RIC Award


The 2026 RIC Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students is now OPEN!

Research Impact Canada (RIC) is excited to announce that applications for the 2026 RIC Engaged Scholarship Award are officially open! This annual award celebrates outstanding examples of collaborative, community-engaged research that create real-world impact across Canada and beyond.

The application deadline is March 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET.

To check for eligibility, please view our list of eligible member institutions here.

This year (and moving forward), we’re broadening the invitation to non-university member organizations within the RIC Network.*

* Important Note: Graduate students affiliated with the non-university institutions in our network must be currently enrolled in or recently graduated within one year from a graduate program at one of RIC’s member universities to be eligible.

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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 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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