Kendra Strauss, Simon Fraser University

Research

precarious employment precarity health housing environment institutions infrastructures

Latest papers

Beyond crisis? Using rent theory to understand the restructuring of publicly funded seniors' care in British Columbia, Canada.
Environment & planning A · 2023 · first author

All 1 publications

Latest funding

Understanding Precarity in BC: A Multidimensional Approach
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$24,680
Institutional experimentation for better work
SSHRC · 2017 · Co-investigator
$2,136,522
Workers in the aging city: eldercare labor markets in Vancouver and Shanghai
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$178,062

All 6 grants and awards

1 publications.

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Beyond crisis? Using rent theory to understand the restructuring of publicly funded seniors' care in British Columbia, Canada.

Strauss K

Environment & planning A2023First author

DOI: 10.1177/0308518x20983152 PMID: 37810991

Understanding Precarity in BC: A Multidimensional Approach

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Strauss, Kendra

Keywords: precarious employment; precarity; health; housing; environment; institutions; infrastructures

$24,680

Institutional experimentation for better work

Co-investigatorSSHRC2017Partnership Grants

Keywords: institutional experimentation; regulation of work; employment; labour law; collective representation; firm's policies and practices; global production networks; governance of labour regulation

$2,136,522

Workers in the aging city: eldercare labor markets in Vancouver and Shanghai

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Xu, Feng

Keywords: eldercare labor markets; eldercare policy; aging city; migration; gender; political economy; Vancouver Canada; Shanghai China

$178,062

Institutional experimentation for better work

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Grants

Keywords: institutional experimentation; regulation of work; employment; labour law; collective representation; firm's policies and practices; global production networks; governance of labour regulation

$363,478

Institutional experimentation for better work

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Grants

Keywords: institutional experimentation; regulation of work; employment; labour law; collective representation; firm's policies and practices; global production networks; governance of labour regulation

$20,000

Adapting Canadian work and workplaces to respond to climate change: Canada in international perspective

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013Partnership Grants

Keywords: climate change and work; sociology of work; environment/economic change; social dimensions of climate change; industrial relations and climate change

$2,547,130

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: precarious employment Dear Professor Strauss, 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]. I read your paper "Beyond crisis? Using rent theory to understand the restructuring of publicly funded seniors' care in British Columbia, Canada." (2023), and it 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 "Understanding Precarity in BC: A Multidimensional Approach" (2019), 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]