York’s community of changemakers recognized for prestigious accomplishments in research, art and scholarship
The York University Research Awards Celebration recognizes the outstanding achievements of York's esteemed faculty members - from all faculties and schools - and in areas including artificial intelligence, Black scholarship, documentary filmmaking, and neuroscience, among others.
Researchers were recognized for their wide-ranging studies on pressing issues, like climate change, global health, and inequity, while York’s community of creators and scholars were praised for their contributions to art, and for mobilizing research to effect change in their communities.
The President's Awards recognize outstanding achievements among York’s community of researchers and celebrate emerging scholars, senior scholars and highly impactful research.
Karen Burke
Associate Professor, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Karen Burke, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, was recognized with the President’s Research Impact Award (PRIA).
The PRIA recognizes full-time, active faculty members whose body of research or scholarship has translated into a notable impact on communities, individuals, public policies or practice beyond academe, or translated successfully into impactful commercial or other applications, while significantly and positively contributing to the University’s research culture and reputation.
Burke is a singer, music director, choral conductor and composer in the field of African-American vocal music. Her expertise is in the history and performance practices of Gospel music and has worked with major choral ensembles, organizations, schools, and church congregations. She is the cofounder of the Juno Award-winning Toronto Mass Choir and the founding director of the York University Gospel Choir.
Jude Dzevela Kong
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science
Jude Dzevela Kong, Faculty of Science, was recognized with the President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award (PERLA) in STEM.
The PERLA recognizes two full-time faculty members—one in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and one in the social sciences, humanities and arts (SSHA) – within 10 years of their first academic appointment, who have had a notable impact on their field and made a significant contribution to advancing the University’s international reputation for research excellence while significantly and positively contributing to one or more aspects of the York community’s intellectual life.
Kong is a mathematician and is the founding Executive Director of the Africa-Canada Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation Consortium (ACADIC). He is also the Executive Director of the Global South Artificial Intelligence for Pandemic and Epidemic Preparedness and Response Network (AI4PEP). His research focuses on the use of AI, data science, mathematical models and system thinking to improve decision-making in global health and clinical public health.
Taien Ng-Chan
Assistant Professor, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Taien Ng-Chan, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, is recognized with the President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award (PERLA) in SSHA.
The PERLA recognizes two full-time faculty members—one in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and one in the social sciences, humanities and arts (SSHA) – within 10 years of their first academic appointment, who have had a notable impact on their field and made a significant contribution to advancing the University’s international reputation for research excellence while significantly and positively contributing to one or more aspects of the York community’s intellectual life.
Ng-Chan is a writer and media artist whose research explores experimental processes of urban mapping and sound art, “object-oriented storytelling,” and futurist imaginings of everyday life in the Asian Diaspora through immersive cinema, both in VR headset and dome projection modes. Her writing ranges from scholarly work to books and anthologies of creative writing, to collaborative multimedia arts websites, and drama for stage, screen, and CBC Radio.
Linda Peake
Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Linda Peake, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, is recognized with the President’s Research Excellence Award (PREA).
The PREA recognizes senior established, full-time, active faculty members at the rank of Professor, with distinguished scholarly achievements, who have had a notable impact on their field(s) and made a significant contribution to advancing the University’s international reputation for research excellence while significantly and positively contributing to one or more aspects of the York community’s intellectual life.
Peake is the Director of the City Institute at York University, and a feminist geographer with research interests in the co-construction of subjectivities and urban places, particularly pertaining to marginalized communities in the urban global south, and specifically Guyana. Peake is also co-chair of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Affinity Group on Mental Health, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Awards and recognitions in this category distinguish them as outstanding contributors to their fields and beyond.
Carl E. James
Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora
Senior Advisor on Equity and Representation, Office of the Vice-President Equity, People and Culture
Professor, Faculty of Education
James received the 2022 Killam Prize in the category of Social Sciences for his research on identity, race, class, gender, immigration and creating more equitable societies. Killam Prizes are a distinguished program recognizing the work of active researchers who devote their careers to pushing the boundaries of knowledge and finding solutions to the issue we face every day.
Christina Petrowska Quilico
Professor Emerita, Department of Music, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Petrowska Quilico was appointed to the Order of Ontario for her work as an international acclaimed musician, esteemed research professor, and benefactor. The Order of Ontario recognizes exceptional leaders from all walks of life and diverse fields of endeavour whose impact and lasting legacy have played an important role in building a stronger province, country and world.
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) recognizes leading intellectuals, scholars, researchers and artists to help them build a better future in Canada and around the world. Fellows have made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life. The College of the New Scholars, Scientists and Artists recognizes emerging research excellence. The RSC also recognizes outstanding achievement through awards and medals. The RSC also recognizes outstanding achievement through awards and medals. This year, York added four new Fellows, and two new College Member.
Celia Haig-Brown
Professor, Faculty of Education
Haig-Brown was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her career committed to respectful and reciprocal research and practice working closely with Indigenous collaborators from Secwépemc territory to the Naskapi Nation.
Steven Hoffman
Professor; Dahdaleh Distinguished Chair/Director, Global Strategy Lab
Professor, School of Health Policy & Management, Faculty of Health
Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Hoffman was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for his world-leading authority on global health law and the global governance of health threats that transcend national borders.
Linda Peake
Director, The City Institute at York University (CITY)
Professor, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change
Peake was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for her award-winning research integrating feminism and anti-racism into theorizations of urban everyday life, inspiring scholarship in human geography and urban studies.
Sandra Rehan
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Rehan was elected as a Member of the Royal Society of Canada's College for New Scholars, Artists, and Scientist for her work as an international leader in the molecular ecology and behavioural genetics of bees.
Sapna Sharma
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Sharma was elected as a Member of the Royal Society of Canada's College for New Scholars, Artists, and Scientist for her transformative research understanding and studying how lakes worldwide respond to climate change.
Jianhong Wu
Professor/Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Faculty of Science
Wu was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for his leadership which has profoundly contributed to the paradigm shift toward using interdisciplinary modelling extensively in health planning and firmly establishing Canada as a global leader in mathematical epidemiology.
This prestigious national program aims to attract and retain some of the world's most promising minds from all disciplines to institutions across Canada. This year, York has welcomed five new and three renewed Canada Research Chairs for a total number of 35 chairholders.
Christopher Caputo
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
Caputo was renewed as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Main-Group Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry. His research aims to first, develop greener catalysts to create chemicals, and second, create an innovative platform technology from renewable feedstocks with the goal of revolutionizing personal care.
Antony Chum
Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology & Health Science, Faculty of Health
Chum was named a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Population Health Data Science. Chum is establishing a national hub that will use population health data science to study the causes of – and solutions for – deaths and diseases of despair. They are also examining the role of follow-up care in preventing suicides, overdoses and substance-use disorders as well as evaluating how public policies can reduce these self-inflicted deaths and diseases.
Valerio De Stefano
Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
De Stefano was named a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law, and Society. De Stefano will bridge the gap between research and policy to ensure disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence will introduce positive change to workplaces and the communities we serve and will support equity, diversity and inclusion.
Arash Habibi Lashkari
Associate Professor, School of Information Technology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Lashkari was named a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Cybersecurity. they are creating an anomaly detection model for cybersecurity. The team is also developing a platform to increase awareness and general knowledge of cybersecurity for its improvement.
Kohitij Kar
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Kar was named a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience. Kar and his research team are performing detailed circuit-level neural measurements in non-human primates and relating them to specific visual behaviours. They are using their findings to develop artificial intelligence (AI) systems that mimic the primate brain in hopes of coming up with treatment strategies for mental health disorders that could improve cognitive behavioral therapies.
Raymond W.M. Kwong
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Kwong was renewed as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Environmental Toxicology. Kwong research aims to identify the mechanisms behind toxic response or tolerance to metals and bisphenol compounds in the early stages of aquatic animals’ lives and to shed light on the relationship between environmental toxins and geno- and phenotypes. This will support the development of better strategies to regulate water quality and protect aquatic life and biodiversity.
Liya Ma
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Ma was named a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Neurophysiology. Ma and her research team are investigating how neurons in the brain enable flexibility in decision-making. using experimental data to design mathematical models for cognitive flexibility and identifying the pathological changes that lead to brain damage. Their research could shed light on new ways to treat neuropsychiatric disorders.
Regina Rini
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Rini was renewed as a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Social Reasoning. Rini’s research seeks to understand how best to manage the social disruptions caused by rapid technological changes while also protecting the ability of individuals to make moral decisions.
The YRC program recognizes the University’s outstanding researchers and is the internal counterpart to the Canada Research Chairs program. These five-year awards provide resources to accelerate and facilitate the Chairholder’s international research profile. They are awarded for established research leaders (Tier 1) and emerging research leaders (Tier 2). This award recognizes the 9 new YRCs appointed in 2022.
Kristin A. Andrews
Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Andrews was named a Tier 1 York Research Chair in Philosophy of Animal Minds for her extensive research into issues related to belief and social understanding, the evolution of morality, methodology in animal cognition research, and animal rights. She will investigate how we can characterize social norms, which are often perceived as uniquely human, to support her study in animals.
Joey Cheng
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Cheng was named a Tier 2 York Research Chair in Leadership, Collaboration and Teams for her work examining the psychological underpinnings of power, status and social hierarchy, thereby addressing ways to overcome barriers to women’s position in work teams, organizations, and society.
Shital Desai
Assistant Professor, Department of Design, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Desai was named a Tier 2 York Research Chair in Accessible interaction Design. Her research will undertake codesign and development efforts with people with dementia, caregivers, health care practitioners and community partners. Using a Research through Design (RtD) process, this program will drive pivotal real-world advances in interactive prompting, with a view to the eventual development of whole new assistive/prompting systems.
Adam Diamant
Associate Professor, Management Science Specialization, Schulich School of Business
Diamant was named a Tier 2 York Research Chair in Managing AI-Driven Technologies in Health Care for his research on the development of artificial intelligence tools that support the optimization of personalized diagnostics and the delivery of outpatient services.
Jane Heffernan
Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Faculty of Science
Heffernan was named a Tier 2 York Research Chair in Mathematics of Immunity and Infectious Disease for her work developing models of immunity against infection – both in individuals and in populations – which can be used to quantify distributions of immunity and its protective effects. Ultimately, the results of the work will serve to inform public health decision-making for mitigation and vaccination policies to combat infectious diseases, with particular emphasis on COVID-19 and influenza.
Emily Laxer
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Glendon College
Laxer was named a Tier 2 York Research Chair in Populism, Rights, and Legality for her research on on the relationship between emerging right-wing populism and the changing landscape of rights and legality in Canada. Her activities will include the launching of a new Observatory of Populism, Rights, and Legality.
Mathieu Poirier
Assistant Professor; Co-Director, Global Health Strategy Lab
Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology & Health Science, Faculty of Health
Poirier was named a Tier 2 Global Health Equity. Poirier's research program will generate policy-relevant findings to measure and address socially determined inequities in health around the world and innovate new ways to address the world’s most pressing global health challenges.
Adrian Viens
Associate Professor; Director, School of Global Health
Associate Professor, School of Health Policy & Management, Faculty of Health
Viens was named a Tier 2 York Research Chair in Population Health Ethics and Law. Viens will be building an innovative research program that will support investigations into how we can extend and refine the law’s capacity to promote health and well-being and reduce health inequities at the population level.
Jianhong Wu
Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Faculty of Science
Wu was named a Tier 1 York Research Chair in Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Wu is an expert in dynamical systems, disease modelling and vaccine evaluation. His YRC program aims, in part, to understand biological and physical systems wherein predation occurs.
Awards in this category recognize artistic and creative accomplishments that enrich creative and cultural expression and understanding. It includes accomplishments in film, dance, art and more.
Ali Kazimi
Associate Professor, Department of Cinema & Media Arts, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Kazimi received the The People's Choice Award at the Toronto's Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival for the film, Beyond Extinction: Sinixt Resurgence.
Marissa Largo
Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Art and Art History, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Largo won the Exhibition Design and Installation award for curatorial project at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Elusive Desires: Ness Lee + Florence Yee, and the Curatorial Writing award for her essay, “Elusive Desires: Queer Feminist Asian Diaspora and Suburban Possibilities," from the Galeries Ontario/Ontario Galleries Awards.
Brenda Longfellow
Professor, Department Cinema & Media Arts, School the of Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Longfellow was nominated for a BFI Award for Best Immersive Art and XR Award for Intravene, a 360 degree sound installation that places participants into a re-creation of an overdose prevention site.
Sundar Viswanathan
Jazz Area Coordinator, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Associate Professor, Department of Music, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Member, Avataar
Viswanathan won the JUNO Award for Jazz Album of the Year with his band Avataar.
This category recognizes York’s scholars who have produced outstanding publications lauded by their peers.
Deborah Britzman
Distinguished Research Professor Emerita; Senior Scholar, Faculty of Education
Britzman won the Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award for her book, Anticipating Education. Concepts for Imagining Pedagogy with Psychoanalysis. An interdisciplinary collection of Britzman’s previously published and unpublished papers that examines the dilemmas created by anticipating education, provoked when teachers, students, and professors encounter the unknown while trying to know emotional situations affecting their waiting, wanting, and wishing for teaching and learning.
Wenona Giles
Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Giles was awarded the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award from the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) for Borderless Higher Education for Refugees: Lessons from the Dada Refugee Camps, (co-edited by Lorrie Miller, University of British Columbia).
Mohamed Sesay
African Studies (AFST) Program Coordinator, Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Sesay was award the International Studies Association's Lee Ann Fujii Book Award for his book, Domination Through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa.
Douglas Young
Associate Professor, Urban Studies Program, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Associate Professor, Department of Social Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Young won the Third Book Prize from the International Planning History Society for his book Socialist and Post-Socialist Urbanisms: Critical Reflections from a Global Perspective (co-edited by Lisa B.W. Drummond, York University).
This category reflects York scholars whose leadership in the field is reflected by election to academic societies in their field and awards from these bodies.
Aleksander Czekanski
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering
Czekanski was elected to the Fellowship of the Engineering Institute of Canada for his contributions to engineering in Canada, including the creation and launch of the Mechanical Engineering program at Lassonde.
Pouya Rezai
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering
Rezai was inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering for contributions to progressing mechanical engineering through the breadth and excellence of his research, and his students.
Jinjun Shan
Chair; Professor, Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering
Shan was elected as a Fellow to the American Astronautical Society, in recognition of their significant scientific, engineering, academic and management contributions to American Astronautical Society and the space industry.
Ping Wang
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering
Wang was elected as a Fellow to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for her contributions to radio resource allocation and performance modeling of heterogeneous wireless networks.
Jianhong Wu
Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Faculty of Science
Wu was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, one of the highest honours for individuals in the Canadian health sciences community, for his foundational contributions to supporting infectious disease public health decision-making strategies.
John Moores
Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering
Moore was awarded the McCurdy Award from the Canadian Aeronautics & Space Institute. Presented for outstanding contributions made in recent years toward the advancement of science and technology in aeronautics and space explorations.
Mary Jane Mossman
Professor Emerita, Osgoode Hall Law School
Mossman was honoured with the President Award from the Women's Law Association of Ontario for her trailblazing influence in the legal profession, including her research on the first women lawyers in Ontario.
Poonam Puri
Professor, Osgoode Hall School of Law
Puri won the Peter Day Governance Achievement Award from the Governance Professionals of Canada, a prestigious award recognizing trailblazers for their ability to create impact and innovation in the Canadian governance realm.
Bridget Stutchbury
Graduate Program Director, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Stutchbury was awarded the Elliout Coues Award from the American Ornithology Society Awards for her outstanding and innovative contributions to ornithological research.
Thomas Teo
Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Teo won the Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Psychological Foundation for scholarly contributions to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge.
Roopa Desai-Trilokekar
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education
Desai-Trilokekar won the Research and Scholarship Award from the Canadian Society of Higher Education for research and scholarship on higher education directly relevant to Canadian higher education.
Cynthia D. Zimmerman
Senior Scholar, Department of English, Glendon College
Professor, Department of English, Glendon College
Zimmerman was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research in recognition of her significant and sustained contributions to theatre and the performing arts in Canada.
Pirathayini Srikantha
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering
Srikantha was honoured with the Ontario Professional Engineers Award Engineering Medal in the Young Professionals category for her work as an emerging leader within the power engineering community in Canada.
Cora Young
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
Young was recognized with the 2022 Environment Division Early Career Research Award by the Chemical Institute of Canada for her research focused on the development and use use of important science analytical techniques to probe chemical mechanisms relevant to pollutants, indoor and outdoor air quality and climate change.
Bruce Connell
Coordinator Linguistics & Language Studies, Department of Multi Disciplinary Studies, Glendon College
Professor, Department of Multi Disciplinary Studies, Glendon College
Connell was named an International Francqui Professor Chair.
Sharon H. Hayashi
Associate Professor, Department of Cinema & Media Arts, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Hayashi was named the Mary Griggs Burke Chair in Asian Studies by the University of Minnesota. Her research specialist is Japanese cinema and media studies, with a focus on the intersection of visual culture and history.
Philip Girard
Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Girard won the prestigious David Walter Mundell Medal for excellence in legal writing from the Ontario Government, for his extensive work and contributions to scholarship as one of Canada's preeminent legal historians.
This category recognizes researchers who are leading major research initiatives that can advance our understanding of the world and address societal challenges. These researchers have brought in large-scale funding and secured awards in highly competitive programs.
Peter Backx
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair
Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Backx won a major CIHR Project Grant to explore how atrial stretch is involved in promoting atrial fibrillation, the most common cardiac arrhythmia, affecting one to two percent of the population.
Yvonne Bohr
Professor, LaMarch Centre for Child and Youth Research
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Bohr is leading a community-directed CIHR Project Grant aiming to provide a culturally safe context for the development of new virtual mental health resources for remote Nunavut communities, where Inuit youth continue experiencing fallout from colonialism.
Satinder K. Brar
James and Joanne Love Chair in Environmental Engineering
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering
Member, European Academy of Science and Arts
Brar is leading a major NSERC Alliance - Option 2 Grant, alongside an interdisciplinary team, the project will seek to develop reliable detection methods for microplastics in wastewater by understanding their behaviour and transport patterns within the wastewater treatment environment. The goal is to improve the efficiency of our wastewater treatment systems and processes, thereby reducing the environmental impact of microplastics.
Stephen Gaetz
Director, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
Scientific Director, Making the Shift Inc.
Professor, Faculty of Education
Gaetz received a second consecutive SSHRC Partnership Grant to continue his work as president and CEO of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness - an anti-homelessness research institute previously funded by SSHRC in 2012.
Anna V. Hudson
Senior Faculty Associate, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
Graduate Program Director, Department of Visual Art and Art History, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Professor, Department of Visual Art and Art History, School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Hudson is leading a major collaborative project, Inuksiutit: Food Sovereignty in Nunavut and the co-production of country food knowledge (IFSNu) from Canada-Inuit Nunangat-United Kingdom Arctic Research Programme (CINUK).
Jude D. Kong
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Faculty of Science
Kong is leading an International Development Research Centre (IDRC) grant to help tackle the issue of emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases alongside an international team. His project will support prevention, early detection, preparedness, mitigation and control of emerging or re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks in low- and middle-income countries.
Sergey N. Krylov
Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science
Krylov received the largest NSERC Discovery Grant funding ever at York for his research - creating innovative and enabling technologies for biomedical and bioanalytical applications.
Regina S.K. Lee
Professor, Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering
Lee was award a NSERC CREATE to help train more than 70 students in the CREATE-Microsystems Technologies and Application (CREATE-MTA) Program, by delivering comprehensive practical training where students can perform experiments and solve design challenges that cover the full range of microsystems technologies and the full design-to-application lifecycle.
Maria Liegghio
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Liegghio was awarded a Women RISE grant from Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Using a participatory research action approach, Asociacion Programa Velasco and York University will explore women’s resilience to trauma as an organizing framework for fostering post-pandemic recovery and addressing violence, gender inequalities, and social and economic development in El Salvador.
Joseph Mensah
Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Mensah was awarded a Women RISE grant from Canada’s International Development Research Centre, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The general objective of the project is to examine the interrelated factors that determine women’s livelihood challenges and opportunities in the context of COVID-19, drawing on the case of women bushmeat traders in Ghana.
Nick Mulé
Coordinator, Sexuality Studies Program
Professor, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Professor, School of Social Work, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Mulé was awarded a SSHRC Partnership Grant for his project, 2SLGBTQ+ Poverty in Canada: Improving Livelihood and Social Wellbeing. The initiative will address disproportionate vulnerability to poverty among Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer plus (2SLGBTQ+) people.
Rebecca Pillai Riddell
Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health
Pillai Riddell was awarded a CIHR Health Research Training Platform Grant, and will lead a revolutionary, multi-million dollar research training initiative that will support a more diverse, inclusive, accessible and transdisciplinary approach to mental health research and training.
Ali Sadeghi-Naini
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering
Sadeghi-Naini will be Leading the "Biomedical AI-Machine Learning Computational Core" section of a large scale multi-institutional research project on "Ultrasound and MRI for cancer therapy" at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, York University and Toronto Metropolitan University awarded by the Terry Fox New Frontiers Program Project Grants.
Dayna N. Scott
Executive Director, National Network on Environments & Women's Health
Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Scott was awarded a SSHRC Partnership Grant for her project, “Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism: Material Approaches to Restoring Indigenous Jurisdiction.” The project will explore novel approaches to strengthening Indigenous jurisdiction and sovereignty over hereditary lands and waterways.
Steven Hoffman
Professor; Dahdaleh Distinguished Chair/Director, Global Strategy Lab
Professor, School of Health Policy & Management, Faculty of Health
Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Hoffman was awarded a SSHRC Partnership Grant and will purse research into a global framework for sustainable antimicrobial drug use and preventing the proliferation of drug-resistant bacteria.
This category recognizes York researchers who have demonstrated outstanding knowledge mobilization and impact through important connections outside of academia to disseminate and translate research results to the benefit of society.
Pat Armstrong
Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Armstrong was awarded the Research Canada Leadership in Advocacy Award, which recognizes outstanding champions of health research and health innovation. In the past year, Armstrong amplified the voice of long-term care facility workers, caregivers and patients while studying the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on these facilities
Dawn Bazely
Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science
Bazely was awarded a 2022 Sandford Fleming Medal for Excellence in Science Communication from the Royal Canadian Institute for Science (RCIScience) for her impressive, diverse range of activities as a science communicator and activism for more than 30 years.
Giuseppina D'Agostino
Founder and Director, Intellectual Property Law & Technology
Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
D'Agostino was named as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers by Canadian Lawyer Magazine for her work in intellectual property law.
Susan Dion
Associate Vice-President Indigenous Initiatives
Professor, Faculty of Education
Dion was selected as a finalist for the SSHRC Impact Awards (Connection Category).
Christina Jonas-Simpson
Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health
Jonas-Simpson was awarded a CIHR Betty Havens Prize for Knowledge Mobilization in Aging.
Ellie Perkins
Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
Perkins was a co-author on the 6th Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change report.
John Moores
Associate Professor, Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering
Moores was appointed Science Advisor to the President of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).