Faculty	Name	Project Title
Business	Berk Gorgulu	Simultaneous Disease and Specimen Pooling in Infectious Disease Testing
Business	Manish Kacker	Distribution Channel Design and Management for Inclusive Access and Growth in Developing Economies
Business	Milena Head	International Collaborations to Expand Aging Related Research Growth in Developing Economies
Business	Yao Yao	Generative AI in HRM: A study on HRM Professionals’ Experiences and Perceptions
Humanities	Dilyana Mincheva	Archival Research and Academic Screenwriting: Investigating Interfaith Lifeworlds in the Cold War Balkans
Humanities	Lucy El-Sherif	Looking for Palestine: Edward Said and Arab Youth Subjectivity
Humanities	Christina Baade	Hearing Maternity: Developing an International Research Network on Music, Sound, and Maternity
Social Sciences	Jarita Greyeyes	Understanding Indigenization: Perspectives from Indigenous Academic Leaders
Social Sciences	Tommy Wu	A Comparative Analysis of Food Delivery Workers in Toronto and New York City
Social Sciences	Netina Tan	Digital Authoritarianism and Non-State Actors in Africa and Asia
Social Sciences	Victor Satzewich	‘At Wars End? Ukrainian Displaced Persons in Canada, Poland and Germany
Social Sciences	Andrew Roddick	A Photogrammetry Reappraisal of Formative Sculptural Tradition
Science	Gillian Goward	Building an International Network of Battery Researchers
Science	Graham Scott	Physiological mechanisms of adaptation in high-altitude mice
Science	Ryan Cloutier	Characterizing the Dominant Drivers of Planet Evolution around Young M Stars
Science	Shui Feng	Bayesian Nonparametric Inferences
Science	Rodrigo Narro Pérez	Glacial Landsystem Analysis in the Vilcabamba Mountain Range, Southern Perú
Engineering	Kanwarpal Singh	Demystifying acute and chronic intestinal inflammation with spectroscopic cellular optical coherence tomography (sc-OCT)
Engineering	Heather Sheardown	Development of Novel Combination Therapy for the Treatment of Myopia
Engineering	Saiedeh Razavi	Cooperative Planning in Lean Constriction through Ethical, Safe, and Responsible use of AI
Engineering	Telex M. N. Ngatched	Optical Wireless Communication for Space-Air-Ground Integrated Network in 6G
Engineering	Onaizah Onaizah	Magnetic Tracking for Localization of Magnetic Continuum Robots for ENT Surgery
Health Sciences	Mohit Bhandari	Measuring the Creative Potential of Surgeons: A Mixed-Methods Cohort Study
Health Sciences	Waliul Khan	Impact of common food dyes on human gut health in Bangladesh: a pilot study
Health Sciences	Margaret Fahnestock	BDNF isoforms and pro BDNF biology and regulation
Health Sciences	Deborah Sloboda	Characterizing the impacts of maternal BMI on placental structure, perfusion, & inflammation
Linguistics & Languages	Ivona Kučerová	Closing the Digital Divide: Accessibility, Employability, and Safety

Faculty	Name	Title
Humanities	Ronald Cummings	Austin Clarke at 90
Humanities	Melike Yilmaz	The Voices of Refugees and Displaced Persons
Humanities	Carmela Laganse	The Sari-Sari Xchange: Building Asian Diasporic Community Through Emergent Media
Humanities	Lucy El-Sherif	Looking for Palestine: Edward Said and Arab Youth Subjectivity
Science	Patrick Clancy	Building an International Network of University Neutron Beam Research Facilities
Science	Baraa Al-Khazraji	Understanding human brain microvascular control
Science	Antonio Paez	Active sustainable transportation: barriers to cycling among university students
Science	Bartosz Protas	Pushing Boundaries in Theoretical Fluid Mechanics
Science	Juliet Daniel	Cancer Disparities in Caribbean People of African Ancestry
Health Sciences	Susan Jack	Establishing a Global Nurse-Family Partnership Community of Practice
Health Sciences	Cynthia Lokker	Automation in Biomedical Information Extraction and Retrieval Augmented Generation with LLMs
Health Sciences	Ally Prebtani	Uganda Hypertension Education Assessment and Treatment (UHEAT) Program
Social Sciences	Basit Kareem Iqbal	Recursivity in Syrian Prison Narratives: A Berlin Archive
Social Sciences	Nathan Andrews	Decolonizing African Higher Education: A Partnership for Transformation
Social Sciences	Andrew Roddick	The Stones in the Center: 3D Imaging ancient stone heads at a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Social Sciences	Adrianne Lickers Xavier	Conversations with the Sami
Social Sciences	Cal Biruk	Staging anticolonial portraits at a colonial mission station: Telling the story of Malawi’s first African photographer
Engineering	Tohid Didar & Kristen Dellinger	Lubricant-inflused Surfaces for Enhanced Detection Using Raman Spectroscopy and Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging
Engineering	Raja Ghosh	Design and synthesis of reinforced graphene oxide – acrylamide based hydrogel membrane for efficient removal of organic dyes from waster water
Engineering	Drew Higgins	Development of Next Generation MSC Catalysts for CO2 Reduction
Engineering	Saiedeh Razavi	Green and Resilient Maritime Corridors through Synchromodality and Disruption Management
Engineering	Hatem Zurob	Unraveling the Work-Hardening Mechanism in FE-Al Alloys
Business	Catherine Connelly	Work engagement and envy as mediators of the relation between abusive supervision and knowledge hiding
Business	Addisu Lashitew	Organizing for Grand Challenges: Creating Social Impact on African Value Chains
Business	Justin Yipiang Jin	Low-Carbon City Pilot Policy and firm’s cost of debt finance
Business	Yair Berson	The Effects of Hostile Sexism on Women Team Performance

 

Faculty	Name	Project Title
Humanities	Dr. Victor Kuperman	The Language of Trauma in Testimonies of the Russia-Ukraine War
Humanities	Dr. Selina Mudavanhu	Contributions by African Communication and Media Studies Scholars to the South African Academy
Humanities	Dr. Michael Schutz	The Power of Percussive Sounds?
Science	Dr. Jose Moran-Mirabal	Evaluation of Cancer Targeting Treatments on Lung Biomimetric Constructs
Science	Dr. Kathy Murphy	Sex Differences in the Developing Brain
Science	Dr. An-Chang Shi	Theory of Soft Quasicrystals
Science	Dr. Greg Slater	Biosignatures of the Microbialites in Lake Sevan Armenia
Science	Dr. Jeremy Walsh	The Impact of Acute Oral Ketone Monoester Supplementation on Resting-State Connectivity in Adults with Memory Complaints
Health Sciences	Dr. Arnav Agarwal	Avoiding Risks of Thrombosis and Bleeding in Surgery (ARTS) Trial
Health Sciences	Dr. Rahul Chanchlani	Deriving 24-hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Reference Values for South Asian Children (ASHA)
Health Sciences	Dr. Alex Drossos	Artctic/Circumpolar Health
Health Sciences	Dr. Fiona Kouyoumdjian	International Collaboration on Linked Health Administrative Data to Advance Population Health for People Who Experience Incarceration
Health Sciences	Dr. Sharon Kaasalainen	Building International Partnerships to Grow Green Care Farms in Canada
Health Sciences	Dr. Denise Bryant-Lukosius	Building the Evidence for a Nursing Health Human Resource Agenda in Chile
Social Sciences	Dr. Tristan Carter	Reconstructing Long-Term Social Dynamics in Anatolian Prehistory: Establishing an International Collaborative & Experiential Education Project at the McMaster Archaeological XRF Lab [MAX Lab]
Social Sciences	Dr. Phillipa Chong	When the Creative Class Lives Next Door: Place and Belonging Among Citizens in Two ‘Creative’ Cities
Social Sciences	Dr. Celia Rothenberg	The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Social Sciences	Dr. Netina Tan	Digital Authoritarianism in Comparative Perspectives
Social Sciences	Dr. Dana Hollander	Experimenting with Tradition
Social Sciences	Dr. Alok Johri	Build Research Links with Macroeconomics Researchers at the University of Birmingham, U.K.
Engineering	Dr. Kathryn Grandfield	Supporting International Initiatives and Conference for the Characterization of Organic-Inorganic Interfaces
Engineering	Dr. Joey Kish	Batteries
Engineering	Dr. Shakirudeen Salaudeen	Integration of Pressurized Torrefaction and Biomass Gasification
Engineering	Dr. Seshasai (Sesha) Srinivasan	Novel Cathodes for All Solid-State Batteries
Engineering	Dr. Keena Trowell	Moving Earth’s Energy: Aluminum as a Carrier of Icelandic Geothermal Energy
Engineering	Dr. Robin Zhao	Net-Zero Emissions Roadmap
Business	Dr. Brian Detlor	Promoting Research Skills and Knowledge Exchange for Library Practitioners and Academics
Business	Dr. Manish Kacker	Sales Channel Design for an Experience Good in a Developing Economy
Business	Dr. Addisu Lashitew	The Human Side of Corporate Sustainability: Is Job Satisfaction Higher Among Sustainable Companies?
Business	Dr. Khalid Nainar	Climate Change, Entrepreneurship and Emerging Markets
Business	Dr. Catherine Connelly	Does Being Drawn to Work Make Us Quiet? The Influence of Workload and Workaholism on Ethical Silence in Organizations

 

A partial list of examples of previously funded projects can be found here.

McMaster researchers receive funding to pursue international partnerships via Brighter World.

Note:

A supporting letter from the Dean’s office isn’t required as all proposals will flow through the Associate Dean (Research).

A letter from a potential international (or domestic) collaborator isn’t required, however, we do require endorsement by the appropriate Dean by way of signing the application form.

Post-docs are excluded from applying.

Where do I send my submission?

It is preferred all applications are sent to your Faculty for collection and submission to OIA via MACdrive link. Alternatively, you may send your completed application form to iimf@mcmaster.ca.

What do I include with my application and what are the requirements?

• A one-page description of the project and intended use of funds
• The applicant’s CV (NSERC Form 100 or equivalent)
• Faculty approval which is indicated in the application form

Are there criteria for selected proposals?

• Criteria are based on alignment with the IIMF call
• Justification of the project and budget
• Clarity and cohesiveness of the project
• Applicant’s record of international research collaboration (as evident in CV)

Which research activities can be funded?

Any discipline or project with an international component.

Can research activities be funded that join individual researchers, or are institution-level partnerships a requirement?

Projects may be individual, joint, or institutional.

Is there a restriction as to in which countries partners can be located?

There are no country restrictions.

What could the $5,000 go towards?

This is dependent upon the nature of the project. Previous awardees have used the funds to hire RAs, undertake international research travels for project meetings/collaboration/build partnerships, lab equipment, etc.

Will I be notified if my proposal isn’t successful?

An email from the VPI will be sent to all unsuccessful applicants.

How will I be notified if I win?

An email from the VPI will be received by all winners with further instructions on obtaining the funds.

What if I have won in the past?

All researchers are welcome to apply, although preference may be given to those who haven’t won in previous years.

Can I apply with the same proposal as before?

Provided the proposal wasn’t successful, you may use it again.

Can multiple researchers submit a joint proposal?

Yes, you can apply to work on a project with someone in another institution or within McMaster.

How long do I have to use the funds?

You have one year from the date the funds are in your account.

What if I have funding left over?

If you do not use all allocated funds, they can be returned to OIA.

Can I get an extension to the deadline?

Extensions are not preferred but could be permitted on a case-by-case basis and with Faculty approval.

Does the award support both industry and academic partners?

Yes, it does.

Do I need to do anything once I receive my funds?

We will ask for a brief one-page (or shorter) summary of what the money was used for.