Internal funding
uLethbridge supports research excellence through targeted internal funding that seeds projects, provides training opportunities, strengthens external funding success, and amplifies research impact.
All funding received
| Faculty member | Faculty/School | Project name | Funding program | Funds awarded | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick Wilson | Modern Language and Linguistics | Maya Principles of Permaculture for Indigenous Socio-ecological Restoration | Indigenous Research Engagement | $3,200 | 2026 |
| Burleigh, Dawn | Education | The Mentorship Dimensions: Mobilizing a tool for use in practicum settings | SSHRC Exchange | $7,000 | 2025 |
| Cunningham, Jerimy | Arts & Science | Crafting Capitalism: San Marcos Tlapazola and the Global Market | SSHRC Explore | $6,994 | 2025 |
| Davis-Fisch, Heather | Fine Arts | Traces and Circulations | Catalyst | $5,802 | 2025 |
| Dixon, Sandra | Education | Refining the Free-Flowing Model of Faith: A Pilot Project for Supporting Mental Health Professionals Serving Diverse Clients | Workshop | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Fujiwara, Gideon | Arts & Science | Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) 2025 Conference hosted by the University and Community Participation, and Student Assistants | SSHRC Exchange | $7,000 | 2025 |
| Golsteyn, Roy | Arts & Science | Investigation of the Scientific Properties of Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) Traditional Prairie Plants | Indigenous Research Engagement | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Koo, EunJoo | Business | Long-term sustainability of Indigenous entrepreneurship in Canada | Indigenous Research Engagement | $3,000 | 2025 |
| Leibel, Miranda | Liberal Education | SAGE Sisters' Art Collective | Indigenous Research Engagement | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Mesler, Rhiannon | Business | Clouded Minds: Air Pollution as a Psychological Antecedent to Construal Level | SSHRC Explore | $7,000 | 2025 |
| Million, Tara | Arts & Science | Indigenous Archaeology as Practiced Globally and Locally | Workshop | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Million, Tara | Arts & Science | Applying Aapaitsitapiiysinni/White Weasel Robe People’s Research Paradigm to Heritage Resource Management in Blackfoot Territory (MA Project – Blair Many Fingers) | Indigenous Research Engagement | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Schwarz, Kaylan | Liberal Education | Feminists on the Prairie: An Intergenerational Dialogue | SSHRC Explore | $7,000 | 2025 |
| Stevens, Kat | Arts & Science | Informal Logic - The Next 50 Years | SSHRC Exchange | $7,000 | 2025 |
| Takam, Alain | Arts & Science | Sociolinguistic vitality in relation to the socioeconomic situation of French-speaking immigrants and refugees from sub-Saharan Africa in Alberta | Catalyst | $6,000 | 2025 |
| Vaid, Neha | Arts & Science | Unraveling interaction between nitrogen nutrition and drought tolerance pathways in plants | Catalyst | $5,950 | 2025 |
| Vogelsang, Laura | Health Sciences | Digital resources supporting efforts to decrease food insecurity within Canadian post-secondary students: A scoping review | Workshop | $5,000 | 2025 |
| Slomp, David | Education | Design Challenge Day | SSHRC Exchange | $7,000 | 2024 |
| Adams, Carly | Arts & Science | Indigenous Wellness Histories: Understanding Kinematic Styles Through Oral Histories | Indigenous Research Engagement | $5,000 | 2024 |
| Baulkaran, Vishaal | Business | Environmental Violations: A case of environmental justice | SSHRC Explore | $4,524 | 2024 |
| Birghila, Corina | Arts & Science | Quantifying Uncertainty in tail Dependence | ULRF | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Bonnaventure, Philip | Arts & Science | Permafrost Catalyst | Catalyst | $6,000 | 2024 |
| Brenner, Charlotte | Education | Teacher Candidate's Sense of Authenticity | SSHRC Explore | $7,000 | 2024 |
| Chasmer, Laura | Arts & Science | Changing Ecosystem Carbon Balance in Boreal Northwestern Canada: Improving Resilience for a Future with Increased Wildland Fire and Carbon Emissions | PDF recruitment | $45,000 | 2024 |
| Dieleman, Susan | Arts & Science | Trust and Extremism: A Multidisciplinary Workshop | SSHRC Exchange | $7,000 | 2024 |
| Ekstrand, Chelsea | Arts & Science | Investigating the impact of cardiov | Workshop attendance seed grant | $5,000 | 2024 |
| Girodat, Dylan | Arts & Science | Unveiling the Kinetic and Structural Mechanisms of Ribosomal Protection Protein Mediated Antibiotic Restance | ULRF | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Golsteyn, Roy | Arts & Science | Genomics Sequencing of Prairie Plants | ULRF | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Graham, Rumi | Library | Overcoming Copyright Impediments to Learning, Scholarship, and Creativity in Media-Intensive Fields | ULRF | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Hayes, Paul | Arts & Science | Toward Unprecedented Catalytic Transformations by Earth Abundant Metals: Synthesis and Reaction Chemistry of Monoanionic NNN-Pincer-Support Cobalt Complexes | ULRF | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Holyoke, Ken | Arts & Science | Irreplaceable Histories Project | ULRF | $14,944 | 2024 |
| Kovalchuk, Olga | Arts & Science | Dissecting molecular and cellular effects of cannabis vaping | ULRF | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Lokanc-Diluzio, Wendi | Health Sciences | Rural Health-care Horizons: Insights into Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Career Intentions | ULRF | $14,000 | 2024 |
| Luft, Toupey | Education | Improving SSHRC IDG | Catalyst | $6,000 | 2024 |
| McDonald, Robert | Arts & Science | The Influence of Social Stability and Network Size on Cognitive Decline, Mood, and Memory in a MOuse Model of Dementia | PDF recruitment | $45,000 | 2024 |
| Rathod, Vineet | Arts & Science | Insights into Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Career Intentions | ULRF | $15,000 | 2024 |
| Rathod, Vineet | Arts & Science | Engineering a Structure-based Lateral Flow Assay for Direct Detection of Clubroot in Endemic Soils | PDF recruitment | $45,000 | 2024 |
| Raycraft, Justin | Arts & Science | An Ethnographic Study of Rangeland | Workshop attendance seed grant | $5,000 | 2024 |
| Shapiro, Sidney | Business | Thematic Analysis and AI: Investigating AI Temperature, Personality, and Racial Bias in Complex Datasets | Workshop attendance seed grant | $5,000 | 2024 |
| Tetarenko, Alex | Arts & Science | Unraveling how blackholes power explosive outflows | Workshop attendance seed grant | $5,000 | 2024 |
| Ward, Mark | Business | Sustainable corporate entrepreneurship: Identifying new sources of competitive advantage ahead of competitors | SSHRC Explore | $6,996 | 2024 |
| Young, Julie | Arts & Science | Investigating the Bureaucracy of Migrant Deaths along the Canada-US Border | ULRF | $11,292 | 2024 |
| Adams, Carly | Arts & Science | Japanese Canadian Hockey Experiences: Digital Storytelling and Knowledge Mobilization Workshop | SSHRC Exchange | $6,675 | 2023 |
| Barrett, Louise | Arts & Science | An investigation of social norm subscription among scientists and graduate students in Canada. | SSHRC Explore | $7,000 | 2023 |
| Basil, Debra | Business | Behaviour Change Basics: An Introduction to Social Marketing | SSHRC Exchange | $7,000 | 2023 |
| Burg, Theresa | Arts & Science | Conservation Genomics of Cliff Swallows | ULRF | $15,000 | 2023 |
| Burton, Chris | Arts & Science | An Aural History of the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra | ULRF | $15,000 | 2023 |
| Clarke, Christine | Fine Arts | Revitalizing the Blackfoot Digital Library Website | Indigenous Research Engagement | $4,995 | 2023 |
| Cuellar, Andrea | Arts & Science | Food security: An urban planning and community of practice approach | SSHRC Explore | $6,991 | 2023 |
| Cuellar, Andrea | Arts & Science | Research dissemination (urban Indigenous heritage, historical ecology, and Indigenous collaboration in archaeology) | SSHRC Exchange | $7,000 | 2023 |