{"id":99596,"date":"2025-11-24T09:23:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/?post_type=cu_story&p=99596"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:46:45","slug":"researcher-sshrc-impact-talent-award","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/researcher-sshrc-impact-talent-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton’s Joshua Steckley Receives SSHRC Impact Talent Award for Research on Worms, Cows and Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton’s Joshua Steckley Receives SSHRC Impact Talent Award for Research on Worms, Cows and Capital \n <\/h1>\n \n <\/header>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/path>\n <\/path>\n <\/svg>\n <\/div>\n\n \n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Carleton University researcher, <\/strong>Joshua Steckley<\/a>,<\/strong> has been awarded the 2025 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Impact Talent Award, one of Canada’s highest honours for emerging scholars in the social sciences and humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The award recognizes a current SSHRC doctoral or postdoctoral fellow who demonstrates exceptional research, knowledge mobilization and scholarly impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carleton University researcher Joshua Steckley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Steckley, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science<\/a>, explores how humans use, manage and profit from living things, such as worms and livestock, and how those practices affect both society and the environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Ontario’s bait worm industry to large-scale dairy farming, his research illuminates the often-overlooked relationships between business, biotechnology and agricultural livelihoods, and the contradictions and possibilities within these systems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This recognition marks Carleton’s second SSHRC Impact Talent Award, highlighting the university’s reputation in attracting exceptional scholars and increasing research strength.<\/p>\n\n\n

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“Receiving this award is an incredible honour,” says Steckley.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

“It recognizes the work that I care about. It allows me to continue researching, writing and talking to people so that I can keep doing work that excites me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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