UBC-Vancouver Public Humanities Hub Public Engagement Award

The UBC-Vancouver Public Humanities Hub (PHH) is delighted to announce this year’s competition for four Public Humanities Public Engagement Awards. 

New this year

One category has been added this year, so a total of four $1000 awards will be awarded: 

  1. One award to recognize the contributions of a tenured or tenure-track UBC-Vancouver faculty member (in research or educational leadership streams) in the Faculty of Arts, Allard School of Law, or the Faculty of Education.
  2. One award to recognize the contributions of a UBC-Vancouver lecturer, sessional, or postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Allard School of Law, or the Faculty of Education. 
  3. One award to recognize the contributions of a UBC-Vancouver graduate student in the Faculty of Arts, Allard School of Law, or the Faculty of Education. 
  4. One award to recognize the contributions of a partner organization working on a collaborative project with an eligible UBC-Vancouver scholar in the Faculty of Arts, Allard School of Law, or the Faculty of Education.


Four awards will be given to three individuals and one partner organization who have exhibited outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years. The Public Humanities Hub recognizes that there are many diverse publics and many diverse modes of engaging these publics. For the first three awards, we encourage nominations of individuals a) who employ more traditional forms of engagement, i.e. through print and broadcast media, and/or b) who employ more creative approaches like community partnerships, podcasts, videos, films, exhibitions, festivals and more. We are particularly interested in recognizing scholars whose work has contributed to the expansion of the range of voices in public discourse and who attempt to facilitate two-way dialogue with broader publics. For examples from previous years, see https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/funding/public-engagement-award/public-engagement-award-winners-2022/ 


For the award to recognize the contributions of a partner organization, we encourage nominations of organizations that have partnered with a UBC-Vancouver Humanities scholar(s) to do public humanities work, broadly conceived. We are particularly interested in recognizing organizations whose work has modelled and encouraged reciprocal forms of knowledge exchange. 


Adjudication

The Public Humanities Hub’s Awards Committee will consider the following criteria when considering nominations for the first three awards: 

  1. the creativity and innovation of the forms of public engagement, 
  2. the impact of these forms of engagement (qualitative, i.e. uptake by students and colleagues, policy changes, translations, etc. OR quantitative, i.e.  readership, attendance figures, etc.)
  3. the degree of knowledge exchange fostered, and 
  4. the timeliness of the scholar’s contributions. 


The Public Humanities Hub’s Awards Committee will consider the following criteria when considering nominations for the award to a partner organization: 

  1. the creativity and innovation of the forms of public engagement, 
  2. the impact of these forms of engagement (qualitative, i.e. uptake by the community, students, and/or colleagues, policy changes, translations, etc. OR quantitative, i.e.  readership, attendance figures, etc.)
  3. the degree of knowledge exchange fostered, and 
  4. the timeliness of the partner organization’s contributions. 

Nomination Procedure

Please complete the online form and upload the following, via the link below, by May 8, 2023, 4pm Pacific Time.

 

For UBC members

To nominate someone (or yourself) for the prize, please submit :

  1. a letter of nomination (maximum 3 pages) addressed to Dr. Mary Chapman, Academic Director of Public Humanities Hub, that includes a rationale for the nomination and describes two examples of the nominee’s public humanities engagement in the past two years; 
  2. links to or attachments for these two examples; 
  3. a short CV that highlights the nominee’s public engagement work. 

If possible, please upload these documents as a single PDF file and name it using the following format:

PEA 2023 nom – Nomineesurname.pdf


For partner organizations

To nominate a partner organization, at least one UBC scholar collaborating with that organization should submit:

  1. a letter of nomination (maximum 3 pages) addressed to Dr. Mary Chapman, Academic Director of Public Humanities Hub, that includes a rationale for the nomination and describes a publicly engaged project that took place within the past two years; 
  2. links to or attachments for that project. 

If possible, please upload these documents as a single PDF file and name it using the following format:

PEA 2023 nom – Organizationname.pdf


We encourage those who wish to nominate themselves to consult their unit’s Head or awards committee to ask for their assistance in drafting the letter. The prizes will be awarded later in May. Each winner will receive $1000 and be recognized on the Public Humanities Hub webpage. Winners can use prize funds for any purpose.


For queries related to this award, please contact public.humanities@ubc.ca

See the past Public Engagement Award winners: 2021 winners | 2022 winners

Deadline: May 8, 2023, 4pm Pacific Time 
Terms of Reference and Instructions (PDF)

For queries related to this award, please contact public.humanities@ubc.ca.

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