Saara Liinamaa, University of Guelph

Research

professional actors employment and labour cultural industries cultural production workplace discrimination multi-jobbing contract work (1) professional actors

Latest funding

Spaces of sociability: enhancing copresence and communal life in Canada
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$24,954
Improvising Futures
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$1,000,000
plazaPOPS 2.0 - Establishing a permanent and sustainable city-wide program
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$97,597

All 5 grants and awards

Spaces of sociability: enhancing copresence and communal life in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Knowledge Synthesis Grants - Emerging Asocial Society

Principal investigators: Horgan, Mervyn

Keywords: sociability; public space; privately owned public space (POPS); public libraries; transitional/liminal spaces; everyday life

$24,954

Improvising Futures

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Grants

Keywords: improvisation; collaboration; social justice; arts-based community making; community engagement

$1,000,000

plazaPOPS 2.0 - Establishing a permanent and sustainable city-wide program

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Stewart, Brendan

Keywords: privately owned public space (POPS); tactical urbanism; prototype; retrofitting suburbia; social infrastructure; social capital; climate resiliency; community economic development

$97,597

plazaPOPS 2.0 - Establishing a permanent and sustainable city-wide program

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Stewart, Brendan

Keywords: privately owned public space (POPS); tactical urbanism; prototype; retrofitting suburbia; social infrastructure; social capital; climate resiliency; community economic development

$99,780

Actors, Performance Work and Cultural Labour Studies in Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Liinamaa, Saara

Keywords: professional actors; employment and labour; cultural industries; cultural production; workplace discrimination; multi-jobbing; contract work

$52,554

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: professional actors Dear Professor Liinamaa, 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 professional actors 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 "Actors, Performance Work and Cultural Labour Studies in Canada" (2020), 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]