Recognizing this year’s Insight Grant and Insight Development Grant recipients

The College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) is thrilled to publicly share that in 2024, 8 faculty members from across our faculties were awarded Insight Grants and 15 faculty members were awarded Insight Development Grants from Canada’s national research council for social sciences and humanities. The ministerial announcement, which made the results public, happened at the end of last week.

“We are delighted to be able to acknowledge the success of our colleagues, with many of these projects already well under way,” explained Joanna Harrington, associate dean, research for CSSH. “This funding is used to support a wide array of research activities, from surveys and trips to the archives, and also provides quality research opportunities for students. The two insight competitions are annual competitions, and we also wish the very best for our next round of applicants in securing such funds.”

The college congratulates all faculty members on their success:

Insight Grant Recipients

• Danielle Allard, Faculty of Education
  • Project: Examining patron-perpetrated sexual harassment (PPSH) policy and practice in public libraries
• Rebeca Baccarini Macias Gímenez, Faculty of Law
  • Project: Realizing Indigenous jurisdiction in environmental decision-making in historic treaty lands: An Alberta Treaty 8 case study
• Rasmus Fatum, Alberta School of Business
  • Project: Understanding the Dynamics of Foreign Exchange Interventions and Monetary Policy: Four Empirical Studies
• Vern Glaser, Alberta School of Business
  • Project: Decoding the Black Box: Tracing the Inscription of Values in Large Language Models
• Gerald Häubl, Alberta School of Business
  • Project: Interacting with Choice Architecture over Time: Cognitive Dynamics and their Impact on Consumers’ Downstream Behavior
• Kimberly Noels, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Moving Together and Moving Apart: The Interrelation of Language and Ethnic Identity Acculturation within Immigrant Couples
• Ali Shiri, Faculty of Education
  • Project: Intergenerational digital storytelling for Inuvialuit cultural heritage preservation
• Ke Wang, Alberta School of Business
  • Project: Negative publicity on corporate carbon practices and peer firms’ strategic carbon disclosure: An international study

Insight Development Grant Recipients

• Hoa Briscoe-Tran, Alberta School of Business
  • Project: Does employee feedback make firms more productive? Evidence from public review platforms.
• Katherine Brubacher, Faculty of Education
  • Project: Laughing, learning, and translanguaging for newcomers with emerging print literacy
• Rebecca Hudson Breen, Faculty of Education
  • Project: Building hopeful futures: Climate aware career development through participatory action research
• Siobhan Byrne, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Developing an intersectionality "toolkit": A feminist analysis of intersectionality mainstreaming through toolkits, training modules and resource guides
• Juhani Järvikivi, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Understanding accented speech in rural and urban contexts
• Yvonne Lam, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Speaking half and half: Ideologies of translanguaging and identity construction among multilingual heritage speakers in Canada
• Pan Liu, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Characterizing self-referential processing in emerging adult women with elevated body image concerns and depressive symptoms: A multi-method approach
• Runjing Lu, Alberta School of Business
  • Project: Polarizing social policies and geographic sorting of innovators and innovation
• Faith Majekolagbe, Faculty of Law
  • Project: Copyright infringement in an age of generative artificial intelligence: a law and policy analysis
• Christina Mashruwala, Alberta School of Business
  • Project: Does accounting classification affect investor perceptions of fair value in the banking industry?
• James Miles, Faculty of Education
  • Project: Understanding presentism in history education
• Kimberly Noels, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Gender and Language Learning:  Why Do So Few Men Pursue Language Education and Careers?
• Howard Nye, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: Investigating the reception of communications about the ethics of plant-forward nudging in healthcare settings
• Kenichi Shimizu, Faculty of Arts
  • Project: New Bayesian econometric methods for high-dimensional models in industrial organization and quantitative marketing
• Bohan Song, Alberta School of Business
  • Project: Fair value audit quality, audit partners’ expertise, and in-house specialists’ Skills