IRGF

IRGF_FundingAwards_Research

Congratulations to the Internal Research Grant Fund (IRGF) winners! IRGF is designed to support eligible faculty in developing their research programs through pilot projects, large-scale applications, and other projects qualified for internal research funds. See program guidelines and submission requirements for more information on how you can qualify.


Fall 2019 Award Recipients

Standard Grants

Applicant Name Project Name Award
Tim Haney The Ethics, Practice, Activism, and Resilience Potential of Permaculture $5,000
Jared Fletcher Quantifying Skeletal Muscle Fatigue in Collegiate Athletes $5,000
Naomi Grant Savouring and Music: The Impact of Perceived Temporal Scarcity $5,000
Natalie Badenduck The Definition, Utilization and Perception of Design Concept in Interior Design Education and Practice $5,000
David Clemis The Drunkard, Opened, Dissected and Anatomised: Intoxication and Addiction in Early Modern England $5,000

Team Grants

Applicant Name Project Name Award
Trevor Day The Sherpa Spleen Study: The effects of superimposed exercise and high altitude ascent on splenic contraction and increases in oxygen-carrying capacity in native highlanders $10,000
Roberta Lexier Disrupting the Disciplines: Confronting Colonial Complicity $10,000

Standard Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
Mark Ayyash Violence, Sovereignty, and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict $5,000
Patricia M. Derbyshire Kunaitupii Curriculum Project: Trauma Wisdom 'Inside & Out' - Indigo Program $5,000
Ashok Krishnamurthy Spatial Tracking of the Current Ebola Outbreak in Congo $5,000
Jonathan Mee Susceptibility of Spined and Unspined Book Stickleback (Culaea Inconstans) to Fish Predation $5,000
Tracy Powell Understanding the Experiences of Bereaved Family Members in the Context of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) $5,000
Team Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
Katharine McGowan Bringing Voice Back to the Land: Exploring the Possibilities for a Treaty 7 Learning Experience $10,000
Standard Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
Randy Connolly Investigating the Link Between Flourishing and Engagement with Digital Citizenship Activities $5,000
Mohammed El Hazzouri Why Us?! Ethnic Minority Members' Reactions to Public Health Advertising Featuring Their Own Ethnic Group $5,000
Sally Haney Filling the Local News Gap: Phase 2 - A Study Examining the Potential for Canadian Collegiate Journalism Publications to Serve Local News Needs $8,000
David Ohreen Peer-Influence on Business Ethics Education $4,500
Dwayne Sheehan Using Aerial Videography to Assess Outdoor Park Physical Activity $5,000
Kimberly Williams Booze, Broads & Brothels, Phase 2: A Digital History Archive of People, Places, and Spaces of Calgary's Sex Industry $5,000
Team Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
Richard Sutherland The EMI Music Canada Collection and the Canadian Music Industry $10,000
Standard Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
Yasaman Amannejad Predicting Execution Time of Big Data Analytic Applications $5,000
Carol Armstrong The Effect of Vitamins on Calcium Expression in Cerebellar Neurons $5,000
Anupam Das Was There a Transformation in Economic Ideology Between 1970 and 2000? A Social Network Analysis $5,000
Ran Ju The Status of Social Media Research in Public Relations: A Content Analysis of Scholarly Journal Articles from 2006-2018 $5,000
Alain Morin Translation, Administration, and Validation of Two New Inner Speech Measures in Spanish and Basque $5,000
Scott Murray Holocaust Survivor Testimony in the Digital Age $5,000
Irene Shankar Post-Secondary Institutions' Policies on Sexualized Violence: Investigating (under) Utilization of Expert Knowledge and Research $5,000
Deepali Upadhyaya Essential Elements of an Indigenous Informed Curriculum for Baccalaureate Midwifery Education in Alberta $5,000
Team Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
Samanti Kulatilake Ancient Peruvian DNA: Let the Mummies Speak $10,000
Standard Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
Harris Rubin Emotions in the Workplace
Michael Hawley Sikhs in Calgary: Migration History and Narrative
Sean Holman At the Mountains of Revolution: Progressive Conservative MP Gerald Baldwin's Unfinished Campaign for Freedom of Information in Canada (1971-1983) $5,000
Kenna Olsen Emerging Medievalisms: Method, Media, Manuscript $5,000
Dwayne Sheehan Physiological and Neuromuscular Responses at Critical Skating Intensity on Slide Board and Correlation with Speed Skating Performance on Ice $5,000
Cliff Werier Preparing Much Ado About Nothing for the Internet Shakespeare Editions
Team Grants
Applicant Name Project Name
Dorothy Hill Field Test of a Geospatial Mobile Application for Collecting Nest Box Monitoring Data in Citizen Science Projects
Mary-Lee Mulholland Martial Ats, Gender and Performance
Standard Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
Nathan Ackroyd Synthesis and Characterization of Sunscreen-Containing Spherical Polymers for Potential Use as Wash-On Sunscreens $5,000
Jim Brenan Jim Brenan Tentet Recording Project: The Intersection Between Thad Jones and Doobie Powell $5,000
Brett McCollum Longevity of Confidence, Skill, and Professional Identity from Disciplinary Communication Practice $5,000
Archie McLean Indigenous Airwaves: Surveying the Reach and Relevance of Indigenous Language Broadcasting in Canada $4,000
Heather Ray Mind Power: A Mindful-Based Health Promotion Program for University Students $5,000
Team Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
Lynn Lafave Predictive Validity of CHEERS to Assess the Physical Activity Environment in Child Car $10,000
Standard Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
John Chik Examining the Effects of Osmotic Crowding on Pre-Steady State Enzyme Kinetics $5,000
Julie Cormack MPP Lithic Analysis and Student Training
Trevor Day Development of Portable Measurements of Adaptation to High Altitude in Humans $5,000
Sonya Jakubec Green Generations: A Participatory Community Garden Development and Horticulture Therapy Intervention Project for Intergenerational Community Engagement
Lynne Lafave Reliability of CHEERS Tool for Internet Use $5,000
Jessie Loyer Michel First Nation Oral History $5,000
Francine May Text Matching Software and the Student Experience
Brett McCollum Interinstitutional Disciplinary Language Development
Milena Radzikowska Materializing Text Analytical Experiences
Dwayne Sheehan A Correlation Study of the Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy and the Revised Test of Gross Motor Development $5,000
Uthpala Tennakoon Tracing the Return on Investment of Life-Friendly Work Practices: A Multi-Level Analysis
Faith-Michael Uzoka Development and Evaluation of a Soft-Computing System for the Differential Diagnosis of Tropical Confusable Diseases Using the Fuzzy Cognitive Map Technique
Norm Vaughan Blended Learning: Design to Evaluation - International Case Studies of Evidence-Based Practice $5,000
Kimberly Williams Booze & Brothels? Rethinking the People, Places, and Politics of Calgary's Sex Industry $5,000
Team Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
Mark Lafave Educating Competent Professionals - Validation of the Mini-CEX for AT $10,000
Standard Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
Genevieve Currie Children Living with a Rare Disease: The Parent's Perspective $4,900
Anupam Das Dynamics of Remittances and Exchange Rates in Bangladesh: Is there a 'Paradox of Gift'? $5,000
Malinda Desjarlais An Investigation of the Relation between Social-based Technology Use and Social Competence
Carmen Nielsen Studying the Trans-imperial Politics of Fashion, 1873-1894 $5,000
Peter Ryan Media Visibility, Policy Silence? Trudeau's PMO Shift from Speeches to Statements $4,800
Jennifer Scott Continued Hot-Spring Input to the Green River Lake Margin During Active Mountain Building at North Barrel Springs, Wyoming $5,000
Cheryl Techentin Does Space Matter? Simultaneous Processing of Verbal and Emotional Information in a Normal-Hearing and Deaf Sample $5,000
Michelle Veitch Skwachàys Lodge and Residence: A Case Study of an Urban Art Hotel in Vancouver
Team Grants
Applicant Name Project Name Award
Christy Tomkins-Lane Personalized Physical Activity Recommendations for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis using a Pebble Smart-Watch: App Development and Pilot $10,000
Standard Grants
Applicant Name Project Name
Peter Choate Assessing Aboriginal Parents in the Child Protection System: Understanding the Elements of Aboriginal Parenting
Julie Cormack MPP Lithic Analysis and Student Training
Anupam Das Role of ICT Diffustion on Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Trevor Day Development of Portable Measurements of Human Physiology at High Altitude - Nepal 2015
Kirk Niergarth Canadians in the Soviet Union, 1919-1939
Standard Grants
Applicant Name Project Name
Adrienne Benediktson An Examination of Dendritic Spine Morphology and Density in a Mouse Model of MS
Yasmin Dean Beyond the Tourist's Gaze
Cass Foursha-Stevenson Bilingual Lexical Development
Liam Haggarty Declarations of Dependence: A History of Indigenous Income Assistance in Canada and the United States, 1950-1980
Jarett Henderson Colonial Queers: Same-Sex Sex, Intimacy, and Colonial Rule in Early Canada
Scott Hughes Playful pedagogy: Teachers' Definitions and Perceptions of Play in Grades 1 and 2 in Public Alberta Schools
Emily Hutchison Policing the Streets of Late Medieval Paris: Promoting Peace or Violence?
Paul Johnston New Fossil Invertebrates from the Clearwater Formation, Northeastern Alberta
David Ohreen Effectiveness of Business Education
Jenni Scott Hydrothermal Fluids and Oil Shale Deposits Through Earth History