Research Grants
In 2020-2021 (April 2020 to March 2021), FIFSW faculty secured a total of 48 new grants worth a combined total of $4.9 million. In addition, faculty received an amount of $250k as a supplement for trainee/ramp up costs due to the COVID pandemic. Below is a list (in alphabetical order) of successful grants.
New grants starting in the 2020-2021 grant year
| Investigator | Role in Grant | Title | Sponsor | Grant Duration |
| Rachelle Ashcroft | PI | Recommendations for Patient-Centred Telemedicine: Learning from Patients’ Experiences with Synchronous Virtual Care | Queen’s University, MOHLTC subgrant | 2020-2021 |
| PI | Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 by Generating a Policy-Oriented Action Plan to Strengthen Mental Health Services in Primary Health Care | Splane Awards, FIFSW | 2020-2021 | |
| Stephanie Begun | PI | The Real TO: Engaging Youth as Researchers and Change Agents in a Tumultuous Time | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2021-2023 |
| 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 |
| Tara Black | PI | COVID19 and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Creating an immediate response IPV checklist for child welfare workers during a pandemic | Splane Awards, FIFSW | 2021 |
| Marion Bogo | CoPI | Transforming the Field Education Landscape | University of Calgary – SSHRC subgrant | 2020-2021 |
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 |
| PI | Toronto Investigaytors 2020 | The Ontario HIV Treatment Network | 2020-2021 | |
| PI | KTE for Assessing alternative CBS blood donor deferral screening policies for men who have sex with men | Canadian Blood Services | 2020-2021 | |
| PI | Examining online HIV/STI testing in Ontario for Gay, Bisexual and other Men Who have Sex with Men (GBMSM) | Splane Awards, FIFSW | 2020-2021 | |
| David Burnes | PI | What Does Engagement Look Like with Victims of Elder Abuse in Community Support Services? | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2024 |
| Lin Fang | “My Script, My Voice”: East Asian Youth Action Research on Mental Health & Anti-Asian Racism in the COVID-19 Era and Implications for Social Policy | Splane Awards, FIFSW | 2020-2021 | |
| Esme Fuller-Thomson |
PI | The Well-Being of Older Refugees in Canada: A Mixed-Method Study | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2023 |
| PI | Developmental cluster participant database maintenance | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2021 | |
| PI | Frailty & the Incidence and Course of COVID-19 among 500,000 Older Adults in the UK BIOBANK | CIHR | 2020-2022 | |
| PI | Is the Use of Metformin among COVID-19 Patients with Diabetes Associated with Better Outcomes?: An Analysis of Older Adults in the UK Biobank and an International Workshop | University of Toronto – University College London Joint Call for Collaborative Projects | 2021-2022 | |
Bryn King |
PI | Digital Storytelling Partnership for Youth Impacted by Dual Pandemics | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2021-2023 |
| PI | Documenting the Policy and Practice Contexts for Racial Disparities in the Ontario Child Welfare System | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2021 | |
| PI | The Youth Wellness Lab | Laidlaw Foundation | 2020-2021 | |
| 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 |
| PI | Mapping Out Competencies in Social Justice and Cultural Diversity in Canadian Social Work Education | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2021 | |
| Carmen Logie | PI | Kuwawezesha Vijana (Empowering Youth): An HIV Self-Testing and mHealth Intervention with Refugee Adolescents and Youth | ViiV Healthcare (Canada) | 2020-2022 |
| 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 | Kukaa Salama (Staying Stafe): A Pre-Post Trial of a WhatsApp Social Group for Increasing COVID-19 Prevention Practices with Urban Refugee and Displaced Youth in Kampala, Uganda | International Development Research | 2020-2021 | |
| PI | COVID-19 – Alien Time Capsules as a Remote Participatory Arts-Based Approach to Build Resilience and Disaster Preparedness in the COVID-19 Pandemic among Adolescents in South Africa | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2021 | |
| Faye Mishna | PI | Developing an Online Sexual Harassment and Abuse Guideline and Workshop for Under-18s during the COVID-19 Pandemic in London and Toronto | University of Toronto – University College London Joint Call for Collaborative Projects | 2021-2022 |
| Peter Newman |
PI | An international multi-site, randomized controlled trial of a brief eHealth intervention to increase COVID-19 knowledge and protective behaviours, and reduce pandemic stress among diverse LGBT+ people | International Development Research | 2020-2021 |
| PI | MFARR-Asia Computer-Assisted Survey Interview and Participatory Video Production Lab | Canada Foundation for Innovation – IOF | 2020-2025 | |
| Amanda Noble | PI | Responding to Youth Homelessness Among Racialized Youth in the Midst of a Pandemic | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2021 |
| PI | Responding to Youth Homelessness in the Midst of a Pandemic: Shifting to Collaborative, Prevention-based Services in a Large Urban Setting | NCE: Making the Shift (MtS) Network | 2020-2021 | |
| 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 |
| PI | Becoming Ourselves: Foster parents’ engagement in Indigenous children’s and youth cultural identity | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2022 | |
| Izumi Sakamoto | PI | Canadian Race Relations from the Vantage Point of Chinese Canadians: A Virtual Intergenerational Storytelling Project | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2021 |
| 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 | |
| Ka Tat Tsang | PI | Exploring the Social Service Needs of Muslims in Ontario: A Community Based Partnership Approach | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2021-2025 |
| Dexter Voisin | CoPI | Continuous Traumatic Violence and the HIV Continuum of Care Outcomes Among BMSM | Medical College Wisconsin, NIMH subagreement | 2019-2022 |
| CoPI | Understanding the COVID-19, Racism, and Violence Syndemic and its Effects on COVID-19 Testing Disparities (Supplement for: Continuous Traumatic Violence and HIV Care Continuum Outcomes for Black MSM; R21MH122010-01S1) | Medical College Wisconsin, NIMH subagreement | 2020-2021 | |
| Jia Xue |
PI | An increased risk of family violence during COVID-19 quarantine: strengthening social media-based collaborations | CIHR | 2020-2021 |
| PI | Mining Big Data: How Sexual Assault Nonprofit Organizations in Canada Use Twitter to Achieve Organizational Outcomes | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2022 | |
| Daniyal Zuberi | PI | Do microloans alter women’s empowerment in the immigrant household and community? | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2022 |
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 |
| CoI | Preventing Gender-Based Violence: Youth Healthy Relationship Program | Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre, PHAC subgrant | 2018-2022 | |
| CoI | In Search of Promising Practices | University of Manitoba, SSHRC subgrant | 2016-2021 | |
| Rachelle Ashcroft |
PI | Recommendations for Patient-Centred Telemedicine: Learning from Patients’ Experiences with Synchronous Virtual Care | Queen’s University, MOHLTC subgrant | 2020-2021 |
| PI | Addressing the Impact of COVID-19 by Generating a Policy-Oriented Action Plan to Strengthen Mental Health Services in Primary Health Care | Splane Awards, FIFSW | 2020-2021 | |
| 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 |
| Tara Black | PI | COVID-19 and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Creating an immediate response IPV checklist for child welfare workers during a pandemic | Splane Awards, FIFSW | 2020-2021 |
| Marion Bogo | CoPI | Transforming the Field Education Landscape | University of Calgary – SSHRC subgrant | 2020-2021 |
| 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 |
| PI | Toronto Investigaytors 2020 | The Ontario HIV Treatment Network | 2020-2021 | |
| PI | KTE for Assessing alternative CBS blood donor deferral screening policies for men who have sex with men | Canadian Blood Services | 2020-2021 | |
| PI | Examining online HIV/STI testing in Ontario for Gay, Bisexual and other Men Who have Sex with Men (GBMSM) | Splane Awards, FIFSW | 2020-2021 | |
| 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 | |
| David Burnes | PI | What Does Engagement Look Like with Victims of Elder Abuse in Community Support Services? | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2024 |
Shelley L. Craig |
PI | Student Leader in HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND) and Psychosocial Interventions | The Ontario HIV Treatment Network | 2019-2021 |
| 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 | 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 | |
| Lin Fang | PI | “My Script, My Voice”: East Asian Youth Action Research on Mental Health & Anti-Asian Racism in the COVID-19 Era and Implications for Social Policy | Splane Awards, FIFSW | 2020-2021 |
Esme Fuller-Thomson |
PI | The Well-Being of Older Refugees in Canada: A Mixed-Method Study | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2023 |
| PI | Developmental cluster participant database maintenance | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2021 | |
| PI | Frailty & the Incidence and Course of COVID-19 among 500,000 Older Adults in the UK BIOBANK | CIHR | 2020-2022 | |
| PI | Is the Use of Metformin among COVID-19 Patients with Diabetes Associated with Better Outcomes?: An Analysis of Older Adults in the UK Biobank and an International Workshop | University of Toronto – University College London Joint Call for Collaborative Projects | 2021-2022 | |
| 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 | Digital Storytelling Partnership for Youth Impacted by Dual Pandemics | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2021-2023 |
| PI | Documenting the Policy and Practice Contexts for Racial Disparities in the Ontario Child Welfare System | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2021 | |
| PI | The Youth Wellness Lab | Laidlaw Foundation | 2020-2021 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
| PI | Mapping Out Competencies in Social Justice and Cultural Diversity in Canadian Social Work Education | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2021 | |
| Carmen Logie | PI | Kuwawezesha Vijana (Empowering Youth): An HIV Self-Testing and mHealth Intervention with Refugee Adolescents and Youth | ViiV Healthcare (Canada) | 2020-2022 |
| 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 | Kukaa Salama (Staying Stafe): A Pre-Post Trial of a WhatsApp Social Group for Increasing COVID-19 Prevention Practices with Urban Refugee and Displaced Youth in Kampala, Uganda | International Development Research | 2020-2021 | |
| PI | COVID-19 – Alien Time Capsules as a Remote Participatory Arts-Based Approach to Build Resilience and Disaster Preparedness in the COVID-19 Pandemic among Adolescents in South Africa | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2021 | |
| PI | CTN top up funding for TEACHH | University of British Columbia, CIHR subgrant | 2019-2022 | |
| PI | Arts-based Sexual Consent Education with Adolescents | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2021 | |
| 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 | Advancing Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV Prevention Among Young Women | Research and Innovation (ON Ministry) | 2016-2021 | |
| Lynn McDonald | PI | linkAGEs: Aging in Intergenerational Societies – 2020 Annual NICE Knowledge Exchange | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) Connections Grant | 2020-2021 |
| Faye Mishna | PI | Developing an Online Sexual Harassment and Abuse Guideline and Workshop for Under-18s during the COVID-19 Pandemic in London and Toronto | University of Toronto – University College London Joint Call for Collaborative Projects | 2021-2022 |
| PI | Consensual and non-consensual sexting in adolescence: Challenging conventional wisdom | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2022 | |
| Peter Newman |
PI | An international multi-site, randomized controlled trial of a brief eHealth intervention to increase COVID-19 knowledge and protective behaviours, and reduce pandemic stress among diverse LGBT+ people | International Development Research | 2020-2021 |
| PI | MFARR-Asia Computer-Assisted Survey Interview and Participatory Video Production Lab | Canada Foundation for Innovation – IOF | 2020-2025 | |
| PI | MFARR-Asia Computer-Assisted Survey Interview and Participatory Video Production Lab | Canada Foundation for Innovation & Ontario Research Fund: Research Infrastructure | 2019-2022 | |
| 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 | “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 | |
| 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 | |
| Amanda Noble |
PI | Responding to Youth Homelessness Among Racialized Youth in the Midst of a Pandemic | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2021 |
| PI | Responding to Youth Homelessness in the Midst of a Pandemic: Shifting to Collaborative, Prevention-based Services in a Large Urban Setting | NCE: Making the Shift (MtS) Network | 2020-2021 | |
| 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 |
| PI | Becoming Ourselves: Foster parents’ engagement in Indigenous children’s and youth cultural identity | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2022 | |
| Cheryl Regehr | PI | Improving Social Work Decision Making in Situations of Risk and Uncertainty | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2018-2021 |
| Michael Saini |
Col | Impacts of Shared Parenting on Women and Young Children: The Importance of Differentiating Families Experiencing Domestic Violence | University of Calgary-SSHRC subgrant | 2019-2021 |
| Izumi Sakamoto | PI | Canadian Race Relations from the Vantage Point of Chinese Canadians: A Virtual Intergenerational Storytelling Project | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2021 |
| PI | Arts Organizing as Antidote to State-Based Racial Violence: Imagining Japanese Canadian Genealogies and Relationships Through the Powell Street Festival | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2019-2021 | |
| 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 | |
| PI | Center for Research and Innovation for Black Survivors of Homicide Victims (CRIB) | The Provost’s Office and the Division of University Advancement | 2020-2021 | |
| Micheal Shier | PI | Creating conditions for social innovation: Organizational factors that support cross- and intra-sector partnerships | Research and Innovation (ON Ministry) | 2017-2022 |
| Ka Tat Tsang | PI | Exploring the Social Service Needs of Muslims in Ontario: A Community Based Partnership Approach | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2021-2025 |
Dexter Voisin |
CoPI | Continuous Traumatic Violence and the HIV Continuum of Care Outcomes Among BMSM | Medical College Wisconsin, NIMH subagreement | 2019-2022 |
| CoPI | Understanding the COVID-19, Racism, and Violence Syndemic and its Effects on COVID-19 Testing Disparities (Supplement for: Continuous Traumatic Violence and HIV Care Continuum Outcomes for Black MSM; R21MH122010-01S1) | Medical College Wisconsin, NIMH subagreement | 2020-2021 | |
| Jia Xue |
PI | An increased risk of family violence during COVID-19 quarantine: strengthening social media-based collaborations | CIHR | 2020-2021 |
| PI | Mining Big Data: How Sexual Assault Nonprofit Organizations in Canada Use Twitter to Achieve Organizational Outcomes | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2022 | |
| 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 | Do microloans alter women’s empowerment in the immigrant household and community? | Social Sciences & Humanities (SSHRC) | 2020-2022 |