Grace Fan, University of British Columbia

Research

inequality Indigenous worldviews Two-Eyed Seeing Indigenous-led environmental sustainability relationships between human and nature non-human ethics community-based participatory research methods

Latest funding

Reconstructing the relationships between humans and nature to challenge inequality: The role of Indigenous worldviews and Two-Eyed Seeing
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$41,504
Culture and Politics in Action: the Discourse on Water in British Columbia
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$73,800

All 2 grants and awards

Reconstructing the relationships between humans and nature to challenge inequality: The role of Indigenous worldviews and Two-Eyed Seeing

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Fan, Grace Hong

Keywords: inequality; Indigenous worldviews; Two-Eyed Seeing; Indigenous-led environmental sustainability; relationships between human and nature; non-human ethics; community-based participatory research methods

$41,504

Culture and Politics in Action: the Discourse on Water in British Columbia

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Fan, Grace

Keywords: water sustainability; the discursive approach in institutional theory; discourse on water in situ and in vivo; application of water law and regulation; the environmental, legal and cultural perspectives of water

$73,800

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: inequality Dear Professor Fan, 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 inequality 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 "Reconstructing the relationships between humans and nature to challenge inequality: The role of Indigenous worldviews and Two-Eyed Seeing" (2024), 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]