Josee Johnston, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Greenwashing and the Energy Transition: A Framework for Assessing Net Zero Communication in the Canadian Oil Sands Sector
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$68,583
Defining, explaining, and disrupting affective climate polarisation in Canada
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$37,560
Tasting the global city: multicultural histories of Toronto's cuisines
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$143,720

All 6 grants and awards

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Greenwashing and the Energy Transition: A Framework for Assessing Net Zero Communication in the Canadian Oil Sands Sector

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: McCurdy, Patrick

Keywords: environmental communication; oil sands; net zero; greenwashing; document analysis; thematic coding; greenhouse gas emissions; climate change; environmental; social & governance (esg); climate delay; public relations; energy humanities

$68,583

Defining, explaining, and disrupting affective climate polarisation in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Kennedy, Emily Huddart

Keywords: climate change; affective polarisation; gender; intersectional; multi-method

$37,560

Tasting the global city: multicultural histories of Toronto's cuisines

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pilcher, Jeffrey

Keywords: food studies; multiculturalism; urban studies; immigrant entrepreneurship

$143,720

Consuming meat: a study of taste, risk, and food politics

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Johnston, Josée

Keywords: food; meat; consumer culture; markets; food politics; risk

$194,764

Fed Up: A Case Study of Food-Related Civic Practices in Two Canadian Cities

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Parkins, John R.

$70,230

Change your diet, change the world

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Johnston, Josée

Keywords: ethical eating; sociology of food; consumerism and consumer culture; environmental sociology/political ecology; social theory

$79,000

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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