Paul Sylvestre, University of Ottawa

Research

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Latest funding

Tracing the Settler Colonial Legacies of Insurance: From Empire to Wildfires in British Columbia, Canada
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$54,194
Disaster Prisons Partnership
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$55,500

All 2 grants and awards

No publications available.

Tracing the Settler Colonial Legacies of Insurance: From Empire to Wildfires in British Columbia, Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Sloan Morgan, Onyx

Keywords: wildfire; fire; insurance; settler colonialism; property; British Columbia; risk; climate justice

$54,194

Disaster Prisons Partnership

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Piché, Justin

Keywords: Imprisonment; conditions of confinement; human rights; alternatives to imprisonment; diversion; decarceration; disasters; public health; environment; community safety; Canada

$55,500

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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