Faculty profile
Damian Collins
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Latest papers
Accessing Home: Lessons in podcasting geographies of disability.
Health & place · 2026
Using twitter to investigate responses to street reallocation during COVID-19: Findings from the U.S. and Canada.
Transportation research. Part A, Policy and practice · 2021 · senior author
Smoking environments in transition: the experiences of recent Chinese migrants to Canada.
Health & social care in the community · 2017 · senior author
Latest funding
- $63,429
Does Housing First in Alberta Provide a Right to Housing?
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
- $24,815
The spatiality of tobacco control: smoking bans and the public/private distinction
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
12 publications.
Accessing Home: Lessons in podcasting geographies of disability.
Miller M, Collins D, Evans J, Weeks Z
Using twitter to investigate responses to street reallocation during COVID-19: Findings from the U.S. and Canada.
Shirgaokar M, Reynard D, Collins D
Smoking environments in transition: the experiences of recent Chinese migrants to Canada.
Li J, Collins D
Homelessness, bedspace and the case for Housing First in Canada.
Evans J, Collins D, Anderson J
Parallel worlds? French and anglophone perspectives on health geography.
Hoyez AC, Collins D, Fleuret S
Attitudes to smoke-free outdoor regulations in the USA and Canada: a review of 89 surveys.
Thomson G, Wilson N, Collins D, Edwards R
Reprint of: A healthy island blue space: From space of detention to site of sanctuary.
Kearns RA, Collins D, Conradson D
'A place for healthy activity': parent and caregiver perspectives on smokefree playgrounds.
McIntosh AH, Collins D, Parsons M
A healthy island blue space: from space of detention to site of sanctuary.
Kearns RA, Collins D, Conradson D
Air quality at outdoor community events: findings from fine particulate (PM2.5) sampling at festivals in Edmonton, Alberta.
Collins D, Parsons M, Zinyemba C
Does Housing First in Alberta Provide a Right to Housing?
Principal investigators: Collins, Damian
Keywords: (1) Housing First; (2) Rights; (3) Homelessness; (4) Public policy; (5) Cities; (6) Alberta; (7) Case study research
The spatiality of tobacco control: smoking bans and the public/private distinction
Principal investigators: Collins, Damian C.A.
Keywords: tobacco control; smoking bans; public/private distinction; property; rights; government; children
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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