Research Grants
For the 2022-2023 grant year (May 1, 2022 – April 30, 2023), FIFSW researchers were awarded a total of $6.1 million in grant funding. Below is a list (in alphabetical order) of successful grants.
New grants starting in the 2022-2023 grant year
| Investigator | Role in Grant | Title | Sponsor | Grant Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rachelle Ashcroft |
PI | Creating a National Vision and Building Capacity for the Role of Social Work in Primary Care | College of Family Physicians of Canada | 2023-2024 |
| PI | Phase 3 – Patients Experiences with Virtual Care in Primary Care across Ontario | Health and Long-Term Care (ON), Min | 2023-2024 | |
| Stephanie Begun |
PI | Sharing in the Healing Journey | Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) | 2023-2025 |
| PI | The CART Access project: Advancing access to abortion for under-served populations through tools for healthcare professionals and people seeking care | Unknown | 2023-2024 | |
| PI | “Transit Access Project (TAP) For Youth Research Project” | Richard B. Splane Award- FIFSW | 2022-2023 | |
| Rupaleem Bhuyan | PI | REVISED: A critical knowledge synthesis of the complex role of digital technologies in perpetuating and addressing gender-based violence among racialized (im)migrant populations | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2022-2023 |
| David Brennan | PI | Community-Centred Responses to 2SLGBTQ+ COVID-19 Mental Health Impacts | Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) | 2022-2024 |
| David Burnes | PI | Implementing and Testing RISE: Addressing a Gap in Community-Based Elder Abuse Response Intervention | Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) | 2023-2025 |
| Shelley Craig |
PI | INQYR Canada-UK Student Summit | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2023-2024 |
| PI | The INQYR Interdisciplinary Education Symposium (INQYRIES) | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2022-2023 | |
| Andrew Eaton | Identity development, attraction, and behaviour of heterosexually-identified men who have sex with men | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2022-2025 | |
| Lin Fang |
PI | Asian Parents Participatory Action (APPA): A Community-University Partnership to Curate an Asian-Centred Approach to Talking about Racism at Home | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2023-2026 |
| PI | The “Invisibilized” Canadians: Exposing the Unseen and Unheard Stories of Anti-Asian Racism | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2022-2023 | |
| Barbara Fallon |
PI | Dnaagdawenmag Binnoojiiyag Child and Family Services: Informing Decisions with Data | Dnaagdawenmag Binnoojiiyag C&FS | 2023-2024 |
| PI | Reflecting our Diverse Scholarship and Communities: Considerations for Research Data Management Practices | Research and Innovation (ON), Min o | 2022-2023 | |
| PI | The Child Welfare Toolkit | Law Foundation of Ontario | 2022-2024 | |
| PI | Durham Children’s Aid Society: The Durham Model Evaluation | Durham Children’s Aid Society | 2023-2025 | |
| PI | Indigenous Youth Leaving Care – From State Care into Homelessness: Prevention and Early Intervention | NCE:Making the Shift (MtS) Network | 2022-2024 | |
| PI | Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect, 2023 (OIS-2023) | Children,Commun & Social Serv(ON),M | 2022-2025 | |
| Kyle Ganson | PI | “Assessing Canadian Regulations of Weight-Loss and MuscleBuilding Dietary Supplements: A Policy Analysis” | Richard B. Splane Award- FIFSW | 2022-2023 |
| PI | Aging, disadvantage and inequality: Building age inclusive futures | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2022-2023 | |
| PI | Child to Parent Violence and Aggression (CPVA): Reviewing the Research | Justice Canada | 2022-2023 | |
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PI | Strengthening Social Work Practice with Youth Using Cannabis | UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO | 2022 |
| PI | A Critical Exploration of Youth Suicide and Systems of Care: Understanding Perspectives of Parents and Caregivers | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2022-2023 | |
| Carmen Logie | PI | Confluency: A flowing together of transdisciplinary and arts-based approaches towards just water futures | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2023 |
| PI | Women Migrants’ Health and Work after COVID-19: An Intersectional and Comparative Study in Malaysia and Thailand (IDRC Woman RISE Initiative 2022) | International Development Research | 2022-2024 | |
| PI | Amazzi bulamu (weather and wellbeing): Climate change, resource scarcity, and pathways to the HIV care cascade among youth living with HIV in Central and Eastern Uganda | CIHR | 2022-2026 | |
| PI | HIV C-4 (Cascade & Climate Change Cohort): Identifying mechanistic pathways from climate-related factors to HIV prevention and care outcomes in rural and urban Tanzania | CIHR | 2023-2024 | |
| PI | Global Health Equity & Social Justice with Marginalized Populations | CRC – SSHRC | 2023-2028 | |
| Notisha Massaquoi | PI | “Brief eHealth Counselling Intervention Effectiveness with Diverse LGBT+ People” | Richard B. Splane Award | 2022-2023 |
| Peter Newman | PI | Intersections of HIV and COVID-19 vulnerabilities and strengths among marginalized populations: A mixed methods study | MITACS(Mathematics of Info Tech & | 2022-2023 |
| Cheryl Regehr | PI | Workplace Violence in a Digital Age: Cyberaggression Against Child Welfare Workers | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2023-2024 |
| Michael Saini | PI | Adapting the Trauma Informed Principles to Family Court: A Survey Examining Professionals Perception | AFCC Ontario | 2023-2025 |
| Izumi Sakamoto | PI | Did the University Students’ Perception of Anti-Asian Racism Change through the COVID-19 Pandemic? An Exploratory Study. | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2023-2024 |
| PI | “Beyond “Wu Nai” (being hopeless about the experiences of racism): Documenting and Analyzing Activism and Advocacy Efforts Against Anti-Asian Racism” | Richard B. Splane Award- FIFSW | 2022-2023 | |
| Harry Taylor | PI | Social Isolation and Loneliness among Racialized Older Canadians | Connaught Fund | 2023-2025 |
| Jia Xue | PI | The use of virtual reality in the study of bystanders’ behaviors for sexual and dating violence | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2023-2024 |
| Daniyal Zuberi | PI | Poverty Reduction in the Peel Region: System Mapping and Community-Engaged Research | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2023-2026 |
All current grants
| Investigator | Role in Grant | Title | Sponsor | Grant Duration |
| Stephanie Begun | PI | The Real TO: Engaging Youth as Researchers and Change Agents in a Tumultuous Time | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2021-2023 |
| PI | An Examination of Homeless Youths’ Longitudinal Aftercare Experiences | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2023 | |
| Rupaleem Bhuyan | PI | Bordering practices in child welfare: Assessing risk for child abuse and maltreatment within non-citizen immigrant families | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2024 |
| David J. Brennan | PI | Examining Gay and Bisexual Men’s acceptability of, and experiences with, HIV Treatment as Prevention Strategies | The Ontario HIV Treatment Network | 2021-2023 |
| David Burnes | PI | What Does Engagement Look Like with Victims of Elder Abuse in Community Support Services? | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2024 |
Esme Fuller-Thomson |
PI | The Well-Being of Older Refugees in Canada: A Mixed-Method Study | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2023 |
| Kyle Ganson |
PI | Muscle-Enhancing Behaviors and Performance-Enhancing Substance Use among Canadian Young People: A Grounded Theory Study | Social Sciences & Humanities-Insight Development Grant | 2021-2023 |
| PI | Biohacking behaviours among adolescents and young adults in Canada | Connaught Fund-New Researcher Award | 2021-2023 | |
| Amanda Grenier | PI | Consent and Substitute Consent to Participate in Research: Ethics and Legal Practice for the Meaningful Inclusion of Canadians Living with Dementia | Alzheimer Society of Canada | 2021-2024 |
| Bryn King |
PI | Digital Storytelling Partnership for Youth Impacted by Dual Pandemics | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2021-2023 |
| PI | Developmental Disruptions: Adolescent Involvement in the Ontario Child Welfare System | Research and Innovation (ON Ministry) | 2018-2023 | |
| Eunjung Lee |
PI | Fostering Socially Just and Culturally Competent Practice (SJCCP) in Social Work Education: Simulation-Based Learning (SBL) using Digital Technologies to Create an Innovative E-learning Space | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2024 |
| Carmen Logie | PI | An innovative approach to resource scarcity: Using participatory mapping to advance planetary health among very young adolescents in Kenya | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2021-2024 |
| PI | Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Ecosocial Approaches to Improve Mental Health Outcomes Among Urban Refugee and Displaced Adolescents and Youth in Uganda | CIHR – Grants | 2021-2023 | |
| PI | Exploring Pathways to Sexual and Reproductive Health in a Cohort Study with Northern and Indigenous Youth in the Northwest Territories, Canada | CIHR | 2020-2025 | |
| PI | A virtual reality intervention to improve mental health literacy among urban refugee youth in Uganda | Grand Challenges Canada-Stars in Global Health | 2021-2023 | |
| PI | Woli Na Kelan (Planetary Health): A multi-method study of refugee adolescent and youth perspectives and aspirations | Social Sciences & Humanities-Insight Grant | 2021-2024 | |
| PI | Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations | CRC – SSHRC | 2018-2023 | |
| Lynn McDonald | PI | Resident-to-Resident Abuse in Long-Term Care: Reporting for Change | CIHR | 2021-2027 |
| Peter Newman |
PI | MFARR-Asia Computer-Assisted Survey Interview and Participatory Video Production Lab | Canada Foundation for Innovation – IOF | 2020-2025 |
| PI | Mobilizing for a Research Revolution to Ensure LGBTIQ Inclusion in Asia: A High-impact, Transformative International Partnership (MFARR-Asia) | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2018-2026 | |
| Amanda Noble |
PI | Youth Homelessness and Sex Trafficking in Canada | NCE: Making the Shift (MtS) Network | 2021-2023 |
| Tanya L. Sharpe | CoPI | Survivors of Homicide Victims and Mental Health Project | Canadian Mental Health Association Ontario | 2021-2023 |
| PI | Invisible wounds: Exploring the experiences of African, Caribbean and Black survivors of homicide victims | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2023 | |
| Micheal Shier | PI | Human Service Organizations and Social Purpose Driven For-Profit Activities | Social Sciences & Humanities-Insight Grant | 2021-2024 |
| Ka Tat Tsang | PI | Exploring the Social Service Needs of Muslims in Ontario: A Community Based Partnership Approach | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2021-2025 |
| Ashley Quinn |
PI | The Cultural Landscape of the Inuit Diaspora: An Exploration of Inuit Culture Outside of Inuit Nunangat | Connaught Fund Community Partnership Research Program Indigenous Stream | 2021-2023 |