Lakehead U Social Sciences and Humanities Researchers Receive Funding

(Thunder Bay - June 3, 2005) Lakehead University is pleased to announce the results of the annual Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) research grants competition. Five Lakehead U researchers have been awarded Standard Research Grants (SRG) totalling $332,636.

These new SRG researchers join the three 2005 Northern Research Development Program (NRDP) grant winners, one Aboriginal Research grant winner, and one Official Languages Research and Dissemination grant winner, bringing Lakehead U's new SSHRC grants total to $720,062 this past year (a complete listing of new and previous Lakehead SSHRC winners is attached).

"Lakehead University's success with SSHRC grants proves that the University's researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities are working on important and emerging issues," says Dr. Fred Gilbert, President, Lakehead University. "I commend all of Lakehead's SSHRC winners. Their work adds to the rich diversity of the research culture on campus, and is helping to position Lakehead U as a leading-edge research institution."

The 2005 grant winners join the nine other SSHRC researchers on campus whose research fuels innovative thinking about issues involving social, economical, environmental, and global impact.

"I offer my congratulations to our new SSHRC-funded researchers," says Dr. Rui Wang, Vice President (Research), Lakehead University. "These researchers are a part of our growing network of innovative thinkers looking to add to the breadth of human knowledge and social understanding. I look forward to seeing where their work will take us."

In addition to these faculty grants, 13 graduate students have received SSHRC grants - 11 SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's level, 1 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, and 1 SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship at the doctoral level. These students will be putting their knowledge to practice with research directly involved in their area of study.

Faculty and student researchers are available for interview. For contact names, please call Marla Tomlinson at 343-8177.

Matthew Boyd, Department of Anthropology, Lakehead University, and Tamara Varney, University of Manitoba, "Socioeconomic Transformations at the North American Prairie-Forest Interface, ca. 100 BC - AD 1500", 2005-2008, total amount: $93,947.

Todd Dufresne, Department of Philosophy, "Trauma and the Birth of Psychoneuroses: Medical Discourse from Railway Spine to Shell Shock", 2005-2008, total amount: $22,513.

Alexandra Lawson, Faculty of Education, "The Development and Progression of Children's Invented Calculation Methods from Direct Modelling to Efficient Algorithms", 2005-2008, total amount: $85,098.

Todd Randall, Department of Geography, "Balancing Density Preferences and Land Use Diversity for Urban Sustainability", 2005-2008, total amount: $45,166.

Constance Russell, Faculty of Education, "Primate-Focused Ecotourism as Environmental Education", 2005-2008, total amount: $85,912.

Keith Brownlee, School of Social Work Lakehead University, John R. Graham, University of Calgary, "Localization of Social Work in Northern Canada", 2005-2007, total amount: $39,996.

Margaret Johnston, School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism, JoAnne Zamparo, School of Social Work, Lakehead University, Amornrat Apinunmahakul, University of Windsor, G. David Twynam, University College of the Caribou, Lynn A. Sutherland, Yukon College, "Northern Community and Special Events: Outcomes of Participation, Tourism, and Volunteering for Community Capacity Building and Sustainable Social Capital", 2005-2007, total amount: $39,815.
Partners:
Government of Yukon
Yukon Volunteer Bureau

Gary Genosko, Department of Sociology, "From Indigent to Indigenous: Alcohol Administration and Social Control in Northern Ontario", 2004-2006, total amount: $38,705.
Partner: Nishnawbe Aski Nation

Keith Brownlee, and Raymond Neckoway, School of Social Work, "Cree, Ojibway and Urban Aboriginal Perspectives on Attachment Theory", 2005-2008, total amount: $196,120.
Partners: Fox Lake First Nation
Lac La Croix First Nation
Northern Nishnawbe Education Council

Official Languages Research and Dissemination

Chris Southcott, Department of Sociology, Lakehead University, and Simon Laflamme, Laurentian University, "L'utilisation des novelles technologies de communication et la vitalité linguistique et communautaire des francophones dans le Nord-Ouest de l'Ontario, 2005-2007, total amount of grant: $72,790.
Partners: L'Association des Francophones du Nord-Ouest de l'Ontario
Le Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales

Jobb Arnold, Psychology, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's level
Carmela Coccimiglio, English, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's level
Jessica Bird, Psychology, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's level
Jennifer Bond, Environmental Science/Outdoor Recreation, Parks & Tourism, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's level
Heather Boynton, Social Work, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's level
Michele Gilbert, Social Work, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's level
Beverley Kelley, Sociology, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's level
Matthew Simons, Social Work, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's level
Suzanne Tardif, Education, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's level
William Vinh-Doyle, History, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's level
Julie Riendeau, Psychology, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship, Master's level
John Power, English, SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
Paul Berger, Education, SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship at the Doctoral level

Ronald Harpelle, Department of History (SRG), "Protestant Churches, Missionaries and Imperialists on the Central American Frontier", 2004-2007, total amount: $86,000.

Bruce Muirhead, Department of History, Lakehead University, Greg O. Donaghy, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, (SRG), "The Development of Canadian Aid Policy, 1945-1989", 2004-2007, total amount: $62,600.

Brian O'Connor, Department of Psychology, (SRG), "Rigid and Extreme Personality: Associations with Irrational Beliefs, Relationship Difficulties, and Behaviour Patterns", 2003-2006, total amount: $51,295.

Bruce Strang, Department of History, (SRG), "The Limits of Sovereignty: Italy in the Cold War era, 1948-1953", 2003-2006, total amount: $36,414.

Lori Chambers, Women's Studies, (SRG), "From Meretricious Unions to Equivalent to Marriage: A History of Cohabitation in Canada", 2002-2006, total amount: $74,850.

John Spraggon, Department of Economics, (SRC), "Enforcement in Markets for Tradable Emission Permits", 2002-2006, total amount: $82,458.

Scott Hamilton, Department of Anthropology, Lakehead University, Iain Davidson-Hunt, University of Manitoba, "Subarctic Aboriginal Cultural Heritage", 2002-2006, total amount: $39,562.
Partners:
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
Whitefeather Forest Management Corp.

Carney Matheson, Department of Anthropology, Research Development Initiatives, "Establishing Protocols for Analyzing Residues and Trace Materials from Archaeological Remains", 2004-2006, total amount: $37,000.

JoAnne Zamparo, School of Social Work, Lakehead University, Bruce Minore, Centre for Rural and Northern Health Research, Lakehead University, John D. O'Neil, University of Manitoba, Louis Tapardjuk, Nunavut Social Development Council, Lucy K. Quasa, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Leah Otak, Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth, Lori N. Idlout, Nunavut Social Development Council, Strategic Grant (Society, Culture and the Health of Canadians II), 2001-2006, $339,492.
Partners:
Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth
Nunavut Social Development Council