Faculty Research Sustainability Award

Description: The Sustainability Research Award recognizes faculty members, instructors and postdoctoral scholars conducting exceptional research within which sustainability research or outcomes are embedded.

Strong nominations will demonstrate:

• That sustainability is explicitly embedded in the research or outcomes and advances multiple United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); perhaps the SDGs were used to formulate the hypothesis or research question.
• Work that is addressing significant environmental, social, economic or well-being challenges.
• Inter- and/or transdisciplinarity (please see definitions below for more detail).
• Scalability.
• Innovation.
• Significant contributions at the local, regional, national and/or international scale.

At the judges' discretion, this award may be divided into different sub-categories based on the nature of nominations received.

Finalists for the Sustainability Faculty Research Award may be asked to submit a current curriculum vitae for consideration by the Sustainability Awards judging panel.

Eligibility:

• Nominees must be active UCalgary faculty, instructors or postdoctoral scholars.
• Only individuals can be nominated for this award.
• Self-nominations are accepted.

Definitions:

Interdisciplinary:

Interdisciplinary work involves integrating knowledge and methods from different disciplines. It analyzes and synthesizes links between disciplines in a co-ordinated way, but the ideas and solutions that arise still often maintain their traditional discipline boundaries (Choi and Pak, 2007; Zaman and Goschin, 2010).

Transdisciplinary:

Transdisciplinary scholarship is people from multiple backgrounds working together on challenges. Its focus is on integrating and building knowledge between, across and beyond traditional disciplines. In a complex time of ever-increasing specialization, it’s a way to tackle the big questions of our day that do not fit into one department or one faculty, but require important contributions from those units. It’s a way to create a unity of knowledge and come to solutions beyond the limits of separate disciplines (University of Calgary, 2020)

References: The two requested references should be able to provide insight into the validity of the candidate’s submission, particularly regarding the impacts. References could include a supervisor, instructor, partner, stakeholder, beneficiary of the project, etc. 

Please submit your nomination through this webform before February 22, 2022 11:59 p.m. MST. The webform will close after this date. If you experience difficulties in submitting your nomination, please contact zahra.syeda@ucalgary.ca 

For more information about the awards, please see the Terms of Reference.