Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Impact Awards 2025 (up to $100,000) – YOA

Deadline: April 1, 2025

Nominations are open for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Impact Awards 2025. SSHRC Impact Awards are designed to construct on and maintain Canada’s analysis-primarily based information tradition in all analysis areas of the social sciences and humanities. The awards acknowledge excellent researchers and have a good time their analysis achievements, analysis coaching, information mobilization and outreach actions funded partially or completely by SSHRC.

Impact Award recipients are to use award funds for actions that promote and additional develop the work being honoured. In recognition of the essential function postsecondary establishments play in mobilizing analysis information, at the very least 10% of every award should be used to promote the recipient’s analysis achievements. Individual recipients and their establishments can select to commit extra funds, together with a better share of the award funds, to these actions.

Award Description

• Gold Medal: The Gold Medal is SSHRC’s highest analysis honour. It is awarded to a person whose sustained management, dedication and originality of thought have impressed each college students and colleagues.
• Talent Award: The Talent Award acknowledges excellent achievement by a person who, on April 1, 2025, holds a SSHRC doctoral scholarship or fellowship or postdoctoral fellowship. This contains, however shouldn’t be restricted to, a Canada Graduate Scholarship, Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship or Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• Insight Award: The Insight Award acknowledges excellent achievement arising from a single or a number of SSHRC-funded initiatives. It is given to a person or a workforce of six individuals most (together with the nominee) whose initiative or initiatives have considerably contributed to information and understanding about individuals, societies and the world. The analysis outcomes should have led to demonstrable affect throughout the nominee’s fields of analysis and/or past the social sciences and humanities analysis group.
• Connection Award: The Connection Award acknowledges an excellent SSHRC-funded initiative that facilitates the circulate and change of analysis information inside and/or past the social sciences and humanities analysis group. It is given to a person or a workforce of six individuals most (together with the nominee) whose initiative has engaged the campus and/or wider group, and has generated mental, cultural, social and/or financial impacts.
• Partnership Award: The Partnership Award acknowledges a SSHRC‑funded formal partnership for its excellent achievement in advancing analysis, analysis coaching or information mobilization, or creating a brand new partnership strategy to analysis and/or associated actions. It is awarded to a proper partnership that, by means of mutual co-operation and shared mental management and sources, has demonstrated affect and affect inside and/or past the social sciences and humanities analysis group.

Awards

• Gold Medal – $100,000
• Talent Award – $50,000
• Insight Award – $50,000
• Connection Award – $50,000
• Partnership Award – $50,000

Eligibility

A nominee should:

• be a citizen or everlasting resident of Canada, or a “protected person” underneath subsection 95(2) of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, by the nomination deadline;
• be an energetic social sciences and humanities researcher or pupil;
• maintain or have held SSHRC funding related to the award class;
• be in good standing with SSHRC;
• be affiliated with an establishment that meets the institutional eligibility necessities; and
• keep affiliation with an eligible establishment at some stage in the Impact Award.

Nominees:

• can’t nominate themselves;
• could be nominated in two sequential years for a similar award, following which two years should cross earlier than they are often nominated in the identical class;
• could be nominated in just one class in any yr;
• could be nominated in a subsequent yr for a special SSHRC Impact Award; and
• can’t be a present member of SSHRC’s governing council, a earlier Gold Medal winner or a SSHRC Impact Awards jury member.

To be eligible to administer an award, the establishment affiliated with an Impact Award winner should present SSHRC with a promotion technique (two pages most) outlining a proposed strategy for selling and celebrating the affect and outcomes of the award winner’s analysis initiative.

Nomination

Eligible establishments are invited to put ahead nominations for all SSHRC Impact Award classes. Each establishment can submit just one nomination for every award in a given yr, up to a most of 5 SSHRC Impact Award nominations. Institutions should present the title and contact data of an individual to whom SSHRC will ship all questions and correspondence, together with outcomes.

The nomination package deal should embrace the nominee’s tri-agency CV and these of any workforce members (up to 5), if relevant.

For extra data, go to SSHRC Impact Awards.