Jane Tingley, York University

Research

symbiosis ethics of care Media Art Interactive Art Ecological Art Non-human ethics Art and technology Fine Arts

Latest funding

Being in Relation
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
$47,366
Re-situating: more-than-human
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$25,596
Foresta-Inclusive
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$71,193

Being in Relation

Principal investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Tingley, Jane

Keywords: Ecology; Inclusion; Ethics of Care; Sustainability; Co-creation; Interactive Installation; New Media; Curation; Symbiosis; human-non-human

$47,366

Re-situating: more-than-human

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Tingley, Jane

Keywords: non-human interaction; non-Western perspectives on nature; symbiosis; multi-modal storytelling; ethics of care

$25,596

Foresta-Inclusive

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Tingley, Jane

Keywords: Media Art; Interactive Art; Ecological Art; Non-human ethics; Art and technology; Fine Arts; Sculpture; Installation Art; Other-than-human intelligence; Collaboration

$71,193

Environments of Change: Digitizing Nature, History, and Human Experience in Late Medieval Sussex

Co-investigatorSSHRC2018Partnership Grants

Keywords: nature; environmental history; climate change; digital humanities; land use; archaeology; forests; water; natural resources; student training; Sussex; middle ages; Medieval; Herstmonceux; Battle Abbey; Pevensey Castle

$800,532

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: symbiosis Dear Professor Tingley, 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 symbiosis 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 "Being in Relation" (2025), 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]