Mario DiPaolantonio received $50,870 during the 2008 SSHRC Standard Research Grant competition for his project “Commemorative Pedagogical Practices”, which seeks to explore the pedagogical implications of artistic memorial practices that arise amid legal attempts to address an unsettling and unsettled past.... read full story
Congratulations to Lisa Farley who received $61,111 from SSHRC for her Standard Research Grant “Spaces of Memory: Between Tangible Relics and Internal Objects in Learning from the Past”. The study investigates the psychical complexities of historical learning occurring in the context of “historical pilgrimages” where students and teachers journey to historic sites to encounter the “tangible” relics of history. .... read full story
Connie Mayer’s project “Literacy Achievement of Learners who use Cochlear Implants” received $29,626 in the recent SSHRC Standard Research Grant competition. Together with co-applicant Pam Millett, Mayer will look at the reading and writing levels of a cohort of school-aged student who use cochlear implants to establish whether their literacy skills approach those of their hearing age peers.... read full story
Jacqueline Lynch, together with collaborator Ron Owston, received $120,235 in the recent SSHRC competition for their project “Professional Development for Preschool Teachers: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Literacy Teaching and Learning”.... read full story
Congratulations to Susan Dion who received $137,000 from the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) in 2009 to investigate, evaluate and learn from the work undertaken and accomplished by the Board’s Urban Aboriginal Education Pilot Project. With its activities, the pilot project is seeking to transform school experiences for Aboriginal students in the TDSB and to address the teaching of Aboriginal subject material... read full story
Rishma Dunlop has been awarded a prestigious Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Creative Writing at Arizona State University for 2009-2010. In her role as a Canada-US Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, Professor Dunlop will be Resident at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University, engaging in creative and scholarly activities, public lectures and literary readings. During her term as Visiting Research Chair, Dunlop will be working on a multi-genre book, Midnight at the Algonquin Hotel... read full story
In October, Alison Griffith (together with co-applicant Dorothy E Smith) will hold a 3-day invited workshop entitled Governance and the Front Line, which is sponsored by SSHRC with $16,363. This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together Canadian and international, experienced and novice researchers, as well as practitioners such as nurses, social workers, and urban planners. Participants will explore governance across the range of institutional and organizational settings (schools, hospitals, secondary education institutions, international aid, and social work) that make up the ‘public sector’ of the economy... read full story
Stephen Gaetz, together with researchers from Victoria, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto, recently received $100,000 from CIHR in the Catalyst Grant: Pandemic Preparedness competition. In the event of a pandemic, it is not clear whether the infrastructures to address homelessness, public health or the health care system in general will be prepared to adequately respond to the risks faced by the homeless population... read full story