Date/Time
Date(s) - 28/01/2025
12:00 am

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. Past recipients of SSHRC funding are listed in the Awards Search Engine.

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.

A multidisciplinary jury made up of distinguished individuals from academia, as well as the public, private and not-for-profit sectors from Canada and abroad, will select award recipients according to the selection criteria associated with each of the five awards.

Since McMaster University can put forward only one institutional nomination per SSHRC Impact award stream per year, prospective nominees are required to complete the relevant internal (McMaster) Notice of Intent (NOI) form (see links to the SharePoint news announcement below) and submit it, along with the other required documents indicated on the NOI form, to the appropriate support unit (either the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) or the Office of the Vice-President, Research (OVPR)) by JANUARY 28, 2025.

SSHRC invites institutional nominations for the Impact Award program’s five award streams:

• Gold Medal ($100,000)
• Talent Award ($50,000) ) – for doctoral students or postdoctoral fellows
• Insight Award ($50,000)
• Connection Award ($50,000)
• Partnership Award ($50,000)

For more information, visit the OVPR Sharepoint site.