Tri-Agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee announces its third-year results

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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 third-year results of the Tri-Agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee (TAIPR). The three agencies continue their 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 interdisciplinary, investigator-initiated research projects.

As a result of the pilot’s success over the last three years, TAIPR will now be an ongoing part of tri-agency funding opportunities. Researchers applying to upcoming 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.

Third-year facts and figures

• Fifty interdisciplinary researchers served on the TAIPR committee.
• The committee reviewed 142 applications, including 29 Insight Grants, 30 Insight Development Grants, 24 fall 2023 and 26 spring 2024 Project Grant, and 33 Discovery Horizons grant applications.
• Forty-nine projects were awarded in total, including 24 by SSHRC, 10 by CIHR and 15 by NSERC.

Projects funded through the Tri-Agency Interdisciplinary Peer Review Committee’s third year

SSHRC Insight Grants:

• An exploration of Canada’s electoral system as a contributor to social inequities and the impact on population health and health equity
• Claim suppression of occupational injuries and illnesses: Connecting workers’ compensation policy and practice to workers’ lived experiences
• Engineering Avalon: an archaeo-engineering investigation of protoindustrial and domestic wastewater systems in 17th-century Ferryland, Newfoundland
• LAVA: Large-scale Archaeological Videogame Analysis
• Les pratiques liées à l’enseignement à l’extérieur et leurs effets
• Mapping the Journey for Youth Transitioning to Adult Care
• Neighbourhood-Level Climate Vulnerability in Canadian Cities
• Reducing the impacts of emotion recognition bias on Canadians
• Repenser l’art environnemental en contexte forestier et d’adaptation aux changements climatiques : la valorisation et l’impression 3D de Résidus Industriels de Bois en pratique sculpturale in situ
• Restoring Social-Ecological Systems through Relational Land and Soil Care in Canada: A Transdisciplinary Intervention

SSHRC Insight Development Grants:

• A pilot project exploring the experiences of childbirth and transition to parenthood for individuals with a history of sexual violence in adulthood
• Developing a Personalizable Robotic System for Enhancing Children’s Emotion Knowledge
• Developing socio-political practices in occupational therapy
• Discrimination, diversity and belonging in dietetics in Canada
• Documenting the epistemological trajectory of neurological pain research
• Exploring the Impact of Knowledge Waste Reduction on Municipal Waste Reduction in Panniqtuuq, Nunavut
• Feeling the music together: how sound and social factors drive movement dynamics on the dance floor
• Mesurer l’aptitude lexicale des grands modèles de langues génératifs
• Promoting Companion Animal End-of-Life Care: Exploring Companion Animal Guardians’ Perspectives and Experiences
• Religious/Spiritual Views and Mental Health
• The sociability of dreams: Investigating the interplay between loneliness, dreams, and social well-being
• Unpacking resilience: Identifying individual-to-societal predictors of favorable affect regulation
• Women athletes’ experiences of the Female Athlete Triad and RED-S: A bio-psycho-social mixed methods approach
• Working behind the closed doors: Examining policy and research needs for digital platform workers in the private households sector

NSERC Discovery Horizons:

• Pioneering Mathematics to Precision Medicine: Interdisciplinary Research on the Development and Application of Tools to Support Biomedical Discovery Using Biobank Data
• Cracking the tau pathology progression in the mouse brain: Computational approaches and directed anatomical brain networks modeling for neurodegenerative disease
• Mechanisms of cell stress and damage from functional electrical stimulation
• eTextiles and Automation Technology in Physical Therapy Practice in Critical Care: An Interdisciplinary Research Approach to Medical Device Development
• Development of tools for incorporation of population health and environmental justice endpoints in decarbonization policies
• Rhetorical figures for human-like inductive biased language models
• Boosting stem cell engraftment and differentiation with engineered biomaterials bearing cell adhesion peptides
• Angular contrast multimodal optical imaging for lung cancer assessment
• Engineering Workforce Transformation Requirements in Response to Artificial Intelligence
• Utilisation de la robotique sociale et de la réalité virtuelle au soutien des personnes âgées
• Innovative biotechnology systems to investigate tear film/eye surface somatosensory homeostasis
• Digital innovation for social transformation: internalizing agency, health, digital literacy, values and worldviews in software design and development processes, frameworks and methodologies
• Production of functional vegetables for northern communities by harnessing smart vertical farm technology
• Developing tools for stable-isotope tracing lipidomics that will investigate cardiac lipid metabolism
• Selective tissue-targeting controlled release prodrug technologies

CIHR Project Grants:

Fall 2023

• Articulating Microbiome Stewardship: Definition, Guiding Principles, Framework
• Decoding the Mechanisms of Beta-Lactam Resistance in Streptococcus suis: A Genomic, Structural and Epidemiological Analysis
• Quantitative ultrasound to improve detection and diagnosis of liver cancer
• Measuring the impacts of the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) on health, mobility, and equity: A longitudinal study
• A Longitudinal Study of Correctional Services Canada’s Correctional Workers Mental Health and Well-being: The Role of Prison Work and Prisons in Shaping Health, Organizations, Respect, and Knowledge

Spring 2024

• Measuring the impacts of the Réseau Express Métropolitain (REM) on health, mobility, and equity: A longitudinal study
• MRSA Genomics: Advancing Knowledge for Effective Interventions
• Muscle loss and weakness in critical care: an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the time course and nature of muscle weakness during and after a critical care stay
• Revolutionizing Musculoskeletal Care: Interdisciplinary Advancement of Dual Fluoroscopy Technology for Precision Diagnosis and Targeted Intervention in Osteoarthritis
• Telemonitoring of activities of daily living in home care services of older adults with cognitive deficits: a large-scale action design research study

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