Dorothy Chunn, Simon Fraser University

Research

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Latest funding

CIHR Centre for Research on Gender and Social Disparities in Mental Health and Addictions
CIHR · 2009 · Co-investigator
$1,990,117
Autonomous motherhood: a socio-legal investigation
SSHRC · 2008 · Co-investigator
$106,445
(Re)forming child custody law in Canada, 1998-2003
SSHRC · 2001 · Co-investigator
$87,500

All 6 grants and awards

No publications available.

CIHR Centre for Research on Gender and Social Disparities in Mental Health and Addictions

Co-investigatorCIHR2009Centres for Research Development in Gender, Mental Health and Addictions - FA

Principal investigators: Morrow, Marina H; Chodos, Howard; Goldner, Elliot M

Keywords: Gender And Sex Based Analysis; Intersectional Analysis; Mental Health; Multi-Methods (Qualitative And Quantitative); Social Inequities; Substance Abuse

$1,990,117

Autonomous motherhood: a socio-legal investigation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Boyd, Susan B.

Keywords: parenting; law; motherhood; autonomy; illegitimacy; choice; law reform; feminism; fathers' rights

$106,445

(Re)forming child custody law in Canada, 1998-2003

Co-investigatorSSHRC2001Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Boyd, Susan

Keywords: law reform; child custody; gender; rights; resistance; feminism; media analysis; socio-legal policy

$87,500

Health and home research project: a housing community for downtown eastside women

Co-investigatorSSHRC1999Society, Culture and the Health of Canadians

Principal investigators: Culhane, Dara

Keywords: Health; women; housing; homelessness; poverty; inner-city; ethnography; participatory action research; collaborative research; aboriginal women

$578,413

Feminism, law and social change in Canada, 1967-1997: (re)action and resistance

Principal investigatorSSHRC1998Women and Change

Principal investigators: Chunn, Dorothy

Keywords: feminism; law reform; social change; rights; family law; equity; resistance; strategies; socio-legal policy

$90,000

Sexually transmitted diseases and the politics of citizenship in Canada, 1880-1945

Principal investigatorSSHRC1996Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Chunn, Dorothy

Keywords: Reproduction; deviance; law reform; social control; citizenship; welfare state; family; feminism; mental health; venereal disease

$5,925

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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