Funding
POST-PH.D. GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND AWARDS (FUNDED)
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
President’s Research Grant, Simon Fraser University
- $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.
