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2016 winners of the Distinguished Academics Awards

Meet the winners and learn how their work is making an impact in the non-academic world, demonstrating the vitality of university-based research and scholarly activity.

The Distinguished Academics Awards promote the value of university research in advancing the public good. Nominees hail from various institutions and disciplines, often working in very different domains—yet they’re united by a passion for meaningful research that fuels our economy, democracy, and intellectual life.

WINNERS

  • Early in Career Award

    Dr. Meghan Winters

    Simon Fraser University

    Dr. Meghan Winters is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at SFU. She is an epidemiologist interested in the link between health, transportation, and city design. In addition to her scholarship, Dr. Winters has made influential contributions to public policy and community research on the impacts of built environments on people’s physical activity and health.

  • Ehor Boyanowsky Academic of the Year Award

    Dr. Paul Kershaw

    University of British Columbia

    Dr. Paul Kershaw is Associate Professor  in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. He works in the area of populatin health that has produce a robust body of research demonstrating the vitally constitutive role that social and economic conditions play in children’s development. He is the founder of the non-profit Generation Squeeze.

  • Paz Buttedahl Career Achievement Award

    Dr. Kieran Egan

    Simon Fraser University

    Dr. Kieran Egan recently retired from his position s as Professor and Canada Research Chair in the SFU Faculty of Education. Though he is no longer teaching, his internationally influential work on curriculum development and education theory continues to shape the work of teachers in classrooms around the world.