Shamette Hepburn, York University

Research

Ageing Immigrants Retirement Time Retirement Security Labour Well-Being Critical Gerontology Interpretive Gerontology

Latest funding

Retirement Time (In)equality in Canada
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$27,799
Negotiating Spaces of Marginality and COVID-19: Blackness, Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Canada
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$24,030

Retirement Time (In)equality in Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Hepburn, Shamette

Keywords: Ageing; Immigrants; Retirement Time; Retirement Security; Labour; Well-Being; Critical Gerontology; Interpretive Gerontology; Community-Based Research; Canada

$27,799

Negotiating Spaces of Marginality and COVID-19: Blackness, Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2020Partnership Engage Grants (PEG) COVID-19 Special Initiative

Principal investigators: Hepburn, Shamette

Keywords: COVID-19; Black communities; resilience; sustainable development goals (SDGs); capacity building; intervention research

$24,030

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: Ageing Dear Professor Hepburn, 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 ageing 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 "Retirement Time (In)equality in Canada" (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]