Congratulations to the UBC Anthropology researchers who were awarded funding through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)’s 2024 Partnership Development, Insight, and Insight Development Grants competitions.
Partnership Development Grants
Partnership Development Grants provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector.
Dr. Camilla Speller
, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Project: Xaʔaʔgaɬ: Documenting the long-term history and Indigenous management of Pacific salmon populations in K’ómoks traditional territory
Insight Grants
Insight Grants support research excellence in social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging scholars and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years.
Dr. Vinay Kamat
, Professor, Department of Anthropology
Project: Climate change, ecological risk, and adaptive capacity among artisanal fishing communities in coastal Tanzania
Dr. Helena Zeweri
, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Project: The colonial history and present of Australia’s transnational border regime
Insight Development Grants
Insight Development Grants support research in its initial stages. The grants enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches and/or ideas.
Dr. Zahra Hayat
, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Project: ‘Pharmaceutical intellectual property’: Patents, trade secrets and access to medicines
Dr. Elif Sari Ozcelik
, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Project: Privatizing LGBTQ+ asylum: An ethnographic exploration of Canada’s private refugee sponsorship
Dr. Diana Moreiras Reynaga
, Honorary Research Associate, Department of Anthropology
Project: New insights on Mesoamerican human sacrifice from two postclassic Mesoamerican civilizations through decolonial, proteomic, and isotopic approaches
