Arlene McLaren, Simon Fraser University

Research

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Latest funding

Family, safety and automobility: a study of everyday gendered mobility practices in the city
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$74,810
Traffic safety as discourse and practice: a critical analysis of the construction of parental involvement in the management of risk at the site of the school
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
$48,256
Traffic safety and its social implications
SSHRC · 2003 · Principal investigator
$66,782

All 5 grants and awards

No publications available.

Family, safety and automobility: a study of everyday gendered mobility practices in the city

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: McLaren, Arlene T.

Keywords: automobility; parenting mobility practices; gender; traffic safeguarding; young children's mobility; car dependency; parenthood; childhood; family structure; qualitative research; feminist theory; social inequalities; urban contexts; transportation policy

$74,810

Traffic safety as discourse and practice: a critical analysis of the construction of parental involvement in the management of risk at the site of the school

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: McLaren, Arlene

Keywords: traffic safety; social implications; parents; children; management of risk; gender and intersectionality; schools; streets; public space; citizenship; feminist analysis; risk society; governmentality; critical discourse analysis; ethnography

$48,256

Traffic safety and its social implications

Principal investigatorSSHRC2003Research Development Initiatives

Principal investigators: McLaren, Arlene

Keywords: traffic safety; social implications; traffic safety education; challenge existing approach; interdisciplinary collaboration; train students; develop new field and innovative policy; contested space; risk society; gender; children; discourse analysis

$66,782

Economic Security Project

Co-investigatorSSHRC2003Community-University Research Alliances (CURA)

Keywords: public policy; economic security; inequality; welfare; health; public services; governance

$1,000,000

Immigrant women making place in Canadian cities: transdisciplinary approaches to understanding their social networks

Co-investigatorSSHRC2000Women and Change

Principal investigators: Rose, Damaris

Keywords: women; gender; immigrants; social networks; social integration; neighbourhoods; locality; transnationalism

$28,062

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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