The use of police body-worn cameras is just one of 16 research projects at Lakehead University approved for $750,000 in federal research funding.
The body camera initiative is being conducted at LU’s Orillia campus.
Also being funded is a project to study medically assisted dying in Ontario.
A complete list of the faculty and student research awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada can be found below:
Faculty Awards
Insight Grants (three to five-year grants)
Dr. Lori Chambers, Department of Women’s Studies, R. v. Ryan: A Case Study of Coercive Control, $33,540.
Co-investigator
· Dr. Nadia Verrelli, Laurentian University
Dr. Charles Z. Levkoe, Department of Health Sciences, Civil Society and Social Movement Engagement in Food Systems Governance, $244,910.
Co-investigator(s)
· Dr. Amanda K.D. Wilson, Saint Paul University
· Dr. Patricia Ballamingie, Carleton University
· Dr. Peter Andree, Carleton University
Collaborator(s)
· Dr. Ana Moragues-Faus, Cardiff University
· Diana Bronson, Food Secure Canada
· Larry McDermott, Plenty Canada
· Dr. Nicholas J. Rose, William Angliss Institute
· Dr. Phil Mount, Sustain Ontario
Dr. Alana Saulnier, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Police Adoption of BWCs in Canada: Building Qualitative Understandings of Officer Perceptions and Constructing a National Policy Template, $62,866.
Co-investigator(s)
· Dr. Carrie B. Sanders, Wilfrid Laurier University
Collaborator(s)
· Dr. William McCarty, University of Illinois at Chicago
Insight Development Grants (two-year grants)
Dr. David Thompson, School of Nursing, Opening the Black Box of Rural Interprofessional Collaboration: A Multiple-case Study Examining the Relationship Between Health Workers and Environments in Rural Settings, $68,805.
Co-investigator(s)
· Dr. Erin Cameron, Faculty of Medicine, West Campus
· Dr. Ian Newhouse, School of Kinesiology
· Dr. Nisha Sutherland, School of Nursing
Dr. Katherine Kortes-Miller, School of Social Work, Centre for Education and Research on Aging and Health, The Untold Stories of MAiD in Ontario: Family and Loved Ones’ Experiences, $65,826.
Co-investigator(s)
· Dr. Arne Stinchcombe, Saint Paul University
· Dr. Kimberley Wilson, University of Guelph
Dr. Erin Cameron, Faculty of Medicine, West Campus, Preparing Students for Rural Careers: Examining the Learning Processes and Outcomes in Rural Medical Education in Canada, $58,800.
Co-investigator(s)
· Dr. Hoi Cheu, Laurentian University
· Dr. Mirella Stroink, Department of Psychology
Student Awards
SSHRC – Doctoral Fellowships Program
· Elizabeth Boileau, PhD Educational Studies, How do Forest School Experiences Shape Children’s Empathy and Care for the Environment? (12 months – $20,000.00).
· Samantha Chong, PhD Clinical Psychology The Investigation of the Facial Feedback Hypothesis Among Pathological Narcissists (24 months – $40,000.00).
· Melissa Twance, PhD Educational Studies, The Ceremony of Place: Mazinaabikiniganan as Sites of Resistance and Renewal (24 months – $40,000.00).
Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s Program
($17,500 for one year)
· Bronson Carver, Education A+Vengers: Empowering Indigenous Students through Superheroic Re-Storying, May 2019-April 2020.
· Robin Fay, Education, Community Arts & Community Healing in Thunder Bay, September 2019 – August 2020.
· Joshua Hawkins, Psychology, Quality of Life (QoL) and Integrated Care Management for Complex Cancer Patients, September 2019 – August 2020.
· Abigale Kent, Health Sciences, Closing the Northern Gap: Stakeholder Perspectives on an eHealth App for Maternal Mental Health in Northwestern Ontario, May 2019-April 2020.
· Sarah Friesen, Archaeological Science, The Evolution of Human Locomotor Behaviour: Shape Variation in the Chimpanzee Foot, September 2019 – August 2020.
· Stephanie Potter, Environmental Sciences, Towards Management Recommendations for the Franklin Wreck Sites, May 2019-April 2020.
· Shakira Mohammed, Psychology, Promoting Mattering to Support Adjustment in First-Year University Students, September 2019 – August 2020.
