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UWinnipeg supports research with more than $500,000 in internal grant funding

During the 2021/22 academic year, The University of Winnipeg’s Research Office supported faculty and student projects and applications with more than half-a-million dollars in funding.

作为一个new assistant professor at UWinnipeg and an early career researcher, internal funding from the Research Office is incredibly useful to help get my lab setup and running so I can start my research program and student training.

Dr. Jean-Pierre Desforges

Over the course of four intakes — June, September, January, and March — internal grants and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) institutional grant supported 121 faculty and six student projects totaling $507,598.

“在过去的一年中,为100多名教师和学生提供支持。我们的许多内部赠款持有人已经能够使用这些资金来完成现有的项目或利用外部赠款的大量资金。”研究与创新副总裁Jino Distasio博士说。“借助一系列支持,我们为早期职业研究人员提供资源,同时也能够帮助希望向全球受众分享他们的发现的教师。”

Internal funding by the numbers:

  • 22Major Research Grants totaling $159,516
  • 3Partnership Development Grants totaling $4,481
  • 37Discretionary Grants totaling $36,691
  • 7Research Workshop and Conference Grants totaling $13,586
  • 3Knowledge Mobilization and Community Impact Grants totaling $17,230
  • 28Travel Grants totaling $40,634
  • 32SSHRC Explore/Exchange Grants totaling $218,210
  • 3Undergraduate Student Research Awards in the Humanities and Social Sciences totaling $15,000
  • 3Undergraduate Student Research Travel Grants totaling $2,250

Supporting early career researchers

Of the 121 faculty projects supported by grants, 62 per cent were awarded to early career researchers. Two early career researchers who had successful grants wereDr. Jessica RileyDr. Jean-Pierre Desforges.

Dr. Riley’sresearch,Formative Dramaturgies: New Play Development Among English Canadian Alternate Theatres 1966-1979,received a SSHRC Explore Grant.

“This SSHRC Explore grant will help fund travel to the archives of several formative Canadian theatre companies focused on new-play development over the past 50 years,” said Dr. Riley. “I’m deeply appreciative of the UWinnipeg Research Office for their support of early career scholars and performing arts research.”

Dr. Rileyis undertaking archival research in support of a monograph, Formative Dramaturgies, which re-examines the histories and legacies of new play dramaturgy as it emerged on a wide scale in Canada between 1967 and 1979.

Little is known about how the aesthetic and ideological values embedded in early approaches to play development shaped the canon of Canadian drama, or about how the ideological coding of early models for dramaturgy have affected the representation of race, sexuality, gender, and other marginalized subject positions both on and off stage.

In order to understand how Canadian theatre has evolved and how it continues to grow at a time when equity in the theatre industry remains an urgent concern,Dr. Rileyaims to understand the histories of dramaturgy in Canada.

Dr. Desforges research,In Vitro Characterization of Risk for Chemicals of Emerging Arctic Concern,主要研究基金会资助。

作为一个new assistant professor at UWinnipeg and an early career researcher, internal funding from the Research Office is incredibly useful to help get my lab setup and running so I can start my research program and student training,” said Dr. Desforges.

Chemical contamination of the environment is a major threat to global health and is of wide societal concern. Hundreds of thousands of chemicals and their mixtures are registered globally. The major challenge to chemical management is identification of persistent, bioaccumulative, long-range transported, and toxic (PBLT) compounds.

The Arctic is a key region in for identification of PBLT compounds and intensive research has focused on identifying chemical threats to the Arctic, termed Chemicals of Emerging Arctic Concern (CEACs). Currently, over 3,000 CEACs have been identified with only a small fraction currently being monitored for and detected in environmental and wildlife samples, and most having no associated data on their toxicity.

The long-term objective ofDr. Desforges研究计划是制定更好的化学管理策略,并改善北极中的野生动植物化学风险评估。


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