Sandy Chan, Author at Research Impact Canada

Celebrating a Lifetime of Impact: David Phipps Receives Queen’s University’s Highest Alumni Honour

Posted on June 15, 2026 (June 15, 2026)

The Queen’s University Alumni Association (QUAA) has awarded David Phipps (Artsci’85, PhD’91) the 2026 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, the highest honour bestowed upon a Queen’s graduate. The award recognizes alumni whose lifetime contributions have made a meaningful impact through leadership, professional excellence, public service, and community engagement. A leader in knowledge mobilization and research impact, […]

RIC 2026 Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Doctorate Category): Amish Dua

Posted on June 12, 2026 (June 12, 2026)

About the Project Learning About Caribou Together Caribou have held special cultural, spiritual, and economic importance for Indigenous communities for millennia. They are an essential food source, but they are also much more than that. For many communities, caribou are connected to identity, relationships, responsibilities, and ways of life on the land. My PhD research […]

RIC 2026 Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Master’s Category): Nwabuisi Chibudo Joshua

Posted on June 10, 2026 (June 10, 2026)

About the Project As climate change increasingly threatens food systems around the world, responses often focus on new technologies, improved crop varieties, and policy interventions. While these approaches are important, they can overlook a critical source of resilience: the knowledge and practices that communities have developed and sustained over generations. Our research project, titled “Traditional […]

RIC 2026 Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Master’s Category): Emily Moore

Posted on June 6, 2026 (June 10, 2026)

About the Project Catching Dementia Early: Why Accessible Cognitive Screening Is a Matter of Equity As we get older, many of us notice subtle changes in our thinking, like forgetting a name or misplacing a set of keys. While our family doctors do an incredible job caring for us, a typical clinic visit is simply […]

RIC 2026 Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Doctorate Category): Margaret Hughes

Posted on June 4, 2026 (July 3, 2026)

About the Project Evaluating multi-species interactions to inform Indigenous-led caribou habitat restoration in fire-prone landscapes Canada’s boreal forests are under increasing pressure. Industrial activities like logging and oil and gas development, combined with increasingly frequent and intense wildfires, are leading to habitat loss and changes in ways that negatively impact both wildlife and the northern […]

2026 RIC Engaged Scholarship Award Winners

Posted on May 13, 2026 (May 13, 2026)

Research Impact Canada (RIC) is proud to announce this year’s 2026 Engaged Scholarship Award winners! These are four outstanding graduate scholars whose work exemplifies the spirit of engaged scholarship, collaborative research, and meaningful knowledge mobilization. Congratulations to our winners on this well-deserved recognition and for their contributions to engaged, impactful research across Canada. Stay tuned […]

CBRCanada Summer Institute 2026

Posted on April 24, 2026 (April 24, 2026)

Registration for CBRCanada’s 2026 Summer Institute is now open! The summer institute is designed primarily for students (upper-level undergraduate or graduate), postdoctoral fellows, faculty, staff, and recent graduates (within 2 years). Research Impact Canada is a member of Community-Based Research Canada, a national non-profit that promotes excellence in community-engaged research that drives positive social change? […]

CIHR Launches Renewed KM Strategy and Action Plan + Investments

Posted on March 13, 2026 (March 13, 2026)

CIHR is proud to announce the launch of its renewed Knowledge Mobilization (KM) Strategy & Action Plan. It includes an updated KM concept and four streams of impact-focused work. To bring the Strategy to life, CIHR is making significant new and ongoing investments, including: CIHR will also be hosting an “Ask Me Anything” session later […]

Why Every Scientist Needs a Knowledge Mobilization Plan

Posted on February 21, 2026 (February 24, 2026)

This blog post is re-posted from SFU Knowledge Mobilization Hub’s stories with permission from the author, Lupin Battersby. By Lupin Battersby You know when you hear a new word or song or re-hear it after many years and think “wow, this has existed for so long and I have never heard of it until now”. And then you hear it again multiple times over the next days or weeks. There is probably a word for that–but that is […]

Good impact narratives must connect to our everyday lives

Posted on February 17, 2026 (February 17, 2026)

We are sharing the following LinkedIn post with permission from Wade Kelly, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Wade comments on an article published in the LSE Impact Blog written by Anna Przybyło-Józefowicz. Wade writes: I just read this excellent piece from the LSE Impact Blog. It captures something I often see when researchers are asked to discuss impact: impact claims […]

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