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Three researchers from York University’s School of the Arts, Media Performance & Design have been awarded Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grants, which support the development of short-term research projects of up to two years by emerging and established scholars.

York U curator champions Inuit food sovereignty through international collaboration

A collaborative research-creation project between a pair of York University and Queen’s University artists that asks audiences to rethink their relationship to water is making a splash at exhibitions around the world.

Janine Marchessault, a York University professor and York Research Chair in Media Arts and Community Engagement who recently received a prestigious Killam Prize, is building alliances between institutional and community-led media archives from around t ...

Fifteen York University researchers have been named new York Research Chairs (YRC), an internal program that mirrors the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program which recognizes world-leading researchers in a variety of fields.

We are thrilled to share with you all that York University – in partnership with Queen’s University – has been awarded a monumental grant of nearly $105.7 million from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). The funding from the Government of Canada is the largest single federal grant ever awarded to York and is in support of Connected Minds: Neural and Machine Systems for a Healthy, Just Society.

A team of researchers from York University and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are working together to help families stay connected through innovative technologies like mixed reality.

Archive/Counter-Archive (A/CA): Activating Canada’s Moving Image Heritage is a seven-year research-creation project focusing on preserving the audiovisual cultural heritage of Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis, Inuit), Black communities and peop ...