Transformative Leadership: Research Award
This award recognizes a research-focused faculty member whose research and innovation demonstrates the potential to impact patient, provider and health system outcomes as well as the discipline of nursing.
The recipient will have created student research opportunities that provide hands-on experience, portable skills and the chance to work with faculty on life-changing research projects and/or developed research and innovation opportunities for community partners leading to new collaborations and solutions.
Nomination Process
Nominations are welcomed from any students and faculty members from any University of Calgary faculty as well as preceptors. The nominee must agree to the nomination.
A completed nomination form must be accompanied by one signed letter of reference which may be from the nominator. You must also include a CV of your nominee (no more than 2 pages).
Only completed nominations will be accepted (see the nomination form for details). If your nomination is missing any of the supporting documentation, it will be returned to you for completion if there is time.
Use Criteria with Examples
We strongly encourage you to explicitly incorporate the criteria of the specific award with clear examples for each criteria when writing your letter of nomination or support. This not only assists you, as nominator, to highlight the important and relevant attributes of your nominee, it gives the selection committee very clear details about the qualifications of the candidate with examples of their achievements and enhances the overall nomination.
Tips and Templates
Criteria
Advocates for tangible change through an innovative program of research
Places the community and/or the impact on community at the centre of their research questions and outcome measures
Actively links their research to education and practice, offering hands-on experiences for students and creating research opportunities for community collaboration
Creates transdisciplinary research opportunities leading to new connections and opportunities
Award Selection Process
The UCalgary Nursing Spark Awards Working Group will review all nominations and select the candidate they feel best exemplifies the criteria for the award. The number of nominations an individual receives may favourably impact the outcome. If the committee feels there is no clear choice, they may choose not to give an award in this category.
In the event a member of the committee is nominated for an award, the member will excuse himself/herself from deliberations for this award.
Additionally, no committee member may support a nomination with a letter of reference.
The UCalgary Nursing Spark Awards represent a shift from the previous internal awards programs - the Pursuit of Excellence and Covenant Health Faculty of Nursing Awards - and therefore previous recipients in similar categories may be nominated again.