Michael Classens, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Pathways to healthier and inclusive campus food: Engaging diverse students and leadership to guide the design of healthy eating interventions
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$20,000
Toward sustainable urban and peri-urban agriculture for net-zero food systems
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$2,507,997
Mapping for Change: Environmental Inequality and Resilience in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough County
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$52,749

All 5 grants and awards

No publications available.

Pathways to healthier and inclusive campus food: Engaging diverse students and leadership to guide the design of healthy eating interventions

Co-investigatorCIHR2024Planning and Dissemination Grant - Institute Community Support

Principal investigators: Chiavaroli, Laura

Keywords: Diverse Young Adults; Environmental Impact Of Foods; Food Insecurity; Food Systems; Nutrition Literacy; Postsecondary Institutions; Sustainability; Translating National Dietary Guidelines; Youth Climate Action

$20,000

Toward sustainable urban and peri-urban agriculture for net-zero food systems

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Sustainable Agriculture Research Initiative

Principal investigators: Isaac, Marney E.

Keywords: urban and peri-urban agriculture; sustainable food systems; soil biogeochemistry; crop stress physiology; carbon sequestration; greenhouse gas emissions reductions; bioinoculants; land use policy; community-engaged research; ecological modelling

$2,507,997

Mapping for Change: Environmental Inequality and Resilience in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough County

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Rutherford, Stephanie L.

Keywords: environmental justice; environmental racism; poverty; pollution; environmental harm; community resilience

$52,749

Mapping for Change: Environmental Inequality and Resilience in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough County

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Rutherford, Stephanie L.

Keywords: environmental justice; environmental racism; poverty; pollution; environmental harm; community resilience

$85,567

Towards food security and sustainability: A participatory community-based project with Williams Treaties First Nations

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Hanning, Rhona

Keywords: First Nations communities; food security; sustainable food systems; food sovereignty; community-based participatory research; asset mapping; qualitative methods; mixed methods; decolonizing; project planning

$70,000

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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