Audrey Yap, University of Victoria

Research

Read how they describe their research on their University of Victoria profile.

Latest funding

Disaster Prisons Partnership
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$55,500
Transforming Justice: A Joint National Conference of Critical Perspectives: Criminology and Social Justice and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$44,373
Developing partnerships to investigate and address the processes and outcomes criminalization and incarceration in Canada
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$133,936

All 5 grants and awards

No publications available.

Disaster Prisons Partnership

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Piché, Justin

Keywords: Imprisonment; conditions of confinement; human rights; alternatives to imprisonment; diversion; decarceration; disasters; public health; environment; community safety; Canada

$55,500

Transforming Justice: A Joint National Conference of Critical Perspectives: Criminology and Social Justice and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Humphrey, Tamara A.

Keywords: Criminalization; critical criminology; justice; Indigenous resurgence; sovereignty and governance; transformative justice; prisons; courts; re-entry; race and racialization; law; radical imagination; lived experience of incarceration; social justice

$44,373

Developing partnerships to investigate and address the processes and outcomes criminalization and incarceration in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Kish, Nyki

Keywords: Critical prison studies; community-engaged research; Participatory Action Research; criminalization; incarceration; oppression and marginalization; public policy; legislative change; lived experienced; mixed methods; arts-based; Knowledge Mobilization

$133,936

Storywork and desistance from crime: Remaking the self through narrative

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Humphrey, Tamara

Keywords: Desistance; Crime; Violence; Identity; Narratives of self-change; Agency; Structural barriers; Narrative criminology; Qualitative research

$61,671

Critical thinking inside and outside the academy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012

Principal investigators: Yap, Audrey S.H.

Keywords: critical thinking; highschool outreach; website; workshop; social justice

$27,510

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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