Research

Research Grants:

  • SSHRC Insight Grant (2018-2021) – $123,000.00 (Sole Principal Applicant)- Skilled Immigrant Integration: The role of local employers and skilled immigrants in enabling successful integration
  • MITACS grant (2018-2019)- $15,000 (with Viktoriya Voloshyna) Diversity and Inclusion: Case studies of skilled migrants in Hamilton/Halton region in collaboration with United Way, Hamilton
  • SSHRC Partnership Grant (2016-2021) – Migration and Resilience in Urban Canada: Discovering Strengths and Building Capacity, $ 3,700,000 (one of ten academic partners); In 2017-2018) (co-applicant) ($15,000)– Project chosen & awarded competitive GA-ship for  for Career Success in the host city and resilience of Migrant Professionals project
  • European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) – 5,000  euros; Competitive Award to Lead and Organize Cross-cultural Symposium between Canada & Germany: Is Canada a model immigration nation? (Bamberg, Dec. 15-16), 2016 Germany.
  • Academic Innovation Fund Recipient: Internationalization of the Curriculum ($5,000) and Blended Course proposal ($5,000) 2016-2018.
  • SSHRC Research Opportunity Grant (York U) – Cross-cultural mentoring relationships, $2,500 (2016-2017)
  • SSHRC (collaborator role) – Organizing with the new demographic: The bidirectional influence of immigrant and bicultural employees on their organizations, $52, 661 (2016-2019).
  • SSHRC Mentoring relationships between immigrant and local professionals, $ 67,000 J. Zikic (sole principal investigator), 2012-2015.
  • SSHRC Special Call in Business and Management, Immigrant Professionals: Organizational and Personal Employment Barriers, $121,393.00, J. Zikic (sole principal investigator), 2008 – 2012.
  • SSHRC Special Call in Business and Management, Re-invention of retirement: as study of Baby Boomers in two nations, $146,000.00 Mary Dean Lee (principal investigator) and collaborators J. Zikic, B. Martin, and L. Sargent (co-applicants), 2008 – 2011.
  • (co-applicant) SSHRC Knowledge Mobilization grant, Recruitment, (Re) training, and Retention of Immigrants in the Canadian Workforce $300,000.00 (co-applicant role, multiple contributor grant), 2008 – 2011.
  • SSHRC Small Research Grant awarded at York, What can job seekers do to improve their job search clarity and job search self-efficacy?,  $4.000, 2006 – 2007.

Edited Special Issues:

Lee, M D., Sargent, L. D., Martin, B., & Zikic, J. (2013). Reinventing retirement: New pathways, new arrangements, new meanings. Human Relations, vol.66 (1)

Klehe, U.-C., Van Vianen, A.E.M., & Zikic, J. (2012). Coping with economic stress: Introduction to the Special Issue.Journal of Organizational Behavior, 33, 745-751