Funder’s Website
The funder’s website can be found HERE.
Funding Value
$50,000 or $100,000
Overview
CORIS is currently accepting nominations for the SSHRC Impact Awards. You are invited to submit an internal registration form to nominate yourself or an eligible colleague/trainee. Please note this competition is subject to slight change pending the SSHRC program launch.
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.
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.
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.
Eligibility Criteria
A nominee 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
- Be 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.
Additional Information
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.
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.
Click here to submit an internal registration form.
Internal Contacts
Potential applicants are encouraged to discuss this funding opportunity with their Faculty Research Facilitator.
VPRI Resource Contact: Rachel Barken
Deadlines
| Internal Registration Form | December 17, 2024 |
| OVPRI Deadline (Approval Form and Application) | March 25, 2024 |
| Submission to Sponsor | April 1, 2024 |