Tag: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

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BU Researcher Contributes to SSHRC Insight Grant Project on Care, Vulnerability, and Francophone Literature

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Brandon University researcher Dr. Dominique Hétu is a co-investigator on a nationally funded research initiative examining how Francophone literature represents care, vulnerability, and human dignity, and how these narratives create space for historically marginalized voices.

Dr. Hétu, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Francophone Studies and Languages, is part of the research team for Donner voix aux caregivers : sollicitude, soin et subalternité dans les littératures francophones de 1945 à aujourd’hui (Giving Voice to Caregivers: Care, Solicitude, and Subalternity in Francophone Literatures from 1945 to the Present).

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Brandon University researchers receive SSHRC Insight Development Grants for projects on climate literacy and museum labour

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Brandon University is pleased to announce that two BU researchers, Dr. Jennifer Mateer and Dr. Emma Varley, have received Insight Development Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The grants, totalling more than $174,000, will support new research beginning June 1, 2026.

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Brandon University Philosopher Receives Federal Funding to Explore Why Truth and Critical Thinking Matter

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SSHRC Insight Grant supports four-year research project on the social foundations of knowledge

Brandon University is pleased to announce that Dr. Cameron Boult, Associate Professor of Philosophy, has been awarded a $72,702 Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to investigate a deceptively simple but urgently important question: do truth, facts, and critical thinking matter? And if so, why?

The four-year project, titled Relation-Based Epistemology, argues that the answer lies not in the individual mind, but in our relationships with one another.

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Federal research awards fund 15 BU student projects

Fifteen Brandon University (BU) students are spending their summer working on research projects with support from the federal Tri-Agency Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRAs).

The bulk of the projects — 13 of them — are receiving funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) each supporting one USRA project at BU this summer.

BU researchers join international projects with support from SSHRC

Brandon University (BU) faculty members are receiving significant funding for their international projects from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Dr. Allison McCulloch of BU’s Department of Political Science will receive $337,185 over three years as a principal investigator on an SSHRC Open Research Area award.

Journal of Rural and Community Development receives national funding

Courtesy of the Brandon Sun’s Westman This Week.
By Chelsea Kemp
The Journal of Rural and Community Development has secured three years of renewed funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

BU awarded record number of federal Insight Grants

Brandon University (BU) researchers are studying the opioid crisis, online pricing, and Indigenous traditional knowledge with support from federal Insight Grants announced on Tuesday.
The project leads, Drs. Ariane Hanemaayer, Patricia Harms and Hejun Zhuang will receive a total of more than $275,000 in funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) over the next three years.

BU mental health researchers asking men to share their experiences

BRANDON – Researchers at Brandon University (BU) have launched a new project to study the stress experienced by men in the Westman region.
The two-year case study, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, seeks to address growing mental health concerns in the Prairie provinces.

National Conference on Civilian Internment

BRANDON, MB – A historic discussion on civil liberty and national security will be held this week from June 17-19 in Winnipeg and all are invited to take part.
Organized by the Canadian Society for Ukrainian Labour Research and Dr. Rhonda Hinther, history professor at Brandon University, Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies is the first event of its kind to examine internment experiences in Canada from a comparative perspective.

Prestigious Appointment for Gender Researcher

BRANDON, MB – Boys will be boys? Man-up? Real men don’t cry? Dr. Jonathan A. Allan says the contemporary definition of masculinity is unattainable, creating ‘angry white males’ and triggering men’s rights groups across North America.