SSHRC Results

April 2010 Announcement

• Darryl Robinson is part of a team of four Canadian international law professors who have been awarded a SSHRC grant to attend and study the Kampala “Review Conference” in May and June. At the historic diplomatic conference, diplomats and legal advisers from more than 110 states will make decisions on proposed changes to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the future shape of international criminal justice. The grant, in the amount of $70,736, will support a two-year research project, enabling the team to attend and observe the Conference, conduct additional research, support student research assistance and disseminate their research. Read more…

May 2009 Announcements  

• Kathy Lahey has been awarded a three-year standard SSHRC grant for a project entitled: Women, equality, and fiscal equality: gender analysis of taxes, benefits, and budgets ($101,537).


• Malcolm Thorburn (together with Evan Fox-Decent from McGill) has been awarded a three-year standard SSHRC grant for a project entitled: The fiduciary constitution of the rule of law ($95,000).
     

April 2008 Announcements

• Sharry Aiken has been successful as a Co-Applicant with Susan McGrath (Principal Investigator, Centre for Refugee Studies/York) on a $2.1 million SSHRC Knowledge Clusters grant, A Canadian Refugee Research Network: Globalizing Knowledge. She is also a collaborator on a $2.5 million SSHRC MCRI grant announced earlier this year (The New Transparency: Surveillance and Social Sorting).


• Nick Bala was successful in his application as Principal Investigator for the Child Witness Project ($165,000). His co-investigators are Profs Lee (Institute of Child Study, Psychology, U of T), Lindsay (Psychology, Queen's) and Talwar (Educational Psychology, McGill). He was also successful as a Co-Investigator in an application to study high conflict divorces ($135,000). The Principal Investigator is Rachel Birnbaum (Social Work, UWO), and the other co-investigators are Profs Jaffe (Psychology, UWO) and Mcleary (Nursing, Brock).


• Art Cockfield, who was successful as a Co-Applicant on a $2.5 million SSHRC MCRI grant earlier this year (The Surveillance Project), has also learned that he has been successful as the sole-applicant and Principal Investigator of a SSHRC application entitled: Protecting Taxpayer Privacy under Enhanced Cross-border Tax Information Exchanges: A Law and Technology Perspective ($77,730).


• Tsvi Kahana has been successful as a Co-Applicant with Sara Slinn (Principal Investigator, Osgoode) in a SSHRC application entitled: Employer Speech: Effects and Limits of Employer Anti-Union Campaigns During Union Organizing ($57,977).


• Mark Walters was successful as the Principal Investigator and sole applicant on a project entitled: The Jurisprudence of Reconciliation: Towards an Intersocietal Conception of the Rule of Law in Canada ($110,750).