Dan Cohen, Queen's University

Research

central banks quantitative easing financial geography critical accounting inequality public finance regional planning economic geography

Latest papers

Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace: Markets, EdTech, and the spaces of schooling.
Environment & planning A · 2024 · first author
Philanthropy to the rescue? Detroit's schools and urban policymaking under austerity.
Environment and planning. C, Politics and space · 2021 · first author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Futureproofing higher education: Cross-national comparisons of management consultants in university restructuring
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$410,839
Engine of inequality? Central Banks, Economic Crisis, and Uneven Development
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$176,473
Engine of inequality? Central Banks, Economic Crisis, and Uneven Development
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$15,191

All 4 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace: Markets, EdTech, and the spaces of schooling.

Cohen D

Environment & planning A2024First author

DOI: 10.1177/0308518x221084708 PMID: 38344150

02

Philanthropy to the rescue? Detroit's schools and urban policymaking under austerity.

Cohen D

Environment and planning. C, Politics and space2021First author

DOI: 10.1177/23996544211042636 PMID: 42007466

Futureproofing higher education: Cross-national comparisons of management consultants in university restructuring

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hurl, Chris

$410,839

Engine of inequality? Central Banks, Economic Crisis, and Uneven Development

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cohen, Dan

Keywords: central banks; quantitative easing; financial geography; critical accounting; inequality; public finance; regional planning; economic geography; critical macrofinance

$176,473

Engine of inequality? Central Banks, Economic Crisis, and Uneven Development

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cohen, Dan

Keywords: central banks; quantitative easing; financial geography; critical accounting; inequality; public finance; regional planning; economic geography; critical macrofinance

$15,191

Financing Social Progress: Market-making and Canada's Social Finance Fund

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Cohen, Dan

Keywords: social finance; financialization; marketization; social services; policymaking; Canada

$46,739

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: central banks Dear Professor Cohen, 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]. I read your paper "Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace: Markets, EdTech, and the spaces of schooling." (2024), and it 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 "Engine of inequality? Central Banks, Economic Crisis, and Uneven Development" (2022), 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]