The Queen's Research Opportunities Funds awarded researchers from across disciplines a chance to begin innovative projects and forge new collaborations with colleagues and scholars around the world. Listed below are the winners of the Catalyst Fund and Arts Fund. Short descriptions of each researcher and their proposed projects will be posted soon.
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| Investigator | Department/Faculty | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| SHRC | ||
| Grégoire Webber | Faculty of Law | Human Goods and Human Laws |
| Meredith Chivers | Psychology | Racializing and diversifying sexual response: The effects of racial identification, emotional appraisal, and racial bias on the physiological and psychological sexual responses of Black and White women viewing racially diverse erotic stimuli. |
| Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin | Geography and Planning | Started from the bottom: Youth social mobility and affective labour in Ibadan, Nigeria |
| NSERC | ||
| Vicki Friesen | Biology | Using whole-genome sequencing to help protect the potential of wildlife to adapt to changing Arctic ecosystems, focusing on species important to Indigenous subsistence and culture |
| Chantelle Capicciotti | Chemistry | Targeting Cancer Glycans with Imaging Probes - New Frontiers to Chemically Map Tissue Surfaces |
| Jennifer Day | Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering | Investigation of sea stack stability in popular geotourism destinations, prediction of their structural collapse, evaluation of the effects of sea stack collapse on public safety, and forecasting risk associated with climate change evolution. |
| CIHR | ||
| Nader Ghasemlou | Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine, Biomedical & Molecular sciences | Circadian control of pain and neuroinflammation |
| Eun-Young Lee | School of Kinesiology and Health Studies | Knowledge into action: Development of carbon footprint equivalences that incorporate lifestyle behaviours for dual benefits of environmental sustainability and human health |
| Susan Bartels | Department of Emergency Medicine | Improving Emergency Department Care Experiences for Equity-Seeking Groups in Kingston: A Mixed Methods Research Study |
| David Maslove | Critical Care Medicine & Medicine | Deep learning applied to high-frequency physiologic waveforms for the detection of atrial fibrillation in critical illness |
| Investigator | Department/Faculty | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Artistic Production | ||
| Gabriel Menotti Miglio Pinto Gonring | Film and Media | Hollow constructions |
| Matthew Rogalsky | Film and Media | Highly Directional Loudspeakers: Research and Development for Distanced Sound Performance and Instalation |
| Visiting Artist in Residence | ||
| Carolyn Smart | English Language and Literature | Writer-in-Residence for Queen's University: Kaie Kellough |
| Juliana Bevilacqua | Art History | Rosana Paulino: Project North-South Dialogues |
| Karen Dubinsky | Global Development Studies | Cuban Roots in Canadian Soil: Canada's Cuban Musical History |