Dalhousie School of Information Management faculty member, Fiona Black, has been awarded an Insight Development Grant (IDG) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The project, “Developing Transnational Approaches in Print Culture: New Questions and Methods” involves an international team led by Dr Black including Dr Sydney Shep at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and Dr David Finkelstein at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh (Scotland). IDG grants are part of the new program design at SSHRC and are intended to support research that moves in new directions intellectually and methodologically.  The two-year project will innovate with digital media and methods and provide opportunities for information management students to do thesis research, contribute as research assistants, present at international conferences and co-author scholarly papers. The project plan is to explore an approach to transnational enquiry through the lenses of labour history and migration studies and concomitant skills transfer in the printing and allied trades. SSHRC is interested in research projects that contribute to knowledge and may also contribute to contemporary policy development. Immigration and skills transfer are highly topical in many regions. This project’s analysis of historical information and data will contribute potential new frameworks for immigration policy development.