Peter Jones, OCAD University

Research

complexity COVID-19 municipal planning climate change strategic management sensemaking economic recovery resilience

Latest funding

Finding Saint Helena Augusta in Old Norse and early modern Icelandic literature
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$58,468
COVID-19: Developing decision making in municipal planning to enable recovery, future adaptability and long-term resiliency
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$24,925
Orchestrating Knowledges: CANSEE Student Symposium
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$10,140

All 3 grants and awards

Finding Saint Helena Augusta in Old Norse and early modern Icelandic literature

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Van Deusen, Natalie M.

Keywords: Old Norse-Icelandic literature; hagiography; gender studies; philology

$58,468

COVID-19: Developing decision making in municipal planning to enable recovery, future adaptability and long-term resiliency

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Engage Grants (PEG) COVID-19 Special Initiative

Principal investigators: Jones, Peter

Keywords: COVID-19; municipal planning; climate change; complexity; strategic management; sensemaking; economic recovery; resilience

$24,925

Orchestrating Knowledges: CANSEE Student Symposium

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Jones, Peter H.

Keywords: ecological economics; interdisciplinarity; low-carbon economy; sustainability; complexity; transformational change; systems thinking; political economy; intersectionality; environmental ethics

$10,140

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: complexity Dear Professor Jones, 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 complexity 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 "COVID-19: Developing decision making in municipal planning to enable recovery, future adaptability and long-term resiliency" (2020), 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]