Marlee Spafford, University of Waterloo

Research

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Latest funding

From eye patches to robots – Using socially interactive technology to improve health outcomes in children with amblyopia
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$250,000
Older Adults' Lived Experience of Age-Related Vision Loss (ARVL) and the Vision Rehabilitation (VR)Process
CIHR · 2009 · Co-investigator
$5,000
Trajectories of collaborative care: case studies of communication on interprofessional teams
SSHRC · 2008 · Co-investigator
$179,106

All 7 grants and awards

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From eye patches to robots – Using socially interactive technology to improve health outcomes in children with amblyopia

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Thompson, Benjamin

$250,000

Older Adults' Lived Experience of Age-Related Vision Loss (ARVL) and the Vision Rehabilitation (VR)Process

Co-investigatorCIHR2009Team Grant: Vision, Hearing and Communication Disorders - LOI

Principal investigators: Gold, Deborah

Keywords: Accommodation Of Vision Loss; Adaptive Daily Living Skills; Functional Limitations In Aging; Quality Of Life; Stigma; Vision Rehabilitation Strategies

$5,000

Trajectories of collaborative care: case studies of communication on interprofessional teams

Co-investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Lingard, Lorelei A.

Keywords: interprofessional collaboration; workplace communication; healthcare team; professional socialization; case study

$179,106

Crossing borders: sites of discursive negotiaton in healthcare practice

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Schryer, Catherine F.

Keywords: healthcare communication and education; interdisciplinary communication; professional identity formation; discourse and rhetorical analysis; applied languge study; professional education; genre theory

$186,068

Creating the healthcare professional: the role of situated language practices in clinical education settings

Co-investigatorSSHRC2000Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Schryer, Catherine

Keywords: healthcare education;language practices;professionalization;discourse analysis;qualitative methods

$115,746

Gendered retrenchment: non-tenured faculty and the dymanics of knowledge production in university-based professional education

Co-investigatorSSHRC1999Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Muzzin, Linda

Keywords: profession; higher education; gender; women's studies; knowledge production; retrenchment; faculty; institutional ethnography; universities;globalization

$56,700

Infrastructure support for research activities of the Institute of Vision Science and Technology (IVST)

Co-investigatorCFI1999Innovation Fund: Institutional Innovation Fund over $350,000

Principal investigators: Sivak, Jacob

Keywords: Vision, eye, psychophysics, contact lenses, molecular biology, low vision, optometry

$400,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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