Vinay Kamat, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest funding

Climate Change, Ecological Risk, and Adaptive Capacity Among Artisanal Fishing Communities in Coastal Tanzania
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$48,277
Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Fisheries-dependent Communities in Coastal Southeastern Tanzania
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$24,800
COVID-19. Where there is no Lockdown: Local Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Tanzania
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$24,200

All 6 grants and awards

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Climate Change, Ecological Risk, and Adaptive Capacity Among Artisanal Fishing Communities in Coastal Tanzania

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kamat, Vinay R.

Keywords: Climate Change; Artisanal Fishing Communities; Vulnerability; Adaptive Capacity; Anthropology; Ethnography; Tanzania

$48,277

Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change on Fisheries-dependent Communities in Coastal Southeastern Tanzania

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Kamat, Vinay R.

Keywords: Climate Change; Tanzania; Mitigation; Community Intervention; Civil Society; Anthropology; Knowledge Exchange

$24,800

COVID-19. Where there is no Lockdown: Local Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Tanzania

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Engage Grants (PEG) COVID-19 Special Initiative

Principal investigators: Kamat, Vinay R.

Keywords: COVID-19; medical anthropology; pandemic response; Tanzania; vulnerable communities; civil society; harm reduction; well-being; knowledge exchange

$24,200

Contested landscapes: the social complexity of natural gas extraction in a marine protected area in Tanzania

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kamat, Vinay R.

Keywords: ethnography; Tanzania; marine conservation politics; natural gas extraction politics; dispossession; poverty; violence; resistance; gender issues; social justice; environmental justice; wellbeing

$166,430

Micropolitics of Conservation and Dispossession on a Marine Park in Southeastern Tanzania

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Kamat, Vinay

Keywords: Ethnography; Marine Conservation Politics; Tanzania; Marine Protected Areas; Poverty; Displacement; Structural Violence; Social Suffering; Gender Issues; Food Security

$71,950

Global discourses on malaria control and their impact on local communities in Tanzania

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Kamat, Vinay R.

Keywords: malaria control; discourse; ethnography; Tanzania; medical anthropology

$74,295

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 Kamat, 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 "Climate Change, Ecological Risk, and Adaptive Capacity Among Artisanal Fishing Communities in Coastal Tanzania" (2025), 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]