Agnieszka Leszczynski, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

Urban Platforms: Aesthetics, Inequality, and World-Class City Making
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$45,888
Urban Platforms: Aesthetics, Inequality, and World-Class City Making
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$185,305
The experimental digital city: Learning from the Kelowna model of smart urban innovation
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
$29,362

All 4 grants and awards

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Urban Platforms: Aesthetics, Inequality, and World-Class City Making

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Leszczynski, Agnieszka

Keywords: digital platforms; urban aesthetics; platform urbanism; world-class city; urban inequality; comparative urbanism; digital geographies

$45,888

Urban Platforms: Aesthetics, Inequality, and World-Class City Making

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Leszczynski, Agnieszka

Keywords: digital platforms; urban aesthetics; platform urbanism; world-class city; urban inequality; comparative urbanism; digital geographies

$185,305

The experimental digital city: Learning from the Kelowna model of smart urban innovation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Cinnamon, Jonathan

Keywords: cities; digital; experimentalism; smart cities; technologies; platforms

$29,362

Digital platforms and Canadian cities: Symbolic politics and proxies of neighbourhood change

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Leszczynski, Agnieszka

Keywords: (1) digital platforms; (2) cities; (3) gentrification; (4) neighbourhood change; (5) platform urbanism; (6) geographic information science

$74,910

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 Leszczynski, 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 "Urban Platforms: Aesthetics, Inequality, and World-Class City Making" (2022), 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]