Community-Based Research Canada Awards

Eligibility

Award for Excellence in Community-Campus Research Partnership

The nomination:

• Demonstrates excellence in community-based research process, principles, quality and impact. 
• Exemplifies an authentic and reciprocal relationship among community and academic research partners.
•  Is currently undertaking a research project (or recently finished project activities) in Canada. 
• Has at least one member who belongs to a CBRCanada member organization (note UCalgary is a member organization) OR who is a registered individual member of CBRCanada 
• Has selected two representatives from the research partnership to accept the award; one from community and one from academia.

Award for Emerging Community-Based Researcher 

The award recipient should:

• Be an emerging community-based researcher (established within the last five years), including community researchers, PhD students or recent graduates, post-doctoral fellows, or early career researchers. Applicants should be applying no more than five years from graduation and/or five years into their current position.
• Have their research grounded in societal justice and driven by community-needs
• Be able to showcase evidence of their commitment to community-based research excellence (i.e. research process, quality and impact)
• Have conducted research with communities in Canada
• Be employed/studying at a CBRCanada member institution OR registered individual member

Summary

1. 2025 Award for Excellence in Community-Campus Research Partnership 

The Award for Excellence in Community-Campus Research Partnership honours the exemplary contributions of a community-campus research partnership that has demonstrated excellence in community-based research.

The Awarded Research Partnership will:

• Receive a commemorative plaque and a $5,000 cash prize to support their community-based research.
• Be recognized for their research achievements at the Award Gala Celebration that will be held at C2UExpo in Edmonton, AB on May 13th, 2025.
• The awarded Research Partnership will ideally be accepted by two representatives: one individual from community and one individual from academia.
• Be recognized as the 2025 Excellence in Community-Campus Research Partnership recipient on the CBRCanada website, e-news, and social media.
• Be invited to virtually showcase their research at CBRCanada events to a network of 70+ member organizations across the country and beyond. 

Call for Nominations 2025

Application Form 2025

2. 2025 Award for Emerging Community-Based Researcher  

The Award for Emerging Community-Based Researcher recognizes and celebrates an individual who embodies community-based research values in their work.
 

The Awarded Emerging Community-Based Researcher will: 

• Receive a commemorative plaque and a $1,000 cash prize to support their community-based research.
• Be recognized for their research achievements at the Award Gala Celebration that will be held at C2UExpo in Edmonton, AB on May 13th, 2025. 
• Be recognized as the 2025 Emerging Community-Based Researcher recipient on the CBRCanada website, e-news, and social media. 
• Be invited to virtually showcase their research at CBRCanada events to a network of 70+ member organizations across the country and beyond.

Call for Nomination 2025

Application Form 2025

Pre-Application SUPPORT Deadline (see details below): March 5, 2025

Agency Deadline: March 31, 2025 midnight ET

Supporting Documents: Applicants must submit a completed application form specific to the award they are applying for. In addition, they should include two to three endorsements, which can be submitted as letters (up to 1.5 pages) or videos (up to 4 minutes), from members of the community and/or academia.

Application deadlines

RSO final internal review deadline

Program application deadline

RSO Deadline: March 5, 2025

Internal Selection - SUPPORT: Research Awards

The University of Calgary can only endorse three nominations to each award category per year. To help facilitate this, each Faculty seeking institutional endorsement(s) must submit the following to researchawards@ucalgary.ca by March 5, 2025:

• The application form sharing the rationale for the nomination
• Any letters of endorsement, if they are ready by this date
• A SUPPORT Review Form

An internal selection by the SUPPORT: Research Awards Committee will be conducted if more than 3 nominations/category are submitted.

In this case, based on the committee's recommendations, the Vice-President (Research) will select up to three candidates per category for institutional endorsement. Research Services will then invite selected candidates to complete a full nomination package for CBRCanada.