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Social Scientists at U of L receiving nearly $440,000 in funding
LETHBRIDGE, AB – Graduate students and faculty members at the University of Lethbridge have received some research funding.
Close to $440,000 has been awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) in the form of six Insight Development Grants.
Dr. Robert LeBlanc (education) will study how immigrant teens in a rural Alberta meatpacking town learn the forms and meanings of stylized speech.
Dr. Glenda Bonifacio (women & gender studies) will examine how the election in the Philippines of Rodrigo Duterte has impacted foreign disaster aid and gender equality following the 2013 super typhoon Haiyan.