Mark Simpson, University of Alberta

Research

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Latest funding

Fair Citizenship Reconsidered
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$37,635
Energy impasse: investigating the cultural and social barriers to energy transition
SSHRC · 2017 · Co-investigator
$197,502
ENERGY - Contributions from the humanities, social sciences and arts to understanding energy transition and energy impasse
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$24,100

All 5 grants and awards

No publications available.

Fair Citizenship Reconsidered

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Brown, Brookes

Keywords: Ethics; Political Philosophy; Fair Play; Fairness; Political Obligation;

$37,635

Energy impasse: investigating the cultural and social barriers to energy transition

Co-investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Szeman, Imre J.L.

Keywords: energy; environment; energy humanities; energy transition; energy impasse; climate change; environmental studies; ecocriticism; activism; energy futures

$197,502

ENERGY - Contributions from the humanities, social sciences and arts to understanding energy transition and energy impasse

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Presidential Fund for Research, Innovation & Collaboration

Principal investigators: Szeman, Imre J.L.

$24,100

The entangled careers of literary history and liberalism

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Harol, Corrinne

Keywords: literary history; liberalism

$25,000

Postcards in the circulation of social value, 1893 - 1915

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Simpson, Mark

Keywords: material culture; popular culture; visual culture; travel and mobility; history of social and cultural forms; United States; Canada

$79,238

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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