Leonie Sandercock, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Evaluating film as a catalyst for Indigenous community development in a remote northern community
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$201,580
Multimedia as catalyst for Indigenous community development on Haida Gwaii
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
$196,737
Seeds of change: the journey from colonisation to partnership in Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relationships in Burns Lake, BC, through a community based approach to economic and social development
SSHRC · 2008 · Principal investigator
$129,970

All 4 grants and awards

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Evaluating film as a catalyst for Indigenous community development in a remote northern community

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Sandercock, Leonie

Keywords: Indigenous community development; Indigenous language revitalization; sustainable Indigenous economic development; film and social change; community based participatory action research; developmental evaluation

$201,580

Multimedia as catalyst for Indigenous community development on Haida Gwaii

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Sandercock, Leonie

Keywords: community development; indigenous community planning; social innovation; technological innovation; youth capacity building; cross-cultural collaborative planning; digital indigenous democracy; cultural revitalization; economic revitalization

$196,737

Seeds of change: the journey from colonisation to partnership in Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relationships in Burns Lake, BC, through a community based approach to economic and social development

Principal investigatorSSHRC2008Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Sandercock, Leonie

Keywords: colonisation; Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations; partnership; community building; economic development; digital ethnography; action research; healing and social transformation; rural and Northern BC; non-metropolitan Canada

$129,970

From the campfire to the computer: an inquiry into the powers and limitations of story and storytelling in planning practice and scholarship

Principal investigatorSSHRC2004Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Sandercock, Leonie

Keywords: planning practice; critical planning theory; story; narrative; participatory planning; empowerment; alternative epistemologies; power; digital storytelling; digital ethnographies.

$119,160

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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