Tri-Agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee announces its fourth-year results
Canada’s three federal research funding agencies—the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)—are pleased to announce the results of the fourth year of the Tri-agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee (TAIPR).
The agencies launched TAIPR as a one-year pilot program in spring 2021, and announced the regularization of the committee in early 2024. TAIPR builds on the agencies’ world-class peer review processes and commitment to supporting interdisciplinary research, by bringing together researchers with expertise from across the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, engineering and health sciences to review proposals for interdisciplinary, investigator-initiated research projects.
Researchers applying to SSHRC’s Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants competitions, CIHR’s Fall and Spring Project Grant competitions and NSERC’s Discovery Horizons competition can continue to direct their interdisciplinary applications to this committee for review.
See the TAIPR web page for more information, including on eligibility and how to apply.
The agencies are also pleased to share the results of the fourth year:
Fourth-year (2024-2025) facts and figures
- Fifty-five interdisciplinary researchers served on TAIPR.
- The committee reviewed 193 applications, including 38 Insight Grants, 41 Insight Development Grants, 38 Fall 2024 and 39 Spring 2025 Project Grants, and 37 Discovery Horizons applications.
- Sixty-four projects were awarded in total, including 38 by SSHRC, 15 by CIHR and 11 by NSERC.
Projects funded in the Tri-Agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee’s fourth year:
SSHRC Insight Grants:
- Kayask Kiskethitamowinah. Legacy mines, Indigenous wellbeing, and a just green transition
- A multi-method study examining ‘wine mom culture’ and sociocultural contexts of alcohol use among Canadian mothers
- AgeSmart-AI: AI-Enabled Shadow Technologies Catalyzing Age-Inclusive Healthcare Environments
- Art, Science and Industrial Plastic Pollution: Long-term monitoring and art-making in the Great Lakes Watershed
- Empowering Emerging Adults through Compassion and Enhanced Social Connection: Co-creating a Compassionate Connection Oasis VR Toolkit (ccOasisVR)
- Exploring Human-AI Methods for Access to Justice
- Fire and Ancient Forest Stewardship: Assessing Human Agency in the Post-Glacial Biodiversity of Central Europe
- Gathering insight on clinical nurse educators’ professional development and socialization to contribute to mitigating the healthcare workforce crisis
- Genomics and blood donation: a qualitative exploration of the social and ethical dimensions
- Interdisciplinary Approaches toward Responsible Facial Recognition AI: Developing Technical, Ethical, and Regulatory Recommendations for Policymaking in Canada
- Investigating quality and innovation in laddered graduate certificate programs: a mixed methods comparative case study
- Predicting global socio-economic vulnerability to climate hazards using satellite imagery and machine learning
- The impact of abrupt warming on cultural evolution: the Late Glacial Interstadial Complex in Europe
- Understanding Financial Contagion under Complete, Partial, and Hidden Information Scenarios: New Causal Graph Learning Methods for Risk Propagation in Complex Networks
- When Strong Currents Meet: Swimming in the Waters of Transformative Social Innovation Pedagogies
SSHRC Insight Development Grants:
- achIeving the dreaM of AginG IN placE: the IMAGINE study
- Artificially intelligent scribe technology in the emergency department: Intruder, assistant, or both?
- Bridging the Novice-to-Expert Gap in Representational Competency: Scaffolding Strategies for Enhancing Chemistry Education and Producing Better Professional Chemists
- Caractérisation de la pratique collaborative entre les infirmières praticiennes spécialisées et les infirmières autorisées.
- Conceptualizing and enacting social justice in nursing: A focused ethnography
- Crises in the Coop: Poultry Farmers’ Decision-Making Strategies Amidst Multiple Challenges
- Critical Interrogation of Sociodemographic Constructs and Collection for use in Musculoskeletal Research
- Design, Co-creation, and Evaluation of a Usability Scale for VR Applications by and for Older Adults
- Environmental disability scale: A novel system to measure environmental disabling factors and their impact on task performance
- Envisioning Change: A solution-focused co-design approach to understanding retention strategies among mental health workers in Northern Ontario
- Evolving practices in anatomy education, prosectorship, and the afterlife of human remains: A cross-cultural study
- Final Wishes, Lasting Impact: Examining the Benefits and Challenges of Bucket List Fulfillment in Palliative Care
- Forms of Deep Attention: Bridging Between Neuroscientific and Literary Perspectives
- Helping the Helpers: Learning how to Holistically Support Home Dialysis Caregivers throughout their Caregiving Journey
- Le recours aux savoirs traditionnels pour la prise en charge des troubles de santé mentale chez les migrants d’origine africaine au Québec
- Painting music with robot swarms
- Promoting Resilient Faculty Workforces in Canadian Postsecondary Education: Transferring Building Disaster Resilience (BDR) Approach to Address Academic Contra-Power Harassment (ACPH)
- Regard « émancipé » sur la transition énergétique au Nunavik : approche critique et genrée
- Return Migration, Social Participation, and Subjective Wellbeing Among Elderly West African Immigrants
- Revealing the Forest Demographies of Human-Driven Neotropical Reforestation
- Text Complexity of German Children’s Books
- The politics of knowledge brokering: A case study of opioid deprescribing as exemplar
- Understanding the diverse experiences of care partners of individuals with behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia to improve their well being
NSERC Discovery Horizons:
- Buccal Tablets and Nasal Sprays for non-invasive delivery of therapeutic peptides and hormones
- Deriving and evaluating realistic statistical models for real-time clinical prediction of diabetes complications
- Développement d’outils automatisés pour la détection précoce des troubles d’apprentissage de la lecture et du langage
- Follow the Bison: Insights into Environmental and Cultural Change
- Integrating Sustainability Factors into Self-Driving Laboratory Materials Development Processes
- Multidomain dynamic difficulty adjustment and performance assessment in serious games
- Multimodal Cancer Therapy - mitigating drug resistance and side effects
- Oxygen-Dependent Structural Alterations In Extracellular Matrix Synthesized By Cancer-Associated Fibroblast
- Redefining Health through Non-equilibrium Physics
- Reimagining Health App Interfaces for Inclusive and Equitable Access through Artificial Intelligence and Novel Design
- Towards Physician-in-the-Loop Artificial Intelligence in Oncologic PET/CT Imaging
CIHR Project Grants:
Fall 2024
- Biomedical ultrasound image-guided delivery of immunomodulating antibody for cardiovascular disease
- Discerning drivers of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus-associated disease across host species using a One Health approach
- Predictive Care: Co-designing a human(e)-AI system to advance equitable violence risk assessment in acute psychiatry
- Preventing ACL injury with an optimized knee brace: Evaluation of biomechanical efficiency and psychological acceptance
- Supporting climate change interventions for urban health and equity: A participatory complex system perspective
- Towards a novel implant system: Combining DNA gels and 3D-printed scaffolds for osseointegration in osteoporotic bone
- Trustworthiness of person-generated health data from markerless motion capture for personalized motor rehabilitation for young people with motor disabilities
Spring 2025
- AI-Driven Platform for Large-Scale Screening, Analysis, and Experimental Validation: Targeting Pin1 for Precision Drug Discovery in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
- AI-Driven Structural Models to Map Bacterial Protein-Metabolite Interactions
- An integrated approach for the discovery and production of novel bioactive agents for neurological and mental health disorders
- DynaGraft: Development of a Prognostic Multimodal AI tool for Graft Fibrosis in Liver Transplantation
- Enhancing Robustness in Non-Contrast CT Image Analysis for Stroke: Application to Intracerebral Hemorrhage Outcome Prediction
- PD-TIPS.AI: Co-Designing AI-Driven Bilingual Self-Care Technology Delivering Tailored Care Tips and Resources for Parkinson's Disease
- Real-World Validation of Machine Learning Algorithms for a Wearable Cardiac Arrest Detection System
- Tracking trace elements in traditional foods: gaining insights into human exposure in the Peace River Valley
Contact
For more information, contact:
SSHRC
Email: research@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
Toll-free: 1-855-275-2861
CIHR
Email: support-soutien@cihr-irsc.gc.ca
Toll-free: 1-888-603-4178
NSERC
Email: horizons@nserc-crsng.gc.ca
Toll-free: 1-855-275-2861