Greg Halseth, University of Northern British Columbia

Research

rural government innovation entrepreneurship Canada rural and northern communities resource dependent transition

Latest papers

Scaling up and scaling down supply chains in volatile resource-based economies.
Local economy · 2020 · senior author
Place integration through efforts to support healthy aging in resource frontier communities: the role of voluntary sector leadership.
Health & place · 2014 · senior author
Resolving mobility constraints impeding rural seniors' access to regionalized services.
Journal of aging & social policy · 2012 · senior author

All 8 publications

Latest funding

Entrepreneurialism and rural/small-town local government
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$149,138
Supporting Resilience: 'Wraparound' Solutions to Homelessness for Older Women
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$92,306
Entrepreneurialism and rural/small-town local government
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$250

All 20 grants and awards

8 publications.

01

Scaling up and scaling down supply chains in volatile resource-based economies.

Ryser L, Markey S, Halseth G

Local economy2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/0269094221993439 PMID: 34040273

02

Place integration through efforts to support healthy aging in resource frontier communities: the role of voluntary sector leadership.

Hanlon N, Skinner MW, Joseph AE, Ryser L, Halseth G

Health & place2014Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2014.07.003 PMID: 25087052

03

Resolving mobility constraints impeding rural seniors' access to regionalized services.

Ryser L, Halseth G

Journal of aging & social policy2012Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/08959420.2012.683329 PMID: 22720890

04

Informal support networks of low-income senior women living alone: evidence from Fort St. John, BC.

Ryser L, Halseth G

Journal of women & aging2011Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/08952841.2011.587734 PMID: 21767084

05

Stealth voluntarism: an expectation of health professional work in underserviced areas?

Hanlon N, Halseth G, Ostry A

Health & place2011

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.05.005 PMID: 20605511

06

"We can see a future here": Place attachment, professional identity, and forms of capital mobilized to deliver medical education in an underserviced area.

Hanlon N, Halseth G, Snadden D

Health & place2010

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.04.016 PMID: 20537935

07

Establishing a distributed campus: making sense of disruptions to a doctor community.

Hanlon N, Ryser L, Crain J, Halseth G, Snadden D

Medical education2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03574.x PMID: 20444056

08

The place embeddedness of social care: restructuring work and welfare in Mackenzie, BC.

Hanlon N, Halseth G, Clasby R, Pow V

Health & place2007

DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.05.006 PMID: 16809059

Entrepreneurialism and rural/small-town local government

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Halseth, Greg R.

Keywords: rural; government; innovation; entrepreneurship; Canada

$149,138

Supporting Resilience: 'Wraparound' Solutions to Homelessness for Older Women

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cloutier, Denise S.

Keywords: homelessness; quality of life; older women; community; health

$92,306

Entrepreneurialism and rural/small-town local government

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Halseth, Greg R.

Keywords: rural; government; innovation; entrepreneurship; Canada

$250

Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Halseth, Greg

$400,000

Canada Research Chair in Rural and Small Town Studies

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Halseth, Greg

Keywords: rural and northern communities; resource dependent; transition; economic restructuring; small business sector; services; governance; observatory

$950,000

Resource royalties: returns to producing rural regions

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Markey, Sean P.

Keywords: resource development; royalties; rural development; regional development

$119,359

ENERGY - A scoping review on the community impacts of unconventional natural gas development in Northern BC

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Presidential Fund for Research, Innovation & Collaboration

Principal investigators: Halseth, Greg R.

$25,000

International Symposium on Aging Resource Communities: population cynamics, community development and the voluntary sector

Co-investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: Skinner, Mark W.

Keywords: research knowledge exchange; international collaboration; resource frontier aging; rural community development; voluntarism; leadership; northern communities

$19,450

Rural policy learning commons: building rural policy through international comparative analysis

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013Partnership Grants

Keywords: international comparative analysis; rural and northern policy; regional analysis; economic and social development; community learning; indigenous peoples; governance; food; labour; natural resources; communication

$2,500,000

The transformative role of voluntarism in aging resource communities integrating people, place and community

Co-investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Skinner, Mark W.

Keywords: pilot initiative; theoretical framework; methodological innovation; community-based research; experiential training; resource frontier aging; aging in place; community development; older people; voluntary sector/volunteers; Northern Canada; leadership

$71,110

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

Sean Markey

Rural Planning

1 shared papers, latest 2020

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