Category Archives: Awards and Prizes

SSHRC Storytellers Contest

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SSHRC has recently launched its annual Storytellers contest, challenging postsecondary students to show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research affects our lives, our world and our future prosperity.

The contest is open to all students, graduate and undergraduate, enrolled at Canadian postsecondary institutions. Their task is to tell the story, in 3 minutes or 300 words, of a SSHRC-funded research project—their own or a professor’s—taking place at their institution. SSHRC will select 25 finalists to receive a $3000 cash prize and specialized training in research communications. For details on this year’s Storytellers contest, you can follow SSHRC on Twitter, watch for the #SSHRCStorytellers hashtag, and visit the SSHRC website.

Also, in honour of Canada’s 150th anniversary, SSHRC will be recognizing one of our Storytellers with a special award in 2017. Visit the Storytellers site for more details (to come). Participant questions should be addressed to Storytellers@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca.

CIHR Gold Leaf Prizes

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The CIHR Gold Leaf Prizes are a new suite of prizes and among the highest honours that can be bestowed on an individual or team for excellence in health research and its translation into benefits for Canadians. Each CIHR Gold Leaf Prize has a value of $100,000.

These prizes cover achievements across all pillars of research (biomedical, clinical, health services and policy, and population and public health) and will be awarded every two years.

Nominations close September 6, 2016.

CIHR will present a Gold Leaf Prize to a researcher in each of the following categories:

CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Impact
This prize will be awarded to an individual or team for health research with a proven impact on health outcomes, practices, policies, and/or on the health system.

CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Discovery
This prize will be awarded to an individual or team whose research findings are unique, inspirational and break new ground, significantly influencing knowledge in their field.

CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Outstanding Achievements by an Early Career Investigator
CIHR is committed to helping develop the next generation of great scientific minds. This prize will be awarded to an investigator at the beginning of their career who shows great potential and is expected to continue to produce research of exceptional merit.

CIHR Gold Leaf Prize for Transformation
This prize will be awarded for transformative leadership in a given CIHR priority area. In 2016, the prize will be awarded for outstanding leadership in patient engagement.CIHR believes strongly in the importance of making patient engagement part of the research process. This prize will be awarded to an individual or team that collaborates with patients, advances patient engagement as a priority and focuses on outcomes that are important to patients.

For more information, see the Qs & As or contact: support@cihr-irsc.gc.ca

Killam Program: Research Fellowships and Prizes

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From the Killam Canada Council for the Arts website:

The Canada Council Killam Prizes were inaugurated in 1981 with a donation by Mrs. Dorothy J. Killam in memory of her husband, Izaak Walton Killam. The Prizes were created to honour eminent Canadian scholars and scientists actively engaged in research, whether in industry, government agencies or universities.

The Killam Program at the Canada Council also includes the Killam Research Fellowships, which support scholars engaged in research projects of outstanding merit in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering and interdisciplinary studies within these fields.

The Canada Council Killam Program is part of a larger set of Killam Trusts, which fund scholarship and research at four Canadian universities, a neurological research and clinical institute and the Canada Council. In total, the Killam Trusts are valued at approximately $425 million, of which the Canada Council portion is $55 million. For more information about the Killam Trusts, please visit www.killamlaureates.ca.

Prizes:

Five prizes of $100,000 are awarded each year in recognition of outstanding career achievements (1 prize in each of the 5 fields).

Nomination deadline for 2017 prizes: June 15, 2016
If the competition deadline falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.

Guidelines and Nomination Form [PDF, 334.1 KB]

Fellowships:

Fellowships are awarded each year, normally to full professors at Canadian universities and research institutes, who have an outstanding reputation in their area of research. The fellowship provides 2 years of release time (valued at $70,000 per year).

Application deadline for 2017 fellowships: May 15, 2016. If the competition deadline falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.

Application guidelines [PDF, 202.5 KB]

Online application system

If you are interested in applying for, or nominating someone for a Killam Prize Fellowship, please contact the Brescia Research Officer.

2016 Call for Nominations–Brescia Award for Excellence in Research

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DSC05438 The 2016 Call for Nominations for the Brescia University College Award for Excellence in Research is now open.

Please note the following:

  • Letters of Nomination are due on or before February 1, 2016.
  • Letters are to be no more than one page and signed by the Nominator. If more than one Nominator is submitting the nomination, the letter must be co-signed.
  • Nominations for the Award for Excellence in Research may be initiated by any full- or part-time faculty member, alumnae, or staff member from Brescia University College. Nominators must not be a member of the Award Selection Committee (Research Advisory Committee).
  • Nominators should seek the permission of the nominee to have his/her name stand before submitting the nomination to the Research Officer and Academic Dean.
  • Dossier compilation, including letters of support, is the responsibility of the Nominator, in cooperation with the Nominee.
  • The Award Selection Committee (Research Advisory Committee, chaired by the Academic Dean) will determine this year’s awardee.

Information on the award and Call for Nomination guidelines can be found on the Brescia Award page: http://brescia.uwo.ca/about/our-people/awards/award-for-excellence-in-research/ . You may contact the Research Officer, Elizabeth Russell-Minda at any time with questions of clarification.

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Brescia Research Lecture -Professor James Doelman, Excellence in Research Professor of the Year (2015)

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J Doelman_Cambridge University LibraryBrescia English professor Dr. James Doelman, will present a lecture on his current research on unpublished manuscript funeral elegies from the Early Modern Literary period in England (17th century). Dr. Doelman is the 2015 Brescia Excellence in Research Professor, and winner of the inaugural Brescia Award for Excellence in Research. His forthcoming book, The Epigram in England: 1590-1640 published by Manchester University Press is due out later this year.

For more information on Professor Doelman’s research and the Brescia Award for Excellence in Research, visit:

Dr. James Doelman faculty profile
Brescia Award for Excellence in Research

Event details

When: Tuesday, October 27, 2015  @3:30 – 5:00pm
Where: Mother St. James Building, Room 201 (Brescia campus)

Please send your RSVP by 12:00pm on October 13th to Elizabeth Russell-Minda, Research Officer:  elizabeth.minda[at]uwo.ca x28260

Refreshments will be served.

On behalf of the Office of the Academic Dean, we look forward to seeing you there!

Canada Council for the Arts–John G. Diefenbaker Award

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Program Description

The John G. Diefenbaker Award is funded by an endowment given to the Canada Council for the Arts by the Government of Canada. The endowment, announced by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney during his visit to Germany in the spring of 1991, honours the memory of former Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker.

The award is administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, in a shared history of collaboration with the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany. It is a counterpart to the Konrad Adenauer Award, created by Germany for Canadian scholars in 1988, which is administered by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in co-operation with the Royal Society of Canada and the University of Toronto.

The award is given annually, and it enables a distinguished German scholar to do research in Canada, which may include brief periods in the United States. While research must be the primary activity during the award period, the award recipient will be encouraged to participate in the teaching activities of the host institution and to interact with the research communities in Canada and the United States by visiting other institutions.

The teaching and institutional visiting activities are intended to broaden the impact of the award recipient’s visit, while enriching the visitor’s experience.The spirit of the award is to encourage exchange between scholarly communities in Canada and Germany.

Deadline: November 1, 2015

If this date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day. Your completed nomination form and all required support material must be postmarked on or before the deadline date.

Prize amount

The award is for 12 months, although shorter award periods will be considered. The award period should begin on or after August 1, following the selection of the award recipient.

The amount of the award for a full year is CDN$80,000. These funds are to be used by the host institution as a contribution towards the payment of the salary of the visiting scholar.

In addition, a grant of up to CDN$15,000 is provided to cover the cost of travel to the Canadian host institution (including travel of the recipient’s immediate family for award periods longer than three months) and travel to other institutions in Canada and the United States.

The amount of an award for a briefer period will be an appropriate proportion of a full award.

Eligibility

By nomination only.

Candidates may not apply for this award: they must be nominated by a department within a host university or research institute in Canada.

This award is open to German scholars who have demonstrated outstanding ability, especially through a substantial publication record over several years. The award is offered in support of research in any of the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities.

Candidates must be German citizens with a contractual or working relationship with an academic institution in Germany. They must have a sound working knowledge of at least one of Canada’s two official languages. If no appropriate candidate is nominated, the award may be withheld and carried over to the following year.

Additional Information

Website: http://canadacouncil.ca/council/prizes/find-a-prize/prizes/john-g-diefenbaker-award
Please refer to the complete Nomination Guidelines [PDF, 267.3 KB].

Luiza Pereira
Program Officer
Prizes Section
1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 4086
TTY : 1-866-585-5559

For a complete list of past recipients please visit: Cumulative lists of winners

The Canada Council for the Arts is committed to equity and inclusion, and welcomes applications from diverse Aboriginal, cultural and regional communities, and from people with disabilities.

 

Canada Council for the Arts–Molson Prizes

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Molson Prizes

Program Description
Two Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes, in the amount of $50,000 each, are awarded annually to distinguished individuals (one in the arts and one in the social sciences and humanities). The prizes are intended to encourage continuing contributions to the cultural and intellectual heritage of Canada.

The prizes are funded by an endowment from the Molson Foundation, and they are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts in cooperation with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The winners are chosen by a peer assessment committee, which is appointed jointly by the Canada Council and the SSHRC.

Deadline: November 1, 2015
Note: If this date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.

Prize Amount: The prize is valued at $50,000.

Eligibility
By nomination only. These prizes are for individuals. Candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada, as defined by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. They do not need to be residing in Canada.To be nominated, candidates must have made a substantial and distinguished contribution over a significant period. In the words of the deed of the gift, the prizes are intended “to encourage Canadians of outstanding achievement in the fields of the arts, the humanities or the social sciences to make further contribution to the cultural or intellectual heritage of Canada….” These terms of reference are interpreted as follows:

  • candidates must have clearly demonstrated “outstanding achievement” in order to be nominated
  • “further contribution” indicates that the candidates should still be active and productive.

For more information, guidelines, and form:
Website: http://canadacouncil.ca/council/prizes/find-a-prize/prizes/molson-prizes

Refer to the complete Nomination Guidelines [PDF, 274.5 KB].

Contact:
Luiza Pereira, Program Officer
Prizes Section1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 4086TTY: 1-866-585-5559
For a complete list of past recipients, please contact Luiza Pereira.

The Canada Council for the Arts is committed to equity and inclusion, and welcomes applications from diverse Aboriginal, cultural and regional communities, and from people with disabilities.