More than $5 million awarded to UVic researchers through federal SSHRC programs
July 21, 2026
Twenty-nine UVic-led projects will receive more than $5.1 million from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grants, Partnership Development Grants and Insight Development Grants programs. The funding will support a broad range of projects, from Indigenous governance to health and climate.
“The variety of these projects reflects the breadth of research at UVic and our aspirations to understand and positively impact the lives of people and of the creatures we share the planet with. This funding helps scholars to address local, national and international challenges.”
Alexandra D’Arcy, UVic associate vice president research.
SSHRC 2025 Insight Grants
- John Archibald Explaining variation in third language phonology
- Penny Bryden Canada's constitutional culture: A story we tell ourselves
- Brendan Burke Investigating urban sustainability at ancient Eleon in central Greece (1200-338 BCE)
- Raveendra Chittoor Performance during crises: The determinants and the processes of antifragility
- Jason Colby Sperms and pachyderms: A terraqueous history
- Maneesha Deckha Animal families and interspecies justice
- Ingrid Handlovsky HIV/AIDS crisis: implications for contemporary efforts to resist discrimination
- Tommy Happynook Tasii?akqin ?uyaqhmisukqin (Our Journey, Our Story): Huu-ay-aht perspectives on modern treaty implementation
- Sam Liu Examining the impact of smartphone use on movement behaviours and wellbeing across the transition into emerging adulthood
- Christine Ou Navigating the village: Social support across the perinatal period
- Ekaterina Rhodes Breaking through the slow walk: A mixed-method study of climate delay discourses to design effective and acceptable climate policies
- Brianna Turner Recovery from nonsuicidal self-injury in early adulthood: Testing facilitators and barriers of change in an accelerated longitudinal design
SSHRC 2025 Partnership Development Grants
- Chris Bone Grounded: Integrating land-based learning, digital technologies, and Indigenous masculinity for youth empowerment
- Walter Lepore Formalizing boundary spanning in community-university partnerships
- Jeff Masuda At the nexus of harm reduction, housing justice and law: Towards a France-Canada praxis mobilities collaborative
- Oliver Schmidtke Mnemonic democracy: Collective memory, civic education, and democratic engagement
- Brian Thom Public archaeologies in dialogue: Shaping policy, stewardship, and understanding between Jomon (Japan) and Coast Salish (British Columbia) traditions
SSHRC 2026 Insight Development Grants
- Adebisi Alade African public health initiatives: Decolonizing social development and state-building in colonial Nigeria
- Funmilola Ayotunde Just transition, unjust extraction: Trade unions and the implementation of EU’s due diligence regimes in Africa
- Alexandrine Boudreault-Fornier Attuning through seawater: Multimodal explorations of Puerto Rican coastal heritage under pressure
- James Clay How stress, impulsivity and boredom shape alcohol use in daily life: An intensive longitudinal design
- Eugene Dim Political context, political agency and intimate partner violence against women in Africa
- Jutta Gutberlet From invisible to counted: A community-based assessment of waste pickers’ contributions to the circular economy in Victoria, Canada
- Loren McClenachan Social impacts of lost access for traditional First Nations food-based herring fisheries in the Salish Sea
- Mariel Miller Understanding learner regulation of generative AI in post-secondary collaborative learning and teamwork
- Oliver Schmidtke Imagining independence: Left- and right-wing separatism in Quebec and Alberta
- Nancy Shackelford Shifting settler student experiences through active witnessing of Indigenous resurgence in a colonial space
- Elisabeth Stuart Soft commons: Developing methodologies for holding pattern
- Sarah Wiebe Aftermath governance: Navigating avenues for collaboration with frontline communities and policy makers to address climate emergencies