Wenona Giles, York University

Research

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Latest funding

The provision of higher education for long-term refugees Dadaab camp, Kenya
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$200,000
Borderless education: the provision of tertiary degree programs to long-term refugees
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
$21,440
Refugees and the Insecure Nation: Managing Forced Migration in Canada
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
$20,000

All 6 grants and awards

No publications available.

The provision of higher education for long-term refugees Dadaab camp, Kenya

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Giles, Wenona M.

Keywords: protracted refugee situations; Dadaab refugee camps; tertiary education; distance education; portable degree programs; technology transfer; knowledge transfer; participatory action research; interdisciplinary; human rights; educational equity; voice

$200,000

Borderless education: the provision of tertiary degree programs to long-term refugees

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Giles, Wenona M.

Keywords: tertiary education; long-term refugees; protracted refugee situations; long-term development; humanitarianism

$21,440

Refugees and the Insecure Nation: Managing Forced Migration in Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Giles, Wenona M.

Keywords: refugees; forced migration; security; human rights; settlement; humanitarianism

$20,000

A Canadian refugee research network: globalizing knowledge

Co-investigatorSSHRC2007

Principal investigators: McGrath, Susan L.

Keywords: refugee studies; research network; refugee research cluster; forced migration

$2,100,000

The globalization of homelessness in long-term refugee camps

Principal investigatorSSHRC2005Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Giles, Wenona M.

Keywords: refugees; refugee camp; asylum; humanitarian aid; human security; development; basic needs; homelessness; millenium development goals; UNHCR; UNICEF; UNDP

$163,327

Joint Research Centre on Immigration and Settlement

Co-investigatorSSHRC1996Immigration and the Metropolis

$1,281,667

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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