Understanding the perceptions and experiences of police board members, empowering Indigenous health in treaty territory, exploring Canada's human right to housing, and conceptualizations of insects in Canadian culture are among a range of research projects at Trent University receiving more than $1 million dollars in new federal funding.  

“Receiving research and scholarship funding from Canada’s national granting programs validates the novel and meaningful direction of the research programs at Trent,” said Dr. Holger Hintelmann, vice president, Research & Innovation at Trent. “Our faculty and students are dedicated investigators and an investment in their work is an investment in outcomes with impact.” 

The funding announced in September comes from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) Insight Grants, Insight Development Grants, as well as the SSHRC and National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Graduate Scholarships Programs for master's and doctoral students.  

Here is the full list of funding awarded to Trent researchers and their projects:

Insight Grants - supporting research excellence in the social sciences and humanities

• Dr. Whitney Lackenbauer - Pukiktalik / One Striped Like a Caribou: Historical Dimensions of Mounted Police-Inuit Relations in Inuit Nunangat, $212,109

SSHRC Insight Development Grants  - building knowledge and understanding about people, societies, and the world. 

• Dr. Eric Guiry - Unraveling colonial ecologies of wetland agriculture, $70,801 
• Dr. Kristy Buccieri - Trauma-Informed Knowledge Mobilization: Creating Guidelines for Researchers, $54,947 
• Dr. Erick Laming - Police Governance in Ontario: Understanding the Perceptions and Experiences of Police Board Members, $61,866 
• Dr. Anne Pasek - The Critical Climate Tech Initiative, $74,995 

Scholarships and Fellowships (Tri-Agency) help high-achieving undergraduate and early graduate studies students receive high quality training to advance and develop their research skills.   

SSHRC: Doctoral Fellowships

• Samantha Roan - Empowering Indigenous Health in Treaty Territory: Resources for Healthcare Professions, $60,000 

SSHRC: Canada Graduate Scholarships—Doctoral Program

• Samantha J. Blondeau - Who Has the Right to Housing? Exploring Canadas' Human Right to Housing, $105,000 
• Brooke Lavallee - A Longitudinal Study Strengthening Indigenous Identity through the Aboriginal Head Start in Urban/Northern Communities Programs in Ontario, $105,000 
• Bre O'Handley - Strengthening LGBTQ+ resilience in a time of resurging hate: A longitudinal study examining how psychological sense of community improves mental well-being among LGBTQ+ young adults, $105,000 
• Jazmine Raine - Navigating Identities and Empowering Futures: Understanding the Experiences of Older 2SLGBTQIA+ Adults in Ontario for Policy Advancements and Clinical Training Innovations, $105,000 
• Luka Stojanovic - From Silence to Empowerment: Restorying Experiences of Chronic Pain Among Older Adults in Ontario, $105,000 

SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarships—Master’s Program

• Taylor Anthony - The Effect of Shame on Risk-taking Behaviours in Adolescents, $17,500 
• Stephanie Aultman - Looking at the Forest Through the Trees: Traditional Ecological Knowledge in North-Central Belize, $17,500 
• Lilja Best, Conceptualizations of Insects in Canadian Culture, $17,500 
• Grant Ginson - Underwater Archaeological Site Detection in the Great Lakes Through Sidescan Sonar: A Case Study on Main Duck Island, Lake Ontario, $17,500 
• Caylin Graham - How Social Psychology Researchers Interpret and Use Effect Sizes, $17,500 
• Lorna Miessner - The underwater Importance of the Kawartha Lake Region $17,500 
• Tiana Vandendort - Are we phubbing our kids? Investigating the role parents play in their children's digital use, $17,500 

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships-Doctoral

• Emma Kaszecki - Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program, $21,000/year  
• Erin Stewart - Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program, $21,000/year 

NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral

• Meghan Ward - Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program, $35,000/year 

NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master's Program

• Mikaella Grant, $23,834 
• Ashlyn Kernaghan, $23,834 
• Daniel Vandeloo, $27,000 

Canadian Institutes of Health Research Canada Graduate Scholarships - Master's Program

• Leah Steinke, $27,000.