Katherine Lawless, University of Calgary

Research

land and soil care social-ecological relations expanded soil profile transdisciplinary circular economy agriculture environment conservation

Latest funding

Decolonial Approaches to Place-Based Dance
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$118,402
Plant "Memory" in Sustainable Agriculture - Novel Approaches to Current Challenges
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$125,000
Restoring Social-Ecological Systems through Relational Land and Soil Care in Canada: A Transdisciplinary Intervention
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$52,373

All 5 grants and awards

Decolonial Approaches to Place-Based Dance

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kloetzel, Melanie J.

$118,402

Plant "Memory" in Sustainable Agriculture - Novel Approaches to Current Challenges

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Linton, Kelly

$125,000

Restoring Social-Ecological Systems through Relational Land and Soil Care in Canada: A Transdisciplinary Intervention

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Lawless, Katherine B.

Keywords: land and soil care; social-ecological relations; expanded soil profile; transdisciplinary; circular economy; agriculture; environment; conservation; art-science

$52,373

Newcomer Readiness and Sustainable Migration in the Canadian North: A Case Study Assessment of the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot in Thunder Bay

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Pendakis, Katherine

Keywords: sustainability; migration; immigration; climate adaptation; conflict; Northern Development; Thunder Bay; racism; neoliberalism; Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot

$40,164

Soil as a Relational Medium

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Lawless, Katherine

Keywords: Soil; Relational Media; Environmental History;Indigenous Epistemologies; Engaged Materialism; Politics of Knowledge; Ethnography; Media Geology; Soil Memory

$185,395

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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Subject: Prospective PhD student: land and soil care Dear Professor Lawless, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on land and soil care connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Restoring Social-Ecological Systems through Relational Land and Soil Care in Canada: A Transdisciplinary Intervention" (2024), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]