Thirty-four projects at York received funding in the latest round of SSHRC’s Standard Research Grants program, announced today at McGill University. In all, 969 projects will be funded at 92 institutions across Canada, with a total value of $81.3 million.

Through these grants, researchers at York will be tackling a wide range of issues important to Canadians such as the development of reputation within small companies, the experiences of second generation immigrants, mental attention in children, raising the age of retirement, and an examination of Canadian cities.

“SSHRC’s investment in humanities and social sciences research allows our scholars to contribute substantially to Canada’s knowledge base, to our culture and to our quality of life,” said David Dewitt, York’s assistant vice president research, social sciences and humanities. “This research helps us to better understand the world around us and the most pressing economic, political and social issues of our time.”

SSHRC is an independent federal government agency that funds leading-edge university-based research across Canada. To ensure only the best projects receive funding, each application is evaluated by a team of independent experts for academic excellence and importance.

A list of York projects follows. For a complete list of awarded given across the country, visit the SSHRC Web site at: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca

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York University – SSHRC 2006 Standard Research Grants Program

Cao, Melanie – Search for the optimal executive compensation contract: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations, $43,414.

Cole, Peter - Stories of the land: Regenerating Lower Stl'atl'imx knowings and practices, $101,533.

Das, Raju – Space of Neoliberalism: New Agriculture, Labor and the Environment, $62,729.

Ehrlich, Susan – Courtroom Language and Critical Discourse Analysis, $53,392.

Fischer, Eileen - The development of reputation in young firms, $168,173.

Frenette, Yves - La lettre dans la diaspora canadienne-francaise, 1840 – 1970, $90,019.

Fudge, Judy - Governing the employment relationship in the new economy: law, regulation, and labour market institutions, $63,304.

Gilbert, Jen - From curiosity to human rights: psychoanalytic investigations of sexuality in early childhood and teacher education, $66,217.

Hanke, Bob – Timescapes of Media Culture, $70,430.

Higgins, Lesley - Gerard Manley Hopkinsa: Confessing the Flesh, $73,896.

Isin, Engin - Citizenship and Ottoman Awqaf, $83,150.

Jenkins, William - Placing Ireland: Mapping the diasporic imaginations of Irish, $40,146.

Kawakami, Kerry - On Becoming Us: The Impact of Approach Orientation on self and target group identity, $102,101.

Keil, Thomas - Exploration and exploitation through corporate venturing, $72,730

King, Ruth - A comparative sociolinguistic study of Acadian French, $93,475.

Klassen, Thomas - Raising the age of retirement: The politics of reforming public and private pensions in Canada, Germany and South Korea, 1995-2005, $74,715.

Lalonde, Richard - Negotiating cultural identities: The experiences of second generation immigrants, $90,281.

Lebrun, Bernard – Auctions with resale, $41,650.

Lightman, Bernard - John Tyndall: The Man of Science in Context, $92,516.

Lindstrom, Varpu - Missing in Karelia: Canadian Victims of Stalin's Purges, $154,028.

Llambias-Wolff, Jaime - The Political Economy of the transition between public and private health care in Chile from 1950 to year 2000, $55,956.

Lovejoy, Paul - Equiano and the abolition of the slave trade, $124,025.

Mitchell, Gail - Knowledge Translation through research-based drama on dementia: Evaluating change in understanding, imaging and action, $155,301.

Mongrain, Myriam - A diathesis-stress model predicting first onsets and recurrences of major depression, and a preliminary test of resilience interventions, $126,670.

Mukherjee, Ananya - Grassroots Networks and Women's struggle against poverty: A study of the womens development network in Costa Rica, $90,801.

O’Reilly, Andrea - Mothers in the academe, $67,811.

Pascual-Leone, Juan - Executive Processes and mental attention in cognitively gifted and mainstream children, $94,649.

Pitt, Alice - Paradoxes of Autonomy in professional life, $104,693.

Rahder, Barbara - Social sustainability, diversity, and public space in three Canadian cities, $103,861.

Roberts, Gordon - Corporate Loan Pricing, $66,591.

Toplak, Maggie - Domain generality in critical thinking: Does reasoning performance map onto real world consequences?, $115,648.

Vosko, Leah - Precarious employment and transnational labour regulation: gender, nationality and labour market insecurity, $92,325.

Warner, Mary Jane - Canadian Modern Dance Choreographers; Documentation and Analysis, $75,451.

Whitfield, Agnes - Hannah Josephson: Translating Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion, $38,676.