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Neil Guppy
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Latest papers
Changing Gender Relations in Canada: The Rise of Gender-Neutral Forenames.
Canadian review of sociology = Revue canadienne de sociologie · 2026 · first author
Changing Patterns of Gender Representation in Canada's Technology Sector and the Care Economy: Two Differing Tales.
Canadian review of sociology = Revue canadienne de sociologie · 2026 · first author
Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: the role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage.
Higher education · 2022 · first author
Latest funding
- $64,940
Poverty reduction in Chile: exploring the significance of social capital
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
- $73,018
The social construction of school knowledge: change over the last half century
SSHRC · 2008 · Principal investigator
- $91,043
School choice in Canada: a sociological investigation of structures and processes
SSHRC · 2005 · Co-investigator
4 publications.
Changing Gender Relations in Canada: The Rise of Gender-Neutral Forenames.
Guppy N, Kolpashnikova K
Changing Patterns of Gender Representation in Canada's Technology Sector and the Care Economy: Two Differing Tales.
Guppy N, Balzarini M, Kolpashnikova K, Lyon K
Teaching and learning under COVID-19 public health edicts: the role of household lockdowns and prior technology usage.
Guppy N, Boud D, Heap T, Verpoorten D, Matzat U, Tai J, Lutze-Mann L, Roth M, Polly P, Burgess JL, Agapito J, Bartolic S
Intergenerational educational mobility over the past century in Canada.
Chow A, Guppy N
Poverty reduction in Chile: exploring the significance of social capital
Principal investigators: Guppy, Neil
Keywords: social capital; poverty reduction; social networks; social policy; Chile; Canada
The social construction of school knowledge: change over the last half century
Principal investigators: Guppy, Neil
Keywords: education; knowledge; curriculum; social construction; social change
School choice in Canada: a sociological investigation of structures and processes
Principal investigators: Davies, Scott
Keywords: education; privatization; school choice; markets; organizations
Occupational prestige and gender over 25 years
Principal investigators: Goyder, John
Keywords: occupations; occupational prestige; gender
Equality, security and community: explaining and improving the distribution of well-being in Canada
Principal investigators: Kesselman, Jonathan
Keywords: equality; economic security; income distribution; social capital; public policy
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Neil Guppy and Kamila Kolpashnikova: 2 shared papers
- Katherine Lyon and Neil Guppy: 1 shared paper
- Katherine Lyon and Kamila Kolpashnikova: 1 shared paper
- Silvia Bartolic and Neil Guppy: 1 shared paper
- Department of Sociology
- Sociology
- School of Social Work
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