"By funding these research initiatives and large-scale partnerships, SSHRC is supporting research and talent that are central to quality of life and innovation, and to developing Canada’s future leaders in all sectors of society,” said Ted Hewitt, president, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

On December 16, SSHRC announced research funding for graduate students and postdocs across Canada. Among the recipients are 13 Trent graduate students and postdocs who received $481,500 through the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program and the SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships Program.

These scholarships reinforce Trent’s commitment to research in the social sciences and humanities in Canada. For a full list of Trent’s 12 funding recipients, see below:

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Program:

Jessica Reid, Psychology

• Influence of visiting imprisoned parents on children's attachment, internalizing symptoms, and delinquency

Sarah Milner, Public Texts

• Sin versus science: exploring film adaptations of Frankenstein and their ideological impact

Daniel Worby, Anthropology

• Boyd Island: evidence for a transition in subsistence and settlement from the middle to late woodland period

Sophie Goldberg, Anthropology

• Modelling the spread of the Plague of Justinian in a post-Roman context

Erin Laverty, Psychology

• Virginity beliefs and sexual scripts

Sarah Jessup, Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies

• Workplace bullying and harassment: gendered perspectives

Geoffrey Crane, Applied Modelling and Quantitative Methods

• Emotional intelligence and career longevity in today's temporary world

Melissa Baldwin, Canadian Studies & Indigenous Studies

• Mobilizing intergenerational solidarities through musical encounter

Brent Whitford, Anthropology

• Applied geomatics in archaeology: assessing late neolithic settlement patterns from the Blagoevgrad Basin, Bulgaria

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships Program:

Stephen Campbell

• The everyday politics of labour regulation at Southeast Asian export processing zones

Lisa Janz

• Modelling post-glacial ecology and the dietary role of plants and small animals

Peter Kikkert

• Iqaluktuuttiaq (Cambridge Bay):  a community-based history

Katherine Mullins

• Single women and aging in Canadian fiction

For more information about Graduate Studies at Trent, visit http://www.trentu.ca/graduatestudies/