Funder’s Website
The funder’s website can be found HERE.
Funding Value and Duration
Award Categories
Gold Medal ($100,000): The Gold Medal is SSHRC’s highest research honour. It is awarded to an individual whose sustained leadership, dedication and originality of thought have inspired students and colleagues alike. The recipient’s achievements in research must have significantly advanced understanding in their respective fields of research in the social sciences and humanities. The exceptional quality and impact of the recipient’s research, and their ongoing efforts to share the results of this work, must have greatly enriched Canadian society, and contributed to intellectual, cultural, social and/or economic life in Canada and/or internationally.
Talent ($50,000): The Talent Award recognizes outstanding achievement by an individual who, on April 1, 2024, holds a SSHRC doctoral scholarship or fellowship or postdoctoral fellowship. This includes, but is not limited to, a Canada Graduate Scholarship, Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship or Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Talent Award is given to an individual who maintains academic excellence, has a talent for research and knowledge mobilization, and has demonstrated clear potential to be a future leader within and/or outside the academic sector.
Insight ($50,000): The Insight Award recognizes outstanding achievement arising from a single or multiple SSHRC-funded initiatives. It is given to an individual or a team of six people maximum (including the nominee) whose initiative(s) have significantly contributed to knowledge and understanding about people, societies and the world. The research outcomes must have led to demonstrable impact within the nominee’s fields of research and/or beyond the social sciences and humanities research community.
Connection ($50,000): The Connection Award recognizes an outstanding SSHRC-funded initiative that facilitates the flow and exchange of research knowledge within and/or beyond the social sciences and humanities research community. It is given to an individual or a team of six people maximum (including the nominee) whose initiative has engaged the campus and/or wider community, and has generated intellectual, cultural, social and/or economic impacts.
Partnership ($50,000): The Partnership Award recognizes a SSHRC‑funded formal partnership for its outstanding achievement in advancing research, research training or knowledge mobilization, or developing a new partnership approach to research and/or related activities. It is awarded to a formal partnership that, through mutual co-operation and shared intellectual leadership and resources, has demonstrated impact and influence within and/or beyond the social sciences and humanities research community.
Overview
SSHRC Impact Awards are designed to build on and sustain Canada’s research-based knowledge culture in all research areas of the social sciences and humanities. The awards recognize outstanding researchers and celebrate their research achievements, research training, knowledge mobilization and outreach activities funded partially or entirely by SSHRC. Past recipients of SSHRC funding are listed in the Awards Search Engine.
Eligibility Criteria
Carleton University and SSHRC are committed to achieving a more equitable, diverse and inclusive research enterprise to create the excellent, innovative and impactful research necessary to advance knowledge and understanding, and to respond to local, national and global challenges. We encourage nominations from all eligible candidates, including candidates from equity-deserving groups.
Nominees must:
- Be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada, or a “protected person” at the time of nomination
- Be an active social sciences and humanities researcher
- Hold or have held SSHRC funding pertinent to the award category
- Be in good standing with SSHRC
- Nominated by their institution
- Be affiliated with an eligible institution, and maintain the affiliation for the duration of the award
Nominees can only be nominated in one category in any given year, and if they are nominated for the same category for two years in a row, must then wait two years before being nominated in the same category again. Nominees can be nominated in a different category in a subsequent year.
Institutional quota: Carleton can submit one external nomination per category. If more than one eligible registration form is received per category, we will use an evaluation tool based on SSHRC’s selection criteria to select a candidate for nomination to the external SSHRC competition.
Internal Contacts
Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.
Deadlines
Click Here for the Internal Registration Form
| Faculty Deadline | Consult your Faculty Research Facilitator. |
| Deadline for internal registration form | January 23, 2024 |
| OVPRI Deadline (Approval Form and Application) | March 25, 2024 |
| Deadline for external nomination to SSHRC | April 1, 2024 |
Results: All candidates will be contacted after the internal nominations have been reviewed and ranked. CORIS will support selected nominees in the preparation of their external nomination dossier