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Active External Research Grants and Awards in Fiscal Year 2012-2013

 

Research Capacity Building Grants

Research Infrastructure

Research Operating Funds

Student Research Internships & Awards


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Research Capacity Building

 

Researcher, Department,
Co-Researcher
Project Name External Funding Source & Grant Program Name Total Amount Awarded for the Entire Project
Sarah Dudas, Canada Research Chair
Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Shellfish Aquaculture Ecosystem Interactions Canada Research Chairs Secretariat $500,000
Grant Murray, Canada Research Chair Canada Research Chair in Coastal Resource Management
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Canada Research Chairs Secretariat $500,000
Research & Scholarly Activity Office Creating Capacity: Strengthening Initiatives SSHRC - Aid to Small Universities $90,000
Research & Scholarly Activity Office Indirect Costs Program Indirect Costs Secretariat $242,301
Research & Scholarly Activity Office Mobilizing Connections and Building Capacity 2011-12 BCIC - Service Plan $84,126
Research & Scholarly Activity Office
Building Capacity: Strengthening Initiatives SSHRC - Institutional Grant (SIG) $7,486

 

Research Infrastructure

 

Researcher, Department, and Co-Researcher Project Name External Funding Source & Grant Program Name Total Amount Awarded for Entire Project
Sarah Dudas, Canada Research Chair Shellfish aquaculture in an ecosystem context: bottom-up and top-down interactions CFI Leaders Opportunity Fund $124,633
Sarah Dudas, Canada Research Chair Shellfish aquaculture in an ecosystem context: bottom-up and top-down interactions BCKDF Matching Funds $124,312
Richard Lane, English,
Daniel Burgoyne, English
MeTA: Media Text Assemblage Applications Development for Canadian Fiction CFI Leaders Opportunity Fund (LOF) $55,526
Richard Lane, English,
Daniel Burgoyne, English
MeTA: Media Text Assemblage Applications Development for Canadian Fiction BCKDF Matching Funds $55,526
Grant Murray, Canada Research Chair
Lead:S.Kim Juniper, University of Victoria
A University-Based Vessel and ROV Platform for Multidisciplinary Ocean Research on Canada's West Coast" CFI Leading Edge Fund  
Bill Pennell, Fisheries & Aquaculture Programs Centre for Shellfish Research Phase II: Shellfish Aquaculture Deep Water Research Laboratory and Field Facility BCKDF $900,000

 

Research Operating Funds

 

Researcher, Department, and Co-Researcher Project Name External Funding Source & Grant Program Name Total Amount Awarded for Entire Project
John Anderson, Criminology,
Patrick Konkin, Health & Human Services
Youth Inclusion Project - Evaluation HIIYE'YU LELUM Society, Duncan BC $17,500
Duane Barker, Fisheries & Aquaculture

Co-applicants: Simon Jones, Pacific Biological Station
Kyle Garver, Pacific Biological Station
Defining the ecological and immunological role of sea lice
in the propagation and progression of pathogens among
farmed salmonids in British Columbia.
NSERC - Strategic Project Grants Supplemental Competition in Aquaculture and Capture Fisheries  $413,417
Brian Dick, Physics/Engineering/Astronomy



Engineering Link
NSERC - PromoScience  $12,900
Paige Fisher,
Education
Increasing Literacy Outcomes and Learner Confidence in Remote Rural Schools in British Columbia Ministry of Education $200,000
David Gaumont-Guay, Biology Carbon sequestration in managed forest and grassland ecosystems in western Canada NSERC - Discovery Grant $90,000
Chris Gill, Chemistry,
Erik Krogh, Chemistry
New Directions and Applications of Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry (MIMS) NSERC - Discovery Grant $175,000
Erik Krogh, Chemistry,
Carol Bob





Awareness of Climate Change Through Education and
Research
NSERC - PromoScience


$50,100

Jeff Lewis, Geography,
Erik Krogh, Chemistry

Climate Change Education and Social Implications SSHRC - Public Outreach Grants: Dissemination (Environmental Issues) $28,000
Lynne MacFadgen, Centre for Continuing Studies Take back your sidewalks: creating pedestrian-friendly communities for seniors CIHR - Café Scientifique $3,000
Linda McDonell, BC Regional Innovation Chair in Aboriginal Early Childhood Development,
Wendy Beaton, VIU Master's in Educational Leadership Student
Exploring transitions of children (Aboriginal children in particular) from early learning and care environments into Kindergaten Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre $1,800
Laurie Meijer Drees, First Nations Studies,
Melody Martin, First Nations Studies,
Dana McFarland, Library Administration
A Digital Indigenous Knowledge Resource: Collaboratively Creating Protocols for Central Vancouver Island
SSHRC - Aboriginal Research Development Grant
$12,500
Rachel Moll, Education

Wendy Nielsen, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong; Cedric Linder, Physics Education Research, Uppsala University.
Learning and Teaching Sciences in the 21st Century: Realities and Possibilities of Social Media.
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SSHRC - Insight Development Grant $52,850
Jennifer Mullett

Lead Community Representative: Mr. John Rampanen, Working Group Member, Vancouver Island Coastal Communities Food Network Representative
Sarah Fletcher, Researcher & Facilitator
Fiona Devereaux, Aboriginal Health Branch Advisor
Erin Rowsell, Aboriginal Health Branch Advisor
Erin Lutz, Canadian Diabetes Association Advisor & Knowledge User
Prevention and Preservation: Digital Harvest Stories Vancouver Foundation $145,300
Jennifer Mullett Bearing Gifts- Building on the Success of the Digital Harvest Project with Aboriginal Youth Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Planning Grants - PA: Community-based Primary Healthcare $24,858
Grant Murray, Canada Research Chair
Lead: Dr. Ben Koop, University of Victoria

Genomics in Lice & Salmon (GiLS)

Genome BC, Applied Genomics Innovation Program $67,778
Grant Murray, Canada Research Chair

Co-Director is Nsiah-Gyabaah, Sunyani Polytechnique -
GHANA
Dr. Abiud L. Kaswamila, College of African Wildlife
Management
Dr. Donald G. Reid, University of Guelph
Dr. Ken Hammer, Vancouver Island University
Dr. Lawrence B. Antwi, Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology
Dr. Leslie A. King, Vancouver Island University
Dr. Nicole L.Vaugeois, Vancouver Island University
Dr. Philip Dearden, University of Victoria
Dr. Rick Rollins, Vancouver Island University
Dr. Rosaline R. Canessa, University of Victoria
Mr. Bruce K.Downie, Kesho Trust
Mr. Eli Enns, Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation
Mr. John J. Mason, Nature Conservation Research Centre
Ms. Sabine Jessen, Canadian Parks and Wilderness
Society, BC Chapter
Collaborator: Dr. Iam Perry, Fisheries & Oceans Canada
Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction: A Canada-Africa
Research and Learning Alliance
International Development Research Council (IDRC)
SSHRC

International Community-University Research Alliance
(ICURA)

$1,000,000
Grant Murray, Canada Research Chair
Lead: Dr. Thierry Chopin,
UNB

CIMTAN - Domain 3: Economic analysis and social
implications Project 2: Social Implications of IMTA

NSERC - Strategic Network $30,100
Grant Murray, Canada Research Chair

Lead:
Memorial University of Newfoundland: Barbara Neis
Community-University Research for Recovery Alliance (CURRA) SSHRC, Community-University Research Alliance (CURA)  
Chris Pearce, Fisheries & Aquaculture Domain 1 of CIMTAN project: Environmental system performance and species interactions. Project 6: Can filter-feeding bivalves ingest planktonic sea lice, leading to reduced lice numbers on cultivated salmon? NSERC - Strategic Network $59,500
Chris Pearce, Fisheries & Aquaculture Domain 1 of CIMTAN project: Environmental system performance and species interactions Project 1: quantifying the capture and conversion efficiencies of species being considered for organic extraction in open-water IMTA systems NSERC - Strategic Network $44,875

 

Student Research Internships & Awards

 

Researcher, Department, and Co-Researcher Project Name External Funding Source & Grant Program Name Total Amount Awarded for Entire Project
Laura Buzzard, Liberal Studies Graduate

Holding award at McMaster University - Master's of Arts in English
At the Limits of Knowledge: Approaches to the Transcendent in Later Heidegger and Medieval Mysticism SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's Award $17,500
Toni Gore, Anthropology Graduate

Holding award at University of Toronto- Master's of Arts in Medical Anthropology
Western Discourse on Genital Cutting SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's Award $17,500
Catherine Lucas-Conway, David Lumley and Heather Spaven,
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Supervisor: Ann Holroyd
P.A.R.T.Y. (Prevent Alcohol Risk-related Trauma in Youth) Program Evaluation: Does a Keynote Speaker Change Risk Related Behaviour in Youth? CIHR - Health Professional Student Research Award Program $4,905
Alison Pitcher, English Graduate

Holding award at University of British Columbia- Master's of Library and Information Studies
Re-innovating library databases for children in a digital world SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's Award $17,500

David Ross, English Graduate

Holding award at York University - Master's of Arts

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Technology and Readers: Cultural Responses to the Digitization of Children's Literature SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Master's Award $17,500

 

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