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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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   […]

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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  […]

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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 […]

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