Sabrina Alicia Sgandurra (HBA Toronto Metropolitan University, MA University of Waterloo) is a Strategic Research Development Officer at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her experience includes grant writing and editing for tri-agency interdisciplinary researchers in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science and Engineering, Disability Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities, and Health Sciences. She has worked on several tri-agency (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR), provincial (CFI), private sector (Unity, Sony), and European grants (Horizon EU), and has been involved in research administration and communication initiatives, project management, and partnership acquisitions and outreach. In addition to her professional background, she is also a current PhD candidate at the University of Waterloo specializing in games studies. Her research focuses on the intersection of oral storytelling traditions in the act of streaming story-focused video games.
Contact Sabrina for the following:
- Consultations for project alignment with available STEM funding opportunities - local, national (including NSERC and CIHR), and international
- Editorial review services for grant applications (proofreading, feedback on fit with program requirements), including NSERC and CIHR
- Feedback on incorporation of EDI best practices into applications
- Support for Canada Research Chair (CRC) program new nominees and renewals
- Consultation and feedback on Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) applications (IF, JELF)
- Assistance with contacting the Digital Research Alliance of Canada
- Lead on research funding metrics/analytics
- My Research Applications (MRA) approval process
- Maintains and provides access to UTM Funding Application and Awards Repository
→ Email Sabrina at sabrina.sgandurra@utoronto.ca