Research Grants
Collectively, FIFSW faculty members currently hold 92 grants totaling almost $5 million.
Included in this total are 28 new grants, totaling $1.9 million, that faculty received in the 2019/2020 academic year.
All current grants
| Investigator | Role in Grant | Title | Sponsor | Grant Duration |
| Ramona Alaggia | PI | Ripple Effects: Examining the Impact of the #MeToo Movement on Sexual Violence Disclosures in Canada | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2022 |
| PI | Fostering Resilience in Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence Going Through Separation and Divorce, 3rd European Domestic Violence Conference, Sept 1-4, 2019, Oslo, Norway | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2020 | |
| CoI | Preventing Gender-Based Violence: Youth Healthy Relationship Program | Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre, PHAC subgrant | 2018-2022 | |
| CoI | Uncovering Pathways and Processes of Child Sexual Abuse Disclosures | McGill University, SSHRC subgrant | 2017-2019 | |
| CoI | In Search of Promising Practices | University of Manitoba, SSHRC subgrant | 2016-2021 | |
| PI | Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence: Expanding Our Understanding of Vulnerabilities and Resiliencies | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2014-2018 | |
| Rachelle Ashcroft | PI | Patient Perspectives of the Incentives and Disincentives for Quality Mental Health Care in Ontario Family Health Teams | Connaught Fund | 2017-2019 |
| PI | Incentives and disincentives for treating depression and anxiety in Ontario Family Health Teams | CIHR – Grants | 2016-2018 | |
| Stephanie Begun | PI | An Examination of Homeless Youths’ Longitudinal Aftercare Experiences | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2023 |
| PI | Connect-2-Choice: Using Human-Centred Design Thinking to Enhance Resources Available to Women Accessing Violence Against Women and Homelessness Services | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2020 | |
| PI | Pregnancy and Family Planning among Young Women Experiencing Homelessness in Canada: Exploring Youths’ Attitudes, Experiences, and Needs for Reproductive and Sexual Health Information and Services | Connaught Fund | 2018-2020 | |
| PI | Exploring the Potential Benefits of Engaging Homeless Youth in Group-Based Improv Training | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2018-2019 | |
| Rupaleem Bhuyan | N/A (travel award) | Dignity and Immigration (invited panelist) and ‘Migrant caregivers’ right to family reunification in Canada: A framing analysis of public policy and migrant caregivers’ demands. Presentation at Ann Meeting of Law Society Assoc, MA | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2020 |
| PI | Contesting citizenship and belonging: Social Workers’ Response to India’s Citizenship Act to incorporate undocumented Bangladeshi into the body politic | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2018-2019 | |
| PI | The Praxis of Migrant Transformative Resilience: Understanding how collective action among immigrant communities impacts on resilience and system change. | York University subgrant, SSHRC Partnership Grant, Building Migrant Resilience in Urban Canada: Discovering Strengths and Building Capacity | 2018-2019 | |
| CoI | Analysis of governance structures and policy discourses shaping migration and resilience: an examination of Canada’s federal, provincial and municipal governments | York University subgrant, SSHRC Partnership Grant, Building Migrant Resilience in Urban Canada: Discovering Strengths and Building Capacity | 2018-2020 | |
| David J. Brennan | PI | Streamlining HIV Prevention for Gay and Bisexual Men in Toronto: Exploring Task-Shifting Opportunities | Connaught Fund | 2019-2021 |
| PI | Shifting Paradigms: Developing the Next Generation of HIV/STI Prevention Tools for Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men — HIV Endgame Leader Awards – Chair Award | The Ontario HIV Treatment Network | 2019-2022 | |
| PI | Measuring the impact of an innovative community-based peer-led app intervention to address the sexual health of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men | CIHR – Grants | 2018-2019 | |
| PI | Assessing alternative CBS blood donor deferral screening policies for men who have sex with men | Canadian Blood Services | 2017-2019 | |
| PI | The Investigaytors Initiative | The Ontario HIV Treatment Network | 2017-2019 and 2019-2020 | |
| PI | Exploring the sex- and health-seeking practices within evolving online environments of gay, bisexual, two-spirit and other men who have sex with men in Ontario: The role of online outreach for prevention and care | CIHR – Grants | 2016-2019 | |
| PI | A Mixed Method Exploration of Sexual Behaviour, Social Networks and Health Services Engagement among Younger Gay, Bisexual, and other Men who use the Internet to Seek Sex with Men (MISM) in Ontario | Cdn Foundation for AIDS Research | 2014-2019 | |
| PI | OHTN Applied HIV Research Chair: Examining Emerging Technology to Promote Optimal Wellness for Marginalized Gay & Bisexual Men | The Ontario HIV Treatment Network | 2014-2019 | |
| David Burnes | PI | Toward the Development of Evidenced-Based Adult Protective Services Practice: Implementation of a Service Planning/Intervention-Phase Model | Administration for Community Living (US) | 2019 |
| PI | Understanding the Causes, Consequences, and Severity of Elder Mistreatment: A Longitudinal, Population-Based Study | National Institutes of Health (US) | 2018-2020 | |
| Co-PI | Developing a Taxonomy of Successful Case Outcomes for Elder Abuse Interventions | National Institute of Justice | 2018-2019 | |
| PI | Addressing the Challenges of Client Retention and Service Utilization in Elder Abuse Interventions | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2017-2020 | |
| PI | Goal Attainment Scaling – A Client-Centered Measure of Success in Elder Mistreatment Adult Protective Services | Elder Justice Foundation | 2016-2018 | |
| Shelley L. Craig | PI | Facilitating the Resilience of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth: An Infrastructure to Leverage Research and Technology | Canada Foundation for Innovation | 2019-2020 |
| PI | Mobilization LGBTQ+ Conocimento: The Inaugural INQYR Student Symposium (TISS-Mexico) | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2020 | |
| PI | The intersecting cognitive and aging needs of HIV-positive older adults: Implications for social work practice | CIHR – Awards | 2017-2018 | |
| PI | [F1]inding Support: Connecting LGBTQI2S Youth to High-Quality, Online Health and Mental Health Resources | CIHR – Awards | 2017-2018 | |
| PI | Project AFFIRM: Delivering Affirmative Coping Skills Programs to Prevent HIV and Hepatitis C | Public Health Agency of Canada | 2017-2022 | |
| PI | Queery’ing Resilience: Leveraging information & communication technologies to negotiate gender and sexual minority youth identity and wellbeing within diverse global contexts | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2017-2025 | |
| PI | Canada Research Chair of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth | CRC – SSHRC | 2016-2021 | |
| Barbara Fallon | PI | Canadian/First Nations Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect/FNIS | Assembly of First Nations | 2018-2022 |
| PI | Understanding Developmental Trauma to Inform Policy and Practice for Vulnerable Children and Their Families | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2018-2019 | |
| PI | 2018 Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child OIS-2018 | Children and Youth Services (ON) | 2017-2020 | |
| PI | Ontario Child Abuse and Neglect Data System: Performance Indicator | Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Society | 2017-2020 | |
| PI | Tracking Trajectories for Vulnerable Children | Canada Foundation for Innovation | 2016-2020 | |
| PI | Canada Research Chair in Child Welfare | CRC – SSHRC | 2016-2021 | |
| CoI | Rights for Children and Youth Partnership: Strengthening Collaboration in the Americas | Ryerson University, SSHRC subgrant | 2016-2021 | |
| PI | Understanding the Influence of Organizations on Child Welfare Service Delivery | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2016-2019 | |
| PI | Highland Shore’s Children’s Aid Society | Highland Shores Children’s Aid Society | 2015-2019 | |
| Lin Fang | PI | “This is my Regent Park”: Perspectives from Young People | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2020 |
| PI | Understanding the Impact of the Ridgeway Community Court | Erin Mills Youth Center | 2017-2019 | |
| Esme Fuller-Thomson | PI | From Surviving to Flourishing: Factor Associated with Optimal Well-Being among Childhood Physical and Sexual Abuse Survivors | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2016-2019 |
| Amanda Grenier | Co PI | CC1 K-MOB Research: Understanding and Enacting KMb | NCE: AGE-WELL | 2016-2020 |
| David Hulchanski | PI | Neighbourhood Inequality, Diversity, and Change: Trends, Processes, Consequences, and Policy Options for Canada’s Large Metropolitan Areas | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2012-2021 |
| Bryn King | PI | Developmental Disruptions: Adolescent Involvement in the Ontario Child Welfare System | Research and Innovation (ON Ministry) | 2018-2023 |
| PI | Promoting Attachment and Mitigating the Risk of Infant Maltreatment among Young Expectant Mothers Involved in the Child Welfare System | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2018-2021 | |
| PI | Developmental Disruptions: Adolescent Involvement in the Child Welfare System in Ontario | Connaught Fund | 2017-2019 | |
| Eunjung Lee | PI | A mapping review of empirically supported treatments (ESTs) for trauma | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2020 |
| Carmen Logie | PI | Social Ecological Approaches to Research on Care for HIV (S.E.A.R.C.H.): A pilot study of an ecological momentary intervention to improve antiretroviral therapy adherence with gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Jamaica | CIHR – Grants | 2019-2020 |
| PI | Fostering Open eXpression among Youth (F.O.X.Y.) and Strengths, Masculinities and Sexual Health (S.M.A.S.H.): Exploring Pathways to Sexual and Reproductive Health in a Cohort Study with Northern and Indigenous Youth | CIHR – Grants | 2019-2020 | |
| PI | CTN top up funding for TEACHH | University of British Columbia, CIHR subgrant | 2019-2022 | |
| PI | TEACHH: Transgender women removing healthcare barriers to engagement in the HIV prevention and care cascades: The development and pilot study of Transgender Education for Affirmative and Competent HIV and Healthcare | CIHR – Grants | 2018-2019 | |
| PI | Tushirikiane (Supporting Each Other): Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Novel HIV Self-Testing Delivery Approaches with Urban Displaced and Refugee Adolescent Girls in Uganda | CIHR – Grants | 2018-2021 | |
| PI | Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity and Social Justice with Marginalized Populations | CRC – SSHRC | 2018-2023 | |
| PI | Exploring Grassroots Knowledge and Coalition Building Across Sexual Rights Social Movements | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2018-2020 | |
| PI | Developing a Community-based, Interdisciplinary Research Agenda to Advance HIV Prevention and Care Cascades in Refugee Settlements in Uganda | CIHR – Grants | 2017-2018 | |
| PI | Understanding syndemics and HIV/STI vulnerability among Indigenous and Northern youth in the Northwest Territories | CIHR – Grants | 2016-2019 | |
| PI | Advancing Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV Prevention Among Young Women | Research and Innovation (ON Ministry) | 2016-2021 | |
| PI | Social ecologies of resilience and teen dating violence among Aboriginal and Northern youth in the Northwest Territories | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2016-2020 | |
| PI | Digital Storytelling and Mobile Media Lab | Canada Foundation for Innovation | 2015-2020 | |
| Lynn McDonald | PI | “S/AGE– Social dimensions of AGEing”: 2019 Annual NICE Knowledge Exchange | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2020 |
| PI | InKind: Intergenerational Knowledge Innovation and Dissemination Network | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2020 | |
| PI | “Transitions – Aging Across the Life Course”: 2018 Annual NICE Knowledge Exchange | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2018-2019 | |
| PI | The Invisible Epidemic: A Spotlight on the Opioid Crisis Among Seniors | CIHR – Grants | 2018 | |
| Faye Mishna | PI | Consensual and non-consensual sexting in adolescence: Challenging conventional wisdom | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2022 |
| PI | #SocialWork: Informal ICT Use as Adjunct to Traditional Face-to-Face Practice | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2016-2020 | |
| Peter Newman | 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 |
| PI | Systematic Review and Meta-ethnography of the Literature on Bullying Victimization of Youth based on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2018-2019 | |
| PI | The ‘Phi-Nong’ Project: Development and Pilot Testing of a Culturally Adapted, High-impact HIV Preventive Intervention with Young Men who have Sex with Men and Transgender Women in Chonburi Province, Thailand | CIHR – Grants | 2017-2021 | |
| PI | “Soft like Silk, Pliable like Bamboo”: Practicing Resilience-in-Context— A multi-method study of resilience with sexual and gender minority youth in Thailand | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2017-2021 | |
| Cheryl Regehr | PI | Social and Physiological Influences on the Development of PTSD Among Public Safety Communications Personnel (PSCP) | CIHR – Grants | 2019-2020 |
| PI | Improving Social Work Decision Making in Situations of Risk and Uncertainty | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2018-2021 | |
| Michael Saini | PI | Coparenting on the margins: Exploring the experiences of precariously involved parents | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2020 |
| Izumi Sakamoto | PI | Many faces of Japanese Canadians: Remembering inter-generational trauma and renewing cultural identity through activism, art practice and community-building | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2017-2020 |
| Tanya L. Sharpe | PI | Online Screening and Early Intervention to Prevent Suicide among Middle-Aged Men | U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) | 2015-2019 |
| PI | Support Male Survivors of Violence –Baltimore (SMSV-Baltimore) | Baltimore City Health Department, Office of Youth Violence Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) | 2015-2020 | |
| Micheal Shier | PI | Creating conditions for social innovation: Organizational factors that support cross- and intra-sector partnerships | Research and Innovation (ON Ministry) | 2017-2022 |
| PI | Creating conditions for social innovation: Factors that support cross- and intra-sector partnerships with direct social service nonprofits | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2017-2020 | |
| Ka Tat Tsang | CoI | Intra-group dynamics and social exclusion: Experience of Mainland Chinese immigrants to Canada | University of British Columbia, SSHRC subgrant | 2017-2020 |
| Charmaine C. Williams | CoI | Reducing HIV vulnerabilities and Promoting resilience among self-identified heterosexual African, Caribbean and Black Men in Ontario | Ryerson University, CIHR subgrant | 2018-2019 |
| PI | United we stand, divided we falter: Advancing a family-centred agenda for caregiving research. | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2017-2020 | |
| Jia Xue | PI | Information Communication Technologies and Attitudes towards Sexual Assault: An Internet-based Survey of U.S. and Canadian College Students | Connaught Fund | 2019-2021 |
| Daniyal Zuberi | PI | Social Policy and Urban Poverty in Canada | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2017-2019 |
| PI | Addressing Employment Barriers and Advancing Gender Equity: Creating Employment Ladders and Supporting the Advancement of Visible Minority Immigrant and Refugee Women Working in Canada’s Healthcare System | CIHR – Grants | 2015-2018 |