Nicholas Blomley, Simon Fraser University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Simon Fraser University profile.

legal geography property precarity poor people evaluation governance encampment olympics

Latest funding

Past Wrongs, Future Choices
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$383,174
Past Wrongs, Future Choices
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$935,850
A "Peer-to-Peer" Network for Digital Justice: Reimagining community-based research and tenant organizing in congregate housing settings during COVID-19
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$237,970

All 13 grants and awards

No publications available.

Past Wrongs, Future Choices

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Partnership Grants

Keywords: historical injustice; public history; internment; Japanese diaspora

$383,174

Past Wrongs, Future Choices

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Grants

Keywords: historical injustice; public history; internment; Japanese diaspora

$935,850

A "Peer-to-Peer" Network for Digital Justice: Reimagining community-based research and tenant organizing in congregate housing settings during COVID-19

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021New Frontiers in Research Fund - Special Call

Principal investigators: Masuda, Jeffrey

Keywords: Community based participatory action research Digital justice Housing and tenant rights Policy and planning Digital methodologies

$237,970

Past Wrongs, Future Choices

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Grants

Keywords: historical injustice; public history; internment; Japanese diaspora

$20,000

Governing the possessions of the precariously housed: a legal geography

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Blomley, Nicholas

Keywords: property; precarity; poor people; evaluation; legal geography; governance

$235,878

Grounding Law: learning with each other

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Blomley, Nicholas K.

Keywords: legal geography; post-colonial theory; law and place; epistemology

$15,233

The "right to remain" of single room occupancy dwellers in Vancouver's downtown Eastside

Co-investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Masuda, Jeffrey

Keywords: human rights; housing; participatory action research

$236,767

Landscapes of injustice

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013Partnership Grants

Keywords: historical injustice; property; race; cities; Canada

$2,496,520

Court-imposed restrictions to public spaces and marginalized people in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Sylvestre, Marie-Eve

Keywords: criminal law; public spaces; social control; legal geography; marginalized people; judicial practices; rights; spatial restrictions

$117,416

Property, liberty, and the First Nations treaty process

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009

Principal investigators: Blomley, Nicholas K.

Keywords: property; liberty; meaning; categorization; space

$86,500

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: legal geography Dear Professor Blomley, 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 legal geography 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 "Governing the possessions of the precariously housed: a legal geography" (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]