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Awards and Distinctions Support
Western Research assists to recognize and promote the scholarly achievements of outstanding Western faculty in all disciplines and at all career stages. Many awards are associated with substantial monetary prizes and all are associated with significant prestige. Success in these programs raises the profile of individuals, their departments, their Faculties, and the university. Western Research supports this by:
- communicating information about award opportunities and deadlines;
- liaising with award agencies;
- utilizing Western's foundation of research excellence and resources;
- coordinating submission of award nomination and application packages; and
- publicizing and celebrating success.
A non-comprehensive list of award opportunities, along with program details, is available.
Institutional Coordination and Support
The Awards and Distinctions team will be happy to provide Institutional Coordination and Support for nominations which fit our criteria. This includes:
- Assistance with identifying suitable nominators and referees
- Outreach to nominators and referees to secure support, providing them with required materials and guidelines, assisting with developing letter content, performing quality checks for formatting and regulation adherence, identifying the strongest letters for submission
- Drafting letters of nomination and co-nomination and obtaining approvals and signatures
- Support for developing all written materials, and providing feedback and review
- Assistance with finding additional reviewers (internal and external)
- Coordinating Global Excellence Initiative review and feedback on draft dossiers (if applicable)
- Completing online portal registration and creating nomination forms
- Document management: collecting and compiling all letters, forms, and written documents to create a dossier submission according to guidelines
- Uploading of final dossier submissions to the online portal by the deadline
Contact Us
For more information regarding award & distinction opportunities, stewardship and support – as well as to share your success stories – please contact Julaine Hall, Manager, Research Awards & Distinctions and Alyson Watson, Program Coordinator, Awards & Distinctions, at rwprizes@uwo.ca.