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Sarah Wakefield
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Latest papers
Social change or business as usual at city hall? Examining an urban municipal government's response to neighbourhood-level health inequities.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2015
Growing urban health: community gardening in South-East Toronto.
Health promotion international · 2007 · first author
Healing in places of decline: (re)imagining everyday landscapes in Hamilton, Ontario.
Health & place · 2005 · first author
Latest funding
- $180,551
How can Canadian municipalities enhance the right to food
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
- $245,338
Evaluating Hamilton's "Neighbourhood Action Strategy": A community-based approach to reducing neighbourhood-level health inequalities
CIHR · 2015 · Nominated PI
- $258,466
Unsettling perspectives and contested spaces: building equity and justice in Canadian food activism
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
3 publications.
Social change or business as usual at city hall? Examining an urban municipal government's response to neighbourhood-level health inequities.
Cahuas MC, Wakefield S, Peng Y
Growing urban health: community gardening in South-East Toronto.
Wakefield S, Yeudall F, Taron C, Reynolds J, Skinner A
Healing in places of decline: (re)imagining everyday landscapes in Hamilton, Ontario.
Wakefield S, McMullan C
How can Canadian municipalities enhance the right to food
Principal investigators: Power, Elaine M.
Keywords: right to food; municipal-level food programs; marginalized groups; Canadian municipal governments; cost analysis; food policy
Evaluating Hamilton's "Neighbourhood Action Strategy": A community-based approach to reducing neighbourhood-level health inequalities
Principal investigators: Wakefield, Sarah E
Keywords: Health Equity; Intervention Research; Neighbourhood Effects; Population Health; Process Evaluation
Unsettling perspectives and contested spaces: building equity and justice in Canadian food activism
Principal investigators: Wakefield, Sarah E.L.
Keywords: food activism; environmental justice; food justice; equity; solidarity; multi-sited ethnography; community-engaged scholarship
Mobilizing knowledge from the neighbourhood action evaluation
Principal investigators: Wakefield, Sarah E.L.
Keywords: neighbourhood inequality; neighbourhood-level intervention; knowledge mobilization; policy
Responding to "Code Red" with "Neighbourhood Action": Evaluating Hamilton's Approach to Reducing Neighbourhood-level Health Inequalities
Principal investigators: Wakefield, Sarah E
Keywords: Community Development; Comprehensive Community Initiative; Health Equity; Implementation Research; Muli-Sectoral Collaboration; Neighbourhood Effects On Health; Neighbourhood-Level Health Intervention; Process Evaluation; Qualitative Methods
Building regional food hubs in Ontario: fostering linked-up thinking and practice through sustainable food systems
Principal investigators: Blay-Palmer, Alison D.
Keywords: sustainable communities; ecological resiliences; rural community development; innovation; regional development; sustainable food system report card; food miles; social economy; civil society; agricultural well-being
Understanding scale and networks in social mobilization: a case study of the community food security movement in Canada
Principal investigators: Wakefield, Sarah E.L.
Keywords: food security; sustainable food systems; social justice; organizational networks; scale; collaborative inquiry
Understanding security in food security: developing a framework and a research team for future food security research in Canada and England
Principal investigators: Wakefield, Sarah E.L.
Keywords: food security; securitization; critical theory; food policy; hunger; obesity; food system sustainability; public health; everyday experience; local conditions; interdisciplinary/intersectoral/international collaboration
Community food security - CFS: participatory approaches to exploring the policy interface between food access and supply - activating policy change for CFS
Keywords: participatory action research; community food security; food security; food insecurity; food systems; policy analysis and mapping; case study; mixed methods; community mobilization; knowledge translation; online learning; training; deliberative dialogue
Who has the power: the energy crisis and environmental justice in Toronto
Principal investigators: Teelucksingh, Cheryl
Keywords: energy; environmental non-governmental organizations; environmental justice; environmentalism; social inequality
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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