Tri-Agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee: Fifth-Year Results Announced

Date published: September 24, 2026

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 share the fifth-year results from the Tri-agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee (TAIPR).

TAIPR advances Canada’s peer-review excellence. First launched as a one-year pilot program in spring 2021, it was established as a regular committee in early 2024. By convening experts from health, natural sciences, engineering, social sciences and humanities, the committee provides specialized, cross-disciplinary evaluation of 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.

Fifth year (2025-26) facts and figures

• 82 interdisciplinary researchers served on TAIPR.
• The committee reviewed 227 applications, including 50 Insight Grants, 35 Insight Development Grants, 47 Fall 2025 and 59 Spring 2026 Project Grant, and 36 Discovery Horizons applications.
• In total, 71 projects were awarded: 40 by SSHRC (Insight Grant: 24; Insight Development Grant: 16), 18 by CIHR (Fall 2025: seven full grants and two priority announcements grants; Spring 2026: six full grants and three priority announcement grants) and 13 by NSERC.

Projects funded in TAIPR’s fifth year

SSHRC Insight Grants

• Across the centuries: Exploring the evolution of cues for emotion in Western music
• Algorithmic Porosity: TikTok at the Edges of the Self
• Arch[AI]ve: Building an AI-Assisted Tool for Conserving and Curating Orphan Films
• Entre gestion du risque et citoyenneté : Repenser l’accompagnement des personnes judiciarisées vivant avec un trouble mental grave
• Exploring early hominin response to the Kalahari Basin infill at Kathu Pan, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
• Exploring Social and Technical Drivers of Online Gambling Behaviour among Young Canadian Adults
• From Needs to Solutions: Mediation/Moderation of Black Older Adults’ Needs by Demographics and Birthplace and the Co-creation of Afrocentric-Informed Strategies
• How does exercise improve quality of life/subjective well-being in adults with physical disabilities? Exploring the roles of quality-participation experiences and life-domain satisfaction
• Human Rights Law and Communication Neuroprostheses: Freedom of Thought and Speech, Mental Privacy, and Equality
• Identifying the mechanisms underlying earlier-than-intended breastfeeding cessation among mothers and their partners affected by postnatal depression in different cultural and gendered contexts
• Investigating the Effects of Socially Empowered Learning on Youth Wellbeing in Schools
• La quête des origines de la personne adoptée : reconstruire son histoire à la croisée des savoirs sociaux, santé et technologiques
• Mapping Interprovincial Trade Barriers
• Mapping Workplace Racism in Canada: A Community-Driven AI Platform Grounded in Ontario
• Meta Physical Theatre
• Navigating the Village: Social Support across the Perinatal Period
• Perfect Performance: Contextual Pressure to Perform Perfectly, Injury Risk, Artistic Expression and Well-being in Female Competitive Dancers
• Prompting Rule-based Activities to Support Relational Communication Closeness in Dementia Care
• Rethinking Artificial Intelligence creativity and ideation systems
• Rethinking the Feather Book: History, Art and Science
• Social-ecological challenges at the human-wildlife interface: Coyotes, zoonotic disease and public health
• The Belonging Mind: Misinformation, Mental Immunity, and Wellbeing Across the American Nations
• Understanding older men’s spousal caregiving: A photovoice study
• Usenet as a Historical and Diachronic Corpus

SSHRC Insight Development Grants

• A social prescription for the winter blues: The impact of the seasonal migration of Canadian snowbirds
• Advancing Equity for Immigrant Communities: A Co-design Approach to Understanding and Strengthening Collaboration between Community Organizations Serving Immigrants and Health and Social Care Organizations in Canada
• Combating Chinese Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference
• “Computer Says No”: Risk, regulation, and the role of science in fisheries management under uncertainty
• Exploring Autonomy Development Among Emerging Adults Living with Chronic Conditions
• Extreme heat risks and resilience among women caregivers experiencing poverty—A participatory, mixed methods study in urban Canada
• Investigating self-directed emotional regulation in everyday life for young autistic adults
• Merging Anthropological Theory and Techniques with Historical Analyses to Weave a Narrative of a Nineteenth Century Sailor from L’Anse au Loup, Labrador
• Mesurer l’expérience de travail des personnes intervenantes en protection de la jeunesse : Étude pilote sur l’implantation des Clinician-Reported Experience Measures (CREMs)
• Promoting Cross-Context Cultural Learning in Children Through Situated Augmented Reality Application
• The effects of AI tools on motivation in general problem-solving tasks
• The Phantom Fish: Untangling the coevolution of herring and people across the Pacific Rim
• Understanding Narrative Formation in Fragmented Information Ecosystems
• Understanding Psychological Injury Hazards in Sociodynamic Systems via Stress- and Sociometric-Aware Wearables and Temporal Graph Neural Networks
• Voice-related fear and avoidance beliefs in occupational voice users: laying the groundwork for investigating barriers to vocal and professional well-being
• What Remains: Motherhood and Sociobiological Vulnerability in a Rural Québec Community During the Industrial Revolution

NSERC Discovery Horizons

• A machine learning approach to extracting disease-associated signals from multi-comics data in Mixed phenotype acute leukemia
• AI-Driven Innovation in Mental Health Stepped Care: Integrating Engineering and Clinical Perspectives
• An optimized neuroimaging protocol for assessing autonomic dysfunction
• Breathing Waters: Integrating Indigenous and Western Limnological Interpretations of Aquatic Metabolism
• Courtroom Intelligence: Co-Designing AI for Courts
• Development and assessment of thiamine and iodine co-fortified salt to prevent infantile beriberi in low- and middle-income countries
• Head in the cloud, feet on the ground: develop and evaluate pathways of integrating remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) and urban data informatics (UDI) in the design and planning of cities
• Integrating ecosystem services of arthropod natural enemies at the field level: Combining ecological and molecular techniques with effective communication strategies for field vegetable producers
• Investigating the emergence of a deadly zoonotic tapeworm in Canada using a One Health Approach
• Landscape virology; viruses in the natural world
• Probing a novel theory of physiological strain
• RATS (Risk Assessment and Tracking Systems): A transdisciplinary policy-oriented approach to urban rat management
• The acute response of endothelial function to an experience of weight stigma in a healthcare environment

CIHR Project Grants

Fall 2025

Full Grants

• Artificial intelligence-based Development and Validation of a New Approach to Predict Efficacy of Treatment for Surgical Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma using Multi-omics (ADVANCE)
• REcherche pour le Développement d’une application de RÉorientation au triage de l’urgence aveC l’inTelligence artificielle (REDIRECT-IA) : proposition pour l’élaboration du concept scientifique
• Trauma-focused Responsive AI Using MIRA (TRAUMIRA): Development and Evaluation of a Trauma-Focused AI Conversational Agent for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Care
• Predicting Risk and Outcome in Paediatric Stroke
• Data, Dignity, and Direction: A Global Study of Orphans and Children Lacking Parental Care
• The development and utilization of innovative dual-function electrodes to activate oligodendrocyte precursor cells and promote neural repair
• Statistical modeling of spatial omics to optimize discovery and diagnosis of key cancer drivers from patient tissue samples

Priority Announcement Grants

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)- and machine learning (ML)-driven discovery of new antibiofilm drugs and combination therapies
• Accessible Diagnosis and Staging of Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema with AI-Powered Point of Care Ultrasound

Spring 2026

Full Grants

• An interdisciplinary and collaborative One Health approach to investigate coronavirus infection, persistence, shedding, and antiviral immunity using wild-caught and captive bat models in the Americas
• Replacement of Intraocular Injections with Eye Drops for the Treatment of Retinal Diseases Using Gold Nanoparticles
• AI-Assisted Multimodal Imaging for Joint Damage Assessment, Flare Prediction, and Personalized Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Co-designing a Transnational AI-Powered Chatbot to Improve Access to Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Among Migrants, Women, and Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Have Sex with Men in Canada, Ghana, and Germany: The MARVIN-CONNECT Study
• Interdisciplinary AI Development for Clinical Translation of Intestinal Tract Segmentation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Investigating the mechanobiological behavior of cranial suture abnormalities in a murine model through advanced mechanical and structural characterization methods

Priority Announcement Grants

• MIRA for Adaptive CLinical Evaluation in Depression (MIRACLE-D): Design and Evaluation of an AI-Powered Personalized Virtual Assistant for Depression Care
• Deep Learning Tool for Opportunistic Fracture Risk Prediction using Radiotherapy Planning CTs
• Accessible Diagnosis and Staging of Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema with AI-Powered Point of Care Ultrasound

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