The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, minister of science, announced $163 million in (SSHRC) funding to support important research across Canada. She made the major announcement at 91亚色鈥檚 Scott Library on September 9, 2016. More than听44 research projects at 91亚色 will receive a total boost of $7 million of the federal funding, including $2.5 million for a unique project that looks at migration resiliency in urban Canada.

Left to right: Robert Hach茅, 91亚色 Vice-President Research & Innovation; Judy Sgro, MP, Humber River-Black Creek; The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science; SSHRC President Ted Hewitt; Valerie Preston, Partnership Grant lead and professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. Photo credit: YFile.

鈥淪ocial sciences and humanities researchers help us to understand issues affecting our daily lives and provide evidence for sound policy-making. The Government of Canada believes that only this broad and holistic approach can lead to true discoveries, innovation and solutions that will help all Canadians, including those who now call Canada home,鈥� said Minister Duncan.

The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science. Photo credit: Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation.

91亚色 geography Professor 听will receive nearly $2.5 million in funding over five years through the SSHRC Partnership Grants program plus an additional $1.2 million in partner contributions for a total of $3.7 million.

鈥�91亚色 has been ranked among the top 100 universities in the world in the humanities and social sciences, so it is wonderful that SSHRC is recognizing the leadership of our researchers with this funding,鈥� said Mamdouh Shoukri, President and Vice-Chancellor of 91亚色. 鈥淲e are particularly delighted for Valerie Preston, whose research in migration and settlement is contributing to 91亚色鈥檚 leadership in that field, for 91亚色 researchers who have received funding through the Insight Grants and Partnership Development Grants Programs, and for our graduate students, who have also received substantial support.鈥�

As Robert Hach茅, 91亚色鈥檚 Vice-President Research & Innovation, said "SSHRC鈥檚 investment in research excellence in the social sciences and humanities at 91亚色, as well as their support for the next generation of scholars and discoverers, are an affirmation that 91亚色 continues to distinguish itself in the breadth and impact of its scholarship, generating knowledge with real-world impact across a full range of disciplines. I want to congratulate today's award recipients and wish them every success as they move forward with their research programs."

Professor Preston, as the lead researcher for the study 鈥淢igration and Resilience in Urban Canada: Discovering Strengths and Building Capacity,鈥� and her team will do a comparative analysis of resilience among migrants settling in two of Canada鈥檚 major immigration gateways 鈥� Toronto and Montreal 鈥� as well as large and small municipalities in Ontario and Quebec, and central and suburban locations in Toronto.

Valerie Preston, Partnership Grant lead and professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. Photo credit: Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation.

鈥淥ne of the goals of the study is to look at how to improve settlement outcomes and to enhance well-being in the face of economic, political, social and cultural challenges. But also, to pilot strategies that facilitate the efforts of social institutions to promote resilience,鈥� said Preston of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

The research team will examine how social institutions influence resilience and boost migrants鈥� capacity to settle successfully in Canada. The project was developed in collaboration with CERIS, Ontario鈥檚 leading migration studies network, and includes 18 partners from Canadian universities, community-based NGOs, and municipal, provincial and federal government departments and agencies.

The September 9 announcement includes $3.2 million in Insight Grants for more than听25 researcher projects across multiple Faculties, including the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, the Faculty of Environmental Studies, the Schulich School of Business and Osgoode Hall Law School.

Three 91亚色 researchers also received $573,391 in funding under the to foster new research and related activities with new or existing partners, as well as to design and test new partnership approaches.

A complete list of the SSHRC funding grants can be found here:

听is known for championing new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Through cross-discipline programming, innovative course design, diverse experiential learning and a supportive community environment, our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Located in Toronto, 91亚色 is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 295,000 alumni.

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The grant is designed to assist women with university studies, which will lead to careers helping to improve the quality of other women's lives 鈥� a goal Roosen plans on achieving. Her doctoral research will include in-depth analysis of body image and eating concerns in young women with physical disabilities.

Through a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods, Roosen plans to survey disabled women to find out if they have 鈥渇aced many barriers to treatment or to making healthy lifestyle choices; do they see their experiences as different from those of able bodied people; and do they feel misunderstood.鈥�

According to the research literature, women with disabilities have an increased risk of developing an eating disorder, but these same women are not showing up at programs designed to deal with the issue, says Roosen, who studies in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health.

鈥淥besity is higher in physically disabled women, as there is a lack of access to various healthy lifestyle programs and lack of ability for physical activity,鈥� says Roosen. Doctors often encourage these women to diet, yet they鈥檙e not given appropriate accessible resources. 鈥淗earing their stories has made me want to work with them, as I felt it was an area that is being overlooked.鈥�

Having conducted a clinical practicum at the Centre for Addiction & Mental Health for women with eating disorders, she has witnessed the lack of involvement of disabled women first-hand. That鈥檚 when she began to ask questions, such as: are eating disorders programs set up to handle a disabled person? She believes the answer will be no.

Roosen knows intimately some of the barriers experienced by young physically disabled women. She was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at the age of 12. During her time at 91亚色, she has been a strong advocate for disabled students.

She has published two chapters on body image and one article on disability and psychotherapy, and frequently speaks to the community on disability awareness, eating disorders and body image in women.

Roosen has previously won the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award and a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

For more information about the grant for Canadian Women Graduate students, visit the website.

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