April Lindgren, Toronto Metropolitan University

Research

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Latest funding

The Political Accountability, Transparency, and Representation Oversight Network (PATRON) - Réseau d'observation, de transparence, et d'imputabilité Politique (ROTIP)
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$19,982
Évaluation du rôle et des actions de fondations subventionnaires canadiennes en réponse à l'enjeu des inégalités sociales et des défis environnementaux
SSHRC · 2018 · Co-investigator
$2,068,800
Évaluation du rôle et des actions de fondations subventionnaires canadiennes en réponse à l'enjeu des inégalités sociales et des défis environnementaux
SSHRC · 2017 · Co-investigator
$431,200

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The Political Accountability, Transparency, and Representation Oversight Network (PATRON) - Réseau d'observation, de transparence, et d'imputabilité Politique (ROTIP)

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Grants

Keywords: Political Accountability; Political Representation; Political Transparency; Political Finance; Investigative Journalism; Public Data; Open Government; Political Parties; Public Policy; Computational Social Science; Government Records; Digital Humanities

$19,982

Évaluation du rôle et des actions de fondations subventionnaires canadiennes en réponse à l'enjeu des inégalités sociales et des défis environnementaux

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Partnership Grants

Keywords: impact evaluation; partnership research; grant-making foundations; philanthropy; collective impact; philanthropic ecosystem

$2,068,800

Évaluation du rôle et des actions de fondations subventionnaires canadiennes en réponse à l'enjeu des inégalités sociales et des défis environnementaux

Co-investigatorSSHRC2017Partnership Grants

Keywords: impact evaluation; partnership research; grant-making foundations; philanthropy; collective impact; philanthropic ecosystem

$431,200

Is no local news bad news: local journalism and its future

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Lindgren, April

Keywords: journalism; local news; urban affairs; municipal politics; media and local democracy; research and knowledge dissemination

$25,000

Election News, Local Information and Community Discourse: Is Twitter the New Public Sphere?

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Hodson, Jaigris

Keywords: (1) Journalism; (2) Local News; (3) Public Reason; (4) Critical political economy; (5) Social Media; (6) Twitter; (7) Hashtags; (8) Public Engagement; (9) Communities of Practice; (10) Web 2.0

$54,260

The local news project journalism, geography and urban discourse in the Greater Toronto Area

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Lindgren, April

Keywords: news media; cities; urban geography; mapping; local news

$49,950

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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