Betty Younker, Western University

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Latest funding

Addressing our creativity deficit: building creative ability in youth through multimodal-literacy-focused music creation
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$20,000

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Addressing our creativity deficit: building creative ability in youth through multimodal-literacy-focused music creation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Grants

Keywords: music creation; multi-modal literacy; improvisation; creative ability

$20,000

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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