David Ley, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Neighbourhood inequality, diversity, and change: trends, processes, consequences, and policy options for Canada's large Metropolitan areas
SSHRC · 2011 · Co-investigator
$2,500,000
Neighbourhood trends in the Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver city-regions, 1971 to 2006: understanding changes in global cities at the neighbourhood level
SSHRC · 2009 · Co-investigator
$146,500
Canada Research Chair in Geography
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
$1,400,000

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Neighbourhood inequality, diversity, and change: trends, processes, consequences, and policy options for Canada's large Metropolitan areas

Co-investigatorSSHRC2011Partnership Grants

Keywords: neighbourhood change; divided cities; socio-spatial inequality; concentrated poverty; housing; gentrification; labour market restructuring; immigrant settlement; Aboriginal issues; urban schooling; crime and safety; urban policy; Canada

$2,500,000

Neighbourhood trends in the Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver city-regions, 1971 to 2006: understanding changes in global cities at the neighbourhood level

Co-investigatorSSHRC2009Public Outreach Grant Open Category

Principal investigators: Hulchanski, J. David

Keywords: neighbourhoods; housing; demographic change; immigrant settlement; socio-economic change

$146,500

Canada Research Chair in Geography

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007

Principal investigators: Ley, David

Keywords: immigration, urbanisation, transnationalism, segregation, poverty

$1,400,000

Community gentrification and building inclusive communities from within: a case study of Toronto's West-Central neighbourhoods

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004Community-University Research Alliances (CURA)

Keywords: neighbourhood change; gentrification; community development; urban/community planning; affordable housing; globalization; social change; social justice; social services; public policy; participatory research

$1,000,000

Canada Research Chair in Urbanization and Cultural Diversity

Principal investigatorSSHRC2000Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Ley, David F.

Keywords: immigration; urbanization; globalization; socio-environmental impacts

$1,400,000

Transnationalism, citizenship and social cohesion: recent immigrants from Hong Kong to Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC1999Exploring Social Cohesion in a Globalizing Era

Principal investigators: Kobayashi, Audrey

Keywords: Transnationalism; citizenship; immigration; Hong Kong; Vancouver; Toronto; gender; racialization; urban

$375,000

Proposal for a SFU-UBC joint centre of excellence for the study of immigration and integration

Co-investigatorSSHRC1996Immigration and the Metropolis

$1,386,500

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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