Recent Research Projects

​2017 - 2017
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Connection Grant
“Canada 150: Engaging leisure legacies/creating leisure legacies”
PI: Heather Mair; Co-Is: Audrey Giles and Bryan Grimwood
Amount Awarded: $25,000 
 
2017 - 2018
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Catalyst Grant

“Using Inuvialuit ways of knowing to understand how on-the-land programming can foster wellness.”

PI: Audrey Giles, Co-Is: Francine Darroch and Tricia McGuire-Adams, Collaborators: Evelyn Storr, Meghan Etter, Andre Coriveau, Donald Prince, Jennifer Redvers, Sarah Rogers, Jimmy Ruttan, Peggy Day

Amount Awarded: $149,999 
 
2017 – 2018
Search and Rescue New Initiatives Fund (Public Safety Canada)

“Culturally appropriate search and rescue prevention and survival training in the Sahtu Region, Northwest Territories: An On-the-Land Program”

PIs: Deborah Simmons (Sahtu Renewable Resources Board) and Audrey Giles
Amount Awarded: $145,900 
 
2015 - 2019
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant
“Natural resource development, privatized aid, and sport for development: A comparison of Canada and Australia”
PI: Audrey Giles; Co-I: Lyndsay Hayhurst; Collaborators: Steven Rynne and Anthony Rossi
Amount Awarded: $211,146
2019 -2022               
Transport Canada Boating Safety Contribution Program Grant
Encouraging Power Boating Safety for Adults and Children/Youth in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region through Research, Education, and Awareness
PI: Audrey Giles, Co-Is: Gordon Geisbrecht, Kelli Toth
Amount Awarded: $274,364

2020 - 2025
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant
“A sporting chance? A critical Indigenous analysis of ‘sport for reconciliation’ in Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand.”
PI: Audrey Giles; Co-I: Lyndsay Hayhurst, Dan Henhawk; Collaborators: Jeremy Hapeta, Steven Rynne, Rochelle Stewart-Withers
Amount Awarded: $253,015

2020-2022
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant
"Water bottles and baby bottles: Community-based participatory research to understand the experiences of parenting track Olympians and Olympic hopefuls"
PI: Francine Darroch; Co-I: Audrey Giles
Amount Awarded: $61,500