Research
Selected Externally Funded Research Projects
| Date Awarded | Agency/Program | Amount | Title | Role |
2017 | Conseil des arts d'Ontario Avance Médias | $38,000 | Documentary Film: Le tireur d’élite | Principal Investigator |
2017 | Ontario Arts Council Northern Arts Grant | $12,000 | Documentary Film: Toxic Time Bomb | Principal Investigator |
2016 | Ontario Arts Council Northern Arts Grant | $12,000 | Documentary Film: "a.k.a." | Principal Investigator |
2015 | SSHRC Insight Development Grant | $74,000 | "What's Bred in the Bone: Developing a Historical Understanding of Past Resource and Sustainable Community Development" | Co-Applicant |
2014 | SSHRC Aid to Small Universities Grant | $90,000 | “Research Network on Social and Economic Development" | Co-Applicant |
| 2013 | SSHRC Partnership Development Grant | $200,000 | "Toxic Legacies: Community Perspectives on Arsenic Pollution at Yellowknife's Giant Mine" | Co-Applicant |
| 2012 | SSHRC Partnership Grant LOI | $20,000 | “‘Research TV: Mobilizing Social Sciences and Humanities Knowledge in the Digital Age” | Principal Investigator |
| 2012 | SSHRC Public Outreach Grant | $113,588 | “Pulp Friction: The Intersection of Globalization and Community” | Principal Investigator |
| 2012 | SSHRC Public Outreach Grant | $72,322 | “Hard Work Conquers All: Mobilizing Knowledge about the Finnish Experience in Canada” | Co-Applicant |
| 2012 | Ontario Arts Council, Northern Arts Grant | $10,000 | Documentary Film: "Hard Time" | Principal Investigator |
| 2011 | SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI) | $2.5 millon | “Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic” | Co-Applicant |
| 2010 | Association of University and Colleges of Canada and International Development Research Centre - LACREG Grant | $25,000 | “The Social Impact of Pulp Mills and Changing Economies in Ontario and Uruguay” | Principal Investigator |
| 2009 | SSHRC Research Development Initiative Grant | $77,140 | “Northern Communities in a Changing World: Towards a Better Understanding of Global Competition” | Principal Investigator |
| 2009 | SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences | $20,000 | FinnForum IX | Principal Investigator |
| 2008 | SSHRC Aid to Small Universities Grant | $81,500 | “Advanced Institute for Globalization and Culture” | Co-Applicant |
| 2007 | International Development Research Centre | $82,000 | Conference Grant - Canada and Research For Development: Past, Present and Future. | Co-Applicant |
| 2007 | Ontario Arts Council, Northern Arts Grant | $5,000 | Documentary Film: "In Security" | Principal Investigator |
| 2007 | SSHRC International Opportunities Fund | $71,500 | "Adaptation and Resistance to the Information Age in Natural Resource Depdendent Regions in Canada and Norway" | Co-Applicant |
| 2006 | International Development Research Centre | $514,000 | “Intellectual History of International Development Research Centre” | Co-Applicant |
| 2004 | Canadian International Development Agency, Development Information Program | $10,000 | Deborah Fletcher Award for Excellence in Filmmaking on International Development | Principal Investigator |
| 2004 | SSHRC Standard Research Grant | $85,000 | "Protestant Churches, Missonaries and Imperialists on the Central American Frontier" | Principal Investigator |
| 2004 | Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, Video Production Grant | $50,000 | Documentary Film: "Banana Split" | Principal Investigator |
| 2003 | SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences | $20,000 | Finnish Immigrants in the Decade of Depression (1929-1939) | Principal Investigator |
| 2003 | Audio Visual Preservation Trust, Feature Film and Education Program | $11,500 | Multimedia: "The Fatal Flower Project" | Principal Investigator |
| 2002 | Canadian International Development Agency, Development Information Program | $60,000 | Documentary Film: "Banana Split" | Principal Investigator |
| 2002 | International Development Research Centre, Canadian Partnerships Grant | $20,000 | "Bananas Stories" | Principal Investigator |
| 2001 | Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, Video Production Grant | $10,000 | Documentary Film: "Banana Split" | Principal Investigator |
| 1998 | SSHRC Standard Research Grant | $26,000 | "West Indian Experience in Central America" | Principal Investigator |
| 1998 | International Development Research Centre, Canada in the World Grant | $27,000 | "Canada and the World Grant" | Principal Investigator |