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 data tradition in all analysis areas of the social sciences and humanities. The awards acknowledge excellent researchers and have fun their analysis achievements, analysis coaching, data mobilization and outreach actions funded partially or solely 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 position postsecondary establishments play in mobilizing analysis data, at the very least 10% of every award have to be used to promote the recipient’s analysis achievements. Individual recipients and their establishments can select to dedicate further 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 just isn’t 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 crew of six folks most (together with the nominee) whose initiative or initiatives have considerably contributed to data and understanding about folks, societies and the world. The analysis outcomes should have led to demonstrable influence throughout the nominee’s fields of analysis and/or past the social sciences and humanities analysis neighborhood.
• Connection Award: The Connection Award acknowledges an impressive SSHRC-funded initiative that facilitates the stream and change of analysis data inside and/or past the social sciences and humanities analysis neighborhood. It is given to a person or a crew of six folks most (together with the nominee) whose initiative has engaged the campus and/or wider neighborhood, 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 data mobilization, or growing a brand new partnership strategy to analysis and/or associated actions. It is awarded to a proper partnership that, by mutual co-operation and shared mental management and sources, has demonstrated influence and affect inside and/or past the social sciences and humanities analysis neighborhood.

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 lively social sciences and humanities researcher or scholar;
• 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
• preserve affiliation with an eligible establishment all through the Impact Award.

Nominees:

• can’t nominate themselves;
• could be nominated in two sequential years for a similar award, following which two years should go earlier than they are often nominated in the identical class;
• could be nominated in just one class in any 12 months;
• could be nominated in a subsequent 12 months 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 influence 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 12 months, up to a most of 5 SSHRC Impact Award nominations. Institutions should present the title and contact info of an individual to whom SSHRC will ship all questions and correspondence, together with outcomes.

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

For extra info, go to SSHRC Impact Awards.