Funded Research Projects

See select research grants for faculty in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. To learn more about a faculty member's research interests and latest work, visit their profile.

Faculty Name Select Research Grants

Ryan Broll

  • Understanding Role & Responsibility of a Police Officer – SSHRC Institutional Explore Grant
  • Overcoming Bully and Cyber Bullying – SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Myrna Dawson

  • Location, Location, Location: Examining Geography of Justice for Victims and Perpetrators of Violence – SSHRC Insight Development Grant
  • Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention – SSHRC Sub-award from other university
  • Research & Data Priorities Legal Responses to Homicide – SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Elizabeth Finnis

  • Understanding agricultural values and food sovereignty possibilities on the edge of Northern Ontario – SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Karine Gagné

  • Amid Icy Ruins and Insecure Futures: Climate Change, Expertise, and The Infrastructure of Citizenship in Zanskar – SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Mervyn Horgan

  • Sociable Cities: informal infrastructures of everyday urban convivialities – SSHRC Insight Grant

Saara Liinamaa

  • Sociable Cities: informal infrastructures of everyday urban convivialities – SSHRC Insight Grant

Satsuki Kawano

  • Accommodating Students with Disabilities – SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Tad McIlwraith

  • Resources that Flow: Indigenous Perspective – SSHRC Insight Development Grant – Exchange Grant

Bill O'Grady

  • Understanding the Dynamics of Hidden Homeless – Rural Ontario Institute

Patrick Parnaby

  • Understanding the Shift: Police Retirees in Ontario – SSHRC Insight Development Grant – Exchange Grant

Sharada Srinivasan

  • Becoming a Young Farmer – SSHRC Insight Development Grant
  • Contribution of Adult Daughters & Sons – SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Jeji Varghese

  • Exploring Distinct Indigenous Knowledge Systems – SSHRC Sub-award from other university

David Walters

  • Transitions of Marginalized Youth in Ontario – SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

Carolyn Yule

  • Who Drives Bail Outcomes? – SSHRC Institutional Grant