We are happy to announce our own Dr. Bertrum MacDonald (Professor & Interim Dean of the Faculty of Management) has been awarded an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Dr. MacDonald was one of 3 researchers in the Faculty of Management to win a grant.
From the Faculty of Management announcement (read the full post here):
“The Insight Grant competition is SSHRC’s most popular and is fiercely competitive, with a success rate of just 23.4% across Canada last year. The Faculty of Management grants represent 40% of the total Insight funding to Dalhousie last year. Management’s winners are Dr. Bertrum MacDonald of the School of Information Management, Dr. Kevin Quigley of the School of Public Administration and Dr. Kate Sherren of the School for Resource and Environmental Studies. All three lead interdisciplinary teams comprise researchers from the Faculty of Management and the broader university community.
MacDonald, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Management, received $371,575 over five years for a project entitled “Elucidating information use at the science-policy interface in marine environmental decision-making.” Since 2007, MacDonald and his Environmental Information: Use and Influence (EIUI) team have been researching the use of scientific information in making policy decisions. The grant will enable the team to continue examining the ways decision-makers on marine environmental policy select scientific information, how it influences policy, what enablers and barriers there are to use of this information, and how the information is spread through formal and informal pathways (such as social networks). The results will give the EIUI team a full view of the nuances of information use in public sector settings. The findings will be invaluable to those who design information systems as well as those who use and disseminate information in the scientific and public sectors. The diverse research team has members in the Faculty of Management and other units at Dalhousie and abroad.”
Congratulations Bertrum!
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