Active Grants

Smith School of Business researchers engage in high quality research that addresses timely and important research questions. This has led to a high success rate in acquiring external research grants to fund multi-year projects. The following is a list of the active external grants held by our researchers.

• Barling, Julian (PI) with Turner, Nick (external)
  SSHRC Insight Grant, 2018-2023, $209,046
  Early socioeconomic adversity and the development of later formal leadership

• Chaigneau, Pierre (PI) with Sahuguet, Nicolas (external)
  SSHRC Insight Grant, 2021-2024, $90,091
  Too many rewards? Performance shares and the optimal structure of executive pay

• Dacin, Peter (PI) with Dacin, Tina M. & Murphy, Daniel V. S. (external)
  SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2020-2023, $193,625
  Saving Place: Culture, Arts and Tradition in Community Resilience

• Dacin, Tina
  SSHRC Insight Grant, 2015-2023, $182,500
  Examining the Dynamics of Social Innovation Labs

• Dacin, Tina (PI) with Saifer, Adam (external)
  SSHRC Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) Innovation, 2019-2023, $99,300
  Collaboration for Social Innovation: Scaling for Impact

• Dudley, Evan
  SSHRC Insight Grant, 2022-2026, $173,611
  Human-machine interactions in the over-the-counter market

• Goerzen, Anthony
  SSHRC Insight Grant, 2021-2023, $83,816
  Third party interventions to improve global value chain social justice and environmental stewardship

• Gopalakrishnan, Raga
  SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2020-2023, $60,100
  Behaviour-Aware Queueing Models for Smart Service Operations

• Hou, Yu
  SSHRC Insight Grant, 2020-2023, $92,150
  Partisan Auditors: Do Auditors' Political Preferences Influence Audit Outcomes

• Ivus, Olena
  SSHRC Ukraine Response Fund, 2022-2023, $59,439
  Intellectual Property Rights, Innovator Migration and Technology Diffusion

• Kolsarici, Ceren
  The Bank of Nova Scotia, 2022-2026, $500,000
  Scotiabank Centre for Customer Analytics Research Agreement

• Kolsarici, Ceren (PI) with Levin, Yuri, Levina, Tatsiana; Martin, T. Patrick (Computing); Nediak, Mikhail; Ovchinnikov, Anton & Thompson, Matthew Sean
  NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) 2018-2023, $900,000
  Large-scale customer analytics methodologies in financial services

• Lei, Murray (Yanzhe)
  Loblaw Companies, 2022-2023, $20,000
  Predictive Data Analytics for Retail Demand with Pantry Loading Effect

• Lei, Murray (Yanzhe)
  NSERC Discovery Grants - Individual, 2021-2026, $155,000
  Real-time Dynamic Optimization for Omnichannel Retailers

• Lei, Murray (Yanzhe)
  NSERC Discovery Launch Supplement, 2021-2026, $12,500
  Real-time Dynamic Optimization for Omnichannel Retailers

• Levin, Yuri
  NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE), 2018-2024, $25,909
  Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance and Business Analytics

• Li, Guang
  NSERC Discovery Grants - Individual, 2020-2025, $130,000
  Revenue Management and Policy Design in the Presence of Customer Multi-Item Shopping Behavior

• Li, Guang
  NSERC Discovery Launch Supplement, 2020-2025, $12,000
  Revenue Management and Policy Design in the Presence of Customer Multi-Item Shopping Behavior

• Salterio, Steve (PI) with Ye, Minlei (external)
  SSHRC Insight Grant, 2021-2026, $149,050
  Understanding the Extent and Nature of Replication Research in Social Sciences: The Case of Accounting Research

• Spitzmuller, Matthias
  The Bank of Nova Scotia, 2022-2024, $160,000
  Modeling the Risk Factors of Regrettable Attrition

• Thiele, Veikko
  SSHRC Insight Grant, 2021-2024, $36,306
  Scale-up Ecosystems: Theory and Empirical Evidence

• Thomas, Stephen
  Crowdcare Corporation and Lululemon, 2020-2024, $96,250
  Digital Technology Supercluster

• Thomas, Stephen
  Mitacs Accelerate, Mitacs with Crowdcare Corporation, 2022-2024, $350,000
  Investigating transformer-based NLP techniques and advanced machine learning approaches to improve virtual assistant operations

• Thomas, Tandy
  SSHRC Insight Grant, 2015-2023, $114,570
  New Parent Decision Making in a Culture of Choice and Discourse Overload

• Raver, Jana
  SSSHRC Partnership Engage Grant, 2022-2023, $25,000
  Improving Work Culture with a Trauma-Informed Leadership Intervention for Public Safety Personnel

• Riordan, Ryan
  SSHRC Insight Grant, 2022-2027, $223,358
  Carbon Finance: Can markets help in the fight against climate change?

• Wang, Jue
  Mitacs Accelerate, Mitacs with OPTT Inc., 2022-2024, $60,000
  MITACS Postdoc-Roozbeh Yousefi: Applying Adaptive Bayesian Learning Model to the Fastest Change Detection of Mental Health Patients’ Category

• Wang, Jue
  NSERC Discovery Grants - Individual, 2019-2024, $130,000
  Diagnosis, Learning and Optimization of Smart and Connected Products

• Wang, Jue
  NSERC Discovery Launch Supplement, 2019-2024, $12,500
  Diagnosis, Learning and Optimization of Smart and Connected Products

• Wang, Wei
  SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2021-2023, $64,812
  Market Power in Loan Pricing

• Zhang, Jingyu
  SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2022-2024, $64,812
  Do hedge funds exploit material non-public information?