SSHRC grants $487,000 to 11 researchers

The federal Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) granted $487,000 for 11 U of S researchers, at a news conference in the Agriculture Bldg. atrium June 12.

SSHRC President Marc Renaud

SSHRC President Marc Renaud announced the grants, and outgoing U of S Vice-President of Research Michael Corcoran said, "Our success in this tough national competition is a reflection of the excellence of our researchers."

The grants have gone to:

• Lorrie Sippola (Psychology) - $90,000 over three years to examine changes in the adolescent peer social network and forms of peer victimization in late childhood and adolescence.

• Larry Stewart (History) - $71,000 over three years to study the role of chemistry and medicine in the economic and social transformation of Western Europe, 1760 to 1820.

• Donna Goodwin (Kinesiology) - $64,040 over three years to look at how youth with physical disabilities experience their bodies and their physical potential.

• Janice MacKinnon (History) - $62,500 over three years to support her current book about the fiscal crisis in Canada and Saskatchewan in the 1990s and implications for the 21st century.

• Barbara Phillips (Management & Marketing) - $55,676 over three years to explore individual consumers' motivations for exercise and compare them to the messages that exercise magazines and exercise ads present to Canadians.

• Robert Hudson (Philosophy) - $51,000 over three years to examine how scientists assess the quality of experimentally generated, observational data, work which could lead to better public understanding of how scientific claims are justified.

• John McNamara (Educational Psychology) - $44,359 over three years to establish markers for identifying children who are at-risk for learning disabilities.

• Karen Lawson (Psychology) - $17,200 over one year to examine the rapid acceptance of prenatal testing, investigating the extent to which perceptions of parenting a disabled child underlie the perceived need for testing.

• James Pooler (Geography) - $10,888 over two years to study population migration in Canada, work that has spin-off applications for city and regional planning, traffic forecasting, retail location studies, and regional development.

As well, the U of S was recently awarded two SSHRC conference grants:

• Patricia Monture-Angus (Native Studies) - $10,000 for a July 10-12 conference examining the challenge of including Indigenous knowledge traditions in universities and the future of Native Studies. Conference findings will be compiled in a book to be used as a text in introductory and Native Studies theory classes.

• Isobel Findlay (Commerce) - $10,000 for a conference in May that brought Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people together to develop new networks and policies for Aboriginal community economic development in the 21st century. Conference findings will be published.

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