Grant Recipients

The following is a list of Faculty of Education researchers who have received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the University of Alberta, and various other external sources.

Faculty of Education researchers who have received grants from SSHRC, U of A, and other external sources.

Researcher Name

Description

Sponsor

Total Award

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

2018
Sophie Yohani Psychosocial Adaptation and Integration of Syrian Refugee Communities Using Community Learning for Empowerment Groups Insight Development Grant $239,817
Rebecca Sockbeson Indigenous Knowledge Mobilization: A Purposeful Collaboration Between Indigenous Communities and Higher Education Insight Development Grant $99,602
Marilyn Abbott Portfolio-based Language Assessment in Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) Literacy Classes: The Need for Data to Guide Policy and Practice Insight Development Grant $99,602
Sara Carpenter Post-Secondary Prerequisite: Understanding University Access Initiatives for Adult & Non-Traditional Learners Insight Development Grant $98,524
Jessica Van Vliet A Social Mentalities Framework for Understanding Person-Environment Fit and Well-Being in the Workplace Insight Development Grant $97,369
Carla Peck Thinking Historically for Canada's Future Insight Development Grant $20,000
Phillip Sevigny Engaging Teen Fathers Partnership Engage Grant $24,575

2017

 

Larry Prochner Re-imagining Teaching: Progressive Pedagogies in Experimental Schools in Transcontinental Perspective, 1894-1932 Insight Grant
Lindsay Gibson Small cards, big picture: Constructing students' narrative frameworks in Canadian history Insight Development Grant $71, 769
Lauren Sulz School Sport and Educational Success: Exploring KidSport's Stay-in-School Initiative for Low-Income Youth in Alberta Insight Development Grant $53,045
Maria Cutumisu A Model of Memory for Critical Feedback Insight Development Grant $51,700
Mijung Kim Science and Mathematics textbook writers' hopes for peace and sustainability Insight Development Grant $44, 672
Linda Laidlaw Reimagining literacy education: being literate in the twenty-first century Partnership Development Grant $192,285

2016

 

Sara Carpenter The pedagogy and policy of refugee youth resettlement Connection Grant $24, 760
Dia Da Costa Re-imagining creative economy: transnational histories, local practices, regional struggles Connection Grant $24,438
Heather Brown Modeling the Mathematical Achievement of Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder Insight Development Grant $64,149
Okan Bulut Developing an Interactive Score Reporting System to Improve the Quality of Formative Feedback in Higher Education Insight Development Grant $59,994
Jason Harley Fostering Historical Reasoning, Hope, Empathy, Emotional Engagement and Queer History Awareness with a Mobile Augmented Reality App Insight Development Grant $64,122
David Lewkowich Comics and The Emotional Situation of Learning to Teach: Collaborative Reading and Encounters with Adolescent Life in Graphic Novels Insight Development Grant $59,938
Lynette Shultz Democracy in Transition: Strengthening how citizenship is learned and practiced in "the city" Insight Development Grant $70,388
Bonnie Stelmach School community in rural provincial north: Achieving conceptual clarity in a zombie category Insight Development Grant $63,874
Patricia Boechler Developing a psychological model of learning in 3D virtual environments: guiding principles for educators Insight Grant $322,403
Georgios Georgiou Reading fluency: How does it develop and how can it be fostered? Insight Grant $300,126
Mark Gierl Using automated processes to generate educational test items and their associated solutions and rationales to support formative feedback in mathematics and science Insight Grant $194,166
Jacqueline Leighton Disruptive innovation for teaching and assessing diverse learners: application of the LEAFF model in K-6 Insight Grant $309,941
Carla Peck Thinking Historically for Canada's Future Partnership Grant LOI $20,000
Anna Kirova Cultural brokering with Syrian refugee families with young children: an exploration of challenges and best practices in psychosocial adaptation Targeted Research: Syrian Refugee Arrival, Resettlement and Integration $24,991

2015

 

Diane H. Conrad Partnership development for researching the education of Aboriginal students: a youth exchange through arts & technology - stories of culture, identity, community and place Partnership Development Grant $200,000
Lia Daniels Equipping future teachers with the beliefs and skills needed to sustain adaptive student motivation: the role of motivation interventions SSHRC Insight Grant $349,020
Andre Grace Synchronizing research, policymaking, and practice to assist sexual and gender minority youth to grow into resilience SSHRC Insight Grant $256,888
Margaret Mackey Situated readers in digital times: understanding the role of place in the development of contemporary literate awareness SSHRC Insight Grant $131,111

P Janelle McFeetors

Parents' perceptions of the (not) New Math

SSHRC Insight Development Grant

$72,848

2014

 

Ingrid Johnston Developing a pedagogy of social Justice in the classroom through postcolonial literature SSHRC Insight Grant $405,954
Lynn McGarvey Advancing research methodology in mathematics education for collective learning systems SSHRC Insight Grant $355,375
Christina Rinaldi Early Childhood Parent-Child Interactions: An examination of the stability of parenting across tasks and tme SSHRC Insight Grant $307,118
Ali Shiri Digital Library North: Creating a Path for Information access in Canada's North

SSHRC Insight Grant

$295,817

2013

 

Genevieve Gauthier

What Are Students Learning in Virtual-Cases? Investigating the Validity of Assessment Models

SSHRC Insight Development Grant

$74,839

Dip Kapoor

Untouchability, Casteism and Schooling in Rural India: Exploring Local Response & Resistance

SSHRC Insight Grant

$268,386

Linda Laidlaw

A comparative investigation of pedagogical possibilities of digital tools for family and school early literacy education

SSHRC Insight Grant

$233,699

Larry Prochner

Culture and Practice in Early Childhood Teacher Education in Namibia, Tanzania, and Canada

SSHRC Insight Grant

$199,635

2012

 

 

 

Robert Klassen

Developing tools to predict new teacher effectiveness

SSHRC Insight Grant

$270,042

Alison Taylor

Beyond 'learning for earning': a cross-university study of outcomes for Canadian university students in Community Service Learning programs

SSHRC Insight Grant

$159,088

2011

 

 

 

Marilyn Abbott

Equitable Assessment and Associated Interventions for ESL Learners

SSHRC Standard Research Grant

$47,653

Patricia Boechler

A Model for Virtual World Post-Secondary Transition Programs: Understanding How Virtual Worlds Can Improve Student Outcomes

SSHRC Standard Research Grant

$127,653

Ying Cui

On the Classification Consistency and Accuracy of Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment

SSHRC Insight Development Grant

$61,226

Mark Gierl

Developing and Evaluating Cognitive Models for Diagnostic Assessment

SSHRC Standard Research Grant

$148,502

Mark Gierl

Using Automatic Item Generation to Develop Digital Content for Computerized Assessments in Mathematics and Science

SSHRC Insight Development Grant

$49,799

Andre Grace

 

Growing into resilience: Working in the intersection of research, policy, and practice to study the non-linear, asset-creating processes of variously positioned sexual-minority and gender-variant youth

SSHRC Standard Research Grant

$113,060

Brenda Gustafson

Interacting with multiple dynamic models embedded within digital learning objects: exploring students' understanding of physical and chemical change

SSHRC Standard Research Grant

$116,030

Ingrid Johnston

Engaging Teachers with Canadian Literature for Social Justice

SSHRC Standard Research Grant

$177,655

Linda Laidlaw

Literacy learning in playful spaces: Using multimodal strategies to develop narrative with young learners

SSHRC Insight Development Grant

$66,402

Jacqueline Leighton

The Effect of Attitudes Towards Standardized Testing on Learner Disengagement and the Intention to Drop Out of High School

SSHRC Standard Research Grant

$110,010

Stephen Norris

Teaching High School Science Using Adapted Primary Literature

SSHRC Standard Research Grant

$128,769

Cheryl Poth

Examining beginning teachers' orientations to assessment: A quasi-experimental mixed methods intervention study

SSHRC Standard Research Grant

$24,322

Dinesh Rathi

The Role of Social Media in Management of Knowledge in Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs)

SSHRC Insight Development Grant

$50,567

Lynette Shultz

Living the impact of education for all and good governance: African educators' conceptualizations of citizenship as policy knowledge

SSHRC Standard Research Grant

$109,203

Gregory Thomas

Alberta Journal of Educational Research

SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals

$89,370

Marie-Claire Shanahan

ISSET Space Camp

NSERC

$39,900

Other External Grants

2016

 

 

 

Michael McNally

Broadband Toolkit Development: Regional Stakeholder Consultative Workshops Alberta Economic Development and Trade $3,217

Michael McNally

Development of Alberta Broadband Toolkit Alberta Economic Development and Trade $17,500

Michael McNally

Complying with Privacy Legislation in a Globally Connected Technological World Challenges and Solutions MITACS - Accelerate Internship $15,000

Leila Ranta

Teaching English as a Second Language Taylor & Francis Group - Informa UK Ltd - Education Journals £12,000
Veronica Smith Flexible Pathways to Writing, Developing and Implementing Assistive Technology to Support Students' Academic Writing Skills in Inclusive Classrooms Alberta Education $119,500
Veronica Smith Capacity Building to Bolstor Well-Being Among Early Childhood Educators and the Children They Support in Alberta MITACS - Accelerate Internship $15,000
Catherine Adams MITACS Research Council Board Services Grant MITACS Inc. $30,000
Diane Conrad Decolonizing Learning in Communities Across Canada: Stories of Hope Aurora College $11,900
Diane Conrad Researching the Education of Aboriginal Students Alberta Teachers Association - Educational Research Award $5,000
Darryl Hunter Program Evaluation: ART Project The Society for Safe & Caring $328,060
Kristopher Wells Implementation Plan to Create Welcoming, Respectful and Safe Communities for Sexual and Gender Minority Students Alberta Education $30,000
Kristopher Wells Prevention Early Intervention Supports and Services Alberta Health Services $69,249
Heather Blair Young Indigenous Women's Circle of Leadership The National Indian Brotherhood Trust Fund $25,000
Janice Huber Experience of Urban Aboriginal Families as They Ready Their Children For, and During, Kindergarten Policy Wise for Children and Families (formerly ACCFCR) $39,772
Mijung Kim Argumentation in-the-making in/for Socioscientific Problem Solving Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies (AACES) $5,813
Carla Peck Scoping Review - Aboriginal Women, Domestic Violence, and Homelessness MITACS - Accelerate Internship $15,000
Joe Wu Faculty Attitudes towards the Internationalized Classroom in Chinese Universities MITACS Globalink Research Award $5,000
Martin Mrazik Concussion Diagnosis Improving Clinical Decision Making in Football MITACS Accelerate - Internship $15,000
Rauno Parrila University Certificate in Complex Communication Needs Alberta Education $62,500
Jacqueline Pei FASD for 2016-2017 Canadian Fetal Alcohol Spectrum $60,000
Jacqueline Pei Website Development Scope of Work Policy Wise for Children and Families (formerly ACCFCR) $25,000
Sharla King An Experiential Learning Curriculum to Support the Care of Aboriginal Populations in Continuing Care in Remote Northern Communities. Institute for Continuing Care Education and Research (ICCER) $23,140
Veronica Smith Bilingualism in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Exploring the Impact of Dual Language Learning (Endowment) Autism Society of Edmonton Area (ASEA) - Graduate Student $2329.50 /$4659.00
Martin Mrazik Role of Rehabilitation in Concussion Management: A Randomized, Controlled Trial The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA $50,455 USD

2015

 

 

 

Jacqueline Pei

Longitudinal Assessment of Individuals with FASD

Alberta Centre for Child, Family, and Community Research and the Government of Alberta FASD Cross-Ministry Committee

$80,000

Jacqueline Pei Meeting them Where They're At: Social skills training for adolescents with FASD using gaming formats Neurodevnet Strategic Initiative Award $25,890
Jacqueline Pei Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Research Program: Early life adversity, outcomes, and secondary intervention Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) NeuroDevNet $159,825
Jacqueline Pei Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Research Program: Early life adversity, outcomes, and secondary intervention Women's and Children's Health Research Institute (WCHRI) (matching funds) $60,000
Jacqueline Pei Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Research Program: Early life adversity, outcomes, and secondary intervention Glenrose Hospital Foundation (matching funds) $20,000

2014

 

 

 

Jacqueline Pei

Moving the Mountain - Pilot Study

Alberta Centre for Child Family and Community Research (ACCFCR) Independent Researcher Grant

$40,000

Jacqueline Pei Evaluation of the Solicitor General McDaniel Youth Program Alberta Centre for Child Family and Community Research (ACCFCR) $25,000
Jacqueline Pei Operationalizing recommendations and creating an evaluation framework for the 10 Year FASD Strategic Plan Alberta Centre for Child Family and Community Research (ACCFCR) $24,000
Jacqueline Pei A pilot project on the impact of pre and postnatal risk factors on secondary diagnoses FASD Alberta Centre for Child Family and Community Research (ACCFCR) Seed Grant $10,000
Jacqueline Pei CanFASD Interventions Canadian Foundation for Fetal Alcohol Research $60,000
Jacqueline Pei Experiential Best Practices among FASD Network Coordinators Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research $5,000

2013

 

 

 

Sharla King

Health Workforce Action Plan

Alberta Health & Wellness

$536,666

Andre Grace

fYrefly in Schools Human Rights Citizenship

Education Fund

$50,000

Andre Grace

Family Resiliency Program Phase II Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services

Edmonton Area Child Family Services

$100,157

Damien Cormier

The Wellness, Resiliency and Partnership Project (WRaP)

Edmonton Public Schools

$38,600

Jacqueline Pei

Engaging Youth in Development of Prevention Initiatives in FASD

Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research

$25,000

Jacqueline Pei Working Memory Training Impacts on FASD and Preterm Children Women and Children's Health Research Institute $49,966
Jacqueline Pei FASD MacKenzie housing, Alberta Centre for Child Family and Community Research. Co-Investigator $70,000
Jacqueline Pei Prevention Conversation: A Shared Responsibility Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research $150,000
Jacqueline Pei FASD Community of Practice (CoP) $7,500

Cheryl Poth

Edmonton Public Schools

$15,000

Cheryl Poth

 

NWC Alberta FASD Services Network

$10,000

Cheryl Poth

Alberta Mentoring Partnership Evaluation

Alberta Mentoring Partnership

$15,000

Veronica Smith

Research project to gain a deep understanding of promising practices, implementation strategies and educational benefits/results of technology use within inclusive Junior High/Middle School settings

Alberta Education

$140,000

2012

 

 

 

Christina Rinaldi

ECS Continuum of Supports and Services: Outreach to Preschools and Child Care Programs

Getting Ready for Inclusion Today (GRIT)

$5,000

Kathy Robinson

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Elementary General Music (K-6) in Communities of Color

American Orff-Schulwerk Association

$1,296

Jacqueline Pei

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

BC Public Health Service Authority

$110,000

Lia Daniels

Pre-Service Teachers Responses to Instruction in Motivation Interventions:Feasibility, Usage and Preferences

Alberta Advisory Committee for Educational Studies

$6,000

Andre Grace

Community Outreach Program

United Way Alberta

$16,666

Denyse Hayward

Outcomes that matter for parents of children with severe multiple disabilities. The Cochlear Implant Parent Outcomes Instrument (CIPOI)

Alberta Health Services

$5,000

Jacqueline Leighton

Investigating the Student Learning Outcomes Associated with The Suzuki Approach

Suzuki Charter School Society

$22,688

Michael McNally

DIGILAB; DINS

GRAND Networks of Centres of Excellence

$15,000

Norma Nocente

Student Engagement Through Innovation Learning

Elk Island Public Schools

$10,454

Jerine Pegg

Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of the Relevance of Science

Let's Talk Science

$15,092

University of Alberta Grants

 

Killam Research Fund - Cornerstone Grant

 

 

Maria Cutumisu Developing and Evaluating a Game That Teaches a Computational Thinking Skill KRF Cornerstone Research Small Operating Grant $7,000

Diane Conrad

Addressing Aboriginal Education

KRF Cornerstone Grant

$36,833

Alison Taylor

The Theory and Practice of Community Service Learning at Canadian Universities

KRF Cornerstone Grant

$44,836

K. Jessica Van Vliet

Obstacles to Compassion: Exploring Impediments to Focusing on Compassion Toward and From Other People

KRF Cornerstone Grant

$32,440

Killam Research Fund - Conference Travel Grant

Cheryl Poth

Six Habits of Mixed Methods Researchers and Evaluators Enabling Social Change through Complex Educational Interventions - International Researh Association Conference, Durham City, UK KRF Conf Travel Grant $3,050
Alexandra Fidyk Locating Research in an Animated World: Re-conceptualizing Design - First Lusophone Congress on Western Esotericism, Lisbon, Portugal KRF Conf Travel Grant $2,800
William Hanson Therapeutic Feedback in Therapy: A Conceptual Framework and Case - IX International Congress of Clinical Psychology, Santander, Spain KRF Conf Travel Grant $3,200
Jason Harley Mission Accomplished? Measuring Gamers' Emotion and Cognitive Engagement During and After a Narrative Event - 13th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Zagreb, Croatia KRF Conf Travel Grant $3,200
Maria Cutumisu Choosing versus Receiving Feedback: The Impact of Feedback Valence on Learning in an Assessment Game - 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) 2016, North Carolina, USA KRF Conf Travel Grant $2,000
Marilyn Abbott Strategies for Facilitating the Reading of Peer-Reviewed Applied Linguistics Research within Professional Reading Groups - American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2016 Conference, Florida, USA KRF Conf Travel Grant $2,000

Rauno Parrila

Society for the Scientific Study of Reading 2013 Conference - HongKong - July 10-13, 2013

KRF Conf Travel Grant

$3,000

Jonathan Anuik

Canadian Historical Association 2013 CHA Annual Meeting and 41st Annual Conference: Canadian Society for the Study of Education: Canadian Association for the Study of Indigenous Education - June 1-8/13

KRF Conf Travel Grant

$1,200

Christina Rinaldi

2013 Annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) Meeting, San Francisco, CA April 27 - May 1, 2013

KRF Conf Travel Grant

$1,600

Linda Laidlaw

American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2012 Conference, Vancouver, BC - April 13-17, 2012

KRF Conf Travel Grant

$1,200

Distinguished Visitor

 

Lia Daniels Distinguished Visitor's Fund for Dr. Reinhard Pekrun Oct 2016

EFF Distinguished Visitor Fund

$4,120

Jonathan Anuik

Distinguished Visitor - Marie Battiste February 2014

EFF Distinguished Visitor Fund

$5,099

 

 

Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund

Dwayne Donald Holistic Approaches to Life and Living: A Curricular and Pedagogical Inquiry

Teaching & Learning Enhancement Fund

$31,985
Lia Daniels Is boredom contagious? Examining transmission from instructor to student

Teaching & Learning Enhancement Fund

$15,566

Mark Gierl

Developing a Computer-Based Assessment System to Support the Rapid Expansion of Online Teaching and Learning at the University of Alberta VPA Provost

Teaching & Learning Enhancement Fund

$50,521

Alison Taylor

Evaluating the student outcomes of CSL participation VPA Provost

Teaching & Learning Enhancement Fund

$18,004

 

 

VPR GAP SSHRC Bridge Funding
Marilyn Abbott Establishing, Sustaining and Facilitating Professional Reading Groups in Diverse Adult ESL Programs VPR GAP SSHRC Bridge Funding $5,000
Rebecca Sockbeson Institutionalizing Reconciliation; System Knowledge Mobilization & Indigenous Knowledge Transfer VPR GAP SSHRC Bridge Funding $5,000

 

 

VPR Partnership LOI Grant Fund
Florence Glanfield Researching the Process, Impact, and Sustainability of a Multi-Layered Approach to Developing Capacity for Mathematics Teaching and Learning in Rural and Remote Communities in Tanzania VPR Partnership LOI Grant Fund $10,000

 

 

Indigenous Community Engagement, Research and Learning (ICERL)
Rebecca Sockbeson Indigenous Knowledge Mobilization Indigenous Community Engagement, Research and Learning (ICERL) $50,000

 

 

Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS)
Olenka Bilash Democratic Reform of the Government of Ukraine Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) $15,000
Olenka Bilash Innovation in Ukrainian Education through an online community of practice Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS) $21,500

Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)

CRAfT (Creating Research Archives for Tomorrow) Digital Research Archive Grant
2015
Michael McNally Establishing the Digital Communities Portal and Repository CRAfT Digital Research Archive Grant $5,000
Kule Dialogue Grant
2016
Makere Stewart-Harawira Connecting our Waters: A UN World Water Day Panel Discussion Kule Dialogue Grant $1,000
Carla Peck Thinking Historically for Canada's Future Kule Dialogue Grant $2,000
2015
Janice Huber Experiences in early childhood: Building relational communities Kule Dialogue Grant $640
Alex Da Costa Re-imagining Creative Economy Kule Dialogue Grant $2,000
Michael McNally Digital Futures 2015 Kule Dialogue Grant $2,000
Diane Conrad Researching the Education of Aboriginal Students: A Youth Exchange through Arts & Technology - Stories of Culture, Identity, Community and Place Kule Dialogue Grant $2,000

Research Cluster Grant

 

 

2015
Olenka Bilash Democratic Reform of the Government of Ukraine Kule Institute Research Cluster Grant $100,000
Makere Stewart-Harawira Intersections of Sustainability

Kule Institute Research Cluster Grant

$100,000
2013

Dwayne Donald

Investigating Aboriginal Education Across Four Diverse Aboriginal Communities

Kule Institute Research Cluster Grant

$20,000

2012

Makere Stewart-Harawira

Indigenous Communities as Stewards of Mother Earth: Responding to the Triple Crisis of Sustainability

Kule Institute Research Cluster Grant

$20,000

2011
Diane Conrad Evaluating Youth Outcomes for the "High Risk Youth Uncensored" Program Kule Institute Research Cluster Grant $15,000

Research Cluster Grant Extension

2014
Diane Conrad Creating Together Kule Institute Research Cluster Grant $2,000
Kule Research Team Grant
2016
Linda Laidlaw Digital Practices: An International Comparative Exploration of Children's, Parents' and Teachers' Accounts and Experiences of engaging with digital Tools and Media. Kule Research Team Grant $7,500
Anna Kirova Constructing the Roma as Europe's Other: Investigating the Interplay of Global and Local Factors in the Balkan Region Kule Research Team Grant $7,500
Anna Kirova Constructing the Roma as Europe's Other: Investigating the Interplay of Global and Local Factors in the Balkan Region Kule Research Team Grant $7,500
2015
Linda Laidlaw International perspectives on children's digital media practices Kule Research Team Grant $7,500
Anna Kirova Constructing the Roma as Europe's other: Investigating the interplay of global and local factors in the Balkan region Kule Research Team Grant $7,500
2014
Patricia Boechler Digital Synergies Kule Research Team Grant $7,500
Ingrid Johnston Cultural Practices and Digital Learning Resources Kule Research Team Grant $7,500

Women and Children's Health Research Institute (WCHRI)

 

WCHRI - Innovation Grant

Jacqueline Pei

Working Memory Training Impacts on FASD and Preterm Children

Women & Children's Health Research Institute

$49,100