Laura Cameron, Queen's University

Research

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Latest papers

Translocal ecologies: the Norfolk broads, the "natural," and the international phytogeographical excursion, 1911.
Journal of the history of biology · 2011 · first author

All 1 publications

Latest funding

Environments of Change: Digitizing Nature, History, and Human Experience in Late Medieval Sussex
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$1,447,485
Environments of Change: Digitizing Nature, History, and Human Experience in Late Medieval Sussex
SSHRC · 2018 · Co-investigator
$800,532
Recording nature: the life geography of William W.H. Gunn
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$109,110

All 7 grants and awards

1 publications.

01

Translocal ecologies: the Norfolk broads, the "natural," and the international phytogeographical excursion, 1911.

Cameron L, Matless D

Journal of the history of biology2011First author

DOI: 10.1007/s10739-010-9245-5 PMID: 20676922

Environments of Change: Digitizing Nature, History, and Human Experience in Late Medieval Sussex

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Partnership Grants

Keywords: nature; environmental history; climate change; digital humanities; land use; archaeology; forests; water; natural resources; student training; Sussex; middle ages; Medieval; Herstmonceux; Battle Abbey; Pevensey Castle

$1,447,485

Environments of Change: Digitizing Nature, History, and Human Experience in Late Medieval Sussex

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Partnership Grants

Keywords: nature; environmental history; climate change; digital humanities; land use; archaeology; forests; water; natural resources; student training; Sussex; middle ages; Medieval; Herstmonceux; Battle Abbey; Pevensey Castle

$800,532

Recording nature: the life geography of William W.H. Gunn

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Cameron, Laura

Keywords: W.W.H. Gunn; cultures of nature; historical geography of ecology; sonic geography; science and place; fieldwork practice; migratory species conservation; Lucie Gunn

$109,110

Canada Research Chair in Historical Geographies of Nature

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Cameron, Laura

Keywords: cultures of nature, history of british ecology, psychoanalysis, oral history, collective biography

$500,000

NiCHE Network in Canadian History and Environment / Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l'environnement

Co-investigatorSSHRC2006

Principal investigators: MacEachern, Alan A.

Keywords: environment; Canada; history; digital humanities; climate; landscapes; parks; forests; water; ecology; open source; open access

$2,082,893

Arthur George Tansley, ecologist and psychoanalyst: geographies of a life

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Cameron, Laura J.

Keywords: Arthur George Tansley; cultures of nature; historical geography of British ecology; history of psychoanalysis; conservation; science and place

$33,590

Canada Research Chair in Historical Geographies of Nature

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Cameron, Laura J

Keywords: cultures of nature; historical geographies of british ecology

$500,000

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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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Cameron, 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 "Translocal ecologies: the Norfolk broads, the "natural," and the international phytogeographical excursion, 1911." (2011), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] 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]