Lisa Nathan, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Understanding Personal and Public Sense Making in response to the Climate Crisis
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$77,636
Improving the Collection of Racial Data in Research on Politics
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$88,489
Sustaining information practices
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$118,143

All 4 grants and awards

No publications available.

Understanding Personal and Public Sense Making in response to the Climate Crisis

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Sinnamon, Luanne S.

Keywords: sense-making; meaning making; climate crisis; libraries; information practices; information and communication technologies; resilient communities

$77,636

Improving the Collection of Racial Data in Research on Politics

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Tolley, Erin

Keywords: race; Canadian politics; political participation; research design; racial classification

$88,489

Sustaining information practices

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Nathan, Lisa P.

Keywords: information practice; indigenous information practice; information technologies; information ethics; participatory action research; sustainability

$118,143

Trust and digital records in an increasingly networked society

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012Partnership Grants

Keywords: trust; digital records; big data; online records; digital environment; public records; cloud computing; social media; networked communication; privacy; access; secrecy; right to be forgotten; right to know; digital recordkeeping; digital preservation

$2,503,926

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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