Image by Steven Hughes, for the Globe and Mail
The process of crowdfunding to support these kinds of ancillary projects was recently profiled in the Globe & Mail Newspaper.
“Shawn Graham is used to pleading the case for his work. A professor in the history department at Carleton University, he spends ample time competing for research grants, filling out forms and relying on rhetorical skills he honed as a grad student.
But for his latest project – setting up research fellowships in digital research for his students – he is bypassing the usual expert panels that hold the purse strings and taking his pitch directly to the public via crowdfunding.”
Read more at the Globe and Mail.
