{"id":11457,"date":"2011-08-22T09:05:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T14:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=11457"},"modified":"2011-09-14T16:52:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T21:52:33","slug":"grad-student-research-awarded-more-than-980000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/08\/grad-student-research-awarded-more-than-980000\/","title":{"rendered":"Grad student research awarded more than $980,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11458\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11458\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11458 \" title=\"Ben Sylvester\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gradsshrcawards.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Sylvester\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Sylvester is one of 35 grad students receiving SSHRC funding this year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brock graduate student researchers in humanities, social sciences, education and applied health sciences have received $982,500 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five student research applications submitted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/graduate-studies\" target=\"_blank\">Faculty of Graduate Studies<\/a> were successful in the 2011 round of SSHRC funding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe success of our applications, given the very competitive nature of graduate funding awards, is a strong measure of the calibre of graduate researchers and scholars in our programs,\u201d said Mike Plyley, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur graduate students play a vital role in the University\u2019s research mission. The financial support is an investment that allows our students to focus exclusively on the task ahead of them and to make important contributions to the research culture at Brock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The projects cover a range of topics, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>school experiences of female Muslims who wear the hijab in school settings where the majority of students are not Muslim<\/li>\n<li>British army strategy during the War of 1812<\/li>\n<li>the relations among psychopathy, aggression and empathy<\/li>\n<li>the psychological and physical outcomes of strength training<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The SSHRC funding, which totals $121 million for 1,700 research projects across Canada for student and faculty researchers, was recently announced by Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of Brock&#8217;s successful applications for the SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doctoral<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ashley Hosker, Psychology<br \/>\n\u201cEmpathy and impulsivity: An examination of the casual mechanisms that underlie the relationship between psychopathic personality and physical aggression\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Sylvester, Applied Health Sciences<br \/>\n\u201cUnderstanding the relationship between psychological need satisfaction, well-being and performance through the mediational role of behavioural regulations\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Victoria Tasker, Geography<br \/>\n\u201cA participatory approach to the integration of geospatial information for improved decision making in viticulture\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Doctoral Fellowships<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May Al-Fartousi, Education<br \/>\n\u201cUnveiling Shi\u2019i Religious Identities: Case Studies of Hijab in Culturally Homogeneous Canadian Schools\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Megan Gordon, Education<br \/>\n\u201cEffectiveness of Ontario teacher education programs in preparing white teacher candidates to engage in race and racialization issues in the classroom\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jumoke Isekeije, Social Justice and Equity Studies<br \/>\n\u201cOnline news forums: women\u2019s alternative public sphere\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Master\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jessica Alcock, Child and Youth Studies<br \/>\n\u201cWho is allowed to speak? A look at self-accounts of autism\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Valerie Attewell, Applied Disability Studies<br \/>\n\u201cDating relationships and use of communication technology while under the influence of alcohol using a high school sample\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Baker, Education<br \/>\n\u201cInsights into the Individual Education Plan: Exploring multiple perspectives to enhance effective implementation\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Bayer, Psychology<br \/>\n\u201cEffects of psychotherapy techniques on offender rehabilitation\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Laura Berger, Popular Culture<br \/>\n\u201cRaunch culture and girls\u2019 series fiction\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Lindsey Cary, Psychology<br \/>\n\u201cDifferential hiring of immigrants: The influence of individual differences\u201d<\/li>\n<li>David Connors, History<br \/>\n\u201cA study of the organizational structure of the British command in Canada during the War of 1812\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Scott Crozier, Applied Health Sciences<br \/>\n\u201cMusculature of a male experimenter on self-presentational concerns and maximal strength performance for the chest press and leg press\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Julie Domitrek, Women Studies<br \/>\n\u201cFrom the ground-up and the top-down: New\/activist and mass\/mainstream media coverage of the Toronto G20 protests\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Farrell, Child and Youth Studies<br \/>\n\u201cFamilies as authentic partners in literacy programs\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Shawn Geniole, Psychology<br \/>\n\u201cPERSONALITY traits underlying costly and non-costly aggressive behaviour\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Glasbergen, History<br \/>\n\u201cCicero in 18th-century Britain\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Susan Grouchy, Classics<br \/>\n\u201cAn examination of political involvement in the Eleusinian mysteries in Classical Greece\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Setareh Hooshmand, Psychology<br \/>\n\u201cRisk taking and depressive symptoms: A longitudinal study across adolescence\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Horner, Psychology<br \/>\n\u201cThe influence of body posture on children\u2019s emotional perception\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Steven Lee, History<br \/>\n\u201cImpact of the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline: Aboriginal sovereignty, economic transformation and political change in the Northwest Territories\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jenna Lorusso, Applied Health Sciences<br \/>\n\u201cExamining perceived values of Physical Education; and the impact of those values on current and future Physical Education\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Petre Lozinov, Psychology<br \/>\n\u201cInvestigating the role of environmental factors on a victim\u2019s response to forgive, acquiesce, or revenge\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Caitlin Munn, Education<br \/>\n\u201cExploring contested historical evidence in the Toronto District School Board\u2019s course \u201cGenocide: Historical and Contemporary Implications\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Samantha Rohrig, Classics<br \/>\n\u201cDeath and burial practices in the Roman province of Hispania\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Grant Schrama, History<br \/>\n\u201cByzantine influence on Viking society\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Hafsah Shaikh, Child and Youth Studies<br \/>\n\u201cSouth Asian women\u2019s negotiations of hybrid identities\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Laurie Sherry-Kirk, Social Justice and Equity Studies<br \/>\n\u201cFirst Nations language recovery, esteem and cultural identity\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Malvina Skorska, Psychology<br \/>\n\u201cSexual orientation and (self-reported) height: a physical difference, a psychosocial difference, or both?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Connie Stowe, Child and Youth Studies<br \/>\n\u201cAn autoethnographic journey between Two Worlds\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Thompson, Visual Arts<br \/>\n\u201cGender, bullying, contemporary culture and visual arts\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Naomi Verton, English<br \/>\n\u201cExploring feminist discourses as intertext in Angela Carter\u2019s The Bloody<br \/>\nChamber\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jade Wallace, English<br \/>\n\u201cThe Dead Letters: A collection of Epistolary poetry\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Walsh, Sociology<br \/>\n\u201cEthically unemployed: an investigation of the moral regulation of Canadian manufacturing workers\u2019 responses to displacement and unemployment\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate students in humanities, social sciences, education and applied health sciences have received SSHRC funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,5],"tags":[28,3330,30,3325,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11457"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11472,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457\/revisions\/11472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}