The Canadian Social Knowledge Institute <http://c-ski.ca/> and its
partners, including the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project,
are delighted to announce the winners, and honourable mentions, for the
2026 Open Scholarship Awards.
Award recipients demonstrated exemplary open scholarship via research,
projects, or initiatives. Open scholarship incorporates open access, open
data, open education, and other related movements that have the potential
to make scholarly work more efficient, more accessible, and more usable by
those within and beyond the academy. By engaging with open practices for
academic work, open scholarship shares that work more broadly and more
publicly.
Open Scholarship Award, for open scholarship carried out by scholars,
librarians, citizen scholars, research professionals, and administrators.
Award
Transgender Media Portal, Laura Horak (Carleton University) and Team
Honourable Mentions
In Search of the Drowned: Testimonies and Testimonial Fragments of the
Holocaust, Gabor Toth (Luxembourg University)
Time Layered Cultural Map of Australia, Hugh Craig (Newcastle University)
and Team
Emerging Researcher Open Scholarship Award, for open scholarship carried
out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and
early-stage professionals
Award
The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, Julia Sorge Way (James Madison
University)
Honourable Mentions
The Homosaurus Collective, B.M. Bri Watson (Western University)
ReprocuibilitiTea, Elizabeth Phillips (McMaster University)
We would like to thank all those who nominated a project for the awards,
and our selection panel, and will be announcing the call for nominations
for the 2027 Open Scholarship Awards later this year.
Hi everyone,
Members of the society should have received a link to vote on our 2027 conference plans. Please take a minute to complete that form and if you didn't receive the link, but should have, please let me know.
Thanks,
Paul
Hi everyone — The members poll to determine what we'll do for next year's conference has gone out. If you haven't received it and think that's a mistake (you're a member), please let me know. I'm relying on OUP's membership system which leaves a lot to be desired.
PB
Dear CSDH/SCHN Members,
I hope this message finds you well. As you know, we hosted our annual conference last week and it was a wonderful event. Fabulous panels, keynotes, people, and a great venue. Special thanks for the Program Committee and to Emmanuel our Program Chair.
At the conference we welcomed Margot Mellet as our new VP French, Moni Razavi as our incoming Secretary, Rebecca Dowson as our incoming Treasurer, Dominic Forest as the Editor-in-chief of DS/CN, and Davide Pafumi as our Communications Coordinator. Welcome to you all!
The minutes from the conference AGM are available here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_tCqIBBcS8TEaZH7lRGTJhevAVEN7C50cp6cAt5…>. At that meeting, we discussed how we'd like to proceed for next year's conference and we decided that we would put it to a membership vote. You'll be getting a link, later this week, asking you to vote on the following questions:
1.
Do we want to remain part of the Federation? We can remain part of the Federation without participating in Congress? [Y/N]
2.
Choose your preference for next years CSDH/SCHN conference: [Ranked Ballot]
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Host our own independent conference at a location to be determined by the society (in person).
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Host our own independent conference at the University of Alberta (in person).
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Host our own independent, virtual conference.
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Participate in Congress 2027 either virtually in May or in-person at Simon Fraser, July 5 - 9.
As you can see from the questions (and explained in more detail in the minutes), we have the option of remaining part of the Federation without participating in Congress. That's what our members decided to do in a similar vote put to them in 2025.
Please note that only registered members of the society will be invited to vote in this poll. There are many people who are on our mailing list but who are not registered members. If you're not sure, reach out to me and I can check your membership status. If you're not a registered member, instructions to register are available here:
https://csdh-schn.ca/about-csdh-schn/membership/
I'll be sending out the voting instructions later this week in order to give people time to rejoin the society if need be.
Thanks,
Paul Barrett
