RIC Award

Now Closed.

The 2025 RIC Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students is now closed. This year’s winners have been selected and announced and can be found on our RIC blog.

Please stay tuned for the next launch of the 2026 RIC Award in November 2025.

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About 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.

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2025 RIC Engaged Scholarship Award Webinar

If you missed the live event or want to revisit the presentations, now is the perfect opportunity to watch the recording of the 2025 Research Impact Canada (RIC) Engaged Scholarship Award webinar and be inspired by these remarkable projects. This annual event shines a spotlight on exceptional scholars who are strengthening the connections between research […]

Congratulations to the 2025 RIC Engaged Scholarship Award Winners!

The Research Impact Canada (RIC) Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students recognizes graduate students who 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. RIC is thrilled to announce this year’s RIC 2025 Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students! […]

RIC 2025 Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Master’s Category): Sarah Demedeiros

Sarah Demedeiros was awarded the 2025 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for her project, Digital Storytelling for Intergenerational Health and Well-Being: A Decolonized Approach to Disseminating and Preserving Indigenous Elder Knowledge in Health Research. ABOUT PROJECT Background: Since time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples have sustained cultural continuity, social cohesion, and intergenerational well-being through rich knowledge-sharing […]

RIC 2025 Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Master’s Category): Rowan Harris

Rowan Harris was awarded the 2025 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for her project, Understanding Holistic Indicators of Goose Health around Arviat, Nunavut. ABOUT PROJECT This research supports the Aqqiumavvik Society in Arviat, Nunavut, by developing community-led indicators to identify healthy and sick geese. The goal is to encourage more local harvesting and consumption, […]

RIC 2025 Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Doctorate Category): Reta Meng

Reta Meng was awarded the 2025 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for her project, Mshiikenh Ganaawaabanjige: Weaving Anishinaabe Knowledge and Western Science for Freshwater Turtle Conservation. ABOUT PROJECT Co-developed conservation programs for Species At Risk are a vital shift toward effective species recovery strategies. These programs, created in partnership between Indigenous Nations and non-Indigenous […]

RIC 2025 Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Doctorate Category): Katrina Leclerc

Katrina Leclerc was awarded the 2025 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for her project, Accessing Knowledge: Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Library. ABOUT PROJECT Youth, Peace and Security Is More Than a Policy Agenda: It’s a Framework for Transformation In the peace and security field, young people are often celebrated as the leaders of […]

RIC 2024 Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Doctorate Category): Liam Michaud

Liam Michaud was awarded the 2024 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for his project, A Legal & Policy Ethnography in the Toxic Drug Overdose Crisis: Experiences of people who use drugs of reforms across health & justice sectors. ABOUT PROJECT Located at the intersection of health and law, my research focuses on changes in […]

RIC 2024 Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Doctorate Category): Dina Idriss-Wheeler

Dina Idriss-Wheeler was awarded the 2024 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for her project, Exploring intimate partner violence (IPV) and access to services in Ontario’s journey from pandemic lockdown to recovery: Perspectives from IPV survivors and service providers. ABOUT PROJECT With this project, we explore the lived experiences of survivors of intimate partner violence […]

Congratulations to the 2024 RIC Engaged Scholarship Award Winners!

The Research Impact Canada (RIC) Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students recognizes graduate students who 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. RIC is thrilled to announce this year’s RIC 2024 Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students! […]