Awards, Grants and Published Research
2025 Research Ambassadors
A group of researchers recognized for their lifetime research achievements.
Ted Rogers School Research Ambassadors are exemplars of top-quality research, and are encouraged to represent the school outside of the faculty to advocate for our research and researchers. Two new members, Dr. Farid Shirazi (Professor, Information Technology Management) and Dr. Fei Song (Professor, HR Management and Organizational Behaviour), were inducted to the 2025 class and have joined the inaugural group.
Dr. Ojelanki Ngwenyama receives 2025 ISR best paper of the year award
Global Management Studies Professor Dr. Ojelanki Ngwenyama's research article, "The Open Prison of the Big Data Revolution: False Consciousness, Faustian Bargains, and Digital Entrapment," was selected as the best paper of the year by Informations Systems Research (ISR) 鈥� An INFORMS journal. ISR is a leading peer-reviewed, international journal focusing on theory, research and intellectual development for information systems.
Learn more about The Open Prison of the Big Data Revolution.
Dr. Atty Mashatan's research work featured in the 2025 UBRI research highlights
Information Technology Management Associate Professor Dr. Atty Mashatan's research work, "Adoption of Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Data-Driven Exploration of Key Influential Factors," was featured in the . UBRI is globally known for its immense support of blockchain research and development at universities around the world.
Dr. Arthur Li receives 2025 AOM International Management Division Best Reviewer Award
Dr. Liang (Arthur) Li (Assistant Professor, Global Management Studies) was selected as a recipient of the 2025 Academy of Management鈥檚 International Management (IM) Division Best Reviewer Award. The award is given to recognize the top 5% of the reviewers in its division for their outstanding reviews and contribution towards the quality of the scholarly community.
Dr. Fr茅d茅ric Dimanche ranked 2024 Top Scholar by ScholarGPS
Dr. Fr茅d茅ric Dimanche (Professor, Hospitality Tourism and Management) was ranked in the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide, according to the most recent 2024 ScholarGPS rankings. ScholarGPS recognizes Top Scholars for their outstanding performance in various Fields, Disciplines and Specialties. The rankings recognize two categories of scholarly excellence.
Ted Rogers School researchers receive prestigious grants
2025 Insight Development Grants
These grants support early-stage, short-term research, allowing experimentation with new methodologies and approaches. Funding is provided for short-term research development projects of up to two years that are proposed by individuals or teams.
- Mehak Bharti (Assistant Professor, Marketing): 鈥淢ind Over Markdowns: How Mindfulness Counters the Allure of Discounts.鈥�
- Peter Fisher (Assistant Professor, HR Management & Organizational Behaviour): 鈥淭oward a Better Understanding of the Design of Forced-Choice Personality Assessments: Putting the Theory to the Test.鈥�
- Anatoliy Gruzd (Professor, Information Technology Management): 鈥淢oderating the Machine: The Role of Soft Moderation in AI-Generated Content on Social Media.鈥�
- Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan (Associate Professor, Information Technology Management): 鈥淔rom firm-internal to firm-external cybersecurity coopetition: Paving the way for organizational cyber-resilience.鈥�
- Laleh Samarbakhsh (Associate Professor, Finance): 鈥淢easuring climate uncertainty cost for Canadian insurance firms.鈥�
- Vessela Stamenova (Assistant Professor, Information Technology Management): 鈥淭he Value Proposition for payers and users of Generative AI Message Drafting in Healthcare: A Mixed-Methods Study.鈥�
- Xingwei (Nancy) Yang (Assistant Professor, Information Technology Management): 鈥淪upport Beyond Boundaries: Using Online Groups to Fight Mental Illness.鈥�
- Aoran Zhang (Assistant Professor, Finance): 鈥淭he Impact of political ideology on capital market: Does right-wing populism leaning media affect Initial Public Offerings?"
2024 Insight Grants (announced in 2025)
Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging scholars and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years.
- Rishad Habib (Assistant Professor, Marketing): 鈥淯nderstanding Consumer Responses to Minority-Owned Businesses.鈥�
- Atefeh (Atty) Mashatan (Associate Professor, Information Technology Management): 鈥淐rypto-agility scorecard: Moving towards quantum-resilience and beyond.鈥�
- Hyunghwa (Rick) Oh (Associate Professor, Hospitality and Tourism Management): 鈥淎I-driven personalization in hospitality: diverging impacts on luxury vs. non-luxury customer satisfaction.鈥�
2025 Discovery Grants
NSERC Discovery Grants support ongoing research with long-term goals and not limited to specific activities indicated in the applications, providing researchers with an opportunity to pursue higher-risk (higher-reward) topics.
- Anatoliy Gruzd (Professor, Information Technology Management): 鈥淎 Stable Diffusion? 鈥� Analyzing the Impacts of Generative AI on the Production and Consumption of Visual Content on Social Media.鈥�
- Shengkun Xie (Assistant Professor, Global Management Studies): 鈥淚nterpretable and Explainable Machine Learning Techniques for Automobile Statistical Plan Data.鈥�
- Xingwei (Nancy) Yang (Assistant Professor, Information Technology Management): 鈥淎 Multi-Method Approach to Capturing Social Influences and Dynamics in Social Networks.鈥�
- Morteza Zihayat (Associate Professor, Information Technology Management): 鈥淔air and Adaptive Search in Dynamic Attributed Graphs.鈥�
Bridging Divides Emerging Research Grant (ITM)
Bridging Divides supports interdisciplinary projects advancing research on migrant integration and digital technologies.
- Vess Stamenova (Assistant Professor, Information Technology Management): 鈥淐onnecting Care: Telehealth Access and Preferences Among Immigrants in Ontario.鈥�
2025 SSHRC Explore Grants
SSHRC Explore Grants support social sciences and humanities researchers with modest funding to either conduct pilot work towards a larger SSHRC application or undertake a stand-alone research project.
- Mahdi Roghanizad (Assistant Professor, HR Management and Organizational Behaviour): 鈥淭rust Accuracy in Face-to-Face and Video Interactions.鈥�
- Kristyn Scott (Associate Professor, HR Management and Organizational Behaviour): 鈥淗ow Moral Foundations and Gender Stereotypes Shape Preferences for Tyrannical Leaders.鈥�
- Vess Stamenova (Assistant Professor, Information Technology Management): 鈥淭he Canadian Landscape of eHealth Access Through the Lens of Patients, Physicians and Nurses Experiences with the Healthcare System: a Secondary Data Analysis of Canada Health Infoway Surveys.鈥�
Highlights of published research
Runs to Banks: The Role of Sweep Banking Deposits During Market Downturn
The stock market has experienced numerous significant downturns, with one of the most significant and recent declines occurring in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When these disruptive events occur, retail investors reduce risk and sell stocks, with the proceeds channeled to safer investments, including federally insured bank deposits.
Using actual sweep deposit data from TD Ameritrade and its affiliated banks, along with estimated sweep deposit data across the broader banking sector, Finance Assistant Professor Yanfei Sun and her co-investigators are the first to examine the role of brokerage firms in serving as intermediaries in channeling funds from stock investors to banks at times when financial markets are under stress.
A Multi-Objective Integrated Approach to Address Sustainability in a Meat Supply Chain
Over the past two decades, firms have made efforts to bring sustainability into running their supply chains. However, it is challenging to make supply chains truly sustainable, as they face several constraints. This is especially true in the food industry, as its operations heavily rely on natural resources, and its outputs directly affect the health of people in general.
This study by Global Management Studies Associate Professor Hossein Zolfagharinia seeks to make meat supply chains more sustainable by considering three primary areas: cost, social responsibility and environmental impacts. To do this, Zolfagharinia and his co-investigator developed a mathematical model that allows food processing companies to make better decisions on choosing suppliers, production planning and product distribution.