Peter van Wyck, Concordia University

Research

Small Module Reactors nuclear waste Canada climate nuclear culture energy futures security and sovereignty civic engagement

Latest funding

Greening the Atom -- Canada, Climate and Questions of a Nuclear Future
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$37,875
Waste in Canada's North: A Pilot Project in Three Communities
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$73,592
Canada's waste future: uncertainty, futurity, and democratic engagement
SSHRC · 2013 · Co-investigator
$344,960

All 6 grants and awards

Greening the Atom -- Canada, Climate and Questions of a Nuclear Future

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: van Wyck, Peter C.

Keywords: Small Module Reactors; nuclear waste; Canada; climate; nuclear culture; energy futures; security and sovereignty; civic engagement; energy justice

$37,875

Waste in Canada's North: A Pilot Project in Three Communities

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Hird, Myra

Keywords: (1) municipal waste; (2) industrial waste; (3) legacy military waste; (4) colonialism; (5) democracy; (6) sovereignty; (7) northern development; (8) environment; (9) health; (10) landscape

$73,592

Canada's waste future: uncertainty, futurity, and democratic engagement

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Hird, Myra J.

Keywords: waste; environment; landfills; nuclear; futurity; uncertainty; risk; democratic engagement; sustainability

$344,960

Thinking with water

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: van Wyck, Peter C.

Keywords: environmental cultural studies; water; cultural theory

$22,579

The Eldorado papers: the archive and the remainder

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: van Wyck, Peter C.

Keywords: nuclear history; uranium history in Canada; Canadian environmental history; archives; Eldorado nuclear limited

$81,982

The highway of the atom: memory, the witness and the archive

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: van Wyck, Peter C.

Keywords: ecological threat; environmental history; ethics; memory; witnessing; archive; performance

$130,920

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: Small Module Reactors Dear Professor van Wyck, 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 small module reactors 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 "Greening the Atom -- Canada, Climate and Questions of a Nuclear Future" (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]