UBC Sauder faculty awarded over $2.3 million in latest rounds of SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grants

On September 13, 2024, the Government of Canada announced a major investment of more than $123 million for research, which included 24 faculty members of the UBC Sauder School of Business receiving over $2.3 million in grants through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant program’s Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants competition. 

SSHRC Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants enable scholars to further our collective understanding of individuals and societies, as well as to inform the search for solutions to societal challenges. A total of 83 projects led by UBC researchers were awarded funding through these grants, with combined awards of $11.5 million.
 

UBC Sauder recipients and co-applicants of SSHRC Insight Grants are:

• Hasan Cavusoglu for:
  Understanding the Role of Organizational Initiatives in Building Cybersecurity Resilience: The Confluence of Business, Technology and Skilled Labor Strategies
• Jack Favilukis for:
  Real estate markets, individual choices, and the macro-economy
• Dale Griffin for:
  Perception of loss as a barrier to climate change belief and action
• David Hardisty, with co-applicants Jen Park and Katherine White, for:
  Collaborative Nudging: A new framework for shifting behavior
• JoAndrea Hoegg for:
  Healthy Competition: How Competitive Experiences Can Improve or Impair Wellbeing
• Hernan Ortiz-Molina, with co-applicant Xin Zheng for:
  Does IT Investment Reduce a Firm's Carbon Footprint?
• Rebecca Paluch for:
  An Investigation Into How Employee Exit Reasons Predict Post-Employment Behavior
• Charles Weinberg for:
  Does Where You Produce Matter? Evidence from the Motion Picture Industry
• Lingtao Yu, with co-applicant Sandra Robinson for:
  When to Start...to Change...and to Stop? The Evolvement Process of Abusive Supervision
• Mi Zhou, with co-applicant Gene Moo Lee for:
  The impact of generative AI on the creator economy
• David Hardisty is also a co-applicant, along with Donald G. Carruthers Den Hoed (Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability) on: Kai Chan (Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability) for:
  Toward a death that begets life? Relational values and action for transformative change in deathcare
   

 UBC Sauder recipients of SSHRC Insight Development Grants are:

• Wenjia Ba for:
  Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Ad Timing: Maximizing Engagement in Targeted Advertising
• Michael Daniels for:
  An investigation of expert humility during the provision of advice
• Ayumu Kikkawa for:
  Quantity restrictions in retail trade
• Elena Pikulina for:
  Silent Barriers, Loud Consequences: Understanding the Effects of Discrimination on Human Capital and Wealth
• Swapnika Rachapalli for:
  Economic Growth and Income Gaps in a Connected World
• Christopher Ryan for:
  "Democratization of the scientific method'': Exploring the history of science in operations research
• Danielle van Jaarsveld, with co-applicant Sima Sajjadiani, for:
  Improving customer service with AI: Investigating the use of AI in performance evaluation
• Run Nan Yang for:
  Economics of Roadside Infrastructure: Parking and Electric Trucks
• Ira Yeung for:
  Artificial Intelligence and Financial Stability