RIC Award

The Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students (RIC Award) recognizes graduate students that conduct research projects following engaged scholarship principles. These principles lead to increased awareness of audiences beyond academia or changes in stakeholder actions, practices, guidelines or policies. This award recognizes engaged scholarship (“making research with the people who benefit from it”), co-creation of knowledge or integrated knowledge translation efforts among graduate students of our Canadian member institutions, regardless of discipline.

The 2024 competition is closed!

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RIC Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students

Applications are now closed for the 2024 edition of the Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award. This award recognizes engaged scholarship, co-creation of knowledge, and integrated knowledge translation efforts among graduate students of our Canadian member institutions, regardless of discipline. Award Overview:Prize: $2000 for Masters, $3000 for Doctorate Eligibility: Masters and Doctorate students from Canadian RIC-member […]

Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award – Master’s category

On May 24, 2023, Elisabeth (Lis) Huang, Research Impact Canada’s Bilingual Knowledge Mobilization Specialist, moderated a webinar from 1pm to 2pm ET. In this Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award webinar, our award recipients, Ashley Kyne, Jasmine Kowalewski, and Vida Forouhar, presented their research projects. Name Research project Ashley Kyne A Culturally-Informed Examination of Correlates […]

Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award – PhD category

On May 15, 2023, Elisabeth (Lis) Huang, Research Impact Canada’s Bilingual Knowledge Mobilization Specialist, moderated a webinar from 1pm ET to 2pm ET. In this Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award webinar, our award recipients, Erin Ratelle, Indira Riadi, and Yehudis Stokes, and honourable mention, Yi Chien Jade Ho, presented their research projects. Name Research […]

2023 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Master’s category): Ashley Kyne

Ashley Kyne was awarded the 2023 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for her project, “Canada’s National Disgrace”: Identifying Risk and Protective Factors for Indigenous Offenders. About project Did you know Indigenous Peoples represent 4.5% of the Canadian adult population, but 26.3% of new admissions to federal prison? Compared to non-Indigenous offenders, Indigenous offenders are […]

2023 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (PhD category): Yehudis Stokes

Yehudis Stokes was awarded the 2023 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for her project, Identifying, Measuring, Implementing, and Evaluating Trauma-Informed Care in Practice. About project Decades of evidence has demonstrated the enduring impact of trauma on individuals, families, and communities. “Trauma-informed care” (TIC) is a philosophy that involves addressing the needs of individuals with histories […]

2023 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award Honourable Mention (Master’s category): Sarah Law

Sarah Law’s project, Resistance and Resilience in the Era of Ecological Grief, has earned her an honourable mention for the 2023 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award. About project Climate justice is a movement that fights for futures where no one is disposable or left behind. We fight for the equitable redistribution of wealth, the return […]

Congratulations to the 2023 RIC Award Winners!

Congratulations to the winners and honorable mentions for the 2023 edition RIC Award! The Award is dedicated to graduate students’ efforts in conducting research according to engaged scholarship principles. In 2023, the projects of three Masters students and three doctoral students are recognized. Meet the winners and honorable mentions! Masters recipients Doctoral recipients Honorable Mentions […]

Congratulations to the 2022 RIC Award Winners!

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners and honorable mentions for the 2022 edition RIC Award! The Award is dedicated to graduate students’ efforts in conducting research according to engaged scholarship principles. In 2022, the projects of three Masters students and three doctoral students are recognized. Meet the winners and honorable mentions! Masters recipients Doctoral recipients Honorable Mentions […]

Congratulations to our very first cohort of RIC Engaged Scholarship Award winners!

The Research Impact Canada (RIC) Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students recognizes graduate students that conduct research projects following engaged scholarship principles that lead to increased awareness of audiences beyond academia or changes in stakeholder actions, practices, guidelines, or policies. We’re thrilled that this year’s winners of the RIC award will be presenting their […]