CBRCanada Awards
Award for Excellence in Community Campus Research Partnership 2026
The CBRCanada Community Research Excellence Awards are intended to recognize the achievements of a promising community-based research partnership and signify the importance of community-based research as a growing field of practice. 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. Research partnerships applying for the award should demonstrate excellence in research process (e.g., driven by community with meaningful participation of research partners); research quality (e.g., meaningful, innovative data collection and analysis), and research impact (e.g., community issues addressed by research informed evidence). Research partnerships applying for the award should exemplify an authentic and reciprocal relationship among community and academic partners.
Award for Emerging Community-Based Researcher 2026
The CBRCanada Community Research Excellence Awards are intended to recognize the achievements of a promising community-based researcher and signify the importance of community-based research as a growing field of practice. The Award for Emerging Community-Based Researcher recognizes and celebrates an individual who embodies community-based research values in their work. Nominees for this award should be working closely with a community(ies) in support of transformational community-driven, participatory, and action-oriented research that imagines and builds innovative solutions that address community needs. They are deeply committed to social justice, the issue and/or community(ies) in which they work, and have a drive toward turning research into short and long-term actions to pressing societal issues.
If you are interested in being nominated for one of these awards, please contact the Office of Research Services (ahacquo1@lakeheadu.ca) to indicate your interest by March 20, 2026.