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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.
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, Faculty of Arts: Queering Home: Using Photovoice to Explore 2SLGBTQ+ Adults’ Shared Housing Models and Practices. Grant Amount: $68,764
Leah Hamilton, 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, 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