OISE faculty double SSHRC standard research grant funding this year
April 1, 2011
23 OISE faculty members earned a total of $2.6 million in newly awarded Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grants. This represents the best SSHRC Standard Research Grant results for OISE since 2006 and almost doubles the total dollar amount from last year. "This is a wonderful accomplishment and a well-deserved achievement for each," said Dean Julia O'Sullivan.
The newly awarded funding grants provide an average of $125,000 to each faculty member and support three-year programs of research that foster and develop vigorous collaborative and multidisciplinary activities. OISE researchers will carry out research in the areas of:
- curriculum and academic achievement
- teacher education
- higher education
- social justice
- youth
These grants emphasize the development of new theoretical and methodological approaches to education research and provide wonderful training opportunities for OISE’s graduate students and future researchers.
This year’s results mark a success rate of 60%: up 14% from last year. This will drive OISE faculty to compete and succeed in future SSHRC, and other prestigious competitions. The program concludes this year as SSHRC gears up to shape new funding opportunities for the future.
The list of OISE faculty who received SSHRC Standard Research Grants this year and their project titles appears below.
| Megan Boler | Sociable Media in the Hands of the Young Citizens: Evolving Forms on Participatory Democracy |
| Elizabeth Campbell | The Ethical Curriculum |
| Indigo Esmonde | Changing the Equation: Mathematics and Social Justice |
| Esther Geva | Altering the Academic Achievements Trajectory of Recent Adolescent Immigrants: An After School Community-Based Intervention Targeting Language and Reading Strategic Knowledge |
| Tara Goldstein | Teaching Other People's Children: A Trilogy of Performed Ethnographies of Teacher Education |
| Ruth Hayhoe | Canada-China University Linkages in New Era of Global Geo-Politics |
| Glen Jones | The Governance of Canadian Universities: Dimensions and Trends in Autonomy |
| Mary Kooy | Teacher Learning that Matters: Explanding a Longitudinal Study into Technology-Mediated Professional Communities |
| Clare Kosnik | Literacy Teacher Educators: Their Backgrounds, Vision and Practices |
| Ben Levin | How Educators Access and Evaluate Research in Education |
| Lance McCready | Educational Trajectories of Young Black Men in Canadian Urban Centres |
| Kiran Mirchandani | Women as Diverse Political Subjects in Transformative Feminist Practice: The Case of Women's Human Rights |
| Karen Mundy | Global Governance and Education for All |
| Trevor Norris | Teaching and Learning Philosophy at the High School Level in Ontario |
| Janette Pelletier | Lasting Effects of Family Literacy Programs in Early Childhood |
| Niva Piran | Women's Embodiement at the Intersection of Psychology and Social Critical Theory |
| Sherene Razack | Democratic Citizenship and the Acceptance of Torture in the Law and Society |
| Creso Sa | The Science-Policy Interface in Brazil |
| Katreena Scott | Influence of Fathers' Antisocial Behaviours, Co-Parenting and Emotional Availability on the Developmental Trajectories of Maltreated Children |
| Tricia Seifert | Supporting Student Success: Organizational Structures and Approaches of Student Affairs and Service Divisions in Ontario's Postsecondary Institutions |
| James Slotta | Knowledge Community and Inquiry for Elementary Science Classrooms |
| Stephanie Springgay | The Pedagogical Impluse: Art, Education and Knowledge Production |
| Heather Sykes | Sport, Gender Justice and Anti-Globalization Movements: Curriculum and Policy Implications for Ontario and Canada |