David Gauntlett, Toronto Metropolitan University

Research

creativity pandemic COVID-19 social innovation creative innovation everyday life lockdown social distancing

Latest funding

Practices of Knowing: Research-Creation Beyond Academia
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$65,509
GenLab: Labour, Creativity, and Generative AI
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$31,910
The Arts Impact Partnership (TAIP): Understanding the Arts' Civic Impact in the Data-Driven Economy
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$20,000

All 7 grants and awards

Practices of Knowing: Research-Creation Beyond Academia

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Gauntlett, David J.

Keywords: Creativity; Research-creation; Artists; Research impact; Qualitative methodologies

$65,509

GenLab: Labour, Creativity, and Generative AI

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Delfanti, Alessandro

Keywords: labour;automation;digital culture;artificial intelligence;science & technology studies

$31,910

The Arts Impact Partnership (TAIP): Understanding the Arts' Civic Impact in the Data-Driven Economy

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Grants

Keywords: fine arts; arts impact; artistic research; metadata; nonprofit arts organizations; arts data taxonomies; data justice; epistemic justice; EDIA; open access; post-secondary institutions; research metrics reform; library and information science

$20,000

Rethinking Creativity in and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Gauntlett, David J.

Keywords: creativity; pandemic; COVID-19; social innovation; creative innovation; everyday life; lockdown; social distancing

$55,458

Rethinking Creativity in and after the COVID-19 Pandemic

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Gauntlett, David

Keywords: creativity; pandemic; COVID-19; social innovation; creative innovation; everyday life; lockdown; social distancing

$73,876

Creative Innovation and Leadership

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Gauntlett, David

$400,000

Creative Innovation and Leadership

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Gauntlett, David

Keywords: creativity; innovation; design thinking; creative industries

$1,000,000

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: creativity Dear Professor Gauntlett, 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 creativity 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 "Practices of Knowing: Research-Creation Beyond Academia" (2025), 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]