UNBC scholars secure grants

Groulx was given the biggest award, $436,879 over five years, for a project which looks at the way physical, informational, service and attitudinal barriers stop people with disabilities, families with young children and older adults from enjoying nature. “A lot of people with disabilities, older adults and families with young children are kept from experiencing it fully,” Groulx said. “This project will provide us with the evidence we need in order to understand where these barriers lie and how changes to policy can close the gap.”

Farhan was given a sum of $253,637 over a period of five years to carry out a study into the social history of nutrition science in modern Iraq between 1910 and 1972, with a particular focus on how colonial and post-colonial governments used knowledge of nutrition as a means of governing. At the Middle East Centre of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, she is currently an academic fellow.

As Farhan explained, this project seeks to recover the experiences of those communities that suffered from nutrition-based health crises, with a focus on people who have too often been reduced to statistics.

She was given a grant of $95,540 over a period of two years in order to compare the way that children in Canada and China perceive shyness and sociability in their peers, Kong said.

Kowalski was given $99,996 over a period of two years in order to examine whether so-called “dark” personality traits such as psychopathy, narcissism, and sadism might be linked to career decisions. “What if they do in fact suit certain careers?” he said.

Joly was given a grant of $99,816 for a two-year period in order to examine accountability based on Indigenous rights in the oil sands. The project, which involves the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, will assess whether the regulatory promises made during the project’s approval have been fulfilled, using Dene law and the community’s priorities as the basis for the audit.

Together with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the SSHRC is one of Canada’s principal federal research funding agencies.

by Dave Branco

UNBC scholars secure grants

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