Maya Goldenberg on two major research grants

Two recently-announced research grants include our own Associate Professor Maya Goldenberg. Congratulations, Maya!

Across the Great Divide: Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Paradigmatic Gap

SSHRC Insight Development Grant, $58,000 , 2016-2018
Primary Investigator:  Dr. Janet Parsons, Applied Health Research Centre, St. Michael's Hospital  

Maya Goldenberg, who has expertise in philosophical theories of scientific evidence and the values and assumptions underlying research methodologies, is joining a team of quantitative and qualitative researchers at the Applied Health Research Centre at St Michaels Hospital in Toronto to investigate and challenge entrenched assumptions regarding the great difference between quantitative and qualitative methods. The team will investigate the historical roots of this divide and the current challenges faced by both qualitative analysis and statisticians in the interpretation of data.

Public Deliberation on Vaccine Hesitancy

CIHR Project Grant, $100,000, 2016-2017
Primary Investigator: Dr. Kieran O’Doherty, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph
 
This project aims to create and implement a public deliberation event on vaccine hesitancy in the Greater Toronto Area. The investigative team brings together expertise in theory and methodology of public deliberation, vaccine hesitancy, public understanding of science, public health, health psychology, and healthcare law, ethics, and policy.