Tri-Agency Success for 2019
Seven Mount Royal University faculty members have been awarded $508,272 in total funding from Tri-Agency research grants in the 2020/21 academic year.
Although many funding agencies exist, 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)
MRU's Tri-Agency Award Recipients
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Award Recipients:
Discovery Grants 2020 Competition
Michael Asmussen, PhD, 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)
Jeela Acedo, PhD, Faculty of Science and Technology: Genomeguided Discovery of Bacteriocins.
Grant amount: $120,000 (including $12,000 Discovery Launch Supplement)
For a full list of NSERC grant recipients, please visit their website.
PromoScience Grants 2020 Competition
Katherine Boggs, PhD, Faculty of Science and Technology: Encouraging Vaccine Confidence in School-Aged Children Across Western Canada.
Grant amount: $49,700
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Award Recipients:
Partnership Engage 2020-2021 Competition
Rajbir Bhatti, PhD, Bisset School of Business: COVID-19: Examining Supply Chain Design, Risk Exposure & Response And Designing Initial Risk
Grant amount: $22,062
Insight Development Grants 2021 Competition
Aliyah Dosani, PhD, 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, PhD, Faculty of Arts: Wahkohtowin: Nipiy Wasekimew (Drinking Water) Governance and Resilience
Grant amount: $74,669
For a full list of SSHRC grant recipients, please visit their website.
Insight Grants 2020 Competition
Emily Hutchison, PhD, Faculty of Arts: Spatial Narratives of Late Medieval Paris.
Grant amount: $66,003
For a full list of SSHRC grant recipients, please visit their website.
Research and scholarship at Mount Royal University are guided by the Strategic Research and Scholarship Plan (2018-2023) under the themes of Resilience and Sustainability, Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Systems Design, Health and Well-Being, People and Places, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and Science, Technology and Society.
MRU values research and scholarship across the full spectrum of creative, disciplinary, interdisciplinary, professional and applied realms and is committed to community-based research and strongly values our partnerships with Indigenous communities.
