Previous SSHRC Impact Award Winners
The five annual SSHRC Impact Awards recognize the highest achievements in social sciences and humanities research, knowledge mobilization and scholarship supported by SSHRC.
2022
![Cindy Blackstock](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2022/bios/400x500/blackstock.jpg)
![Semra Sevi](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2022/bios/400x500/sevi.jpg)
![Jan Grabowski](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2022/bios/400x500/grabowski.jpg)
![Jordan Stanger-Ross](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2022/bios/400x500/stanger-ross.jpg)
![Fannie Lafontaine](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2022/bios/400x500/lafontaine.jpg)
2021
![Lynne Viola](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2021/bios/400x500/viola.jpg)
![Maïka Sondarjee](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2021/bios/400x500/sondarjee.jpg)
![André Blais](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2021/bios/400x500/blais.jpg)
![Carole Lévesque](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2021/bios/400x500/levesque.jpg)
![Rashid Sumaila](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2021/bios/400x500/sumaila.jpg)
Video: SSHRC's 2021 Impact Award winners
Transcript
Carole Lévesque: And it is this quest for discovery that propels me every day.
André Blais: Just having the luxury of trying to find out why people do the very simple things that they do, it's awesome.
Rashid Sumaila: If I were to generate one improvement to society, that would be maintaining our fishing communities.
Maïka Sondarjee: Honestly, what drives me to do my research is a desire for social change.
Lynne Viola: If my work could generate one improvement in society, it would be to maintain open access to information.
2020
![Francine Saillant](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2020/bios/400x500/saillant.jpg)
![Robyn Maynard](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2020/bios/400x500/maynard.jpg)
![Myriam Denov](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2020/bios/400x500/denov.jpg)
![Jackie Dawson](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2020/bios/400x500/dawson.jpg)
![John Loxley](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2020/bios/400x500/loxley.jpg)
2019
![Will Kymlicka](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2019/bios/350x500/kymlicka.png)
![Jake Pyne](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2019/bios/350x500/pyne.png)
![Leah F. Vosko](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2019/bios/350x500/vosko.png)
![Robert Jan van Pelt](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2019/bios/350x500/van_pelt.png)
![Marianne Ignace](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2019/bios/350x500/ignace.png)
2018
![Jean Grondin](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2018/grondin.jpg)
![Shane D. Neilson](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2018/neilson.jpg)
![Tania Li](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2018/li.jpg)
![Jennifer Llewellyn](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2018/llewellyn.jpg)
![Carla Lipsig-Mummé](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2018/lipsig-mumme.jpg)
2017
![Katherine Lippel](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2017/lippel.jpg)
![Claire Battershill](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2017/battershill.jpg)
![Lori Beaman](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2017/beaman.jpg)
![Karen Bakker](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2017/bakker.jpg)
![Carol Kauppi](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2017/kauppi.jpg)
2016
![Claudia Mitchell](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2016/mitchell.jpg)
![Aaron Mills](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2016/mills.jpg)
![James Waldram](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2016/waldram.jpg)
![John Willinsky](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2016/willinsky.jpg)
![Ajay Heble](/_Images/results/prizes/impact_awards/2016/heble.jpg)
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