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Sarah Elton
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Latest papers
Doing More-Than-Human Research: Developing Qualitative Research Methods for a Multispecies World.
Qualitative inquiry : QI · 2026 · first author
Risk perceptions and behaviours of beachgoers toward recreational water quality in Canada: a qualitative study.
BMC public health · 2026
Microbiome stewardship: definition and guiding principles for implementation.
Sustainable microbiology · 2026
Latest funding
- $2,507,997
Toward sustainable urban and peri-urban agriculture for net-zero food systems
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $669,376
The Canadian Beach Cohort Study: Investigating the Burden of Recreational Water Illness among Beachgoers
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $15,000
Towards Sustainable Agriculture in Canadian Cities
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
7 publications.
Doing More-Than-Human Research: Developing Qualitative Research Methods for a Multispecies World.
Elton S, Fikry N, Menon A, Peselmann A, Sanchez Pimienta C
Risk perceptions and behaviours of beachgoers toward recreational water quality in Canada: a qualitative study.
Desta BN, Tustin J, Sanchez JJ, Jardine R, Elton S, Thaivalappil A, Majowicz SE, Pearl DL, Study Collaborative Group, Young I
Microbiome stewardship: definition and guiding principles for implementation.
O'Doherty KC, Beijbom M, Allen-Vercoe E, Choudoir MJ, Silva DS, Bonilla C, Debelius J, Elton S, Hauptmann AL, Heyland A, Morar N, Skillings D, Sun Z, Wolf PG, Beiko RG, Ishaq SL
Canadian beach cohort study: protocol of a prospective study to assess the burden of recreational water illness
Young I, Desta BN, Sanchez JJ, Majowicz SE, Edge TA, Elton S, Pearl DL, Brooks T, Nesbitt A, Patel M
The relational agency of plants in produce supply chains during COVID-19: "Mother nature takes her course".
Elton S
Transformative learning for a sustainable and healthy future through ecosystem approaches to health: insights from 15 years of co-designed ecohealth teaching and learning experiences.
Webb J, Raez-Villanueva S, Carrière PD, Beauchamp AA, Bell I, Day A, Elton S, Feagan M, Giacinti J, Kabemba Lukusa JP, Kingsbury C, Torres-Slimming PA, Bunch M, Clow K, Gislason MK, Parkes MW, Jane Parmley E, Poland B, Vaillancourt C
Intimate ecosystems: the microbiome and the ecological determinants of health.
Elton S
Toward sustainable urban and peri-urban agriculture for net-zero food systems
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
The Canadian Beach Cohort Study: Investigating the Burden of Recreational Water Illness among Beachgoers
Principal investigators: Young, Ian; Brooks, Teresa; Tustin, Jordan
Keywords: Acute Infectious Illness; Beachgoers; Cohort Study; Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Gastrointestinal Illness; Mixed Methods; Recreational Water; Water Quality
Towards Sustainable Agriculture in Canadian Cities
Principal investigators: Isaac, Marney E
Keywords: Biofertilizer; Carbon sequestration; Crop breeding; Crop stress physiology; Emissions reductions; Food miles; Land use policy; Perennial agriculture; Sustainable food systems; Urban and peri-urban agriculture
Reimagining Resistance: A transdisciplinary approach to human-animal-environment relations and antimicrobial resistance in the dairy industry
Principal investigators: Elton, Sarah
The Canadian Beach Cohort Study: Investigating the Burden of Recreational Water Illness among Beachgoers
Principal investigators: Young, Ian; Brooks, Teresa; Tustin, Jordan
Keywords: Acute Infectious Illness; Beachgoers; Cohort Study; Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Gastrointestinal Illness; Mixed Methods; Qualitative Study; Recreational Water; Water Quality
Urban Food Security in a Global Marketplace: Tracking produce supply chains to assess food security and food equity in Toronto and region
Principal investigators: Elton, Sarah
Keywords: food systems; food security; food equity; supply chains; mobilities; migrant marketplaces
Voices from the Food Frontlines: Pandemic & Beyond
Principal investigators: Sharma, Jayeeta
Keywords: student training remote workshops; hybrid events; multi media open access online archive; food security and food provisioning experiential learning; community engaged outreach; international connections; public impact
Resilient Urban Communities & Local Food Systems after COVID-19: Developing Knowledge Partnerships Beyond the Pandemic
Principal investigators: Sharma, Jayeeta
Keywords: urban food systems; resiliency; sustainability; local communities; global knowledge sharing; digital infrastructure; public dissemination
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Herb Schellhorn and Thomas Edge: 16 shared papers
- Jordan Tustin and Ian Young: 12 shared papers
- Herb Schellhorn and Jordan Tustin: 2 shared papers
- Herb Schellhorn and Ian Young: 2 shared papers
- Thomas Edge and Jordan Tustin: 2 shared papers
- Thomas Edge and Ian Young: 2 shared papers
- Jordan Tustin and Michael Schwandt: 2 shared papers
- Jordan Tustin and Sarah Elton: 2 shared papers
- Ian Young and Michael Schwandt: 2 shared papers
- Ian Young and Sarah Elton: 2 shared papers
- Herb Schellhorn and Michael Schwandt: 1 shared paper
- Herb Schellhorn and Sarah Elton: 1 shared paper
- Thomas Edge and Sarah Elton: 1 shared paper
- Blake Poland and Sarah Elton: 1 shared paper
- Blake Poland and Cathy Vaillancourt: 1 shared paper
- Blake Poland and Katie Clow: 1 shared paper
- Blake Poland and Martin Bunch: 1 shared paper
- Blake Poland and Mathieu Feagan: 1 shared paper
- Emma Allen-Vercoe and Sarah Elton: 1 shared paper
- Emma Allen-Vercoe and Andreas Heyland: 1 shared paper
- Michael Schwandt and Sarah Elton: 1 shared paper
- Sarah Elton and Cathy Vaillancourt: 1 shared paper
- Sarah Elton and Andreas Heyland: 1 shared paper
- Sarah Elton and Katie Clow: 1 shared paper
- Sarah Elton and Martin Bunch: 1 shared paper
- Sarah Elton and Mathieu Feagan: 1 shared paper
- Cathy Vaillancourt and Katie Clow: 1 shared paper
- Cathy Vaillancourt and Martin Bunch: 1 shared paper
- Cathy Vaillancourt and Mathieu Feagan: 1 shared paper
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
- Department of Biology
- Department of Integrative Biology
- Centre INRS- Institut Armand-Frappier
- Department of Population Medicine
- School of Population and Public Health
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Ian Young
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Jordan Tustin
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Cathy Vaillancourt
Centre INRS- Institut Armand-Frappier
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Andreas Heyland
Department of Integrative Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Mathieu Feagan
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Martin Bunch
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Katie Clow
Department of Population Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Blake Poland
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
1 shared papers, latest 2023
Herb Schellhorn
Department of Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Michael Schwandt
School of Population and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Emma Allen-Vercoe
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Thomas Edge
Department of Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2024
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