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SSHRC Impact Awards │Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

April 1, 2025

Value

$50,000 or $100,000

Description

SSHRC Impact Awards are designed to build on and sustain Canada’s research-based knowledge culture in all research areas of the social sciences and humanities. The awards recognize outstanding researchers and celebrate their research achievements, research training, knowledge mobilization and outreach activities funded partially or entirely by SSHRC.

Eligible Applicants

A nominee must:

  • be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada, or a “protected person” under subsection 95(2) of Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, by the nomination deadline;
  • be an active social sciences and humanities researcher or student;
  • hold or have held SSHRC funding relevant to the award category;
  • be in good standing with SSHRC;
  • be affiliated with an institution that meets the institutional eligibility requirements; and
  • maintain affiliation with an eligible institution for the duration of the Impact Award.

 

Nominees:

  • cannot nominate themselves;
  • can be nominated in two sequential years for the same award, following which two years must pass before they can be nominated in the same category;
  • can be nominated in only one category in any year;
  • can be nominated in a subsequent year for a different SSHRC Impact Award; and
  • cannot be a current member of SSHRC’s governing council, a previous Gold Medal winner or a SSHRC Impact Awards jury member.

Eligible Expenses

Impact Award recipients are to use award funds for activities that promote and further develop the work being honoured. In recognition of the crucial role postsecondary institutions play in mobilizing research knowledge, at least 10% of each award must be used to promote the recipient’s research achievements. Individual recipients and their institutions can choose to devote additional funds, including a higher percentage of the award funds, to these activities.

Eligible institutions are invited to put forward nominations for the:

  • Gold Medal ($100,000)
  • Talent Award ($50,000)
  • Insight Award ($50,000)
  • Connection Award ($50,000)
  • Partnership Award ($50,000)

Deadline Date

Nomination deadline: April 1, 2025

Contact

Contact Name: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Phone Number: 1-855-275-2861 (toll-free)

E-mail Address: impactawards-priximpacts@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca

Website: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/impact_awards-prix_impacts-eng.aspx

Industry:

Software/Technology, University Partnerships

Location:

Alberta, British Colombia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, NWT, Ontario, PEI, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon

Tags:

R&D, Student

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