Stephanie McKnight, Carleton University

Research

research-creation surveillance 2SLGBTQIA+methodology collaboration university funding ethics

Latest funding

Watching Territory: Creative Interventions into Examining Surveillance in Rural Northern Ontario
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$42,041
Surveillant Pleasures: Using Research-Creation to Explore the Generative Potential of Surveillance
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$125,000
Surveillant Pleasures: Using Research-Creation to Explore the Generative Potential of Surveillance
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$118,742

All 5 grants and awards

Watching Territory: Creative Interventions into Examining Surveillance in Rural Northern Ontario

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: McKnight, Stéphanie

Keywords: research-creation; surveillance; rural communities; Northern Ontario; settler colonialism; storytelling

$42,041

Surveillant Pleasures: Using Research-Creation to Explore the Generative Potential of Surveillance

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: McKnight, Stephanie

Keywords: surveillance pleasure resistance empowerment queer 2SLGBTQIA+ BIPOC Colonialism Whiteness art

$125,000

Surveillant Pleasures: Using Research-Creation to Explore the Generative Potential of Surveillance

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: McKnight, Stephanie

Keywords: surveillance; pleasure; resistance; empowerment; queer; 2SLGBTQIA+; BIPOC; Colonialism; Whiteness; art

$118,742

Aqtion Arqhive: Tracing 2SLGBTQIA+ labour activism in the Katarokwi/Kingston Region

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: McKnight, Stéphanie

Keywords: 2SLGBTQIA+; activism; labour; union; equity; diversity; workplace equity

$24,981

PROTOHYVE: Research-Creation as a Collaborative Method for Knowledge Mobilization and Policy Making

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: McKnight, Stephanie

Keywords: research-creation; methodology; collaboration; university; funding; ethics; policy development; institutional support; visual art; art galleries

$73,334

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: research-creation Dear Professor McKnight, 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 on research-creation 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 "Watching Territory: Creative Interventions into Examining Surveillance in Rural Northern Ontario" (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]