Lea Caragata, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Understanding Precarity in BC (UP-BC)
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$912,288
Supporting resilient outcomes: Understanding the emotional, instrumental and financial contributions of youth in low-income lone mother households
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$223,142

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Understanding Precarity in BC (UP-BC)

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Grants

Keywords: precarity; precarious employment; policy; community based research; participatory research; regulation; intersectionality; British Columbia; mixed methods; survey research; knowledge base; data visualization; labour studies; geography; economics

$912,288

Supporting resilient outcomes: Understanding the emotional, instrumental and financial contributions of youth in low-income lone mother households

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Caragata, Lea M.

Keywords: youth; poverty; resilence; lone mothers; family well-being; provsioning

$223,142

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 Dear Professor Caragata, 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 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 "Supporting resilient outcomes: Understanding the emotional, instrumental and financial contributions of youth in low-income lone mother households" (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]