Knowledge Mobilization and Engagement Award Recipients
The Knowledge Mobilization and Engagement Award is presented annually to either one researcher, or a team of up to two researchers, who has demonstrated exceptional and outstanding achievement in communicating research beyond the University and/or significant impact in shaping evidence-based policy and practice. This award recognizes the ability of the researcher(s) to generate new ideas towards sparking transformative change through engagement and collaborations with external organizations and/or communities, combining knowledge from different spheres of society.
Award recipient(s) will receive a certificate of recognition and a monetary award of $2,000 (per award recipient) as a one-time payment (subject to applicable deductions).
Key criteria: Scholarly, research and creative activity; knowledge mobilization, dissemination
2026 recipient
Linda Rothman
Faculty of Community Services
Dr. Linda Rothman leads research on preventable injuries. She is a foremost expert in interventions to make roads safer. She plans her studies to ensure useful and available findings for communities. When events demand an expert response, she works devotedly. Her testimony was critical for the successful Charter challenge to the Ontario government’s legislation to remove separated bicycling infrastructure. She has worked tirelessly to communicate the findings of her study of automated speed enforcement in the face of efforts to roll back this effective intervention. In conducting community-engaged research and communicating her findings, Dr. Rothman exemplifies applied public health.
Past recipients
- Anatoliy Gruzd
Ted Rogers School of Management
- Josephine Wong
Faculty of Community Services
- Mandana Vahabi
Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services
- Erin Ziegler
Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services
- Kristine Newman
Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services - Ivor Shapiro
School of Journalism, Faculty of Communication and Design
- Patrice Dutil
Department of Politics and Public Administration, Faculty of Arts
- Candice Monson
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
- Marusya Bociurkiw
RTA School of Media, Faculty of Communication and Design
- Jennifer Lapum
Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services