Pamela Block, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

Towards Community-Directed Adaptation Research (C-DAR)
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$53,767
Care Relationships of Adult Disabled and Nondisabled Siblings
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$25,000
Defiça Portraits: Disability, Art and Communication
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$50,000

All 4 grants and awards

No publications available.

Towards Community-Directed Adaptation Research (C-DAR)

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Bowness, Evan W.

Keywords: Community-Directed Research; Land-Based Communities; Visual Social Science; Climate Change Adaptation; Transdisciplinarity

$53,767

Care Relationships of Adult Disabled and Nondisabled Siblings

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Block, Pamela L.

Keywords: intellectual disability; autism; siblings; ethnography

$25,000

Defiça Portraits: Disability, Art and Communication

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Block, Pamela L.

Keywords: disability; art; communication; Brazil

$50,000

Mobilizing disability survival skills for the urgencies of the Anthropocene

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Dokumaci, Arseli

Keywords: disability; the anthropocene; pandemic; survival skills; activist affordances; disability expertise; crip technoscience; climate crises; ecology; crip wisdom; ethnography; visual ethnography; online ethnography; disability as method

$136,670

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 Block, 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 "Care Relationships of Adult Disabled and Nondisabled Siblings" (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]