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Congratulations to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Explore award winners! SSHRC Explore awards fund research programs on topics of social sciences and humanities, focusing on research activities across interdisciplinary departments. See program guidelines and submission requirements for more information on how you can qualify.
For reporting and impact assessment purposes, final reports submitted by principal investigators on completed projects will now be posted on this page. They outline what the project outcomes were and how the Principal Investigator used their funds.
Winter 2026 Award Recipients
| Applicant Name | Project | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Lynne Lafave | Advancing Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Education through Cross-Platform App Development | $7,000 |
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Applicant Name |
Project | Award |
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Ran Ju |
Optimizing mental health messages through a relationship lens: An experimental study | $7,000 |
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Applicant Name |
Project | Award |
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Irene Shankar Celeste Pang (Co-Investigator) |
Underdiagnosed and Underserved: Examining Socio-Linguistic Barriers to Dementia Diagnosis and Services. | $7,000 |
| Applicant Name | Project | Award | Final Reports |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elaine Ori | Inspiration or Misinformation? A Mixed Methods Content Analysis of #Fitspo using a Misinformation Framework | $7,000 | Final Report |
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Corinne Mason Leah Hamilton (Co-Investigator) |
Queer Parenting in the Time of Parental Rights |
$7,000 | Final Report |
| Applicant Name | Project | Award | Final Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Celeste Pang | Exploring Gender Euphoria through Arts-Based Action Research with Youth | $7,000 | Final Report |
| Nadine Van Wyk | The Intersections of Physical Literacy and Music in the Early Years: A Pilot Study | $7,000 | |
| Rebecca Gilmour | Preparing a Large Roman Period Skeletal Collection from Austria for Curation in Calgary: Phase II |
$7,000 | |
| Arianne Boileau | An Archaeological Meta-Analysis of Indigenous Turtle Use in Ancient Mesoamerica | $7,000 | |
| Crystal Chokshi | The Need to Rename Tech | $7,000 | Final Report |
| Peter Ryan | The Public, Journalists, Scientists, and Climate Coverage - Phase Two: A Pilot Public Survey on Coverage Attitude Changes | $7,000 | |
| Leda Stawnychko | Leadership Succession at Canadian Universities | $7,000 | Final Report |
| Sarah Orton | Epigenetics of intergenerational and transgenerational trauma transmission in FASD: A primer for social workers | $7,000 |
| Applicant Name | Project | Award | Final Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Lafave | The Creation of a Normative Population Database for the Banff Patellar Instability Instrument | $7,000 | Final Report |
| Eunah Kim | Canadians’ digital privacy concerns and perception of data-driven message personalization | $7,000 | Final Report |
| Anh Thu Nguyen | Sustainability and sustainable development goals (SDGs) in marketing education: Insights from university instructors in Canada | $7,000 | |
| Ada Jaarsma | Finding Accessibility in Feminist Philosophy of Disability | $7,000 | Final Report |
| Kimberly Williams | Strut That Stroll: The Hidden Herstory of Calgary's Adult Consensual Sex Industry | $7,000 |
Final Report
| Applicant Name | Project | Award | Final Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brett McCollum | Eye-tracking NMR Analysis to Observe Representational Competencies in Chemistry | $5,000 | |
| Ran Ju | Shaping the Conversations about Mental Health: Exploring Corporations' Role Through their Mental Health CSR Communication on Social Media | $5,000 | Final Report |
| Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire | Slow Archaeology and Community Engagement in Dolores, Guatemala | $5,000 | Final Report |
| Applicant Name | Project | Award | Final Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malinda Desjarlais | Daily Hassles and Uplifts: Adolescents’ Positive and Negative Social Media Experiences | $5,000 | Final Report |
| Richard Hayman | Social Media in Undergraduate Learning: A Scoping Review Study | $5,000 |
| Applicant Name | Project | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Tashfeen Hussain | Access to Finance Through Peer to Peer Lending During a Crisis | $5,000 |
| Applicant Name | Project | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Michael Hawley | Alberta Sikh History Project | $5,000 |
| Ran Ju | Dialogue in a Difficult Setting: Exploring the Application of Organization-Public Dialogue in the Oil and Gas Industry | $5,000 |
| Uthpala Tennakoon | Environmental and Social Responsiveness of Organizations: An Examination from Employer Branding Perspective | $5,000 |
| Applicant Name | Project | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Kenna Olsen | The Material Medieval Memory Project | $5,000 |
| Carmen Nielsen | The Material for Making Any Kind of Man: Satirical Art in Grip Magazine 1873-1894 | $5,000 |
| AnneMarie Dorland | Designing Disruption: Reframing design thinking as an innovation framework within the Canadian energy sector | $5,000 |
| Applicant Name | Project | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Emily Hutchison | Digital Paris c.1400, Phase 1 | $5,000 |
| Sean Carleton | Colonial Violence and Residential Schooling in Western Canada | $5,000 |
| Cynthia Gallop | Understanding Success: Exploring the Experiences of Former Students of the Plains Indian Cultural Survival School (PICSS) | $5,000 |
| Applicant Name | Project | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Mario Trono | Cinema and the Natural Environment: The Ecology of Shooting Locations | $5,000 |
| Richard Hayman | Investigating Faculty Perceptions of Open Access and Predatory Publications | $5,000 |
| Steven Engler | Ritual Polyphony in Afro-Brazilian Religions | $5,000 |