David Calnitsky, Western University

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Western University profile.

Latest funding

The Policy Road to Socialism
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$244,488
"You Can't Just Throw Money at the Problem": Does Public Spending on Housing Lead to Better Housing Outcomes?
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$30,689
Who gets the goods? Disentangling the effects of parliamentary representation and collective action on welfare spending
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$130,121

All 6 grants and awards

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The Policy Road to Socialism

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Calnitsky, David

$244,488

"You Can't Just Throw Money at the Problem": Does Public Spending on Housing Lead to Better Housing Outcomes?

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Danyluk, Martin

Keywords: Housing; Public policy; Welfare states; Inequality

$30,689

Who gets the goods? Disentangling the effects of parliamentary representation and collective action on welfare spending

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Calnitsky, David

Keywords: welfare state; collective action; social movements; labour sociology

$130,121

Who gets the goods? Disentangling the effects of parliamentary representation and collective action on welfare spending

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Calnitsky, David

Keywords: welfare state; collective action; social movements; labour sociology

$98,693

For better or for worse: Understanding the material bases of social change

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Calnitsky, David

Keywords: Labour; Strikes; Income; Inequality; Labour movements; Social movements

$69,652

The Labour Market and Its Alternatives: Investigating Manitoba's Mincome Experiment

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Calnitsky, David

Keywords: (1) Basic income; (2) Guaranteed annual income; (3) Poverty; (4) Social policy; (5) Labour markets; (6) Income security; (7) Precarity; (8) Employment; (9) Time-use; (10) Education

$34,347

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 Calnitsky, 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 "The Policy Road to Socialism" (2025), 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]