in Parenting and Its Ripple Effects on Child Mental Health. Grant Amount: $69,960
2023
Arianne Boileau, Faculty of Arts: Exploring population dynamics, husbandry, and trade of freshwater turtles: an ancient DNA and multi-isotopic perspective from the Maya world. Grant amount: $15,545
2022
Corinne Mason, Faculty of Arts: Queering COVID: The Impacts of Social Distancing Practices on 2SLGBTQ Communities in Manitoba. Grant Amount: $34,100 (Co-Insight Development Grant)
Gabrielle Lindstrom, Faculty of Arts: "Mokakit lyika'kimaat": Towards a Pedagogy of Resilience from a Blackfoot Prospective. Grant Amount: $28,527
Milena Radzikowska, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies: Web Mapping for Collaborative Place-based Storytelling. Grant Amount: $12,000 (Co-Insight Development Grant)
Travis Hay, Faculty of Arts: The Teri Redsky Fiddler Tapes. Grant Amount: $17,016
2021
Aliyah Dosani, Faculty of Health, Community, & Education: Building a Mental Health Army: Capturing Lay Counsellor Experiences to Inform Scaling-up of a Perinatal Depression program in Rural Rajasthan, India. Grant amount: $71,841
Ranjan Datta, Faculty of Arts: Wahkohtowin: Nipiy Wasekimew (Drinking Water) Governance and Resilience. Grant amount: $74,669
2020
Tim Haney, Faculty of Arts: The Ethics, Practice, Activism, and Resilience Potential of Permaculture. Grant Amount $59,240
Paul Varella, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies: Sustainability through Cross-Sector Innovation: Synergies between Environmental NGOs and Resource Intensive Companies. Grant Amount: $44,176
2019
Rob Boschman, Faculty of Arts: Uranium Extraction Communities: Legacies of Abandonment, Dissolution and Remediation. Grant Amount: $72,230
Gabrielle Lindstrom, Faculty of Arts: "Mokakit lyika'kimaat": Towards a Pedagogy of Resilience from a Blackfoot Prospective. Grant Amount: $73.896
Irene Shankar, Faculty of Arts: #MeTooAcademia: Knowledge (Im)mobilization of Sexualized Violence Research at Canadian Post-secondary Institutions. Grant Amount: $40,621
For a full list of SSHRC grant recipients, please visit their website.
2024
Hadi Fariborzi & Simon Raby, Faculty of Business, Communication Studies & Aviation: Unleashing Canada's Scale-Up Potential: Tackling the Productivity Challenge through Evidence-Based Strategies for High-Growth SMEs. Grant Amount: $78,066
2023
Ranjan Datta, Faculty of Arts: Nehiyawak: Building Indigenous Community-led Energy Resiliency and Governance. Grant amount: $324,886
2021
AnneMarie Dorland, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies: Creative Thinking At Work: A Study Of Design Thinking And Creativity Relevant Processes In Canadian Organizations. Grant Amount: $64,835
2020
Emily Hutchison, Faculty of Arts: Spatial Narratives of Late Medieval Paris. Grant amount: $66,003
2019
Ada Jaarsma, Faculty of Arts: Placebos Talk Back. Grant Amount: $74,992
Kevin O'Connor, Faculty of Health, Community and Education: Hybrid Spaces within a Professional Development School Context. Grant Amount: $258,606
For a full list of SSHRC grant recipients, please visit their website.
2022
Kirk Niergarth, Faculty of Arts: Challenging Labour: Working-Class Experiences in Canada, Past, Present, and Future. Grant Amount: $25,000
Katherine Boggs, Faculty of Science and Technology: Community Science Liaison Training Workshop. Grant Amount: $22,900
2019
Brian Jackson, Library: Building networks of research data management champions at small and medium universities in Canada. Grant Amount: $18,344
Linda ManyGuns, Office of Indigenization and Decolonization: 2020 Treaty 7 Indigenous Knowledge Forum. Grant Amount: $24,932
Milena Radzikowska, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies: Design for Peace. Grant Amount: $9,583
For a full list of SSHRC grant recipients, please visit their website.
2024
Sandra Goldsworthy, Faculty of Health, Community and Education: Preparing fourth-year nursing students to work during healthcare crises: Virtual simulation training to improve resiliency of nursing groups. Grant Amount: $5,000 (Co-PI Project Grant)
2022
Michael Asmussen, Faculty of Science and Technology: Footloose: Overcoming our Rigid Understanding of the Human Foot (C. Firminger). Grant Amount (Banting): $140,000
2021
Aliyah Dosani, Faculty of Health, Community and Education: Using Photovoice and Critical Social Theory to Help Develop Culturally Safe Services for Perinatal Depression in Rural India. Grant Amount: $100,000
Other External Awards
2022
Felix Nwaishi, Earth and Enviornmental Sciences: Integrating the Concept of Traditional Storytelling in Exploring the Nexus of Arctic Environmental Change, Landscape Transformation and Evolution of Novel Antibiotics and Resistance. Grant Amount: $198,860
2019
Michael Uzoka, Mathematics and Computing: A SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSING AND TREATING FEBRILE DISEASES BY LAY HEALTH WORKERS IN RESOURCE-SCARCE SETTINGS. Grant Amount $175,416
2019
Mike Asmussen, Faculty of Health, Community and Education:The Unstable Ankle: Uncovering the mechanisms of foot-ankle stability. Grant Amount: $319,693
Gwen O'Sullivan, Faculty of Science and Technology: Forensics of Wildfire Debris using GCxGC TOF-MS. Grant Amount: $217,487
Meg Wilcox, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies: Digital Dialogues: Podcasting for Knowledge Mobilization and Community Building. Grant Amount: $29,939