Member of the Alberta Initiating Team for the Canadian Mountain Network (CMN). 

On April 16, 2019, the CMN was awarded $18.3 million by the Federal Government through the National Networks of Centres of Excellence program  for five years (2019-2024). 

Granting agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant (2024-2028)

Title of project: Intergenerational Digital Storytelling for Inuvialuit Cultural Heritage Preservation 

Amount: $244, 084

Role: Principal investigator

Granting agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant (2019-2024)

Title of project:  Inuvialuit Voices: Cultural Heritage Preservation and Access through Digital Storytelling in Digital Libraries  (Website)

Amount: $239, 614

Role: Principal investigator

Granting agency:   Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) 

Program: National Leadership Grants for Libraries

Program Categories: National Digital Infrastructures Program

Title of project: Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit (D-CRAFT)

Amount: US $249,998

Role: Co-investigator

Project team: 

• Elizabeth Joan Kelly, Loyola University New Orleans

• Ayla Stein Kenfield, University of Illinois

• Kinza Masood, Mountain West Digital Library

• Caroline Muglia, University of Southern California

• Ali Shiri, University of Alberta

• Santi Thompson, University of Houston

• Liz Woolcott, Utah State University

Granting agency: Centre for Teaching and Learning, Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF), University of Alberta

Title of project: Enhancing Student Success Through Predictive Learning Analytics at the University of Alberta

Amount: $66, 284

Role:  Co-investigator: Ali Shiri, Principal investigator: Ying Cui (Educational Psychology)

Granting agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant (2014-2018)

Title of project: Digital library north: creating a path for information access in Canada's north (Project website)

Amount: $295, 817

Role: Principal investigator, Co-investigator: Dinesh Rathi

Granting agency: Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF), University of Alberta

Title of Project: Development of a Learning Analytics Application to Support Online Teaching and Learning at the University of Alberta (eClass Learning Analytics application)

Amount: $91,406

Role: Principal investigator

Granting agency: Faculty of Education, Support for the Advancement of Scholarship (SAS) Research Grant (2014)

Title of project:: An Environmental Scan of Health-Related Big Data in Alberta

Amount: $5940

Role: Co-investigator, Principal investigator: Tami Oliphant

Granting agency: Canadian Institutes for Health Research (2013)

Title of project: What components matter most in secondary prevention interventions for coronary heart disease?:  Better data for better knowledge usage Population and Public Health. (Co-investigator).

Amount: $99,481

Role: Co-investigator, Principal investigator: Alex Clark, Faculty of Nursing

Granting agency: Canadian Circumpolar Institute 50 Award, University of Alberta

Title of project : Establishing a Digital Library Infrastructure to Support Education and Research in Canada’s North

Amount: $3,000

Role: Principal investigator, Co-investigator: Dinesh Rathi

Granting agency: University of Alberta, Killam Research Fund

Title of project: Present paper at the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries in Berlin (2011).

Amount: $2800

Role: Principal investigator

Granting agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Image, Text, Sound and Technology Strategic Research Grant

Title of project: 'Multilingual Thesaurus-enhanced Visual Interfaces for Digital Libraries ' (2009-2010)

Amount: $45,500

Role: Principal investigator, Co-investigator: Stan Ruecker, Humanities Computing Program

(Prototype Thesaurus-enahnced Visual Interfaces developed by Shiri, Ruecker, Rossello, Fiorentino, Bouchard, and Mehta at the University of Alberta. (T-Saurus, Searchling) )

Granting agency: Faculty of Education, Support for the Advancement of Scholarship (SAS) Research Grant (2010-2011)

Title of project: Visual User Interfaces for Monolingual and Multilingual Knowledge Organization Systems

Amount: $5827

Role: Principal investigator

Granting agency: Killam Research Fund, University of Alberta (2006-2007)

Title of project: 'Metadata-enhanced Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries'

Amount: $10,000

Role: Principal investigator

Granting agency: Faculty of Education,  Support for the Advancement of Scholarship (SAS) Research Grant (2004 -- 2005)

Title of project: Title: 'Application of Knowledge Organization Systems in Canadian Portals, Gateways and Digital Libraries' 

Amount: $6000

Role: Principal investigator