Jayne Malenfant, McGill University

Research

housing rights impacted communities lived experience homelessness policy advocacy institutional ethnography community-based

Latest papers

Grief and love: Responses to death and disjuncture in homelessness research and practice.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026 · first author
Queering Shelter: Homelessness Service Provider Perspectives on Programming for 2SLGBTQ+ Adults in Montreal, Canada.
Journal of homosexuality · 2026 · senior author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

A Critical Exploration of the Participation of Impacted Communities in Housing Justice Advocacy and Research in Canada
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$24,267
TRANSFORM: Engaging with Youth for Social Change
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$500,000
New Housing Alternatives for a Socially-Just, Post-Covid Urban Canada
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$286,635

All 3 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Grief and love: Responses to death and disjuncture in homelessness research and practice.

Malenfant J

Social science & medicine (1982)2026First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118887 PMID: 41421255

02

Queering Shelter: Homelessness Service Provider Perspectives on Programming for 2SLGBTQ+ Adults in Montreal, Canada.

Brais H, Malenfant J

Journal of homosexuality2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2025.2537842 PMID: 40696814

A Critical Exploration of the Participation of Impacted Communities in Housing Justice Advocacy and Research in Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Malenfant, Jayne

Keywords: housing rights; impacted communities; lived experience; homelessness; policy; advocacy; institutional ethnography; community-based

$24,267

TRANSFORM: Engaging with Youth for Social Change

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Grants

Keywords: Gender-transformation; Agency; Images; Visual Methodologies; Transnational; Feminist; Youth-led; Intergenerationality; Decoloniality

$500,000

New Housing Alternatives for a Socially-Just, Post-Covid Urban Canada

Co-investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Grants

Keywords: housing policy; housing precarity; housing financialization; community land trusts; models of housing provision

$286,635

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: housing rights Dear Professor Malenfant, 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]. I read your paper "Grief and love: Responses to death and disjuncture in homelessness research and practice." (2026), and it 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 "A Critical Exploration of the Participation of Impacted Communities in Housing Justice Advocacy and Research 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]