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Research
Latest papers
Public Health Guidelines for Social Connection: An International Delphi Study.
Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025
Homelessness, COVID-19, and discourses of contagion.
SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2023
Photo elicitation to explore health and social exclusion with rooming house residents in Ottawa, Canada.
Health & place · 2022
Latest funding
- $65,507
TRANSFORMING INSTITUTIONS: Participatory Municipal Politics in the Age of Insecurity
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $292,251
Exploring the stigma of homelessness in urban and rural communities in Southern Ontario: understanding resident perspectives to inform solutions
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $62,530
Building Bridges: Youth Education on Homelessness
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
5 publications.
Public Health Guidelines for Social Connection: An International Delphi Study.
Card KG, Refol J, Hill TG, Benoit C, Coplan RJ, Joordens S, Roddick CM, Oliffe JL, Dej E, Chen FS, Pinel EC, Helm PJ, Skakoon-Sparling S, McKenzie K, Members of the Social Connection Guideline Development Expert Advisory Group
Homelessness, COVID-19, and discourses of contagion.
Chapados S, Roebuck BS, Macdonald SA, Dej E, Hust C, McGlinchey D
Photo elicitation to explore health and social exclusion with rooming house residents in Ottawa, Canada.
Binch J, Backman C, Dej E, Leonard L, Phillips JC
Turning Off the Tap: A Typology for Homelessness Prevention.
Dej E, Gaetz S, Schwan K
Evolving an evidence-based model for homelessness prevention.
Oudshoorn A, Dej E, Parsons C, Gaetz S
TRANSFORMING INSTITUTIONS: Participatory Municipal Politics in the Age of Insecurity
Principal investigators: Nichols, Naomi E.
Keywords: social inequality; insecurity; privilege; marginalization; small and mid-sized cities; governance; institutional ethnography; institutional transformation
Exploring the stigma of homelessness in urban and rural communities in Southern Ontario: understanding resident perspectives to inform solutions
Principal investigators: Marshall, Carrie Anne
Building Bridges: Youth Education on Homelessness
Principal investigators: Dej, Erin
Keywords: Homelessness; secondary education; curriculum development; french adaptation
Lived Experience and Policy Perspectives on Migration and Service Use Among Persons Experiencing Homelessness in Small and Rural Communities in Canada
Principal investigators: Marshall, Carrie Anne
Keywords: homeless; poverty; rural communities; migration; structural inequities
Realizing the Right to Housing: Municipal Policy Responses to Encampments in Canada
Principal investigators: Pin, Laura
Keywords: Homelessness; Municipal government; Encampments; Public policy; Human rights law; Community-engaged research; Housing policy; Public opinion; Local politics; Ontario
Employment Outcomes Among Disadvantaged and Marginalized University Graduates
Principal investigators: Carlson, Alain
Keywords: higher education; underemployment; skill/knowledge mismatch; job satisfaction; marginalization; disadvantage
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness - Mobilizing Partnerships to Prevent and End Homelessness
Keywords: homelessness prevention; policy; knowledge mobilization; Indigenous homelessness; promising practices; youth
The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness - Mobilizing Partnerships to Prevent and End Homelessness
Keywords: homelessness prevention; policy; knowledge mobilization; Indigenous homelessness; promising practices; youth
Fostering Inclusive Community Responses to Homelessness in Midsized Cities
Principal investigators: Webb, Jason M.
Keywords: homelessness; mid-sized communities; community belonging; social inclusion; street outreach programs; responses to homelessness
Approaches to social inclusion, community resilience, and homelessness in the context of emerging asocial societies
Principal investigators: Sibley, Marcus A.
Keywords: homelessness; community resilience; NIMBYism; social inclusion; YIMBYism; public policy; social structures
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Stephen Gaetz and Kaitlin Schwan: 3 shared papers
- Stephen Gaetz and Erin Dej: 2 shared papers
- Kwame Mckenzie and Cecilia Benoit: 1 shared paper
- Kwame Mckenzie and Stephen Gaetz: 1 shared paper
- Kwame Mckenzie and Erin Dej: 1 shared paper
- Cecilia Benoit and Erin Dej: 1 shared paper
- Lynne Leonard and Chantal Backman: 1 shared paper
- Lynne Leonard and Erin Dej: 1 shared paper
- Chantal Backman and Erin Dej: 1 shared paper
- Erin Dej and Kaitlin Schwan: 1 shared paper
- Criminology
- Not specified
- Sociology
- Nursing Sciences
- Social Work
- School of Epidemiology and Public Health
- Other
Co-authors at Wilfrid Laurier University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Stephen Gaetz
Not specified
2 shared papers, latest 2020
Kaitlin Schwan
Social Work
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Kwame Mckenzie
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Cecilia Benoit
Sociology
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Lynne Leonard
School of Epidemiology and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Chantal Backman
Nursing Sciences
1 shared papers, latest 2022
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