Ashley Quinn, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Exploring Trajectories Towards Resiliency and Mental Health among Indigenous Peoples: The Roles of Childhood Welfare Involvement, Early Adversities, Discrimination, Neighborhood Resources, and Healing Strategies
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$106,977
Towards Transformative Systems Change: Targeting the Child Welfare Policies and Practices that Generate and Sustain Disparities for Racialized Populations
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$477,527
Becoming ourselves: Foster parents' engagement in Indigenous children's and youth's cultural identity development and maintenance
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$70,950

All 3 grants and awards

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Exploring Trajectories Towards Resiliency and Mental Health among Indigenous Peoples: The Roles of Childhood Welfare Involvement, Early Adversities, Discrimination, Neighborhood Resources, and Healing Strategies

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Fuller-Thomson, Esme

Keywords: child welfare; social determinants of health; Indigenous; First Nations: Inuit; Well-being; Mental Health: Premature Mortality

$106,977

Towards Transformative Systems Change: Targeting the Child Welfare Policies and Practices that Generate and Sustain Disparities for Racialized Populations

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: King, Bryn

$477,527

Becoming ourselves: Foster parents' engagement in Indigenous children's and youth's cultural identity development and maintenance

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Quinn, Ashley L.

Keywords: foster parenting; cultural identity; Indigenous child welfare; cultural matching

$70,950

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 Dear Professor Quinn, 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 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 "Becoming ourselves: Foster parents' engagement in Indigenous children's and youth's cultural identity development and maintenance" (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]