McMaster researchers awarded $5.2M in federal funding

McMaster researchers are being awarded for their excellence and impact through investments from the federal government.

Eleven researchers received nearly $2.9 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF). Fifteen researchers were awarded a total of over $1.6 million in Insight Grants and eleven were awarded a total of $713,000 in Insight Development Grants.

Read the full story and find the full list of recipients below.

CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) Grant

JELF grants support world-class research and technology development in universities across Canada through investments in research infrastructure, including facilities and equipment, that enable researchers to conduct leading-edge studies in their field.

These are the McMaster recipients and their projects.

• Emily Choy, Faculty of Science: Innovative Avian Mobile Laboratory to Study the Direct and Indirect Effects of Climate Change and Pollution on Birds
• Cecile Fradin, Faculty of Science: Single photon counting confocal microscope for time-resolved fluorescence studies of gene transcription
• Chelsea Gabel, Faculty of Social Sciences: The Indigenous Digital Dialogue Lab
• Peter Gross, Faculty of Health Sciences: Characterizing Mechanisms of Thrombosis and Hemostasis using Multiphoton Intravital Microscopy
• Niko Hildebrandt, Faculty of Engineering: Laboratory for Advanced Nano-Optical Biosensing
• John Iversen, Faculty of Science: Brain Mechanisms of Rhythm Perception: New Methods to Understand the Impact of the Motor System on Auditory Perception
• Chris Morton, Faculty of Engineering: Advancing Energy Systems for use in Unsteady and Turbulent Environments
• Onaizah Onaizah, Faculty of Engineering: Laboratory for the Development and Deployment of Magnetically Actuated Soft Robots for Medical Applications
• Shakirudeen Salaudeen, Faculty of Engineering: Development of the Bio-Resources Engineering Laboratory
• Muhammed Fethullah Simsek, Faculty of Science: Space-time Mechanisms of Pattern Control during Vertebrate Embryo Segmentation
• Samantha Wilson, Faculty of Health Sciences: Infrastructure to Enable High-dimensional Genomic and Epigenomic Analyses to Understand Placental Dysfunction

SSHRC Insight Grants

Insight Grants support both emerging and established scholars as they conduct research that addresses complex issues about individuals and societies, informing the search for solutions to societal challenges.

These are the McMaster recipients and their projects.

• Amir Akbari, DeGroote School of Business: Do investors protect key biodiversity areas abroad?
• Yair Berson, DeGroote School of Business: From me to we: A neurophysiological approach to the study of team formation
• Elif Bilgic, Faculty of Health Sciences: Joy and pain in observed assessments: Improving workplace- and simulation-based assessments in the age of competency-based medical education
• Narat Charupat, DeGroote School of Business: The endogenous relationship between corporate decisions and Tobin’s q
• Catherine Frost, Faculty of Social Sciences: Rethinking state recognition law and practice
• Rumen Kostadinov, Faculty of Social Sciences: Worst-case regret in bargaining
• Andrea Lawlor, Faculty of Social Sciences: Building trust in trade: Measuring the differentiated effects of physical and digital trade on marginalized communities
• Bruce Newbold, Faculty of Science: Older adult migration and mobility: Data driven insights
• Alice Pinheiro Walla, Faculty of Humanities: Kantian foundations for global freedom of movement
• Stephanie Premji, Faculty of Social Sciences: Claim suppression of occupational injuries and illnesses: Connecting workers’ compensation policy and practice to workers’ lived experiences
• Pau Salvador Pujolas Fons, Faculty of Social Sciences: The economic cost of extracting the Oil Sector in Canada
• Gajendran Raveendranathan, Faculty of Social Sciences: Parental transfers for college, altruism, and post-secondary education policy
• Erin Reid, DeGroote School of Business: Improving women’s careers in women-dominated professions
• Celia E. Rothenberg, Faculty of Social Sciences: Canada’s Holocaust Torahs: Contemporary Judaism, Holocaust remembrance, and antisemitism
• Jonathan Zhang, Faculty of Social Sciences: Economic impacts of newborn exposure to maternal opioid use

SSHRC Insight Development Grants

Insight Development Grants are designed to support research in its initial stages, or the work of those who wish to explore new research questions, methods or approaches.

These are the McMaster recipients and their projects.

• Aytak Akbari-Dibavar, Faculty of Humanities: Queer hope and futures: A critical ethnographic study of diasporic queer art and activism
• Lyndsey Beutin, Faculty of Humanities: Enacting new modes of representation through place-based knowledge: Public memory and Black history sites in Canada and the US
• Daniel Cameron, Faculty of Science: Feeling the music together: how sound and social factors drive movement dynamics on the dance floor
• Maria Gintova, Faculty of Social Sciences: Future of work in the public service
• Kai Huang, DeGroote School of Business: Improve the sustainability of food bank operations in a post-pandemic era
• Andrea Lawlor, Faculty of Social Sciences: Measuring trust: Analyzing the decline in Canadians’ confidence in non-partisan government institutions
• Stephanie Marciniak, Faculty of Social Sciences: Developing an ethically-informed ancient DNA resource toolkit for future Residential School investigations
• Jin (Iris) Wang, DeGroote School of Business: Rising temperatures and financial resilience: assessing the impact of climate change on household finances
• Syrus Ware, Faculty of Humanities: Revisiting Activist Portraiture: Explorations of Contemporary Black Activism and World Building in Canada
• Amanda Wissler, Faculty of Social Sciences: Investigating the demographic effect of pandemics on existing diseases: The 1918 flu and tuberculosis
• Tommy Wu, Faculty of Social Sciences: Mapping the Ethnocultural Dimensions of Platform Work: The Work Experiences of App-based Chinese Food Delivery Workers in the Greater Toronto Area