Katherine McLeod, Concordia University

Research

radio literature poetry data archives audio culture memory

Latest funding

From Principles to Practice: A Multisectoral Study of Métis Policy in Canada
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$47,308
Literary Listening
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$48,125
Literary Radio: Developing New Methods of Audio Research
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$50,749

All 4 grants and awards

From Principles to Practice: A Multisectoral Study of Métis Policy in Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Dubois, Janique

Keywords: Indigenous Peoples;Métis;Self-Government;Policy Paradigms

$47,308

Literary Listening

Co-investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Camlot, Jason E.

Keywords: Literary Studies; Listening; Sound Studies; Disciplines of Knowledge; Literary History; Cultural History; Rhetoric; Elocution; Expression; Poetry Reading; Sound Recording; Media History; Audile Techniques.

$48,125

Literary Radio: Developing New Methods of Audio Research

Principal investigatorSSHRC2021Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: McLeod, Katherine

Keywords: radio; literature; poetry; data; archives; audio; culture; memory; voice; media

$50,749

The SpokenWeb: conceiving and creating a nationally networked archive of literary recordings for research and teaching

Co-investigatorSSHRC2017Partnership Grants

Keywords: archives; audio signal analysis; audiotext; Canadian cultural heritage; copyright; critical listening; digital humanities; digital repositories; interface; literary recordings; literature; media history; oral history; pedagogy; performance; sound studies

$715,076

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: radio Dear Professor McLeod, 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 radio 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 "Literary Radio: Developing New Methods of Audio Research" (2021), 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]