The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) is inviting undergraduate students to apply for the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE).
DARE is intended to provide opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in research projects supervised by LA&PS faculty members. The purpose of the award is to connect students and faculty via the faculty member’s research project.
Up to 30 awards are available in 2018, the competition’s inaugural year. Each student who receives a DARE award will conduct their research during the summer and receive $5,000.
“Research, scholarship and creativity constitute the soul of a university. Our undergraduate students repeatedly express their keenness for research in my interactions with them. While such opportunities are usually available to undergraduates in STEM fields, they are quite limited in others. DARE is a modest effort to offer a meaningful intellectual experience to our students — to advance their development as scholars, researchers, creators and co-producers of knowledge,” says LA&PS Dean Ananya Mukherjee-Reed. “As indicated by the research projects, LA&PS faculty work on a vast array of stimulating topics. Our students will benefit greatly by participating in these projects. I am immensely grateful to the donors whose support has made DARE possible and the faculty mentors who are offering this invaluable experience to our students.”
The program is open to full-time undergraduate students enrolled in any degree within the Faculty, with a minimum cumulative GPA of 7.0. Students should have completed at least 48 credits by the time they take up the award. They are also eligible to apply for DARE in their graduating year.
Students should submit their resumé and expression of interest directly to the professors on whose projects they would like to work, even if the professor’s field is different than the student’s major. It is recommended that students apply to two or three different projects that are of interest.
There is a two-stage application process, and the first deadline that students must meet is providing a resumé and an expression of interest by 4pm on Jan. 24.
All the research project opportunities and complete application information can be found at laps.yorku.ca/dare.
This is the full list of DARE projects:
Project Postings |
Supervisor |
Department |
Deadline to apply |
Quantifying Reproduction: Colonialism, Birth and Women’s Health in the South Western Pacific Islands (1906-1980) |
Sandra Widmer |
Anthropology |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Archival Text Transcription |
Naomi Adelson |
Anthropology |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Decolonizing the Academy: Indigenizing the Curriculum Seven Generations in the Future |
Elizabeth Brule |
Equity Studies |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Hindi-Urdu Heritage Teaching in Light of Language Ideology and Language Politics |
Shobna Nijhawan |
DLLL |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Ownership, Control & Regulation of the Internet of Things |
Natasha Tusikov |
Social Science |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Rail Safety Game |
Ali Asgary |
DEM/ADMS |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Italian food, language and social media |
Roberta Iannacito-Provenzano |
DLLL |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Financial Inclusion, Fintech and Alternative Consumer Financial Services |
Brenda Spotton Visano |
Econ/SPPA |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Financial Inclusion and Access to Mainstream Banking Services |
Brenda Spotton Visano |
Econ/SPPA |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Purge, Purify, Clarify: Digital Humanities Database |
R. Darren Gobert |
English |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Human Rights in the Age of Surveillance (book project) |
Maggie Quirt |
Equity Studies |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
A paleoenvironmental approach for assessing present-day ecosystem sensitivity to thawing permafrost |
Jennifer Korosi |
Geography |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Small patchy wetlands, Southern Iceland: Linkages between soil type and moisture dynamics |
Kathy L. Young |
Geography |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Shape stability of phenomena as assessed from mulit-scale vertical profile UAV imagery |
Tarmo K Remmel |
Geography |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
The Morphology & Formation of Mima Mounds |
Peter Long |
Geography |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
The Prime Ministers and the Jews |
David Koffman |
History |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Boko Haram, Islamic Protest and National Security |
Paul E. Lovejoy |
History |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Expressive Cultures of the African Diaspora |
Paul E. Lovejoy |
History |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
“Improvising the law of copyright in music: music publishers, composers, and copyright litigation in Great Britain from 1777 to 1842” |
Roger S. Fisher |
Humanities |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Be/longing: Somali Girls in Toronto |
Andrea Davis |
Humanities |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Kinds of Minds |
Kristin Andrews |
Philosophy |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Global Employment Standards Database |
Leah Vosko |
Political Science |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Canada and the UN Human Rights Committee |
Jacqueline Krikorian |
Political Science |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Canada’s Temporary Labour Migration Programs: Policy Changes, Policy Effects, and Migrant Resistance |
Ethel Tungohan |
Politics |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Militarisation and Popular Culture in Canada |
David Mutimer |
Politics |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
A media ceiling? Gender representation in print news-media photographs of public servants |
Caroline Dufour |
Politics |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Sustainability through Ecosystem Health: On-line Information Portal |
Peter Khaiter |
Information Technology |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Urban Big Data Analytics for Location-Based Services |
Xiaohui Yu |
Information Technology |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Urbanization, gender and the global south: a transformative knowledge network |
Linda Peake |
Social Science |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Evolving Legal Services: Measuring Impact on Access to Justice |
Lesley Jacobs |
Social Science |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Vanishing North: Visualizing and (re)imagining climate change in the Canadian Arctic |
Matt Tegelberg and Anita Lam |
Social Science |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Refugee Vetting Process |
Ozgun Topak |
Social Science |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Conjugal Slavery in War research Partnership |
Annie Bunting |
Social Science/ Tubman Institute |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Theorizing practice, practicing theories |
Soma Chatterjee |
Social Work |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Antifa and alt-right: movement/counter-movement dynamics in the post-Trump era |
Lesley Wood |
Sociology |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Citizenship and Employment Precarity |
Luin Goldring |
Sociology |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
The making of “Greektown”. Mapping Greek presence in Toronto, 1950s – 1970s |
Athanasios (Sakis) Gekas |
History |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Towards Digital Sovereignty – Inclusive and Sustainable Development through the Indigenous Friends Mobile App |
Stephen Chen |
Information Technology |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Walk the Walk: Experiential learning and university campus field trips |
Zoë Newman |
Sociology |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Canadian Community Radio |
Anne MacLennan |
Communication Studies |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Protesting Poverty |
Anne MacLennan |
Communication Studies |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Remembering Radio |
Anne MacLennan |
Communication Studies |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Energy Transitions and Living in the City: Adaptations and Vulnerabilities Concerning Home and Mobility in the Greater Toronto Area |
Karl Schmid |
Anthropology |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Edward Bernays, Doris Fleischman Bernays, and the History of “Commodity Feminist” Marketing |
Julie E. Dowsett |
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Reading Indigenous legal spaces |
David Szablowski |
Social Science |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Does Microinsurance Have a Role to Play in Improving the Lives of Low-Income Individuals in Canada? |
Ida Ferrara and Tsvetanka Karagyozova |
Economics |
Jan. 24, 2018 |
Working conditions and gender dynamics in the global garment industry: A comparative study of Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Lesotho and Vietnam |
Kelly Pike |
Human Resources & Management |
Jan. 24, 2018 |