CEWIL Canada Research Grant(s) & Submission Guide

CEWIL Canada Research Grant(s)

The CEWIL Research Grant(s) (value up to: $10,000 CDN each) was established in 2006 to promote research that helps to strengthen the development of co-operative education and work-integrated learning across Canada. The field of co-operative education and work-integrated learning benefits from research that provides a deeper understanding of what engages, encourages, and enriches students, faculty, employers, and staff, as well as studies which analyze various co-op and WIL practices and their outcomes. The grant is available to all co-op and WIL practitioners and researchers.

Why should you consider applying?

• Connect and collaborate with olleagues across Canada
• Produce and share meaningful co-operative education or work-integrated learning research
• Obtain expert feedback, support and motivation to move forward with your ideas
• Build co-operative education and work-integrated learning credibility within your own institution
• Elevate you and your institution’s involvement in co-operative education and work-integrated learning
• Provide a jumpstart for analysis and action in your own co-op or WIL program
• Extend your continuing education (Masters, PhD) research in new directions
• Contribute to CEWIL and Canada’s leadership in the domain of work-integrated learning and co-operative education.

Overview

 The CEWIL Co-operative Education and WIL Research Grant(s) will be awarded to research that helps to strengthen the development of Canadian co-operative education and WIL. Priority will be given to studies that:

• Are aligned with the iHub initiatives key priorities:
  • Increase Access
    • Expanding access to WIL opportunities, particularly for under-represented students.
  • Remove Barriers
    • Removing barriers for students to participate in work-integrated learning. 
  • Leverage Technology
    • Enhance programs or extend access, leveraging technology to support virtual or remote WIL experiences. 
  • Innovation & Partnerships
    • Innovating work-integrated learning through new partnerships and new models for curricular WIL.
• Provide a deeper understanding of what engages, enacts, and enriches students, faculty, employers, and staff 
• Make reference to and address the significance of findings to the Canadian context.

We are now accepting submissions for the CEWIL Co-operative Education and WIL Research Grant!

CEWIL Research Grant Submission Guidelines 2024

Please complete all applications before the submission deadline on  Monday, May 27, 2024, 4PM PST. 

Dr. Graham Branton Research Award

NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN UNTIL SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 - PLEASE CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE YOUR SUBMISSION

About This Award

The Research Award was instituted in 1989 to recognize and encourage significant contributions to scholarly research in the fields of co-operative education and work-integrated learning by members of Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning Canada (CEWIL). In 1996, the award was renamed in memory of Dr. Graham Branton.

Significant contributions would normally represent a research study or body of research that has important implications for understanding and/or enhancing co-operative education and work-integrated learning at the post-secondary level in Canada.

While the award does not contain any monetary value, it recognizes the recipient’s contribution to co-operative education and work-integrated learning.

SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA

Eligibility

•  Nominators must be members of CEWIL Canada.
•  For an individual award, the candidate must have been a member of CEWIL for at least 6 months prior to submission of a nomination.
•  In the case of team research, a joint award can be given to a team if all members of the team are members of CEWIL. If a team member(s) is not a CEWIL member, the non-member’s contributions will be acknowledged by CEWIL.
•  Although intended as an annual award, there is no commitment by the Nominations and Awards Committee to make a selection each year.

NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED AND WILL RE-OPEN IN 2022! 

Congratulations to our 2021 recipient, Karima Ramji (University of Victoria)!

Previous Recipients:

• 2021: Karima Ramji, University of Vidtoria
• 2012: ACE-BC/YK Research and Initiaves Committee: Earl Anderson, BCIT; Larry Iles, TRU; Norah McRae, UVic; Nancy Reed, UVic' and, July Walchli, UBC (Chair)
• 2010: Dr. Maureen Drysdale, St. Jerome's University, University of Waterloo (awarded on her collection of research work)
• 2008: Dr. Geraldine Van Gyn, University of Victoria (awarded on his collection of research work)
• 2005: Joy Hanley and Ellen MacFarlane - St. Francis Xavier University (The Feasibility of Establishing a Cooperative BScN Program in Nursing in Nova Scotia)
• 1999: Dr. Rick Reeves, University of Victoria (awarded on his collection of research work)
• 1997: Nancy Davidge Johnston, Simon Fraser University (The Nature of Learning in Co-operative Education in the Applied Sciences)
• 1996: Gregory Noah, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Investigating the Perception of an Increasing Employer to Co-op Student Ratio on Co-ordinator's Activities)
• 1995: Michel Laporte, Collège de l'Outaouais
• 1994: Daphne Lordly, Mount Saint Vincent University
• 1992: Dr. Graham Branton, University of Victoria
• 1991: Dr. James W. Wilson, Northeastern University
• 1990: Dr. Patricia Rowe, University of Waterloo