Research Grants

*indicates national awards

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant  2013-18
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Birch; Core Co-investigators: Dr. Joseph Henrich; Co-investigators: Dr. Andrew Baron, Dr. Patricia Brosseau-Liard, Tracy Cassels, Maciek Chudek, Dr. Kristen Dunfield, Dr. Geof Hall, and Dr. Valerie Kuhlmeier

The nature and development of selective social learning: The role of credibility cues and their implications for social cognition and decision-making

 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Grant 2011-18
Principal Investigator: Dr. Edward Slingerland; Core Co-investigators: Dr. Joseph Henrich, Dr. Ara Norenzyan, Dr. Mark Collard; Co-investigators: Dr. Susan Birch and 45 others

The evolution of religion and morality   

 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)  *2010-13
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Birch; Co-investigator: Dr. Joseph Henrich

Children’s and adult’s evaluations of social sources of information: The effects on learning and impression formation

 

Hampton Research Endowment Fund, UBC 2010-12
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joseph Henrich; Co-investigators: Dr. Susan Birch, Dr. Robert Boyd, Dr. Joan Silk

Teaching in Cross-cultural Perspective

 

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Birch

The Role of Inhibitory Mechanisms and Source Memory in Recalling and Representing Cognitive States

 

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Seed Development Fund 2008-09
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Birch

Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

 

Hampton Research Endowment Fund 2007-09
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Birch

Cognitive and Affective Components of Perspective Taking and their Relationship to Prosocial/Antisocial Behaviour

 

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) *2006-07
Principal Investigator: Dr. Elizabeth Robinson; International Collaborator: Dr. Susan Birch

Learning from others: Identifying unreliable individuals vs. unreliable assertions

 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) *2005-08
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Birch

The Role of Knowledge Assessment in Children’s Social Judgments and Interpersonal Learning

 

Child and Youth Developmental Trajectories Unit 2005-06
Principal Investigator: Dr. Janet Werker; Co-investigators: Dr. Susan Birch, Dr. Geoff Hall, Dr. Fei Xu

Subgrant for the integration of the Early Development Research Group at UBC

 

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies 2005-06
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Birch

Stipend with Early Career Scholar Distinction and Professional Development Award

 

Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) Start-up Grant 2004-05
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Birch

Social Learning and Knowledge Attribution

 

Yale University Dissertation Fellowship 2003-04
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Birch

Reasoning About the Mind:  Competencies and Limitations in Adults’ and Children’s Mental State Attribution

 

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) *2000-02
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Birch; Co-investigators: Dr. Karen Wynn, Dr. Paul Bloom

Foreign Institute Post-graduate Scholarship B (i.e. Ph.D. level)

 

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) *1998-00
Principal Investigator: Dr. Susan Birch; Co-investigator: Dr. Paul Bloom

Foreign Institute Post-graduate Scholarship A (i.e., M.A. level)