Sara Ghebremusse, Western University

Research

Indigenous mineral governance Mining law Mining engineering Sustainable mineral resource development Mining waste management Mining and climate change Mineral recyling Community economic development and resilience

Latest funding

Tracing the Settler Colonial Legacies of Insurance: From Empire to Wildfires in British Columbia, Canada
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$54,194
(re)Imagining an Indigenous-led Sustainable Mineral Resource Sector in Canada
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$250,000

All 2 grants and awards

Tracing the Settler Colonial Legacies of Insurance: From Empire to Wildfires in British Columbia, Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Sloan Morgan, Onyx

Keywords: wildfire; fire; insurance; settler colonialism; property; British Columbia; risk; climate justice

$54,194

(re)Imagining an Indigenous-led Sustainable Mineral Resource Sector in Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023New Frontiers in Research Fund - Exploration

Principal investigators: Ghebremusse, Sara

$250,000

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: Indigenous mineral governance Dear Professor Ghebremusse, 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 on indigenous mineral governance 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 "(re)Imagining an Indigenous-led Sustainable Mineral Resource Sector in Canada" (2023), 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]