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A FINE CROWDFebruary 2013

GRANTS TO ARTS FACULTY, 2011-12

FUNDING ALONE IS NOT A MEASURE OF RESEARCH

SUCCESS IN ARTS

BUT $7.5 MILLION IS IMPRESSIVE

In 2011-12, Arts researchers were awarded $7,486,472 in funding from SSHRC, CFI, ACOA, and the NL Government’s Research Development Corporation. As our way of saying ‘congratulations’, we offer this newsletter, which showcases projects funded by SSHRC in 2011-12. We include only the external research grants on which Arts faculty are Principle Investigators.

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This research focuses on two themes:

the dynamics of the Newfoundland ice cap during the last glaciation from

retreat offshore to final melting in the

interior; and the history of sea-level fluctuations around Newfoundland in

response to deglaciation. Deglacial dynamics will be investigated through

examination of the "Digital Landforms

Database of Newfoundland" and field mapping of glacial landforms. A new

initiative in this proposal is to combine glacial landform data from the seabed

offshore, mapped using multibeam

sonar, with landform data onshore, mapped from aerial photographs and

satellite imagery. Topics of particular research interest are the evidence for

f o r m e r i c e s t r e a m s i n t h e

Newfoundland ice cap and the timing and configuration of ice-marginal

retreat. Results should provide new potential for drift prospecting studies

and will have immediate application to

the mineral exploration industry in Newfoundland. Relative sea-level

studies have gained increased attention as we attempt to forecast global sea-

level responses to climate warming over

the next century. Past sea-level records suggest strong regional variability in this

response, primarily due to residual effects from the last glaciation. The

proposed research addresses the spatial

and temporal variation in postglacial r e l a t i v e s e a - l e v e l c h a n g e i n

Newfoundland, a region that may

experience moderate to significant i m p a c t s eve n u n d e r t h e m o s t

conservative scenarios of future sea-level rise. A major focus of this research

will be the collection of precise sea-level

data to improve our understanding of sea- leve l processes,

specifically the glacio-isostatic evolution of

Newfoundland, and to

provide quantitative information for the

modelling community. Application of glacial

systems modelling to

questions of sea-level h i s t o r y r e q u i r e s

e x c e l l e n t d a t a t o constrain the models.

M y p r o g r a m i s s t r o n g l y

interdisciplinary in nature, involving collaboration with scientists from

archaeology, biology, geology, marine geophysics, and physics. There is also a

strong emphasis on graduate training

across these disciplines and this is reflected in the number of proposed co-

supervised PhD and MSc students.

Deglacial ice dynamics glacio-isostatic adjustments and relative sea-level history in Newfoundland

Trevor Bell, Geography





An estimated 560 million people, or 8% of the

global population, directly or indirectly depend on fishing for a living. According to the Food and

Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,

more than 90% of these people are involved in small-scale fisheries. These figures suggest that

small-scale fisheries are simply "too big to ignore".

UNFORTUNATELY, THE REALITY IS QUITE THE OPPOSITEData collection systems and policy discourses about

fisheries are centered on the large-scale, industrialized fishing sector, while small-scale

fisheries are seriously understudied. The lack of

detailed information about small-scale fisheries has resulted in systematic underestimation of their

importance in addressing global crises, including malnutrition, poverty and biodiversity loss. In turn,

the under-appreciation of small-scale fisheries has

led to policies that inadvertently undermine their ability to adapt to global change processes, such as

urbanization, globalization, and climate change. In many areas of the world, including Canada, fishing

agreements, quota allocations, user rights and

government subsidies favour industrial fisheries, and either generate conflicts with small-scale fishing

people or displace them altogether.The Global Partnership for Small-Scale

Fisheries Research, Too Big to Ignore, is a new

research network and knowledge mobilization partnership established to rectify the marginalization

of small-scale fisheries in national and international

policies, and to develop research and governance

capacity to address global fisheries challenges. The Too Big to Ignore partnership is comprised

of 15 partners, which are intergovernmental

organizations, research and academic institutions, environmental organizations, and non-governmental

organizations based in Canada, Norway, Italy, Mexico, Namibia, South Africa, Sri Lanka,

Thailand and the USA. It also includes 62

researchers from academic and non-academic institutions from

27 countries in fi v e r e g i o n s

a r o u n d t h e

w o r l d . A l l m e m b e r s o f

T o o B i g t o I g n o r e a r e

committed to

work together to c o n d u c t t h e

research and knowledge mobilization activities in order to fulfill the goals of the partnership, which

are to elevate the profile of small-scale fisheries and

to encourage policy discussions for improving decision-making about this important sector.

Too big to ignore: global partnership for small-scale fisheries research

Ratana Chuenpagdee, Canada Research Chair, Geography





The recent emergence of the Web

2.0 has the potential to significantly change the way geospatial datasets are

produced. While datasets were largely

p r o d u c e d a n d d i s t r i b u t e d by government and industry mapping

e x p e r t s , r e c e n t t o o l s s u c h a s OpenStreetMap now allow any Web

user to contribute to the creation of

large free geospatial datasets. This p h e n o m e n o n , d e s c r i b e d a s

" V o l u n t e e r e d G e o g r a p h i c Information" (VGI), faced an initial

skepticism among mapping experts but

led to the creation of datasets that compete in accuracy with government

maps. This generated in the past two years an increasing interest from

National Mapping Agencies and the

mapping industry as it could potentially have a major impact on mapping

processes, by having citizens collecting, updating or verifying geospatial data.

The potential economic impact of such

change is huge for a world mapping industry which is already valued at tens

of billions of $US. Beyond the economic impact, the distribution of

high-quality free data is likely to have

strong social impacts by allowing more informed decisions to be made in

various fields. Assessing and informing

users of the quality of maps produced

by VGI will be key to the successful use of VGI maps in decision-making

processes. Despite two studies published

in 2010 that assessed the quality of VGI data from UK and France, there are

still no appropriate methods for assessing and communicating the

quality of VGI. The goal of this

research is to provide methods and tools for assessing and

communicating the quality of VGI. The

expected benefits

include the creation of a safer framework

surrounding the use of VGI in various

d e c i s i o n - s u p p o r t

contexts, resulting in minimization of risks

o f n e g a t i v e consequences that

can arise from data

m i s u s e . We a l s o expect the approach

wi l l improve the overall quality of VGI mapping

products and hence benefit a broad

range of map users.

Designing methods for evaluating and communicating the quality of volunteered geographic information

Rodolphe Devillers, Geography





Deep-sea corals are important long-

lived structure-forming organisms in deep waters of Canada's three oceans.

Deep-sea corals in Atlantic Canada's

waters include more than thirty species of sea fans, black corals, soft corals, cup

corals, and sea pens. Most of the sea fans, black corals and soft corals require

rocky bottom on which to grow. This

project will examine the geological origins of hard bottom areas in which

corals grow, most of which are thought to be related to remnant glacial

deposits. Some deep-water coral species

can live for several centuries. This project will measure the growth rates

and lifepans of the sea fans, black corals and cup corals, and examine the

oceanographic factors af fect ing

variation in growth rates. Corals will be aged using carbon dating and annual

growth rings deposited in their skeletons. Deep-sea corals are thought

to provide habitat for a variety of deep-

sea invertebrates and fishes. Corals may be important as habitat for juveniles of

several commercially important species. Corals also form biodiversity hotspots

in the deep sea, which is generally not

well explored. The diversity of fish and invertebrates inhabiting coral and non-

coral habitats in similar depths and on

similar substrates will be compared, in order to assess the importance of deep-

sea corals to marine biodiversity and its

conservation. Deep-sea corals are t h r e a t e n e d b y

b o t t o m - c o n t a c t fi s h i n g u s i n g a

variety of fishing

gears. This project will continue studies

o f t h e r e l a t i v e impacts of different

fisheries and gear

types on deep-sea corals in the waters

of Atlantic Canada. The distribution of

c o r a l s w i l l b e

compared with the d i s t r i b u t i o n o f

fi sh ing e f fo r t t o s u g g e s t o p t i m a l

conservation plans for deep-sea corals,

to achieve maximum conservation benefit combined with minimum

disruption to fisheries. This project will prov ide much-needed sc ient ific

guidance for deep-sea conservation in

Atlantic Canada.

Geology, biogeography, and conservation of deep-sea corals in waters of Atlantic Canada

Evan Edinger, Geography





The working poor, generally defined as those

living in low income households where at least one member is employed, pose a puzzle, as

employment is often seen as key to poverty

exit. However, sociological research on the working poor is limited. Only a handful of

sociologists have studied the working poor in select low-wage industries (e.g. fast food,

health care, accommodation) and compared

working poor rates between countries. This is problematic, considering the growth of the

working poor in post-welfare reform Canada and the US. The two countries are ranked the

fourth and first respectively in their working

poor rates among developed countries (9% and 14% respectively) (Brady, Fullerton, and

Cross 2010). Studying this emerging, vulnerable population has timely implications

for better understanding social inequality. A

focus on working poor immigrants is particularly important, as a large proportion

of poor immigrants are categorized as such.

This project will be the first quantitative and

comparative research on working poor immigrants in Canada and the US. The

research results will extend Dan Zuben's qualitative study (2006) of the working poor in

Vancouver and Seattle to include national-

level quantitative analysis. Our research will inform discussions of social policies on

immigrant integration and poverty /welfare

by empirically comparing the achievements of working poor immigrant children in Canada

and the US. The research results will

contribute to well-informed, evidence-based p o l i c y

evaluations. It will also help

c o m m u n i t y

g r o u p s ( e . g . poverty activists,

immigrant rights groups, low wage

workers' rights

g r o u p s ) g a i n more ins ights

in to how the issues of poverty,

i m m i g r a t i o n ,

a n d l a b o u r m a r k e t

inequa l i t y go hand in hand in

today's North America and engage in

constructive dialogues.

Growing up working poor: short- and long-term consequences for immigrant children in Canada and the United States

Lisa Kaida, Sociology





The housing and infrastructure crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation and other Aboriginal communities throughout this country has brought the socio-economic disparities between First Nations and non-Aboriginal communities to the forefront of debates over policy initiatives. The d i s cour se su r round ing Abor ig ina l administration has ranged from those who allege financial mismanagement on the part of First Nations, to others who point to chronic underfunding on the part of the federal government. The contemporary colonial relationship that exists in Canada makes headlines, but it is important to view it as part of a longer historical pattern. As First Nations have gained varied degrees of control over funds since the 1951 revisions to the Indian Act, it is now more important than ever to examine debates in historical context. The ways in which the Indian Act and the Department of Indian Affairs interacted with First Nations communities were undergoing profound changes during this time, and their assimilative nature has been well-documented. The postwar period is often seen as a period of decolonization in Canada and internationally, but the top-down approach of many scholars has excluded the experiences of Aboriginal peoples, and the responses of First Nations women in particular. I argue that the story of politicization on the national scale needs to start at the community level, where many Aboriginal women were and are politically and socially active. Understanding historical developments is essential to formulating a way forward for First Nations in Canada. A n ex a m p l e o f s u ch c o m mu n i t y involvement is the Homemakers' Club, an

o r g a n i z a t i o n e n c o u r a g e d by t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f C i t i z e n s h i p a n d Immigration (which, at the time, was responsible for Aboriginal affairs). First Nations women were encouraged to participate and to exhibit 1950s ideals of charity and domesticity. It is unclear how t h e s e w o m e n r e s p o n d e d t o s u ch encouragement. It is apparent, however, that Aboriginal women used it for their own purposes such as infrastructure, protection and enhancement of community property, employment opportunities, and recreational activities to keep their children busy and in school. Did Aboriginal women, who could not vote in community elections until 195I and in Canada until 1960, develop their own sense of feminist activism? Did they see their actions in political terms? Were their actions political in nature? How can we define political action w h e n c o l o n i a l e x p e r i e n c e s a n d responses are gendered? How did these women use the Homemakers' Club as way to subvert colonial presence and policies, and/or as a way to strengthen traditional kinship and social welfare practices? This project will examine the Homemakers' Club as a case study of Aboriginal womanhood and feminism and seeks to understand the club's ties to community- (and thus nation-) building at a time that has been traditionally known as a period of decolonization in Canada.

Indigenous women and nation-building in Ontario: the postwar experience

Lianne Leddy, Anishnaabe,Department of History





Estimates suggest that in 2011,

C a n a d i a n s w i l l d i s p o s e o f 140,000-200,000 tonnes of electronic

equipment (e-waste). Activist groups

claim that anywhere between 50-80 percent of that material eventually

makes its way to the 'developing world' where it is processed under hazardous

conditions, even if it first enters a

formal recycling system in Canada. It is certain that e-waste initially disposed of

in Canada eventually arrives in 'developing' countries where it is

processed by poor and marginalized

populations who risk their health due to exposure to toxic substances and other

environmental dangers. In this sense, Canadian environmental issues and

their associated costs are being exported

to other countries. At the same time, electronics deemed obsolete in the

'developed world' are, in the 'developing world', a crucial source of materials for

t e c h n o l o g i c a l u p g r a d i n g ,

remanufacturing, and new production, as well as employment and livelihoods

for those on the receiving end of Canada's exports of electronic waste.

The entanglement of what is

treated as 'waste' in one place (e.g.,

Canada) and 'value' in others (e.g.,

Bangladesh, China, Mexico, and Peru) h ighl ights the need to rethink

assumptions about the

nature of electronic waste and whether

there may be ways to reconcile economic

and environmental

justice. Our proposed research will be, to

o u r k n o w l e d g e , among the first of its

kind to examine the

possibilities for, and l i m i t a t i o n s t o ,

ethical/fair trade e-waste processing. Our

findings will inform

Canadian e-waste disposal, trade and

export policies. It will also raise greater aw a re n e s s a m o n g t h e g e n e r a l

population of the complex implications

of discarding electronics. In turn, it may he lp to improve work ing

conditions, health, and safety for those who depend on e-waste processing for

their daily survival.

Geographies of rubbish electronics: community assets, worker skills, and the possibilities of ethical trade

Joshua Lepawsky, Geography





Atlantic Canada's northern shrimp industry

provides an excellent empirical case for examining the relationship between natural

resource use, regional development and global

production chains. Since the extension of the 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone in 1977

there has been a long history of using shrimp quotas to support regional development. The

beneficiaries include fishing crews on large

factory freezer trawlers, independent harvesters and plant workers and fishing communities in

remote parts of Atlantic Canada and the Canadian north. Northern shrimp quotas have

b e e n g r a n t e d t o c o m mu n i t y g ro u p s ,

cooperat ives, F i r s t Nat ions and Inui t communities. Despite the long history of

resource allocation, we know little about how effective these policy initiatives have been in

terms of creating and sustaining livelihoods,

enterprises and coastal communities.Research on Canada's northern shrimp

chain is timely and pressing. This resource contributes to more than $280 million to export

earnings in Atlantic Canada-- a substantial

increase from the 1990s. Now, for the first time in almost two decades, quotas are declining and

the industry is struggling to survive the combined impacts of smaller quotas, low prices due to

changes in global markets, and high production

costs. The solutions that are being proposed to insulate the industry from these pressures and

increase its resilience are primarily focused on

local and regional policy initiatives such as industry buy-outs, ignoring the fact that industry

options must be developed and evaluated in

relation to global production chains. Our research will provide new insights into the

challenges facing this important resource based export sector, and the role it plays in regional

development in Atlantic Canada.

The findings of this research will be of immediate interest to the wide range of

stakeholders in the shrimp export industry. The

results will also be of interest to policy makers and researchers in Canada and beyond

concerned with the challenge of using natural resources for regional advantage in a globalizing

economy.

Natural resources, regional development and global value chains: insights from Canada's northern shrimp industry

Charles Mather, Geography





Employment-related geographical mobility entails extended travel and related absences from places of permanent residence for the purpose of, and as part of, employment. A substantial but hard-to-document number of Canadian employees work in different municipalities, provinces or even countries from those in which they live and are away from their primary residence for substantial amounts of time above and beyond working hours. Large numbers of non-Canadians are employed as Temporary Foreign workers in Canada. Existing research on employment-related geographical mobility in Canada is limited and fragmented. It shows that it takes diverse forms and is likely affecting key domains of Canadian life. These domains include: labour recruitment, training requirements, absenteeism, turn-over and broader social relations at work; requirements for, and effectiveness of, key infrastructure (e.g., housing, health, transportation, training); the effectiveness of policy and planning at the municipal, provincial and federal levels; work-life balance and spousal and parent-child relations within families; and (through its impact on investments and consumption patterns) regional economic and community development. But we know little about its diverse and changing patterns and its actual consequences at work, home and in the community. We also know little about how changes in mobility patterns relate to larger-scale changes in the nature of work, competitiveness and prosperity. Our Partnership will produce the first comprehensive study of the spectrum of employment-related geographical mobility in Canada from extended daily travel to long distance travel for periods of weeks, months and, in the case of Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada, even years. Our research will track regional, sectoral and socio-demographic patterns and trends in this mobility since 1980 as well as the changing policies that have contributed to it and its consequences. Researchers working in seven provinces and multiple industrial sectors (oil and gas, mining, smelting, retail service, health, construction, transportation and shipping), will carry out in-depth field research among employers, employees and their families, community leaders, and service agencies. They will track

their experiences with such mobility, its role in their larger strategies and assess its ultimate consequences for these different groups in different contexts. We will carry out on-line surveys with human resource managers, union shop stewards and small business owners (among others). We will include new entrants to different types of mobility and those who have exited for different reasons; males and females; those engaged in skilled, less-skilled, professional and managerial jobs; and both Canadian and non-Canadian employees. We have recruited 42 co-applicant researchers and 2 collaborators f r o m 1 7 disciplines and 22 universities across Canada and four other countries. We h a v e b u i l t p a r t n e r s h i p s with 36 partner organizations (11 academic and 25 community). Our academic and community partners will help us design our research, to interpret the results and their policy implications, and to disseminate the results to multiple audiences. We will provide training and mentoring for 68 students and postdoctoral fellows from many disciplines and have devised a comprehensive suite of knowledge mobilization activities. Our research is relevant to two of the SSHRC's priority funding areas: Innovation, Leadership and Prosperity (because of the economic and social impacts of mobility) and Canada's Northern Communities (where such mobility is an especially pervasive phenomenon).

On the move: employment-related geographical mobility in the Canadian context

Barb Neis, Sociology





The Working Group on Mixed

Methods in Research on Gender, Environment and Health will hold two

meetings, one in St. John's and the

other in Montreal. The meetings will b r i n g t o g e t h e r a b i l i n g u a l ,

multidisciplinary team of university researcher s, g raduate s tudents,

knowledge-users and partners. The

Working Group is part of the CIHR Team in Gender, Environment and

Hea l th (GEH) , wh ich a ims to contribute to the development of new

approaches and methods for the

integration of sex and gender (s/g) in environmental and occupational health

research. The main aim of the meetings is to develop a mixed methods research

model to examine sex/gender in studies

of environmental and occupational health, and to produce outputs for

dissemination to academics and knowledge-users.

Mixed Methods in Research on Sex/Gender, Health and Environment

Nicole Power, Sociology





This proposal is part of the ongoing

Northern Peninsula Archaeology and Landscape History Program, which is an

expansion of the earlier Port au Choix

Archaeology Project. The over-arching objective of this research is a comparative

understanding of how, from 6000 to 300 cal BP (calendar years before present), a

series of Palaeoeskimo and Amerindian

cultures adapted to and impacted the changing social and physical environment

o f t h e N o r t h e r n P e n i n s u l a o f Newfoundland, how they created cultural

landscapes and how they interacted with

others on those landscapes. Phillip's Garden is a large site (2.2 ha)

dating to 1990-1180 cal BP. We have divided this time span into three phases:

early ( l990-1550 ca l BP) , middle

(1550-1350 cal BP) and late (1350-1180 cal BP). Phillip's Garden was a seasonally

occupied permanent settlement from which hunters cooperatively hunted the

large harp seal herds that in the spring

were available a short distance offshore. Cooperative hunting and processing

activities were organized through large multi-family houses (88-l05m2). This

characterization is based on the middle

phase of site occupation which was the main focus of the earliest and most

extensive archaeological investigation. It is

now time to shift the focus to the early and late phases, the former to understand the

initial occupation and evolution of Phillip's

Garden and the latter to understand the process of site decline

and abandonment. This proposal begins that

reorientation by focusing

on the late phase.T h e g e n e r a l

objective of the proposed five-year project is to

characterize the late

phase of Phillip's Garden occupation leading up to

site abandonment. T h i s p r o j e c t i s

important because it

looks at the processes behind abandonment of

a uniquely large and intensively occupied Dorset settlement, which had repercussions

for Dorset populations throughout

Newfoundland and southern Labrador. It is also important as a detailed examination

of human-environment dynamics in a region which, situated at the margins of

the Arctic and boreal ecosystems, is highly

sensitive to climate change.

The Dorset Palaeoeskimo site of Phillip's Garden, northwestern Newfoundland: late phase occupation and site abandonment

Priscilla Renouf, Canada Research Chair, Archaeology






The "reasonable accommodation" of non-

Christian minorities in Canada has emerged contemporarily as a pressing sociopolitical issue.

This project will gather and analyze data

regarding the negotiation of diversity with reference to the small and dynamic religious community of

Muslims in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The vibrancy of St. John's one mosque and the

community's recent population growth reflect a

crossroads in how religious diversity and its management are treated. The small city context of

St. John's differs significantly from more populous urban metropolises of Vancouver, Montreal and

Toronto where recent debates like the Ontario Sharia

debate, the Bouchard Taylor Commission, the N.S. (the woman's name anonymized) niqab case currently

before the Supreme Court, and Bill94 which seeks to limit public services for full-face-hijab-wearing

women have garnered a great deal of attention.

These cases are problematic as barometers of accommodation, however, as they emphasize

religiously orthodox perspectives and do not reflect most Muslim Canadians' experiences.

To consider these two elements of everyday

negotiations and representations of orthodoxy in this Easterly city, we ask: (1) Among Muslims in St. John's,

how, where and by whom are religiously-understood negotiations experienced? How are they framed? Do

individuals, families and groups see themselves as

equals in bargaining processes? Do they experience satisfactory resolution(s) of their requests for

"accommodation"? (2) How are internal theological

and cultural differences settled in a highly diverse

one-mosque community? In the representations of Muslims and Islamic practices in government

documents and commissions, how and why are more

conservative versions of Islam given greater credence? To what extent do these conservative

versions of Islam reflect the realities of the everyday lives of Muslims?

We will examine

these two issues with individual

interviews, a pilot internet survey

and analysis of

media discourses specifically related

t o I s l a m a n d "accommodations"

and p rov inc i a l

p o l i c y recommendations

for religious minorities.These issues are pertinent not only within

academic and public policy circles but they also

concern the broader public. This research is innovative and ground breaking in that it focuses not

on problems, but on positive ground-up solutions. Understanding the ways in which people negotiate

religious difference offers positive narratives, which is

key to building strategies for diversity management that facilitate fairness and justice.

Religion in the everyday: negotiating Islam in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Jennifer Selby, Religious Studies





The purpose of the proposed outreach

project is (a) to update the design of the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage

Web Site to provide high quality access

to all users regardless of the medium; and (b) to update the content of the site

to incorporate the latest in recent scholarly, polit ical and cultural

developments.

The Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site (www.heritage.nf.ca)

deals with all aspects of the history and h e r i t a g e o f t h e p r o v i n c e o f

Newfoundland and Labrador in the

broader context of Canadian history and identity. Possibly the largest

heritage web site in the country, and one of the largest in the world, it now

contains approximately 1500 entries

and well over 5000 images, and audio and video clips. Started in 1997, it has

gained a national and international reputation for the quality, accuracy and

reliability of its content. The principal

target audiences for the site have been high school students and teachers, and

members of the general public who wish to learn more about the unique

history and culture of Newfoundland

and Labrador. Experience has shown that the site also attracts elementary

school students and university students.

Since going public in August 1997, almost 36 million pages have been

visited. The majority of visitors are from Canada, but the

site has been used by

people in over 180 countries. The Faculty

of Arts at Memorial University ensures the

maintenance of the web

site.A r e d e s i g n e d

N ew fo u n d lan d an d Labrador Heritage Web

Site will be accessible

and highly appealing, a n d p r ov i d e t h e m o s t r e c e n t

information available to all users, including students and educators at all

levels and the general public.

Cod trap to iPhone app: bringing Newfoundland and Labrador history into the 21st century

Vincent Walsh, Maritime History Archives



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Understanding the nature of our

e c o n o m y a n d i t s u n d e r l y i n g relationships is important for optimizing

the prosperity currently being felt by the

province and sustaining its benefits for future generations. Such investigations

require the skills and experience drawn from a number of diverse fields in

economics.

The areas which require applied e c o n o m i c r e s e a r c h w i t h i n

Newfoundland and Labrador and throughout the region run the gamut,

for example, from local and regional

economic growth to productivity measurement and the economics of

R&D to petroleum and energy economics to resource (mining, fishing

and forestry) and environmental

economics to public finance analysis and social accounting such as the

Community Accounts to labour market economic analysis, including assessing

the balancing of demand and supply,

demographic issues such as an aging labour supply and analyzing poverty

and the growing earnings inequalities and, finally, to applied economic

analys is, including cost-benefit,

simulation and input-output analyses. CARE is a 3-year pilot project, a

collaborative approach to applied

research in Newfoundland and Labrador. It is

curiosity-driven research that is

both technica l

and of interest to N e w fo u n d l a n d

and Labrador. It aims to build the

research capacity

of students and make them better

e m p l o y e e s . I t could eventually

develop into an

economic think t a n k f o r t h e

p r o v i n c e t h a t would be a go-to

institute to help

i m p r o v e empirically-based

policy analysis within the province.

Collaborative Applied Research in Economics (CARE)

Wade Locke, Political Science



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The Faculty of Arts gratefully acknowledges Arts Departments, the Office of the VP (Research), the Office of the VP (Academic), and the School of Graduate Studies, who provided cash and in-kind contributions towards these grant applications.

Staff in the Office of Research Services worked many weekends and evenings to make sure we put forward the best grant applications ever: thank you.

G r a n t a p p l i c a n t s i n A r t s universally acknowledge the valuable contributions made by Theresa Heath (SSHRC Grants Crafter from 2004 to 2012). We all wish Theresa the best in her new position at ICEHR.

Acknowledgements…BECAUSE NO MAN IS AN ISLAND

Lisa Rankin, Acting Dean for 2011-12



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