Congratulations to the Internal Research Grant Fund (IRGF) winners! IRGF is designed to support eligible faculty in developing their research programs through pilot projects, large-scale applications, and other projects qualified for internal research funds. See program guidelines and submission requirements for more information on how you can qualifyWWFaFaDFFall 2024 Award Recipients
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Carol Armstrong | Stripes in the cerebellum: exploring a new model | $7,000 |
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Breda Eubank Jared Fletcher (Co-Investigator) |
Development of a high-fidelity computerized decision support system for a provincial shoulder clinical care pathway (MAP SHOULDER) | $7,000 |
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Peter Choate Christina Tortorelli (Co-Investigator) |
The narrative experiences of mothers impacted by birth alerts: An exploratory study |
$7,000 |
|
Sandra Goldsworthy Nabil Rombough (Co-Investigator) Sylwia Ciezar Andersen (Co-Investigator) Patricia Prince (Co-Investigator) |
The impact of pet therapy on anxiety reduction among undergraduate and graduate nursing students |
$7,000 |
|
Heather MacLean Roberta Catena (Co-Investigator) |
Exploring Cross Cultural Undergraduate Nursing Students Understanding of Team Communication and Patient Safety in Virtual Simulation | $7,000 |
| Roberta Lexier | Encampments on Campus: Pro-Palestinian Occupations at Canadian Universities | $7,000 |
|
Michele Wellsby Cass Foursha-Stevenson (Co-Investigator) |
Auditory Versus Articulatory Word Learning | $7,000 |
| Lauren Dwyer | Shaping Agency: The Effect of User Communication Styles on Autonomy and Decision Support in Intelligent Conversation Agent Interactions | $7,000 |
| Gabriel Jarry-Bolduc | Implementing derivative-free optimization techniques in the open-source programming language called Python | $7,000 |
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Trevor King | The cardiorespiratory response to exercise in wildfire smoke | $7,000 |
| Dylan Webb | Towards Sustainable Organometallics: Synthesis of Complexes Bearing Cannabinoid Derived Ligands | $7,000 |
| Elisabeth Richardson | Comparative genomics of lipid droplet-associated genes across eukaryotic diversity | $7,000 |
| Yasaman Amannejad | Studying Performance of Split and Federated Distributed Machine Learning Models | $7,000 |
| Jennifer Scott | Environmental change and early hominins in rift-valley lakes of the Baringo Basin, Kenya | $7,000 |
| Robin Owen | Phorid fly parasitism of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) in southern Alberta | $7,000 |
| Tatiana Rogasevskaia | The role of the novel NCKX5 protein in skin pigmentation |
$7,000 |
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Giuliana Harvey | Understanding the Meaning of Psychological Harm Experienced by Undergraduate Nursing Students in Simulation | $7,000 |
| Khosro Salmani | Canada Privacy Label for IoT Devices: Designing Transparency for Digital Trust | $7,000 |
| Jared Fletcher | The efficiency of performing mechanical joint work in vivo | $7,000 |
| Antoine Eche | The Circulation of Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century: An Examination of the Role of French Translations of Travel Books | $7,000 |
| Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire | The Dolores Slow Archaeology Project | $7,000 |
| Muhannad Ayyash | “From 'Indigeneity' to 'Arrivants': Palestinian-Canadian Solidarities Towards Indigenous Political Activism in Canada.” | $7,000 |
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Jeella Acedo | Characterization of a Novel Antimicrobial from Streptococcus Mitis | $5,000 |
| Nick Strzalkowski | The Impact of Hypoxia on Standing Balance Following Visual and Vestibular Perturbations | $5,000 |
| Paul Johnston | Finding Fault - Implications of Fault-Controlled Eruptive Muds on Animal Communities of the Burgess Shale | $5,000 |
| Eric Chalmers | Building a Brain-Inspired Artificial Intelligence to Model Human Learning and Disorders | $10,000 |
| Benjamin Daniels | Paleogeographic Reconstruction of Southern Alberta During the Early Cretaceous Epoch: Implications for Subsurface Reservoir Characterization | $5,000 |
| Rebecca Gilmour | Preparing a Large Roman Period Skeletal Collection from Austria for Curation at Mount Royal University | $5,000 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Janet Miller | Listening to Lived Experience - Stories of Identity from those Living with Chronic Pain | $5,000 |
| Charlotte Curtis | Curating and Tagging a Database of Digital Sewing Patterns |
$5,000 |
| Mohamed El-Hussein | Barriers and Facilitators to Collaborative Care that Midwives Encounter in the Provision of Care for High-Risk Pregnancies and Childbirth in Alberta | $10,000 |
| Robert Catena | Speaking Up for Success: A Pilot Project using Simulation Based Education to Support Healthcare Teams with Communication Skills to Facilitate Patient Safety | $7,346 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Karen Ho | Strategies to Facilitate a Meaningful Reflection on Post-Secondary Students in a Community Service Learning Water Project | $5,000 |
| Maria Teresa Grillo Arbulu | Imaginary Communities: Textual Representations of Community and Nation in Colonial and Contemporary Peru. |
$3,000 |
| Jeff Pollock | Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geological Stroage by Mineral Carbonation | $5,000 |
| Jared Flecther | Relative Muscle Fascicle Length and the Energy Cost of Cyclic Contractions | $5,000 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Khosro Salmani | A Lesson for the Future: Will You Let Me Violate Your Privacy to Save Your Life? | $5,000 |
| Michelle Veitch | The Drake Hotel, Art Spaces and Urban Cultures |
$5,000 |
| Faith-Michael Uzoka | Development of an E-Health System for Improving Health Care Access in Developing Countries | $5,000 |
| Jonathan Mee | Identifying Barriers to Research Diversity in the Faculty of Science and Technology, Mount Royal University | $5,000 |
| Sarah Orton | Intergenerational Trauma in FASD: What is the Evidence for the Role of Epigenetics? | $7,500 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Cass Foursha-Stevenson | Lexical Acquisition in a Second Language: Strategy Effectivity | $5,000 |
| Jennifer Scott | A New Climate Archive with Organic-Rich Deep-Lake Deposits in West-Central Alberta ~75–72 Million Years Ago |
$5,000 |
| Jeella Acedo | Characterization of the Putative Antimicrobial Peptide, VigA | $5,000 |
| Melanie Peacock | Behind the Badge: Exploring Unionized Officers’ Competency Development. | $10,000 |
| Brent Oliver | HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: Exploring the Experiences of Gay, Bisexual, and other Men who have Sex with Men with Treatment as Prevention. | $10,000 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Ines Sametband | Overcoming Cultural Blindness in Family Therapy: Exploring Opportunities for Relational Wellness | $5,000 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Catherine Carter-Snell | Understanding Stress, Coping and Resiliency in Nursing Students and New Graduates | $10,000 |
| Aliyah Dosani | Psychometric Analysis of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, Pregnancy Related Anxiety Scale, and Perceived Stress Scale in a Sample of Pakistani Women – A Pilot Study | $10,000 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Tim Haney | The Ethics, Practice, Activism, and Resilience Potential of Permaculture | $5,000 |
| Jared Fletcher | Quantifying Skeletal Muscle Fatigue in Collegiate Athletes | $5,000 |
| Naomi Grant | Savouring and Music: The Impact of Perceived Temporal Scarcity | $5,000 |
| Natalie Badenduck | The Definition, Utilization and Perception of Design Concept in Interior Design Education and Practice | $5,000 |
| David Clemis | The Drunkard, Opened, Dissected and Anatomised: Intoxication and Addiction in Early Modern England | $5,000 |
Team Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Trevor Day | The Sherpa Spleen Study: The effects of superimposed exercise and high altitude ascent on splenic contraction and increases in oxygen-carrying capacity in native highlanders | $10,000 |
| Roberta Lexier | Disrupting the Disciplines: Confronting Colonial Complicity | $10,000 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Ayyash | Violence, Sovereignty, and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict | $5,000 |
| Patricia M. Derbyshire | Kunaitupii Curriculum Project: Trauma Wisdom 'Inside & Out' - Indigo Program | $5,000 |
| Ashok Krishnamurthy | Spatial Tracking of the Current Ebola Outbreak in Congo | $5,000 |
| Jonathan Mee | Susceptibility of Spined and Unspined Book Stickleback (Culaea Inconstans) to Fish Predation | $5,000 |
| Tracy Powell | Understanding the Experiences of Bereaved Family Members in the Context of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) | $5,000 |
Team Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Katharine McGowan | Bringing Voice Back to the Land: Exploring the Possibilities for a Treaty 7 Learning Experience | $10,000 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Yasaman Amannejad | Predicting Execution Time of Big Data Analytic Applications | $5,000 |
| Carol Armstrong | The Effect of Vitamins on Calcium Expression in Cerebellar Neurons | $5,000 |
| Anupam Das | Was There a Transformation in Economic Ideology Between 1970 and 2000? A Social Network Analysis | $5,000 |
| Ran Ju | The Status of Social Media Research in Public Relations: A Content Analysis of Scholarly Journal Articles from 2006-2018 | $5,000 |
| Alain Morin | Translation, Administration, and Validation of Two New Inner Speech Measures in Spanish and Basque | $5,000 |
| Scott Murray | Holocaust Survivor Testimony in the Digital Age | $5,000 |
| Irene Shankar | Post-Secondary Institutions' Policies on Sexualized Violence: Investigating (under) Utilization of Expert Knowledge and Research | $5,000 |
| Deepali Upadhyaya | Essential Elements of an Indigenous Informed Curriculum for Baccalaureate Midwifery Education in Alberta | $5,000 |
Team Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Samanti Kulatilake | Ancient Peruvian DNA: Let the Mummies Speak | $10,000 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Randy Connolly | Investigating the Link Between Flourishing and Engagement with Digital Citizenship Activities | $5,000 |
| Mohammed El Hazzouri | Why Us?! Ethnic Minority Members' Reactions to Public Health Advertising Featuring Their Own Ethnic Group | $5,000 |
| Sally Haney | Filling the Local News Gap: Phase 2 - A Study Examining the Potential for Canadian Collegiate Journalism Publications to Serve Local News Needs | $8,000 |
| David Ohreen | Peer-Influence on Business Ethics Education | $4,500 |
| Dwayne Sheehan | Using Aerial Videography to Assess Outdoor Park Physical Activity | $5,000 |
| Kimberly Williams | Booze, Broads & Brothels, Phase 2: A Digital History Archive of People, Places, and Spaces of Calgary's Sex Industry | $5,00 |
Team Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Richard Sutherland | The EMI Music Canada Collection and the Canadian Music Industry | $10,000 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Nathan Ackroyd | Synthesis and Characterization of Sunscreen-Containing Spherical Polymers for Potential Use as Wash-On Sunscreens | $5,000 |
| Jim Brenan | Jim Brenan Tentet Recording Project: The Intersection Between Thad Jones and Doobie Powell | $5,000 |
| Brett McCollum | Longevity of Confidence, Skill, and Professional Identity from Disciplinary Communication Practice | $5,000 |
| Archie McLean | Indigenous Airwaves: Surveying the Reach and Relevance of Indigenous Language Broadcasting in Canada | $4,000 |
| Heather Ray | Mind Power: A Mindful-Based Health Promotion Program for University Students | $5,000 |
Team Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Lynn Lafave | Predictive Validity of CHEERS to Assess the Physical Activity Environment in Child Care | $10,000 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Harris Rubin | Emotions in the Workplace | |
| Michael Hawley | Sikhs in Calgary: Migration History and Narrative | |
| Sean Holman | At the Mountains of Revolution: Progressive Conservative MP Gerald Baldwin's Unfinished Campaign for Freedom of Information in Canada (1971-1983) | $5,000 |
| Kenna Olsen | Emerging Medievalisms: Method, Media, Manuscript | $5,000 |
| Dwayne Sheehan | Physiological and Neuromuscular Responses at Critical Skating Intensity on Slide Board and Correlation with Speed Skating Performance on Ice | $5,000 |
| Cliff Werier | Preparing Much Ado About Nothing for the Internet Shakespeare Editions |
Team Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name |
|---|---|
| Dorothy Hill | Field Test of a Geospatial Mobile Application for Collecting Nest Box Monitoring Data in Citizen Science Projects |
| Mary-Lee Mulholland | Martial Ats, Gender and Performance |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Genevieve Currie | Children Living with a Rare Disease: The Parent's Perspective | $4,900 |
| Anupam Das | Dynamics of Remittances and Exchange Rates in Bangladesh: Is there a 'Paradox of Gift'? | $5,000 |
| Malinda Desjarlais | An Investigation of the Relation between Social-based Technology Use and Social Competence | |
| Carmen Nielsen | Studying the Trans-imperial Politics of Fashion, 1873-1894 | $5,000 |
| Peter Ryan | Media Visibility, Policy Silence? Trudeau's PMO Shift from Speeches to Statements | $4,800 |
| Jennifer Scott | Continued Hot-Spring Input to the Green River Lake Margin During Active Mountain Building at North Barrel Springs, Wyoming | $5,000 |
| Cheryl Techentin | Does Space Matter? Simultaneous Processing of Verbal and Emotional Information in a Normal-Hearing and Deaf Sample | $5,000 |
| Michelle Veitch | Skwachàys Lodge and Residence: A Case Study of an Urban Art Hotel in Vancouver |
Team Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Christy Tomkins-Lane | Personalized Physical Activity Recommendations for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis using a Pebble Smart-Watch: App Development and Pilot | $10,000 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| John Chik | Examining the Effects of Osmotic Crowding on Pre-Steady State Enzyme Kinetics | $5,000 |
| Julie Cormack | MPP Lithic Analysis and Student Training | |
| Trevor Day | Development of Portable Measurements of Adaptation to High Altitude in Humans | $5,000 |
| Sonya Jakubec | Green Generations: A Participatory Community Garden Development and Horticulture Therapy Intervention Project for Intergenerational Community Engagement | |
| Lynne Lafave | Reliability of CHEERS Tool for Internet Use | $5,000 |
| Jessie Loyer | Michel First Nation Oral History | $5,000 |
| Francine May | Text Matching Software and the Student Experience | |
| Brett McCollum | Interinstitutional Disciplinary Language Development | |
| Milena Radzikowska | Materializing Text Analytical Experiences | |
| Dwayne Sheehan | A Correlation Study of the Canadian Assessment of Physical Literacy and the Revised Test of Gross Motor Development | $5,000 |
| Uthpala Tennakoon | Tracing the Return on Investment of Life-Friendly Work Practices: A Multi-Level Analysis | |
| Faith-Michael Uzoka | Development and Evaluation of a Soft-Computing System for the Differential Diagnosis of Tropical Confusable Diseases Using the Fuzzy Cognitive Map Technique | |
| Norm Vaughan | Blended Learning: Design to Evaluation - International Case Studies of Evidence-Based Practice | $5,000 |
| Kimberly Williams | Booze & Brothels? Rethinking the People, Places, and Politics of Calgary's Sex Industry | $5,000 |
Team Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name | Award |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Lafave | Educating Competent Professionals - Validation of the Mini-CEX for AT | $10,000 |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name |
|---|---|
| Adrienne Benediktson | An Examination of Dendritic Spine Morphology and Density in a Mouse Model of MS |
| Yasmin Dean | Beyond the Tourist's Gaze |
| Cass Foursha-Stevenson | Bilingual Lexical Development |
| Liam Haggarty | Declarations of Dependence: A History of Indigenous Income Assistance in Canada and the United States, 1950-1980 |
| Jarett Henderson | Colonial Queers: Same-Sex Sex, Intimacy, and Colonial Rule in Early Canada |
| Scott Hughes | Playful pedagogy: Teachers' Definitions and Perceptions of Play in Grades 1 and 2 in Public Alberta Schools |
| Emily Hutchison | Policing the Streets of Late Medieval Paris: Promoting Peace or Violence? |
| Paul Johnston | New Fossil Invertebrates from the Clearwater Formation, Northeastern Alberta |
| David Ohreen | Effectiveness of Business Education |
| Jenni Scott | Hydrothermal Fluids and Oil Shale Deposits Through Earth History |
Standard Grants
| Applicant Name | Project Name |
|---|---|
| Peter Choate | Assessing Aboriginal Parents in the Child Protection System: Understanding the Elements of Aboriginal Parenting |
| Julie Cormack | MPP Lithic Analysis and Student Training |
| Anupam Das | Role of ICT Diffustion on Economic Growth in Developing Countries |
| Trevor Day | Development of Portable Measurements of Human Physiology at High Altitude - Nepal 2015 |
| Kirk Niergarth | Canadians in the Soviet Union, 1919-1939 |