$268,000 awarded to support outreach activities by McGill researchers
Seven McGill University researchers have been awarded more than $268,000 in Connection Grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
The Connections Grants program supports short-term events and outreach activities that are targeted toward knowledge mobilization initiatives. They can also serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects.
Advancing knowledge of avant-garde art music
Christoph Neidhofer, Associate Professor in the Department of Music Research, and co-organizer Professor Angela Ida De Benedictis from the Paul Sacher Foundation (Basel, Switzerland) will co-host a workshop in Montreal that aims to advance new knowledge about Cathy Berberian, the most influential singer-experimenter in 20th-century avant-garde art music, through the lens of her work with her closest collaborator, composer Luciano Berio.
The workshop will bring together music scholars, performers, students from diverse disciplines—including music research, art history, gender studies, and philosophy—primary school children, members of the Berberian and Berio families, and the general public to examine the duo’s innovative paradigm for artistic creation that has served as a model for other artists since the 1960s. Collaborators include the Schulich School of Music, Centro Studi Luciano Berio (Radicondoli, Italy), Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Montreal), McGill's Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), and the Paul Sacher Foundation.
Commemorating the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement
Colin Scott, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, with postdoctoral fellow Émile Duchesne, will lead a series of events and initiatives leading up to the 50th anniversary of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement. Signed on November 11, 1975, this landmark agreement between the Government of Quebec, the Government of Canada, the Cree and Inuit peoples of northern Quebec, and various provincial entities, was in response to Hydro-Québec’s plans to develop hydroelectric projects in northern Quebec.
Their project aims to deepen understanding and share insights about the Agreement's enduring legacy for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Quebec, Canada, and globally. Initiatives include a colloquium, publications, a digital archive, and outreach events to foster broad discussions and analysis of Indigenous strategies for empowerment and the recognition of territorial rights, both within Quebec and internationally.
McGill’s fund projects are:
Symposium: Black Communities, Emancipatory Research, and Pathways to Liberation
Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
$24,232 from SSHRC
2025 Community of Practice on Child and Youth Trauma: Trauma-Focused Approaches as a Tool for Transforming Social Practice and Policy
Delphine Collin-Vézina, Full Professor, McGill School of Social Work, Director of the Centre for Research on Children and Families, Nicolas Steinmetz and Gilles Julien Chair in Community Social Pediatrics
$50,000 from SSHRC
Artificial Intelligence and social work in Canada: Exploring intra- and interdisciplinary opportunities, tensions, and challenges
Katherine Maurer, Associate Professor, McGill School of Social Work, Associate Member in the Department of Pediatrics
$24,972 from SSHRC
Travelling images: Youth at the centre of art exhibition practices in a transnational partnership
Claudia Mitchell, Distinguished James McGill Professor, Department of Integrated Studies
$44,400 from SSHRC
“Gestures, words, sounds”: The creative worlds of Cathy Berberian and Luciano Berio —new sources, new perspectives
Christoph Neidhofer, Associate Professor, Department of Music Research
$33,492 from SSHRC
Advancing AI in Canadian Manufacturing: Collaborative Workshop to Unlock Efficiency, Innovation, and Industry-Academia Partnerships
Saibal Ray, Vice-Dean of Faculty and James McGill Professor, Operations Management, Desautels Faculty of Management
$14,250 from SSHRC
Counter-colonial governance, treaty-making, and territorial rights
Colin Scott, Professor, Department of Anthropology
$76,973 from SSHRC