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Congratulations to the following Education faculty members (and BEd student) on their recent funding successes!

Faculty of Education Support for the Advancement of Scholarship (SAS) Operating Grants

Recipient: Dr. Katie Brubacher
Project: Multiplayer video games and social media as literacy practices for newcomers with emerging print literacy
Amount: $7,000

Recipients: Dr. Kent Lee & Dr. Marilyn Abbott
Project: The Development of a Custom GPT for Writing Support in Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada
Amount: $7,000

Recipient: Dr. Josh Markle
Project: Developing pre-service teachers’ sustainability competences through mathematical modelling: a design-based approach
Amount: $7,000 

Recipient: Dr. Sonya Sachar
Project: A Borderless Tapestry of Friendship, Culture, and Language
Amount: $7,000

Recipient: Dr. Evelyn Steinhauer & Dr. Zahra Kasamali
Project: Nistotamowin: Understanding Safety and Mental Wellness in Indigenous Teacher Education Spaces
Amount: $7,000

Recipient: Dr. Yuliya Kotelnikova
Project: Evidence-based, Multi-method Assessment of Positive and Negative Emotionality in Preschoolers: A qualitative study
Amount: $6,988.77

Recipient: Dr. Ava Becker
Project: Mapping linguistic safety in a superdiverse high school: What can graffiti walls tell us?
Amount: $6,585.60

Recipients: Dr. Hayley Morrison, Dr. Lauren Sulz, & Dr. Doug Gleddie
Project: Professional and Contextual Impact of Graduate Education Programs for Health and Physical Education Teachers: A Deweyan Exploration
Amount: $5,184.81

Recipient: Dr. Jason Wallin
Project: Green Hell: Eco-horror in Contemporary Youth Media
Amount: $3,000

CIHR Operating Grant

Recipient: Dr. Yuliya Kotelnikova (co-investigator)
Project: Within-person dynamics between adolescent social media use and internalizing symptoms and their associations with between-person differences in emotional development
Amount: CIHR Operating Grant (co-investigator): $147,057

SSHRC Grants

Recipient: Sarah Auger (co-applicant, 2025 SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant)
Project: Examining the perceptions and experiences of women & gender-diverse people who have survived a drug poisoning/overdose in Edmonton's inner city
Amount: $24,927

Recipient : Harrisen Distant with faculty supervisor Dr. Giselle Thompson (SSHRC Undergraduate Student Research Award)
Amount: $8,400 

Recipient: Dr. Josh Markle (SSHRC Explore Grant)
Project: Developing Teachers’ Modelling Competencies to Support Sustainability Education in the Mathematics Classroom
Amount: $5,064 

Recipient: Dr. Sonya Sachar
Project: Exploring the South Asian Diaspora: Intersections of Theory, Culture, and Identity
Award: $5,000 

Recipient: Dr.Evelyn Steinhauer (SSHRC Explore Grant)
Project: Intergenerational Healing through Storytelling: A Pilot Podcast Project for ATEP
Award:; $5,000 

Recipient: Dr. Katie Brubacher (SSHRC Explore Grant)
Project: Literacies across Canada: Connecting on the prairies and beyond
Amount: $4,894.30

Recipient: Dr. Lydia Menna (SSHRC Explore Grant)
Project: Reimagining the Bookshelf: Children’s Literature for Social Justice
Amount: $4,368

Recipient: Dr. Kwesi Yaro (SSHRC Exchange Grant)
Project: A postcolonial Analysis of Public Media & Policy Representations of Mathematics Education in Ghanaian and Nigerian contexts
Amount: $3,079.32

Recipient: Dr. Patti Pente (SSHRC Exchange Grant)
Project: AI Ethics and Art Education: Creative Posthuman Collaboration
Amount: $1,917.67