Stephen Gaetz (right), professor and associate dean in the Faculty of Education, has received more than $2.5 million in funding over seven years to lead 鈥淐anadian Observatory on Homelessness鈥�, with more than 27 researchers 鈥� including Professor Janet Mosher at Osgoode Hall Law School, Professor Valerie Preston in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and Professor Stan Shapson in the Faculty of Education 鈭� and 29 partner organizations. The project, a non-partisan research and policy partnership, aims to evaluate current policy directions and programmatic approaches to preventing and reducing homelessness, address key policy questions, and support the development and implementation of effective and sustainable solutions to homelessness in communities across Canada. The goal is to mobilize research on homelessness so it has a greater impact on policy and practice, leading to more effective solutions to homelessness. The project, which will also receive more than $2.5 million in matching funding and contributions from partnering organizations, will leverage the collaborative, research and knowledge mobilization capacities of participating individuals and organizations.

Anna Hudson (left), professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts, has received more than $3.5 million over six years to lead a major project titled 鈥淢obilizing Inuit Cultural Heritage: a multi-media/multi-platform re-engagement of voice in visual art and performance鈥�, with 10 researchers 鈥� including Professor Susan Dion in the Faculty of Education and Professor Angela Norwood from the Faculty of Fine Arts 鈥� and nine partner organizations. The goal of the project is to conduct collaborative research on the contribution of Inuit visual culture, art and performance to Inuit language preservation, social well-being and cultural identity. The project will address the current disconnect for Inuit today between orality 鈥� being the voice that defines the self in relation to others 鈥� and materiality 鈥� being the environment in which one lives well together through three primary objectives: access to advanced information and communication technologies, connection of Inuit voice to objects of Inuit cultural heritage and expanded creation of Inuit cultural capacity. It will receive an additional $1.9 million in matching funding and contributions from partnering organizations.

Leah Vosko (right), Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender and Work and political science professor, LA&PS, has received more than $2 million in funding over five years to lead a major national project with 33 researchers 鈥� including Professor Mark Thomas in the Department of Sociology and Professor Eric Tucker at Osgoode Hall Law School 鈭� and 16 partner organizations. The project, titled 鈥淐losing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Employment Standards Protection for People in Precarious Jobs鈥�, will examine the role of employment standards enforcement in ensuring minimum conditions in areas such as wages, working time, vacations and leaves for workers in precarious jobs in Ontario, characterized by job insecurity, low income and limited access to regulatory protection. The objectives of the project, which will receive more than an additional $1.3 million in matching funding and contributions from partnering organizations, are to map the nature and scope of employment standards violations and document enforcement practices to identify regulatory challenges and develop alternative models of enforcement that may be applied in Ontario and other jurisdictions within Canada and internationally.

鈥淲e are delighted by the results of these recent SSHRC competitions, enabling 91亚色 to maintain our track record in leading the country in the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada鈥檚 large-scale awards competitions valued at $1 million or more,鈥� said Robert Hach茅, 91亚色鈥檚 vice-president research and innovation. 鈥淭he projects led by 91亚色 Professors Stephen Gaetz, Anna Hudson and Leah Vosko enable our researchers to work together with research partners to address persistent, social and economic challenges facing our society today. It will also enable our researchers and graduate students to make important contributions to our country鈥檚 knowledge base.鈥�

Two 91亚色 researchers were also awarded more than $397,000 in SSHRC funding through the Partnership Development Grants program.听The program encourages applicants to work collaboratively with partners to develop research in the social sciences and humanities.听This funding will support partnerships between 91亚色 researchers and Canadian and international universities, a charitable organization and an international association.

Gary Goodyear, federal minister of state for science and technology, announced the funding on Friday, May 31, at the launch of the annual Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences.听 In total, more than $63 million is being awarded over a period of seven years to support 78 research teams across the country through SSHRC鈥檚 Partnership Grants and Partnership Development Grants. An additional $104 million from SSHRC鈥檚 Talent Program will support more than 3,700 master鈥檚, doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships and fellowships.

An analysis conducted by the Strategic & Institutional Research Initiatives Unit, in the Office of Research Services at 91亚色, revealed that between 2006 and 2013, 91亚色 researchers received more SSHRC awards valued at $1 million or more than any other institution in Canada. SSHRC鈥檚 large-scale awards offered between 2001 and 2013 have included the Community-University Research Alliance (CURA), Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI), the Strategic Knowledge Clusters and the SSHRC Partnership Grants.

For a complete list of Partnership Grant and Partnership Development Grant awards, visit the website.

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Through the use of interactive, computer-assisted health-assessments, Professor Farah Ahmad hopes to foster equity in health care, especially at the intersections of gender, ethnicity and migration. Ahmad will present her research and discuss how embracing eHealth innovations can boost community empowerment as part of the 91亚色 eHealth Alliance Lecture Series.

The lecture, 鈥渆Health Innovations to Address Health Inequities: A Case of Computer-Assisted Health-Assessment in Primary Care,鈥� will take place Thursday, Feb. 16, from 3 to 4pm, at 402 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building.

Farah Ahmad

鈥淓quity in health-care access is a key social determinant of population health,鈥� says Ahmad, who is based in the Faculty of Health鈥檚 School of Health Policy & Management. 鈥淔ostering equity mechanisms is more salient today than ever before due to the challenges of economic recession and changing demographics.鈥�

One way to embrace eHealth is by using interactive computer-assisted health-assessments in primary care for prevention and health promotion. Her recent research demonstrates that these kinds of assessments can enable patients to disclose socially stigmatized issues, such as partner violence and compromised mental health, as well as assist providers to offer needed care and referrals.

Ahmad鈥檚 action research on eHealth for psychosocial healthcare re-orientation takes place at the critical intersections of gender, ethnicity and migration. It is grounded in principles of social science includes quantitative and qualitative studies with inner city women, refugees and health-care providers. She will highlight the potential to develop integrated care models as an important pathway for simultaneous actions on the multiple health determinants that improve life conditions.

Ahmad is affiliated with the Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael鈥檚 Hospital as an associate scientist and with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Strategic Training Initiatives on Health Research on Health, Care, Place & Technology as a mentor. She held several prestigious fellowships, including awards from the CIHR during her doctorate and post-doctorate.

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Professor Pat Armstrong, a distinguished research professor of sociology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS); Professor Isabella Bakker in the Department of Political Science in LA&PS; Professor Rishma Dunlop in the Faculty of Education and in the Department of English in LA&PS; and Professor Bernard Lightman in the Department of Humanities, LA&PS, have all been inducted into the society as Fellows.

鈥淥n behalf of the 91亚色 community, I would like to offer our sincere congratulations to four of our faculty members on being named as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada,鈥� said President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri. 鈥淭his prestigious recognition is well-deserved as Drs. Armstrong, Bakker, Dunlop and Lightman are leading scholars who have made outstanding contributions in research in their fields.鈥�

The society has elected 78 new Fellows, including two Foreign Fellows, and one Honorary Fellow to its ranks for 2011.听The newly elected Fellows will be officially inducted on Saturday, Nov. 26, during a ceremony at the Ottawa Convention Centre.听

Election to the academies of the Royal Society of Canada is one of the highest honours awarded to听Canadian scholars in the arts, humanities and sciences.

Pat Armstrong (right) is an internationally renowned sociologist with expertise in health care and women鈥檚 health, social policy, and gender and work.听She has co-authored numerous books on health policy, including They Deserve Better: The Long-Term Care Experience in Canada and Scandinavia, Women鈥檚 Health: Intersections of Policy, Research and Practice, and Critical to Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services, among others.听Armstrong is the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institutes of Health Research Chair in Health Services and Nursing Research and an executive member of both the 91亚色 Institute for Health Research and the Graduate Program in Health Policy and Equity.听She is the principal investigator for a major collaborative research initiative project titled 鈥淩e-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices,鈥� which is funded by the Social Sciences听& Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Isabella Bakker (left) teaches International Political Economy, Women and Politics and Public Finance.听A leading global expert in her field, Bakker鈥檚 research examines the interplay between feminist perspectives and international public policy, with a focus on how macroeconomics and fiscal policy affect questions of gender and social justice.听Bakker鈥檚 published work includes:听Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective, Power, Production and Social Reproduction: Human In/security in the Global Political Economy, Beyond States and Markets:听The Challenges of Social Reproduction and The Strategic Silence: Gender and Economic Policy.听She has been a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at 91亚色 since 1986, and has held visiting professorships at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of California Santa Barbara and the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, among other institutions.听Bakker is a Trudeau Fellow and was named Fulbright New Century Scholar in 2004.听She is the principal investigator of a SSHRC-funded project 鈥淏udgeting for Women鈥檚 Human Rights in Canada鈥�.

Rishma Dunlop (right) is an award-winning Canadian poet, playwright, essayist, and fiction writer.听She is founding editor of the international online literary journal Studio.听Dunlop鈥檚 poetry collections include: White Album (2008), Metropolis (2005), Reading Like a Girl (2004) and The Body of My Garden (2002).听Next month, her fifth book, Lover Through Departure: New and Selected Poems will be published. 听Known for her innovative research that merges scholarly inquiry with artistic production, Dunlop has taught interdisciplinary seminars on research and artistic creation for over a decade. 听In 2009 to 2010, she was awarded the prestigious Canada-US Fulbright Research Chair at the Virginia Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University.听She won the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry in 2003, and her non-fiction and poetry have been short-listed for the CBC Literary Awards. She is currently principal investigator on听the SSHRC research initiative on poetry of witness, human Rights and transitional justice.听She is an interdisciplinary scholar, cross-appointed to 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Education and the Department of English, where she was coordinator of the Creative Writing program from 2007 to 2011.

Bernard Lightman (left) is an internationally renowned historian and currently the editor of Isis, the quarterly journal of the History of Science Society.听He is also director of the Institute for Science and Technology Studies at 91亚色.听Lightman鈥檚 area of expertise is the cultural history of Victorian science.听He is editor of the Pickering and Chatto Press monograph series, titled 鈥淪cience and Culture in the Nineteenth Century鈥�, in which听14 books have been published.听His publications include: The Origins of Agnosticism, Victorian Popularizers of Science, Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain and Victorian Science in Context, among others. Currently, Lightman is working on a biography of the physicist John Tyndall, and he is the founder of an international correspondence project to collect and publish Tyndall鈥檚 letters.听The project is being funded by the Mellon Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

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Right: Sheila Cavanagh

The by Libido Productions, which Cavanagh founded last year, is a verbatim play about the secret sex life of the bathroom, in particular LGBTQ experiences in Toronto鈥檚 public facilities.

The monologues will take place as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, starting tonight at 10:30pm at Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace, 16 Ryerson Ave., Toronto. Tickets cost $10 at the door or $11 in advance through the 听or by calling 416-966-1062.

Performances of the play, directed by Megan Watson and featuring Hallie Burt, Tyson James and Chy Ryan Spain, will run on Saturday, July 9 at 7:30pm, Monday, July 11 at 3pm, Tuesday, July 12 at 8:30pm, Wednesday, July 13 at 2pm, Thursday, July 14 at 10:30pm and Sunday, July 17 at 4:30pm.

Based on interviews completed for her book (see YFile, Jan. 12)听the personal monologues also illuminate the history of the gendered rooms. In the tradition of The Vagina Monologues and The Laramie Projects, Queer Bathroom Monologues uses interpersonal narrative to bring the social life of the bathroom to the stage.

The play features multi-dialogue and solo performances to capture a range of gendered and sexualized experiences in the toilet. They include never-before-told stories that span from the devastating to the sublime, the traumatic to the passionate, the mundane to the curious, the comic and everything in between.

For more information, visit the website.

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