Marcelo Vieta, PhD

Principal Investigator

Creating Social Cooperatives for Mental Health: Co-producing Practice and Knowledge Between Argentina and Canada

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grant
Value: $25,000 CDN

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Principal Investigator

Rescuing SMEs During and After COVID-19: Action Research Supporting Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Ontario via Conversions to Co-operatives

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grant COVID-19 Special Initiative

Value: $25,000 CDN

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Principal Investigator

Work-Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) Longitudinal Evaluation Project

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant

Value: $281,000 CDN

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Principal Investigator

Work-Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) Project for Training At-Risk Youth

Funded by: Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC)

Value: $300,000 CDN

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Principal Investigator

The Conversion to Cooperatives Project (CoopConvert)

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant

Value: $200,000 CDN

Co-Principal Investigator

The StudentDwellTO Symposium

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Connections Grant

Value: $20,000 CDN

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Co-Applicant

VIIth Critical Community Development International Seminar – Rethinking Development in Latin America: Alternative Models

(H. Veltmeyer, Saint Mary’s University/Universidad de Zacatecas, Principal Investigator)

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Connections Grant

Value: $50,000 CDN

Co-Principal Investigator and Co-Lead of University of Toronto Team

StudentDwellTO (University Student Housing in Toronto: Addressing the Affordability Challenge)

A collaborative research and knowledge mobilization project co-funded by the Presidents’ Offices of the University of Toronto, York University, OCAD University, and Ryerson University

Value: $10,000 CDN (from $80,000 CDN shared across the university research teams, in conjunction with additional funding)

Co-Investigator

The Social Procurement Project
(J. Sumner, Principle Investigator; J. Quarter, former Principal Investigator to 2018)

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant

Value: $200,000 CDN

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Principal Investigator

Recuperating Workplaces, Creating Cooperatives, Regenerating Communities

Funded by: Connaught New Researcher Award, University of Toronto

Value: $10,000 CDN

Co-Applicant

VIth Critical Community Development International Seminar – Cooperativism and Local Development: An Alternative Development Path for Cuba

(S. Novkovic, Saint Mary’s University, Principal Investigator)

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Connections Grant

Value: $50,000 CDN

Co-Investigator and Project Deputy Director

Supported Social Enterprises Research Project

(J. Quarter, Principal Investigator)

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Grant (Letter of Intent phase). Applied to full grant on Nov. 1, 2015.

Value (of Letter of Intent phase): $20,000 CDN

Co-Applicant and Project Lead

The Social Return on Investment of Good Foot Delivery: A Case Study

Part of the Social Business for Marginalized Social Groups Project (J. Quarter, Principal Investigator)

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Community-University Research Alliance (SSHRC-CURA) grant

Value: $1,000,000 CDN ($15,000.00 dedicated to the project that I led)

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Cooperating Out of the Crisis by Recuperating the Past: The Nexus of Popular Social Memory and Community Development in Argentine and Italian Worker-Recuperated Enterprises

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and University of Toronto

Value: $81,000 CDN (funding was for two years between 2013-2015, accepted half of funding due to Assistant Professor position commencing Jul. 1, 2014)

Co-Investigator

New Cooperative Development in Canada (Canadian National Cluster Project 3)

(F. Duguid & M. Vieta, lead academic co-researchers)

Part of the Measuring the Cooperative Difference Research Network

(S. Novkovic & D. Guy, Principal Investigators)

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Community-University Research Alliance (SSHRC-CURA) grant, together with the Canadian Co-operative Association

Value of contract: $5,000 CDN

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and Scientific Coordinator

New Production and Worker Cooperatives and the Employee Buyout Phenomenon

Funded by: European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

Value: €20,600

Researcher

Fair and Ethical Trade and Local Public Procurement Policies in Canada (Southern Ontario Node Project 5)

(J.J. McMurtry & D. Reed, project leads)

Canadian Social Economy Hub

(J. Quarter & I. MacPherson, principal investigators)

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Community-University Research Alliance (SSHRC-CURA) grant

Value of contract: $6,000 CDN

Researcher

New Social Economy Initiatives in Latin America (Southern Ontario Node Project 20)

(D. Schugurensky, project lead)

Canadian Social Economy Hub

(J. Quarter & I. MacPherson, principal investigators)

Funded by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Community-University Research Alliance (SSHRC-CURA) grant

Value of contract: $6,500 CDN

Amy and Tim Dauphinee Scholarship

Ontario Credit Union Charitable Foundation, Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation, and Canadian Co-operative Association

Value: $3,000 CDN

Ontario Graduate Scholarship

Provincial Government of Ontario and York University

Value: $15,000 CDN

Doctoral Fellowship

Taking Destiny into Their Own Hands: Autogestión and Cooperation in Argentina’s Worker-Recuperated Enterprises

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and York University

Value: $40,000 CDN

Ontario Graduate Scholarship

Provincial Government of Ontario and York University

Value: $15,000 CDN (declined in lieu of simultaneous SSHRC funding)

Canwest Global Graduate Fellowship

Simon Fraser University

Value: $10,500 CDN

Cable Television Pioneer Graduate Scholarship

Simon Fraser University

Value: $1,000 CDN

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