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Ontario Tech acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation.

We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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Research highlights

The following is a list of funded research projects currently underway in 2023-2024


SSHRC grants:

SSHRC Connection Grant
Disability in Education: Sustaining an Inclusive Africa

Principal Investigator: Jen Rinaldi, PhD
Co-investigators: Anita Ewan, PhD, Evelyn Kissi, PhD, Gillian Parekh, PhD, Kathryn Underwood, PhD

  • $24,658
  • July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024
SSHRC Insight Grants
The Algorithmic Blue Lens: Predictive and surveillance policing in regulating racialized spaces

Principal Investigator: Kanika Samuels Wortley, PhD
Co-investigator: Kathryn Henne, PhD

  • $61,549
  • 2022-2024
Finding the gaps: Criminal justice processing of hate crime

Principal Investigator: Barbara Perry, PhD
Co-investigators (external): Allyson Lunny, PhD, David Hofmann, PhD, Irfan Chaudhry, PhD
Research partners: Department of Justice Canada, and Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General

  • $269,141
  • April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2024
Transnational environmental crime, human security and biosecurity: Building effective, integrated, preventative networks

Principal Investigator: Peter Stoett, PhD
Research partners: EcoHealth Alliance, Boise State University, Northumbria University, Australian National University, University of Maryland, University of Adelaide, University of Tasmania, University of Sheffield

  • $263,610
  • April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2025
The Multidimensional Development Impacts of Canadian-supported Investments and Policy Initiatives Abroad: The Case of Tourism and Charter Cities in Honduras

Principal Investigator: Timothy MacNeill, PhD

  • $316,668
  • April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2024
 SSHRC Partnership Grants
Partenariat universitaire sur la prévention du plagiat (PUPP)

Principal Investigator: Martine Peters, PhD
Co-investigators: Alain Cadieux, PhD, Alyson King, PhD, Angelina Weenie, PhD, Carolyn Creed, PhD, Ceceilia Parnther, PhD, Christiane Blaser, PhD, Cynthia Potvin, PhD, Dimitar Angelov, PhD, Dita Dlabolova, PhD, Ece Zehir Topkaya, PhD, Elizabeth Kleinfeld, PhD, Franck Martin, PhD, Françoise Larré, PhD, François Vincent, PhD, George Ttoouli, PhD, Guofang Wan, PhD, Irene Glendinning, PhD, Jim Hu, PhD, Jinrong Li, PhD, Joseph Atoyebi, PhD, Juliane Bertrand, PhD, Julien Bureau, PhD, Karine Duvignau, PhD, Kathleen O'Reilly, PhD, Laura Ribeiro, PhD, Lauren Fitzgerald, PhD, Martine Pellerin, PhD, Mehmet Sercan Uztosun, PhD, Milan Ojstersek, Monica Soto, PhD, Nicole Boubée, PhD, Nicole Monney, PhD, Pascal Grégoire, PhD, Patrick Giroux, PhD, Patrick Juola, PhD, Pavel Turcinek, PhD, Ricardo Correia, PhD, Salim Razi, PhD, Sandra Jamieson, PhD, Sébastien Béland, PhD, Serge Larivée, PhD, Shivadas Sivasubramaniam, PhD, Stella-Maris Orim, PhD, Sylvia Burrow, PhD, Sylvie Fontaine, PhD, Sylvie Marcotte, PhD, Tim Anderson, PhD, Tomas Foltynek, PhD
Collaborators: Benoit Jeunier, PhD, Félix Langevin Harnois, Gareth Crossman, Jean-Philippe Pouliot, Laurence Huot, Nicole Picton, Rajko Golovic, Sebastian Berger, Shailene Panylo, Sonia Morin
Research partners: Canadian Federation of Students, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Cape Breton University, Corporation des bibliothécaires professionnels du Québec, Coventry University, Drew University, Duquesne University, European Network for Academic Integrity, European Students' Union, First Nations University of Canada, Georgia Southern University, Loyola University Chicago, Mendel University in Brno, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Ontario Tech University (University of Ontario Institute of Technology), Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, St. John's University, The Governors of the University of Alberta, Thompson Rivers University, Université de Moncton, Université de Montréal, Université de Sherbrooke, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Université du Québec à Montréal, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Université Laval, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, University College of the North, University of Derby, University of Maribor, University of Porto, University of Victoria, Yeshiva University

  • $2,499,980
  • 2021-2028
The intersecting institutions of criminal justice and injustice

Project Director: Sandra Bucerius, PhD
Co-investigators:  Brian Johnson, PhD, Jana Grekul, PhD, Justin Tetrault, PhD, Kanika Wortley, PhD, Kevin Haggerty, PhD, Luca Berardi, PhD, Marianne Quirouette, PhD, Nicole Myers, PhD, Norman Scot Wortley, PhD, Temitope Oriola, PhD
Collaborators: Abigail Deshman, Daniele Zanotti, Daniel Jones, Leiv Undheim, Marcus Roach, Reza Ahmadi, Susan Brooke
Partners: Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Carleton University, Criminal Trial Lawyers Association, Edmonton Police Service, Legal Aid Ontario, McMaster University, Queen's University, The John Howard Society of Canada, United Way, Calgary, AB, United Way, Edmonton, AB, United Way Greater Toronto, Université de Montréal, University of Maryland, University of Toronto, Ville de Montréal

  • $2,499,885
  • 2022-2029

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant
Tracking (In)Justice: A publicly accessible online database of police-involved and carceral deaths across Canada

Principal Investigator: Alexander McClelland, PhD
Co-investigators include Kanika Samuels Wortley, PhD

  • $195,970
  • 2022-2024
 
Devising and testing public engagement models to shape guidelines for potential use of facial recognition technologies by police

Principal Investigator: Andrea Slane, PhD
Co-investigators: Christopher O-Connor, PhD, Lisa Austin, PhD and Brenda McPhail (external, University of Toronto, Canadian Civil Liberties Association)
Research partners: Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Cobourg Police Service, Northumberland Business Development Assistance Corporation

  • $200,000
  • March 22, 2021 to March 21, 2024

 

SSHRC Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative Grant
Carceral Intersections of Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation and Trans Experience in Confronting Anti-Black Racism and Structural Violence in the Prisoner Re-entry Industrial Complex

Principal Investigator: Wesley Crichlow, PhD

  • $400,075
  • March 25, 2022 to March 24, 2025
SSHRC Small Grant: Explore
Beyond Lip Service: Design Thinking as a Blueprint for More Inclusive Storytelling. 

Principal Investigator: Emilia King, PhD

  • $6969.85
  • Awarded May 2023


NSERC grants:

NSERC Discovery Grants
Unimodal, multimodal and machine-learning techniques to identifying structural, functional and connectivity dynamics underlying empathic accuracy

Principal Investigator: Matthew Shane, PhD

  • $140,000
  • April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2025

 

Grants from other institutions:

Canada Foundation for Innovation 2021 - John R. Evans Leaders Fund (CFI JELF)
Functional Near Infrared Spectoscropy (fNIRS) System for Portable Whole-brain Evaluation of Brain Function

Principal Investigator: Matthew Shane, PhD
Co-investigator: Bobby Stojanoski, PhD

  • $386,018

 

Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)
Examining the Effectiveness of a Critical Time Intervention to Stabilize Trajectories out of Homelessness for Youth

Principal Investigator: Sean Kidd, PhD, C. Psych
Co-investigator: Tyler Frederick, PhD

  • $925,650
  • 2021-2026
Characterizing the functional organization of the human cerebellum and cerebro-cerebellar communication

Collaborator: Bobby Stojanoski, PhD

  • $413,000
  • 2018-2023
 
Durham City Studio
Nuclear Emergency Preparedness Resident Survey

Principal Investigator: Matthew Stein, PhD

  • $40,000
  • December 14, 2020 to December 31, 2024
 
Facebook Canada
In support of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism and the development of the Global Network Against Hate

Principal Investigator: Barbara Perry, PhD

  • $500,000
  • 2020-2025