Impact Awards
The SSHRC Impact Awards celebrate the achievements of Canada's top leaders, thinkers and researchers in the social sciences and humanities. Finalists embody the very best ideas and research about people, human thought and behaviour, and culture—helping us understand and improve the world around us, today and into the future.
2019 Impact Award Winners
- Gold Medal: Will Kymlicka
- Talent Award: Jake Pyne
- Insight Award: Leah F. Vosko
- Connection Award: Robert Jan van Pelt
- Partnership Award: Marianne Ignace
Gold Medal
Will Kymlicka
Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and Department of Political Studies
Queen’s University
"I view the Gold Medal as evidence that, over the longue durée, political philosophy, at least here in Canada, does make a difference and is valued by the broader community. And that’s deeply satisfying."
Talent Award
Jake Pyne
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
University of Guelph
“It’s such an honour to have this work recognized, and I’m excited about all of the possibilities this will create for connecting with more communities and having this dialogue on a larger scale. I couldn’t be prouder to be part of this growing movement to recognize the knowledge that ‘outsider’ groups bring to the academy.”
Insight Award
Leah F. Vosko
Department of Politics
Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender and Work
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
York University
"Without SSHRC support, in particular for interdisciplinary research spanning a wide geography, the initiatives with which I've been involved, and the findings they have yielded―as well as the policy impact that all of my collaborators have made―would never have been possible."
Connection Award
Robert Jan van Pelt
School of Architecture
University of Waterloo
"The Impact Award is for me a testimony to the importance of architectural education as an essential part of education in the social sciences and humanities."
Partnership Award
Marianne Ignace
Department of First Nations Studies
and Department of Linguistics
Simon Fraser University
"In 2019—the International Year of Indigenous Languages—it is really fitting that we can celebrate Indigenous languages through our SSHRC partnership. I really want to emphasize that every one of my colleagues, collaborators, researchers and communities, all who have worked with us, are as deserving as I am of this recognition."
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