Research Funding
Last updated on October 1, 2019
Post Ph.D. Grants, Contracts, and Awards (Funded)
2015
Deans Medal for Academic Excellence, 間眅埶AV
- An annual award from the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences for outstanding academic achievement, accompanied by a research stipend of $1000
2015
Department of Psychology, 間眅埶AV, Internal Grant
- $7500: Evaluation of Anti-Gang Efforts of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia
- Role: Principal Investigator
2013 2016
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- $199, 216 Partnership Development Grant: Reducing reoffending and building resilience in adolescent offenders: Development, implementation, and evaluation of a toolkit
- Role: Co-Investigator
2013
American Psychology-Law Society (Division 41, American Psychological Association) 2012 Book Award
- Dvoskin, J., Skeem, J. S., Novaco, R., & Douglas, K. S. (Eds.) (2012). Using social science to reduce crime. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
2011 2016
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- $1,465,239 Operating Grant: Effectiveness of a Relational Intervention in Reducing Violence and Victimization in At-risk Adolescent Girls and Boys
- Role: Co-Principal Investigator
2010 2011
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- $10,000 Letter of Intent Grant: Reducing Violence and Victimization in Adolescence: A Sex and Gender Based Analysis and Intervention Strategy
- Role: Co-Investigator
2010 2015
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- $365,790 Operating Grant : PATHWAYS: Evaluating the Transition of Psychiatric Services from Hospital to Community
- Role: Co-Investigator
2009-2014
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- $710,375 Operating Grant : Toward reducing the risk for violence-related adverse events among people with major mental disorders: A prospective, repeated-measures study
- Role: Principal Investigator
2009-2015
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Community-University Research Alliance
- $999,000 Grant: Gang-related youth violence: Protecting youth by identifying modifiable preventive factors and fostering relevant assets
- Role: Co-Investigator
2009-2012
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant
- $142,777 Grant: Dynamic risk and protective factors for adolescent reoffending
- Role: Co-Investigator
2009-2011
Institutional Small SSHRC Grant
- $12,455 Grant: Development of a novel measure of protective factors for deliberate self-harm
- Role: Co-Investigator
01/07 30/08
Consortium for Applied Research and Evaluation in Mental Health (a CIHR program)
- $5,860 Summer Student Hiring Program: Timeline Follow-back Study of Common and Unique Risk and Protective Factors for Harm to Self, Harm to Others, and Victimization
- Role: Principal Investigator
07/06 07/09
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (British Columbia) (IN-RUS-018[05-1])
- $225,000 Team Start-Up Award: Risk Reduction in Mental Health
- Role: Principal Investigator/Team Leader of 11-person Team from 7 countries
06/05
Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Excellence in Psychology and Law
- Annual award granted jointly by Division 41 of the American Psychological Association (American Psychology-Law Society) and the American Academy of Forensic Psychology
07/05 07/10
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (British Columbia) (CI-SCH-027[04-1])
- Career Scholar Award and Establishment Grant ($500,000 salary and research funding)
- Role: Principal Investigator
04/05 04/09
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [410-2005-0682(6236)]
- $140,294 grant awarded entitled Evaluating the impact of bias on criminal recidivism decision support tools
- Role: Principal Investigator
01/05 01/07
British Columbia Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission (Contract)
- $63,985 contract awarded entitled A Prospective, Repeated-Measures Study of Dynamic Risk Factors, Treatability, and Community Outcome among Forensic Psychiatric Patients
- Role: Principal Investigator
09/04 09/06
Presidents Research Grant, 間眅埶AV
- $10,000 grant awarded entitled Meta-analytic Evaluation and Revision of the HCR-20 violence risk assessment scheme
- Role: Principal Investigator
08/03 08/04
National Science Foundation (Award Number SES-0326490)
- $62, 210 (USD) grant entitled The Reluctance to Use Decision Aids, in collaboration with Hal Arkes, Ohio State University
- Role: Principal Investigator
04/02
Research and Creative Scholarship Grant Program, University of South Florida
- $7500 (USD) awarded to study Reliability and Validity of Multiple Self-Report Measures of Psychopathy in Two Samples of Offenders
- Role: Principal Investigator
04/02
Faculty International Travel Grant Program, University of South Florida
- $1500 (USD) awarded to attend and present at the annual conference of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services, Munich, Germany
- Role: Lead Presenter on Two Presentations
Other Grant Positions
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH Grant # 1 R01 MH63783-01A1)
- Role: Project Director (01/02 to 05/07)
- NIMH funded study ($1.3 million USD) entitled Personality Features in Social Deviancy (PI, Norman Poythress, Ph.D., Univ. South Florida). This ten-site prospective study evaluates subtypes of psychopathy in a large sample (N=1700) of offenders and substance abuse patients.
- Responsibilities included contributing to study and design conceptualization, training, organization, data monitoring, data management, site visits, supervision of 10+ research assistants, data analysis and manuscript preparation.