Lee Willingham, Wilfrid Laurier University

Research

music community Black culture wellness health leisure identity youth

Latest funding

Music Care: Music Across the Lifespan
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$44,800
Hope Through Hip Hop
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$25,000
Mel Brown Festival and Symposium
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$49,810

All 7 grants and awards

Music Care: Music Across the Lifespan

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Willingham, Lee

Keywords: music; health; leisure; community; identity

$44,800

Hope Through Hip Hop

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Willingham, Lee

Keywords: music; youth; Black Culture; peace and justice; creativity; arts; community enhancement; document process; transformative change

$25,000

Mel Brown Festival and Symposium

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Willingham, Lee

Keywords: music; Black culture; anti-racism; decolonization; higher education; white privilege

$49,810

An Arts-Based Partnership Engagement Strategy for People Living with MS

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Partnership Engage Grants

Principal investigators: Willingham, Lee

Keywords: music; community; wellness; engagement

$24,969

Music care: music, ageing and wellness

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Willingham, Lee

Keywords: music; community; ageing; wellness; therapy; sustainability; policy

$24,250

Community Music Conference: walking the boundaries, bridging the gaps

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Willingham, Lee

Keywords: participatory music; marginalized sectors; Aboriginal traditions; cultural capital; higher education; community building; music facilitation strategies; sound exploration; finding identity through music; music and leisure; diverse populations

$25,000

Addressing our creativity deficit: building creative ability in youth through multimodal-literacy-focused music creation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Grants

Keywords: music creation; multi-modal literacy; improvisation; creative ability

$20,000

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: music Dear Professor Willingham, 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 music 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 "Music Care: Music Across the Lifespan" (2024), 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]