Graduate Students Awarded Over $480k for Research Projects
13 Students Receive Grants and Scholarships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
"By funding these research initiatives and large-scale partnerships, SSHRC is supporting research and talent that are central to quality of life and innovation, and to developing Canada’s future leaders in all sectors of society,” said Ted Hewitt, president, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
On December 16, SSHRC announced research funding for graduate students and postdocs across Canada. Among the recipients are 13 Trent graduate students and postdocs who received $481,500 through the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program and the SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships Program.
These scholarships reinforce Trent’s commitment to research in the social sciences and humanities in Canada. For a full list of Trent’s 12 funding recipients, see below:
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program:
Jessica Reid, Psychology
- Influence of visiting imprisoned parents on children's attachment, internalizing symptoms, and delinquency
Sarah Milner, Public Texts
- Sin versus science: exploring film adaptations of Frankenstein and their ideological impact
Daniel Worby, Anthropology
- Boyd Island: evidence for a transition in subsistence and settlement from the middle to late woodland period
Sophie Goldberg, Anthropology
- Modelling the spread of the Plague of Justinian in a post-Roman context
Erin Laverty, Psychology
- Virginity beliefs and sexual scripts
Sarah Jessup, Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies
- Workplace bullying and harassment: gendered perspectives
Geoffrey Crane, Applied Modelling and Quantitative Methods
- Emotional intelligence and career longevity in today's temporary world
Melissa Baldwin, Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies
- Mobilizing intergenerational solidarities through musical encounter
Brent Whitford, Anthropology
- Applied geomatics in archaeology: assessing late neolithic settlement patterns from the Blagoevgrad Basin, Bulgaria
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships Program:
Stephen Campbell
- The everyday politics of labour regulation at Southeast Asian export processing zones
Lisa Janz
- Modelling post-glacial ecology and the dietary role of plants and small animals
Peter Kikkert
- Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay): a community-based history
Katherine Mullins
- Single women and aging in Canadian fiction
For more information about Graduate Studies at Trent, visit http://www.trentu.ca/graduatestudies/