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Council
SSHRC’s governing council promotes and assists research and scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. It meets regularly to set policy and program priorities, allocate budgets, and to advise the minister of Innovation, Science and Industry and Parliament on research policy in these areas.
The vice-president and chair of SSHRC’s governing council chairs its meetings and plays a key role in strengthening the council’s ability to:
- provide the SSHRC president with independent guidance; and
- oversee SSHRC’s strategic directions.
Council members elect the vice-president and chair, subject to approval by the governor-in-council.
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Vice-President and Chair of Council

Martha Crago
Vice-Principal (Research and Innovation)
McGill University
Montréal, Quebec
Members

Catherine Beaudry
Canada Research Chair in Creation, Development and the Commercialization of Innovation
Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering
Polytechnique Montréal
Montréal, Quebec

Frédéric Bouchard
Full Professor, Philosophy Department, and Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Université de Montréal
Montréal, Québec

Neil Cooke
Vice President Academic
Confederation College
Thunder Bay, Ontario

Cinthia Duclos
Lawyer and Associate Professor
Faculty of Law
Université Laval
Québec, Québec

Siân Echard
Professor
Department of English Language and Literatures
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia

Karen R. Grant
Senior Scholar
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Ted Hewitt
SSHRC President
Ottawa, Ontario

Åsa Kachan
CEO and Chief Librarian
Halifax Public Libraries
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Normand Labrie
Professor
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario

Claudia Malacrida
Associate Vice-President, Research
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta

Taylor Owen
Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications
Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
Max Bell School of Public Policy
McGill University
Montréal, Quebec

Carmen Robertson
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in North American Indigenous Visual and Material Culture
Joint-appointed to the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, the School for Studies in Art and Culture, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario

Anoush F. Terjanian
Assistant Vice-Dean, Partnerships and Research Networks
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Ottawa
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