Transformative Leadership: Research Award

This award recognizes a research-focused faculty member whose research 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 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.

Please Reference the Correct Award and Category

We know many people are asked to submit letters of support for deserving nominees for a UCalgary Nursing Spark Award. We also recognize that many of you write multiple letters for the same person for different awards. We, therefore, ask you to please carefully proofread your letter so that you are making reference to supporting your nominee for a Spark Award ONLY (not a U Make a Difference, a President’s Award for Excellence in Student Leadership, etc).

While referring to another award may not disqualify your candidate, it does not reflect positively on your commitment to the nomination for a UCalgary Nursing Spark Award.

• 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