Awards
Funding
Concordia University, Andrew Murphy Graduate Award in Special Education
2024
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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral Program (CGS-D)
2023-2026
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Concordia University, J.W. McConnell Doctoral Fellowship
2022-2024
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St. Andrews Society of Montreal, Education Bursary
2022, 2023, 2024
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Concordia University, Graduate Student Mobility Award
2011
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St. Andrews Society of Montreal, Education Bursary
2011, 2010
2023
SSHRC Connections
No Outsides: Underground Arts as a Catalyst for Pluralism in an Era of Polarization
Principal Investigator: Vivek Venkatesh, Collaborator: Kathryn Urbaniak (Concordia)
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2022-2023
Canadian Heritage
Developing Diverse Canadian Stakeholders’ Critical Digital Literacy To Counter Disinformation and Build Resilience Against Social Polarisations: Adapting and Evaluating the bilingual “From Hate To Hope” Open Online Course
Principal Investigator: Vivek Venkatesh, Collaborator: Kathryn Urbaniak (Concordia)
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2020-2023
Employment and Social Development Canada
Innovative Social Pedagogy to Empower Indigenous Communities & Reduce Gender, Racial Biases.
Principal Investigator: Vivek Venkatesh, Co-investigators: Kathryn Urbaniak (Concordia) and members of Project SOMEONE and its extended network
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2020-2022
Canadian Heritage
Landscape of Hope: Magnifying Marginalised Indigenous and Racialised Youth Voices to Build Digital Resilience Against Racism.
Principal Investigator: Vivek Venkatesh, Co-investigators: Kathryn Urbaniak (Concordia) and members of Project SOMEONE and its extended network
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2018-2019
Global Affairs Canada
Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Capacity-Building Initiatives from Project SOMEONE to Counter Terrorism and Violent Extremism with Lebanese Stakeholders in Education, Public Policy and Social Service.
Principal Investigator: Vivek Venkatesh, Co-investigators: Kathryn Urbaniak (Concordia) and members of Project SOMEONE and its extended network
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2017-2019
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
Implementing Social Pedagogical Practices via the SOMEONE multimedia portal: Knowledge Mobilization and Transfer of Evidence-Based Research into Communities, Scholastic, Popular Media and Public Settings to Improve Resilience to Hate Speech and Radicalization that leads to Violent Extremism.
Principal Investigator: Vivek Venkatesh, Co-investigators: Kathryn Urbaniak (Concordia), and members of Project SOMEONE and its extended network