Sarah De Leeuw, Queen's University

Research

Community Based Participatory Research Community Organizing Harm Reduction Healthy Housing Indigenizing Indigenous Leadership Public Health Systems Single Room Occupancy Housing

Latest funding

Holding Space for frontline Indigenous leadership in community-driven responses to the housing and overdose crises in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
CIHR · 2019 · Principal investigator
$612,000
A SHARED Future: Achieving Strength, Health, and Autonomy through Renewable Energy Developments for the Future
CIHR · 2016 · Co-investigator
$2,000,000

All 2 grants and awards

Holding Space for frontline Indigenous leadership in community-driven responses to the housing and overdose crises in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Masuda, Jeffrey R; De Leeuw, Sarah

Keywords: Community Based Participatory Research; Community Organizing; Harm Reduction; Healthy Housing; Indigenizing; Indigenous Leadership; Public Health Systems; Single Room Occupancy Housing

$612,000

A SHARED Future: Achieving Strength, Health, and Autonomy through Renewable Energy Developments for the Future

Co-investigatorCIHR2016Team Grant: Environments and Health: Intersectoral Prev. Research - IWK/TEK/TES

Principal investigators: Castleden, Heather E; Greenwood, Margo L; Henderson, Christopher; Moola, Faisal; Nahwegahbow, Amy J; Cunsolo, Ashlee; Kornelsen, Derek; Lewis, Diana M; Lowan-Trudeau, Gregory E; Martin, Debbie H; Masuda, Jeffrey R; Neufeld, Hannah J; Richmond, Chantelle A

Keywords: Community-Engaged Participatory Research; Environmental/Social Determinants Of Health; Indigenous And Western Research Methods; Indigenous Health; Indigenous-Settler Relations; Relational Ethics; Renewable Energy Development; Social, Cultural, And Health Geography; Strength, Autonomy, And Resilience; Two-Eyed Seeing

$2,000,000

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: Community Based Participatory Research Dear Professor De Leeuw, 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 community based participatory research 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 CIHR-funded project "Holding Space for frontline Indigenous leadership in community-driven responses to the housing and overdose crises in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside" (2019), 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]