Young 黑料不打烊 researchers achieve funding boost
Research topics including the ethics of same-sex marriage and youth gambling in Montreal will be studied by newly funded 黑料不打烊 University graduate students and trainees. These projects, along with 105 other proposals, recently received new funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
"We are extremely pleased with these results," says 黑料不打烊 Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Martha Crago. "It is a worthy recognition of our strengths in humanities and social sciences research."
One hundred and seven 黑料不打烊 students and postdoctoral scholars were awarded SSHRC scholarships and fellowships for a total of $5.7 million.
Political science postdoctoral researcher Joshua Goldstein will use his newly awarded SSHRC grant to study the ethics of same-sex marriage 鈥� exploring the limits of family and identity.
"Being awarded a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship is a great honour," he said. "I'm very excited to be able to work on this important research project at 黑料不打烊, where there is such a depth and breadth of knowledge to draw on. To investigate the ethics of same-sex marriage involves crossing disciplinary boundaries, and it's a real comfort to know that the support and resources for this kind of project are available to researchers."
Dana Wilson, a recipient of the SSHRC Canada Graduate Doctoral Scholarship and geography graduate student, will study youth gambling in Montreal. She will look at video lottery terminal access, opportunity and use on the trip to school.
"Our studies will lead to a better understanding of video lottery terminals as one particular pathway in the local neighbourhood that influences the health and health-related behaviours of youths," says Wilson.
Geography master's student Tara Wilkinson received a SSHRC Canada Graduate Master's Scholarship. She will study the socioeconomic and ecological effectiveness of marine reserves-underwater parks, where fishing is not allowed.
"We are looking into whether marine reserves help empower fishers and assist them in making a living, while helping to protect the environment," says Wilkinson. "Through this SSHRC-supported research, we are hoping to improve policy making and management of our ocean so that stocks of fish and the livelihoods of a great many people stop vanishing in front of our eyes."
Other SSHRC-funded research topics include Canuck rock: the quest for a Canadian popular music; democracy, legality and legitimacy of a world government; American intervention in the post-Cold War era; competition in the health care system; and assessing the economic impacts of climate change on the Canadian forest.
SSHRC is an arm's-length federal agency that promotes and supports university-based research and training in the social sciences and humanities.
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