Faculty Award List TBC = competition details not made available at time of document update Award Title Managed by / Sponsor Description Keyword(s) Application Deadline (TBC = date to be confirmed) / Fellowship The Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) The Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) was established to gain recognition for Education and research support for individuals working in the field. The Fund will offer a series of CSSE New Scholar Fellowships open to full-time, Assistant Professors in Education in an academic unit in Canada. The Fellowships provide support for travel to the CSSE Annual Conference, registration, and accommodation. Fellowship will be recognized at the Society’s Annual General Meeting. More information at: Canada Early career Ongoing The Order of Canada The Governor General of Canada The Order of Canada is the cornerstone of the Canadian Honours System, and recognizes outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. The Order recognizes people in all sectors of Canadian society. Any Canadian is welcome to nominate a deserving individual as a candidate for appointment to the Order of Canada. All living Canadians are eligible for the Order of Canada, with the exception of federal and provincial politicians and judges while in office. More information at: Canada Ongoing Volvo Environment Prize Foundation The Volvo Environment Prize Foundation The Volvo Environment Prize is awarded for: "Outstanding innovations or scientific discoveries, which in broad terms fall within the environmental field." Laureates represent all fields of environmental and sustainability studies and initiatives. More information at: Environment 2017-01-10 Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) The award is conferred annually to a member of the qualitative and ethnographic community for lifetime contributions to the methods, theory, practice, and dissemination of qualitative inquiry. More information at: Lifetime Qualitative 2017-01-15 Max Planck The Humboldt Excellent scientists and scholars of all nationalities who are expected to continue International 2017-01-15
(no nomination info) AERA Division C: Learning & Instruction The award recognizes a program of work by a Division C member that has significantly influenced thinking and research in the field of learning and instruction. In particular, the annual award is designed to honor current research (i.e., within the last ten years) that represents a significant advancement in our understanding of learning and instruction. The recognized work may include but is not limited to research articles, paper series, monographs, book chapters, and/or books. This includes collaborative teams as well as individuals. Nomination package submitted directly to AERA Div C. More information at: Publication 2017-01-20 (TBC) AERA Division C: Learning & Instruction The award recognizes emerging scholars whose work is judged to be of high quality and poised to make a significant contribution in the area of learning and instruction. The nominee’s work must be judged to be of high quality and to significantly contribute to the field by the Division C Early Career Award Committee. The nominee must have 3 original empirical or theoretical articles published in journals where the nominee is sole or first author on at least two of these. The nominee’s doctorate must have been awarded in the last 6 years from the time of nomination. The nominee should have a demonstrated record of involvement in AERA. More information at: Early career 2017-01-20 (TBC) AERA Division C: Learning & Instruction The award recognizes early-career individuals (or small teams) who best demonstrate the intersection of humanist activism, theoretical scholarship, and technological innovation. More information at: Early career Learning technologies Activism 2017-01-20 (TBC) Distinguished Research Award AERA Division E: Counseling & Human Development Nominations for this category will be accepted for journal articles or book chapters. More information at: Publication Counselling ECPS 2017-01-22 (TBC) Ehor Boyanowsky Academic of the Year Confederation of University Faculty Associations (CUFA) BC For a specific and recent outstanding contribution to the community beyond the academy through research or other scholarly activity by an individual or group at any stage of their career. A recent contribution would typically be within the past three years. More information at: Applied research Recent Community 2017-01-30
overlap of different disciplinary areas (Basic Sciences, Biomedicine, Ecology and Conservation Biology, Information and Communication Technologies, Economics, Finance and management, Contemporary Music, Climate Change, Development Cooperation) More information at: The Berggruen Philosophy Prize Berggruen Institute The Berggruen Prize is awarded for philosophy in this broad sense – deep intellectual work and cultural creativity that can help individual human beings and humanity as a whole find direction and wisdom in a rapidly changing and constantly challenging world. Philosophy 2017-07-14 The Millennium Technology Prize Technology Academy Finland General principles of the Millennium Technology Prize: a) Awarded to ground breaking technological innovations that enhance the quality of people’s lives in a sustainable manner; b) The innovations have been applied in practice and are delivering extensive change now and in the future; c) The innovations stimulate further cutting edge research and development in science and technology. Secondly, as the Millennium Technology Prize is designed to encourage further cutting-edge research and development. The prize is awarded every second year. More information at: Sustainability Technology Applied research 2017-07-31 Oscar S. Causey Award Literacy Research Association For outstanding contributions to reading research by an LRA member. Nominations are considered active for a period of three years, unless a nominee has received the award during this time. More information at: 2017-08-15 Sloan Research Fellowships Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique Early career Fellowship Neuroscience 2017-09-15
Arts in cooperation with SSHRC $50,000 X 2 More information at: American Educational Research Association (AERA) Established to honor an individual in the early stages of his or her career no later than 10 years after receipt of the doctoral degree, this award can be granted for study in any field of educational inquiry. More information at: Early career 2017-11-04 (TBC) American Educational Research Association (AERA) Established to recognize outstanding contributions toward increasing the understanding and proliferation of links between education research and enhanced education practice. This award is under revision for 2016. More information at: Applied research 2017-11-04 (TBC) American Educational Research Association (AERA) This is the premier acknowledgment of outstanding achievement and success in education research. The purpose of the award is to publicize, motivate, encourage, and suggest models for education research at its best. More information at: 2017-11-04 (TBC) American Educational Research Association (AERA) This annual award is presented jointly by the American Educational Research Association and the American College Testing Program in recognition of outstanding applied or theoretical research in the field of testing and measurement. More information at: Measurement Theory Applied research 2017-11-04 (TBC) American Educational Research Association (AERA) The AERA Social Justice in Education Award honors an individual who has advanced social justice through education research and exemplified the goal of linking education research to social justice. More information at: Social justice 2017-11-04 (TBC) American Educational Research Association The AERA Committee on Scholars of Color in Education seeks nominations for three awards. These awards are intended to recognize (a) scholars who have made significant research contributions to the understanding of issues that disproportionately affect minority populations, and (b) scholars of color who have made significant contributions Scholars of color 2017-11-04 (TBC)
Canadian Psychological Association Fellow Canadian Psychological Association Fellows shall be Members of the Association who have made a distinguished contribution to the advancement of their science or profession pf psychology or who have given exceptional service to their national or provincial associations. More information at: Fellowship Psychology ECPS Service 2017-11-30 (TBC) Early Career Award in Measurement and Research Methodology AERA Division D: Measurement & Research Methodology This annual award recognizes emerging scholars in the field of educational research and methodology. The award rotates annually among the three sections of Division D. $1000 and a plaque More information at: Measurement Early career 2017-11-30 (TBC) AERA Division D: Measurement & Research Methodology This annual award recognizes published research judged to represent a significant advancement in theory and practice of educational measurement and/or educational research methodology. $1000 and a plaque More information at: Measurement 2017-11-30 (TBC) Emerging Scholar Award AERA Division A: Administration, Organization, & Leadership This award is given by the division in recognition of a pre-tenure scholar who is in the first five years of her his/her career in the professorate and who has made outstanding contributions to the field of leadership, administration, or organizational theory. More information at: Admin Leadership Early career 2017-12-01 (TBC) AERA Division A: Administration, Organization, & Leadership This award is given by the division in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of administration, organizational theory, or leadership. Nominees for this award must be tenured and must be members of Division A at the time of the nomination. More information at: Admin Leadership Mid career Lifetime 2017-12-01 (TBC) AERA Division J: Postsecondary Education The purpose of this award is to bestow recognition on a colleague for a specific publication (book, book chapter, or journal article) judged as making a substantial contribution to the literature and/or practice of higher education. Higher ed Publication 2017-12-01 (TBC)
More information at: AERA Division J: Postsecondary Education This award is a special honor our division bestows on one of our most esteemed colleagues. The primary purpose of this award is to recognize and reward an individual who demonstrates an outstanding record of scholarly research in our field. More information at: Higher ed 2017-12-01 (TBC) AERA Division G: Social Context of Education This award recognizes a dissertation of exemplary conceptual, methodological and rhetorical quality on an important topic that addresses social contexts of education. Nominees must be members of AERA. Please send all materials electronically via email to the awards committee chair and cc the Division G Secretary. More information at: Social context Early career 2017-12-11 (TBC) AERA Division G: Social Context of Education This award recognizes an individual in the early stages of her or his career no later than 10 years after receipt of the doctoral degree. The awardee’s research must focus on social contexts of education. Please send all materials electronically via email to the awards committee chair and cc the Division G Secretary. More information at: Social context Early career 2017-12-11 (TBC) AERA Division G: Social Context of Education This award recognizes a senior scholar (or group) who has made distinguished contributions to the systematic examination of the role of social context in education. Please send all materials electronically via email to the awards committee chair and cc the Division G Secretary. More information at: Social context Lifetime 2017-12-11 (TBC) AERA Division G: Social Context of Education This award recognizes a scholar (or group) who has made distinguished contributions leading to the transformation of the social contexts of education, broadly defined. Please send all materials electronically via email to the awards committee chair and cc the Division G Secretary. Social context 2017-12-11 (TBC)