{"id":17766,"date":"2012-08-08T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=17766"},"modified":"2012-08-08T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T14:23:07","slug":"popular-memory-research-gets-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/08\/popular-memory-research-gets-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular memory research gets funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communication, Popular Culture and Film professor <a title=\"Russell Johnston\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/graduate-programs\/ma-in-popular-culture\/faculty-staff\/russell-johnston\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Johnston<\/a> was recently awarded a research grant from the <a title=\"Council for Reserach in the Social Sciences\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/council-for-research-in-the-so-2\" target=\"_blank\">Council for Research in the Social Sciences (CRISS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The grant will support an ongoing project investigating popular memory in Niagara, a project undertaken with <a title=\"Michael Ripmeester\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/ccovi\/research\/researchers-and-research-topics\/michael-ripmeester\" target=\"_blank\">Geography professor Michael Ripmeester<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In their most recent work, Johnston and Ripmeester were surprised to find that winemaking has been embraced by St. Catharines residents as an important aspect of the region&#8217;s heritage despite its relatively recent arrival in Niagara.  The funds provided by CRISS will allow them to see if the same attitudes are prevalent in other centres in Niagara.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston called the CRISS award &#8220;immensely helpful.&#8221; The money will be used to hire four Brock students to assist with a survey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These students will gain hands-on experience with public opinion research on a local issue, while obviously contributing to the larger project in a meaningful way,&#8221; Johnston said.  &#8220;And that&#8217;s just an ideal situation for the community, for the students, and for us as researchers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CRISS awards are made to faculty members in the social sciences three times a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communication, Popular Culture and Film professor Russell Johnston was recently awarded a research grant from the Council for Research in the Social Sciences (CRISS). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[461,20,3325,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17767,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17766\/revisions\/17767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}