Julie Guard, University of Manitoba

Research

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Latest funding

Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$996,134
Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$793,151
Creative and cultural ecosystems on the prairies
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$20,000

No publications available.

Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Grants

Keywords: poverty; community economic development; community based participatory research; Indigenous research; urban studies; sociology; Northern communities; economics; collaborative research; community based organization

$996,134

Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Partnership Grants

Keywords: poverty; community economic development; community based participatory research; Indigenous research; urban studies; sociology; Northern communities; economics; collaborative research; community based organization

$793,151

Creative and cultural ecosystems on the prairies

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Grants

Keywords: arts ecology; cultural ecology; indigenous cultural ecologies; creative economy; community engagement; social impacts; vitality index; social network analysis; community; sustainability; artist work patterns

$20,000

From the thirty years' crisis to multipolarity: the evolution of the geopolitical economy of the 21st century world

Co-investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: Desai, Radhika

Keywords: social justice; Iran; rentier state; poverty; inequality; justice; human rights; women's rights; students; workers unionizing movement; ethnic relations; minorities

$14,000

Consumers against capital: Canada's radical consumer movement, 1930s - 1950s

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Guard, Julie

Keywords: radical consumers; grassroots political movements; gender; class; and ethnicity; construction of identity; citizens and the state; cold war consumers; women and social justice; women and economics; economic democracy; community labour organizing

$59,563

Call centers and unionization: a new frontier for organized labour

Co-investigatorSSHRC2002INE Development Grants

Principal investigators: Steedman, Mercedes

Keywords: industrial relations; gender; ethnicity; unions; call centers; globalization; new economy; technological change; skill; labour process; collective bargaining

$46,330

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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