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Alexander McClelland

ResearcherCriminologyCarleton University

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Alexander McClelland

Researcher

Criminology

Carleton University

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
4 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 8 research grants (4 CIHR, 4 SSHRC), most recently in 2025.

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Research

data justice violence Qualitative research Public Health police criminology quantitative research Hiv And Aids

Latest papers

'It's Primarily Around Their Viral Load': Public Health Decision-Making and HIV Risk Assemblages in Ontario, Canada.
Sociology of health & illness · 2026 · senior author
Social life of HIV data.
Medical humanities · 2026
Action needed to address molecular HIV surveillance ethical concerns.
Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025 · first author

All 7 publications

Latest funding

The Nathaniel Krug Project: Mobilizing Inquest Recommendations to Reduce Deaths in Custody in Ontario
SSHRC · 2026 · Co-investigator
$97,160
A Community-Based HIV/STBBI Public Health Observatory
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$982,541
Setting Directions for a Community-Based HIV & STBBI Surveillance Observatory
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$99,626

All 11 grants and awards

The Nathaniel Krug Project: Mobilizing Inquest Recommendations to Reduce Deaths in Custody in Ontario

Co-investigatorSSHRC2026Insight Development Grants

Principal investigators: Fitzgerald, Amy

$97,160

A Community-Based HIV/STBBI Public Health Observatory

Nominated PICIHR2025Team Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI CBR - Racialized people and migrants

Principal investigators: Mcclelland, Alexander L; Chu, Sandra K

Keywords: Community-Based Hiv/Stbbi Research; Criminalization; Data Justice; Drug Use; Health Equity; Migrants, Immigrants, Refugees; Public Health; Public Health Surveillance; Qualitative Reearch; Sex Work

$982,541

Setting Directions for a Community-Based HIV & STBBI Surveillance Observatory

Nominated PICIHR2024Team Grant: HIV/AIDS and STBBI Community-Based Research - General Key Pop. - LOI

Principal investigators: Mcclelland, Alexander L; Capretti, Andre

Keywords: Community-Driven Research; Data Justice; Hiv And Aids; Informed Consent; Public Health; Public Health Ethics; Surveillance

$99,626

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

Tracking (In)Justice: Advancing new knowledge on police involved deaths in Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: McClelland, Alexander

Keywords: Violence; police; criminology; qualitative research; quantitative research

$62,388

Alternatives to Criminalization of Drugs: Community-based Systems Mapping of Social and Health effects (ACDC SMASH)

Co-investigatorCIHR2023Project Grant

Principal investigators: Bayoumi, Ahmed M; Dashwood, Thomas; Dodd, Zoe; Firestone, Michelle

Keywords: Decriminalization Of Drugs; Health Policy; Incarceration; Substance Use

$401,625

Experiences of the Social Organization of HIV-Related Public Health Risks

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: McClelland, Alexander

Keywords: HIV; Public health legislation; Risk; Qualitative research; Institutional ethnography

$30,750

Experiences of the Social Organization of HIV-Related Public Health Risks

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: McClelland, Alexander

Keywords: HIV; Public health legislation; Risk; Qualitative research; Institutional ethnography

$29,540

Mapping the pathway of blood and information collected from HIV-positive people in a clinical setting: implications for public health surveillance, consent, and criminalization

Nominated PICIHR2022Catalyst Grant: HIV/AIDS CBR Program - General Stream

Principal investigators: Mcclelland, Alexander L; Wah, Amy

Keywords: Community-Based Research; Consent; Data Protection; Genomic Sequencing; Hiv And Aids; Participation Of People Living With Hiv; Public Health; Public Health Ethics; Public Health Law; Surveillance

$100,000

Tracking (In)Justice: a publicly accessible online database of police-involved and carceral deaths across Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: McClelland, Alexander

Keywords: policing; violence; police-involved death; community development; data justice; public criminology; trauma-informed; victims of homicide

$195,970

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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Alexander McClelland

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

'It's Primarily Around Their Viral Load': Public Health Decision-Making and HIV Risk Assemblages in Ontario, Canada.

Social life of HIV data.

Action needed to address molecular HIV surveillance ethical concerns.

Criminal Code reform of HIV non-disclosure is urgently needed: Social science perspectives on the harms of HIV criminalization in Canada

Alternatives to sharing COVID-19 data with law enforcement: Recommendations for stakeholders.

Human rights, public health and COVID-19 in Canada.

The harms of HIV criminalization: responding to the 'association of HIV diagnosis rates and laws criminalizing HIV exposure in the United States'.

The Nathaniel Krug Project: Mobilizing Inquest Recommendations to Reduce Deaths in Custody in Ontario

A Community-Based HIV/STBBI Public Health Observatory

Setting Directions for a Community-Based HIV & STBBI Surveillance Observatory

Disaster Prisons Partnership

Tracking (In)Justice: Advancing new knowledge on police involved deaths in Canada

Alternatives to Criminalization of Drugs: Community-based Systems Mapping of Social and Health effects (ACDC SMASH)

Experiences of the Social Organization of HIV-Related Public Health Risks

Experiences of the Social Organization of HIV-Related Public Health Risks

Mapping the pathway of blood and information collected from HIV-positive people in a clinical setting: implications for public health surveillance, consent, and criminalization

Tracking (In)Justice: a publicly accessible online database of police-involved and carceral deaths across Canada

Frequent collaborators

Martin French

Eric Mykhalovskiy

Maureen Owino

Marilou Gagnon

Patrick O'Byrne

Jason Brophy

Michael Orsini

Jennifer Kilty

Marilou Gagnon

Viviane Namaste

Marilou Gagnon

Angela Kaida

Adrian Guta

Ciann Wilson

Alexandra King

Suzanne Hindmarch

Saara Greene

Notisha Massaquoi