Awards (Selected)

 
 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

My project on online misogyny has received an Insight Grant from SSHRC ($212,000 direct costs).

My project on socially isolated men has received a Insight Development Grant from SSHRC ($59,000 direct costs).

My postdoctoral, doctoral, and master’s research also received funding from SSHRC.

 

I received the President’s Research Excellence Award for Emerging Investigators from Dalhousie University

 
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Canadian Institutes of Health Research

I am a Co-Investigator on the project "First Nations Views Towards Biological Health Research" (Dr. Amy Bombay, PI).

The project received $765,000 (direct costs) over 5 years (2018-2023) in support from a CIHR Project Grant. 

 
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Katherine DuPre Lumpkin Dissertation of the Year Award

My dissertation received the Katherine DuPre Lumpkin Award for the top sociology dissertation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Killam Laureates

My postdoctoral research on brain science and society received the Izaak Walton Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship.

 

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

My dissertation research on scientific explanations of illness received a fellowship from the Mellon Foundation.

 
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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

My dissertation research on scientific explanations of illness received a five-year University Fellowship.

 
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American Sociological Association

My paper "Science and Suffering: Genetics and Illness Experience" received the Section on Medical Sociology's Louise Johnson Memorial Award.

 
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Society for the Study of Social Problems

My paper "The DSM and Professional Practice: Research, Clinical, and Institutional Perspectives" received the SSSP Mental Health Division's Graduate Student Paper Award.

My paper "Science and Sociodicy: Neuroscientific Explanations of Social Problems" received the SSSP Theory Division's Outstanding Student Paper Award.

 

Albert Advanced Education

My dissertation research on scientific explanations of illness received the Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction.

My Master's research on neurological diseases and illness experience received Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction.

 

Contact:

Michael.Halpin@Dal.ca