Johanna Weststar, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

The First Three Years
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$92,243
The First Three Years
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$254,837
Institutional Experimentation for Better Work: A Study of Live Video Game Development
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$20,320

All 8 grants and awards

No publications available.

The First Three Years

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Gouglas, Sean W.

Keywords: employment outcomes; video games; gender; ethnicity; harassment; pedagogy

$92,243

The First Three Years

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Gouglas, Sean W.

Keywords: employment outcomes; video games; gender; ethnicity; harassment; pedagogy

$254,837

Institutional Experimentation for Better Work: A Study of Live Video Game Development

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Weststar, Johanna

Keywords: creativity; human resources; project management; creative industries; video games; role theory

$20,320

Institutional experimentation for better work

Co-investigatorSSHRC2017Partnership Grants

Keywords: institutional experimentation; regulation of work; employment; labour law; collective representation; firm's policies and practices; global production networks; governance of labour regulation

$2,136,522

Institutional experimentation for better work

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Grants

Keywords: institutional experimentation; regulation of work; employment; labour law; collective representation; firm's policies and practices; global production networks; governance of labour regulation

$363,478

Institutional experimentation for better work

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Grants

Keywords: institutional experimentation; regulation of work; employment; labour law; collective representation; firm's policies and practices; global production networks; governance of labour regulation

$20,000

Coping with risk: regulation and citizenship at work in the project-based context

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Legault, Marie-Josée

Keywords: project management; videogame industry; IT sector; regulation; risk; citizenship; knowledge work

$277,915

Labour's voice in pension governance

Co-investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Verma, Anil

Keywords: labour; pension governance; labour trustees; union; pension

$80,600

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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