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Research
Latest papers
The Exclusivity of 'Vulnerable': Exploring How a Canadian Community Dental Clinic Defines and Describes Its Targeted Population.
Community dentistry and oral epidemiology · 2025
6 Feet Apart: Spaces and Cultures of Quarantine.
Space and culture : the journal · 2020 · first author
Latest funding
- $108,503
"Between Friends/Entre Amis": Fifty years on the Canada-US border
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $152,665
From James Bay Hydroelectric Development to Eeyou Istchee: A 50-year Critical Technological Analysis of community response to energy export infrastructure
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
- $15,640
Finding Space: Activating vacant or underused public and private spaces
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
2 publications.
The Exclusivity of 'Vulnerable': Exploring How a Canadian Community Dental Clinic Defines and Describes Its Targeted Population.
Arntson C, Shields R, Yoon MN
6 Feet Apart: Spaces and Cultures of Quarantine.
Shields R, Schillmeier M, Lloyd J, Van Loon J
"Between Friends/Entre Amis": Fifty years on the Canada-US border
Principal investigators: Shields, Rob M.
From James Bay Hydroelectric Development to Eeyou Istchee: A 50-year Critical Technological Analysis of community response to energy export infrastructure
Principal investigators: Shields, Rob M.
Keywords: James Bay hydroelectric development project; Cree; Eeyou Istchee; critical technology assessment; Nemaska; Waskagamish
Finding Space: Activating vacant or underused public and private spaces
Principal investigators: Shields, Rob M.
Keywords: urban development; urban revitalization; reuse; social innovation; arts enterprises; social enterprises; community initiatives; community foundations
After ice: new horizons for cryographic knowledges
Principal investigators: Shields, Rob M.
Keywords: cryosphere; circumpolar; alpine; climate adaptation; pedagogy; indigenous knowledges; social sciences; humanities
The idea of place: space and culture 20th anniversary conference
Principal investigators: Vallee, Mickey J.
Keywords: place; space; geography; sense; time; temporality
Creative and cultural ecosystems on the prairies
Keywords: arts ecology; cultural ecology; indigenous cultural ecologies; creative economy; community engagement; social impacts; vitality index; social network analysis; community; sustainability; artist work patterns
Tracking youth digital declarations: facilitating evidence-based innovation across youth centres Canada
Principal investigators: Todd, Sarah L.
Keywords: positive youth development; youth centres; swipe card technology; youth programming; program evaluation
Rebirth of the mini-mall
Principal investigators: Shields, Rob M.
Keywords: sustainability; retail; urban community; redevelopment; community; ethnicity; neighbourhood
Nanotechnology and the Alberta Capital Region: a case study in integrating communities, innovation and development
Principal investigators: Shields, Rob M.
Keywords: city-region, innovation, development, community engagment; nanotechnology; planning and governance
Global suburbanisms: governance, land, and infrastructure in the 21st century
Principal investigators: Keil, Roger
Keywords: globalization; urbanization; suburbs; suburbanization; suburbanism; governance; land; infrastructure; comparative urban research
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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