Daniel Steel, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest papers

How do high-level African directors of policy and planning operationalize health equity? Findings from a regional survey.
PLOS global public health · 2025
A Dynamic Collapse Concept for Climate Change.
Environmental values · 2024 · first author
Collapse, social tipping dynamics, and framing climate change.
Politics philosophy & economics · 2024 · first author

All 15 publications

Latest funding

Climate Change and Civilization Collapse
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$104,240
Climate Change and Civilization Collapse
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$42,400
Science, Values and Wastewater Controversies
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$99,423

All 5 grants and awards

15 publications.

01

How do high-level African directors of policy and planning operationalize health equity? Findings from a regional survey.

Amri M, Socha A, Huang E, Steel D, Jacobson D, Bump JB

PLOS global public health2025

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004384 PMID: 40138629

02

A Dynamic Collapse Concept for Climate Change.

Steel D, Belotti G, Mittiga R, Mintz-Woo K

Environmental values2024First author

DOI: 10.1177/09632719241255857 PMID: 41908693

03

Collapse, social tipping dynamics, and framing climate change.

Steel D, Mintz-Woo K, DesRoches CT

Politics philosophy & economics2024First author

DOI: 10.1177/1470594x231196432 PMID: 39100710

04

Evidence-based Medicine and Mechanistic Evidence: The Case of the Failed Rollout of Efavirenz in Zimbabwe.

Park A, Steel D, Maine E

The Journal of medicine and philosophy2023

DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhad019 PMID: 37137159

05

Trade-offs and the precautionary principle: A lexicographic utility approach.

Steel D, Bartha P

Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis2023First author

DOI: 10.1111/risa.13892 PMID: 35086159

06

Climate change and the threat to civilization.

Steel D, DesRoches CT, Mintz-Woo K

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022First author

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2210525119 PMID: 36201599

07

Pro-Diversity Beliefs and the Diverse Person's Burden.

Steel D, Paier K

Synthese2022First author

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-022-03785-w PMID: 36032352

08

Exploring Scientists' Values by Analyzing How They Frame Nature and Uncertainty.

Vazquez M, McIlroy-Young B, Steel D, Giang A, Öberg G

Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis2021

DOI: 10.1111/risa.13701 PMID: 33598966

09

Information elaboration and epistemic effects of diversity.

Steel D, Fazelpour S, Crewe B, Gillette K

Synthese2021First author

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-019-02108-w PMID: 33707800

10

Evaluating the quality of medical evidence in real-world contexts.

Jones A, Steel D

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice2018Senior author

DOI: 10.1111/jep.12983 PMID: 29952125

Climate Change and Civilization Collapse

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Steel, Daniel P.

Keywords: climate change; collapse; precautionary principle; risk

$104,240

Climate Change and Civilization Collapse

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Steel, Daniel P.

Keywords: climate change; collapse; precautionary principle; risk

$42,400

Science, Values and Wastewater Controversies

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Oberg, Gunilla M.

Keywords: scientific controversies; value-judgements in the research process; science and policy-making; science and democracy; distinguishing legitimate value-judgements; recognizing and communicating role of values in science; precaution vs risk; hazard vs risk

$99,423

Science, Values and Wastewater Controversies

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Oberg, Gunilla M.

Keywords: scientific controversies; value-judgements in the research process; science and policy-making; science and democracy; distinguishing legitimate value-judgements; recognizing and communicating role of values in science; precaution vs risk; hazard vs risk

$300,357

Distinct concepts of diversity and their ethical-epistemic implications for science

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Steel, Daniel P.

Keywords: philosophy of science; diversity; ethics; social epistemology; science policy; public participation; deliberative democracy; mini-publics

$73,500

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Department of Philosophy
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability - The University of British Columbia
Gustavson School of Business
VPRI - Simon Fraser University

Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Elicia Maine

VPRI - Simon Fraser University

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Amanda Giang

Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability - The University of British Columbia

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Andrew Park

Gustavson School of Business

1 shared papers, latest 2023

Paul Bartha

Department of Philosophy

1 shared papers, latest 2023

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Steel, 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 "How do high-level African directors of policy and planning operationalize health equity? Findings from a regional survey." (2025), 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 "Climate Change and Civilization Collapse" (2022), 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]