Lakehead University Researchers Get $2.5 Million in Funding
Lakehead University’s Dr. Chris Southcott and his team of researchers were recently awarded $2.5 million in funding.
The grant will enable the team to investigate the social, environmental, and economic challenges facing Arctic communities and the circumpolar world.
“The project brings the best northern social science researchers in the world together with northern communities to try and find new ways to ensure that a larger share of the benefits of resource development stay in the North with fewer costs to communities,” said Dr. Southcott, who is also a Professor of Sociology at Lakehead.
The funding comes from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), as part of their Major Collaborative Research Initiatives (MCRI) program. It will expand on previous SSHRC-funded work in northern communities, and will create a network of researchers from local communities, the government, the private sector, and non-profit organizations.
That network of experts will then measure and analyze the impacts of resource development in arctic communities and find ways to help them to deal with these effects.
“The collaboration between our researchers with researchers in other institutions and a number of community and government partners has been critical in winning this research grant and, more importantly, will also assure the success of this Major Collaborative Research Initiative,” said Rui Wang, Vice President, Research, Economic Development and Innovation.
Schools mentioned: Lakehead University
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