Congratulations to our Insight Grant and Insight Development Grant winners
Lauren Bannon - 3 November 2022
The College of Social Sciences and Humanities is thrilled to learn that 27 researchers from our faculties were awarded Insight Grant and Insight Development Grant funding from Canada’s national research council for social sciences and humanities.
Responding to the objectives of the Insight Program, these grants fund research proposed by scholars and judged worthy of funding by their peers or other experts. Insight Development Grants support short-term projects of up to two years for research in its initial stages (enabling the development of new research questions and experimentation with new methods) while Insight Grants support longer-term established initiatives of two to five years.
Grants awarded to members of our college will support a diverse range of research topics, such as a look into the effects of violent protests on entrepreneurship and firms, an analysis of political behaviours in Canada and more.
Associate professor Tamar Meshel in the Faculty of Law is one of the recipients of the Insight Development Grant, and she is grateful for this opportunity to further her analysis of the arbitration of consumer and employment law disputes in North America.
“I was delighted and honoured to receive an Insight Development Grant to study the use of arbitration in Canada and the United States, particularly in the consumer and employment contexts,” she says. “This issue has been addressed by courts in both countries but has not received sufficient attention from scholars.”
“The generous support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of my project will enable me to fill this gap and study arbitration in depth both theoretically and empirically.”
Professor of Spanish and Latin American studies and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies Victoria Ruétalo is also grateful to utilize funding from the Insight Grant to expand on her research which examines the politics in the distribution of Latin American sexploitation films, which feature nudity and soft-core sex, during the context of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s.
“The funding will help me comb through conventional archives and discover new private collections containing rich, undervalued material to piece together the history of knowledge and pleasure and generate insights into how sexuality has been controlled or manipulated to determine how women's bodies have existed in the past,” she says.
The college would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all 27 faculty members for their success in these grant competitions.
Insight Grant recipients:
- Efstathios Avdis, Department of Finance, Alberta School of Business
Project title: Financial markets, information extraction, and artificial intelligence
- Adelina Barbalau, Department of Finance, Alberta School of Business
Project title: Financing the transition to a sustainable economy: theory and evidence
- Sarah Carter, Department of History, Classics & Religion, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Who Owns the Prairies? A History of the Land, 1871-2021
- Lia Daniels, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education
Project title: Reorienting assessment practices in higher education: Prioritizing student
well-being through motivation theory
- Nicole Denier, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Algorithmic and intersectional? Gender, race, and automation in hiring processes
- Sara Dorow, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Work-Life in Canada: portraits of continuity and change in the meaning of work
- Danielle Fuller, Department of English and Film Studies, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Reading for Our Lives: Readers, Memoir, Social Media
- Timothy Hannigan, Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management, Alberta School of Business
Project title: The Emerging Blockchain Entrepreneurship Field
- Dip Kapoor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Faculty of Education
Project title: Learning in Precarious Migrant Worker (PMW) Organizing: Global Trails to Canada
- Beverly Lemire, Department of History, Classics & Religion, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Fashioning the Imperial Atlantic: Race, Gender, and Material Culture, c. 1660-1820
- Xioating Li, Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
Project title: How do Mandarin speakers get others to do things?—The directive system in
Mandarin interaction
- Temitope Oriola, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Race, gender, sexuality and student security: The School Resource Officer (SRO) program
in Canada
- Johanne Paradis, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Bilingual Development in Children with Special Education Needs: Minority and
Majority Language Contexts
- Chris Reyns, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Beyond the 2 Solitudes in the Canadian World of Comics
- Victoria Ruetalo, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Hot Flicks in the Cold War
- Barry Scholnick, Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law, Alberta School of Business
Project title: Banks and their Debtors
- Scott Smallwood, Department of Music, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Audio games and music composition
- Benjamin Tucker, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Wazaat? aging and spontaneous speech
- Christine Wiesenthal, Department of English and Film Studies, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Underground Berlin Underground: A Research-Creation Program in
Documentary/Investigative Poetics
Insight Development Grant recipients:
- Clara Iwasaki, Department of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Comparative Race and Racialization in East Asian Literature
- Runjing Lu, Department of Finance, Alberta School of Business
Project title: Effects of violent protests on entrepreneurship and firms
- Tamar Meshel, Faculty of Law
Project title: Arbitration of consumer and employment law disputes in Canada and the United States:
an empirical analysis
- Benjamin Milner, Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Investing In Angels: The Impacts of a Century of Randomized Grants to Clergy in
18th-Century Britain
- Sarah Moore, Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law, Alberta School of Business
Project title: Artificial or intelligent: how AI agents’ language use affects customer satisfaction
- Angelique Slade Shantz, Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Management, Alberta School of Business
Project title: Occupational Degrowth: Why individuals choose intentional downward
occupational transitions
- Feodor Snagovsky, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts
Project title: White identity, political elites and political behaviour in Canada
- Chloé Taylor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts
Project title: Zoonosis: A critical animal studies bestiary
Workshops for faculty making an application for an Insight Grant or Insight Development Grant are held throughout the year. Contact your research partner to register.