Erick Laming, Trent University

Research

police governance police oversight police accountability police management community engagement

Latest funding

Police Governance in Ontario: Understanding the Perceptions and Experiences of Police Board Members
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$31,728
Platform Mars: How media technologies shape the next space race
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$154,146
Visions of Policing: How Visual Technologies Shape Police Oversight and Training
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$154,998

All 3 grants and awards

Police Governance in Ontario: Understanding the Perceptions and Experiences of Police Board Members

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Laming, Erick

Keywords: police governance; police oversight; police accountability; police management; community engagement

$31,728

Platform Mars: How media technologies shape the next space race

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Karppi, Tero

Keywords: media theory; media studies; platform studies; outer space

$154,146

Visions of Policing: How Visual Technologies Shape Police Oversight and Training

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Open Research Area

Principal investigators: Watson, Patrick G.

Keywords: visual technologies; video; policing; police oversight; perception; phenomenology; ethnomethodology; ethnography

$154,998

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: police governance Dear Professor Laming, 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 police governance 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 "Police Governance in Ontario: Understanding the Perceptions and Experiences of Police Board Members" (2024), 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]