Posted on April 30: Human sciences researchers receive more than $1.3 million in peer-reviewed competition

McMaster social scientists and humanities researchers have received more than $1.3 million to study topics such as the cultural politics of computer game playing, restructuring of the police and prison guard systems and the workplace and mental health.
The 14 standard research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada support research in broad areas such as the Canadian family, the new economy, globalization, arts and culture, environment and law and justice.
The standard research grants, worth up to $250,000 over three years, support investigator-chosen projects by individual researchers and small teams.
Researchers at more than 60 universities across Canada were awarded funding through this national peer-review 2003 competition.
Three researchers received funding from the Initiative on the New Economy program for separate projects on executive compensation, firm performance and the quality of earnings; living standards, productivity growth and economic change and work organization and health in the new economy.
The new economy research grants, worth up to $300,000 over three years, support research projects that focus on aspects of the new economy.
The McMaster Initiative on the New Economy recipients are:
Thomas Crossley, assistant professor, economics, $155,436
Living standards, productivity growth, and economic change: evidence from micro data
Kiridaran Kanagaretnam, $72,500
Robert Mathieu, Wilfrid Laurier University
Executive compensation, firm performance and the quality of earnings in the new economy
Wayne Lewchuk, professor of economics, director of labour studies, $127,042
Work organization and health in the new economy
The McMaster standard research grant recipients are:
Tracy Prowse, post-doctoral fellow, School of Geography & Geology, $70,588
Bioarchaeological investigation of a rural Roman cemetery (2nd century AD) at Vagnari, South Italy
Andrew Mactavish, assistant professor, School of the Arts, $55,241
Producing pleasures: the cultural politics of creative computer game play
Claude Eilers, associate professor, classics, $75,780
Josephus' documents and the evolution of Jewish privileges in Roman Asia minor
Bruce Newbold, associate professor, School of Geography & Geology, $95,700
Evolutionary immigrant settlement systems in Canada
Greg McElligott, assistant professor, labour studies and political science, $63,163
More control, less security, restructuring and resistance among police and prison guards
Catherine Graham, assistant professor, School of the Arts, $62,182
Theorizing activist theatre across cultures
Richard Harris, professor, School of Geography & Geology, $127,075
The negotiation of housing policy in the British Colonies, 1929-1960s
Vishwanath Baba, dean, Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, $103,835
Muhammad Jamal, Concordia University
Gary Johns, Concordia University
Work and occupational mental health: antecedents, process dynamics and consequences
Clarence Kwan, professor, Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, $28,924
Sherman Cheung, professor, Michael G. DeGroote School of Business
Studies in international investments and mean variance portfolio analysis
Nancy Bouchier, associate professor, kinesiology, $50,722
Kenneth Cruikshank, associate professor, history
Bringing back the bay: people, power, and the environment in an urban waterfront, 1957-2001
Janet Starkes, professor, kinesiology, $51,916
Patricia Weir, University of Windsor
Aging and the retention of expert performance: a comparison of cross-sectional and longitudinal data
Helen Ostovich, professor, English, $65,077
The face to be dishonest: Jonsonian women on the early modern stage
Ellen Ryan, professor, psychiatry & behavioural neurosciences, McMaster Centre for Gerontological Studies, $104,435
Intergenerational communication: predicaments and enhancement for vulnerable older adults
Stephen Streeter, assistant professor, history, $40,950
Destabilizing Chile: the United States and the overthrow of Allende