Research Awards
Carol-Ann Tetrault Sirsly Award
The Carol-Ann Tetrault Sirsly award is an internal award given to a faculty member at the Sprott School of Business who published in high quality peer-reviewed journals in the previous year.
Merridee Bujaki – 2026
Merridee Bujaki is a tenured Professor of Accounting whose extensive research and leadership span more than two decades. Her interdisciplinary program, framed around the “four Cs” explores Canadian corporate disclosures and communication, careers (with a focus on women in accounting), and historical accounting insights such as the construction of the Rideau Canal. She is a co-investigator on a major SSHRC-CIHR-funded national study examining the gendered dimensions of mental health, leave, and return-to-work experiences among knowledge professionals, with the goal of informing workplace policy and well-being. A Fellow of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada, Dr. Bujaki is widely recognized for her contributions to research, professional service, and thought leadership on mental health, women in business, and accounting history.
Community Engagement Excellence Award
Recognizes exceptional and sustained contribution to building meaningful relationships between Sprott and partners across government, industry, the non-profit sector, and civil society.
Francois Brouard – 2026
François Brouard is recognized for more than two decades of meaningful community engagement that bridges academic expertise and real-world impact. His work spans governance leadership in key institutions such as Hôpital Montfort and Santé Montfort, national contributions to Société Santé en français, and active involvement in cultural and community organizations like Mouvement d’implication francophone d’Orléans and the Shenkman Arts Centre. Through sustained leadership, volunteerism, and research partnerships, he has strengthened governance practices, supported Francophone communities, and enhanced the social impact and visibility of the Sprott School of Business and Carleton University
Early Career Research Award
Recognizes research promise and early scholarly achievement.
Oriane Couchoux – 2026
Oriane Couchoux is a Canadian CPA with expertise in public accounting, audit, and financial reporting, whose research explores how accounting rules are interpreted and applied in both professional and personal contexts. Her work examines how auditors, board directors, and accountants navigate regulatory demands to produce high-quality financial information, and how parents, particularly mothers, manage finances and economic pressures after having children. Supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Centre for Research on Inclusion at Work, and the Canadian Foundation for Governance Research, her research brings a nuanced, human-centred perspective to accounting practice and policy.
Doctoral Research Leadership Award
Recognizes doctoral researchers who demonstrate exceptional research excellence and an emerging ability to communicate their work with clarity and purpose.
Angel Henchey – 2026
Angel Henchey is a PhD candidate in Management (Organizational Behaviour) whose research focuses on careers and equity, diversity, and inclusion. Working with Linda Schweitzer, she studies evolving workplace models (remote, hybrid, and in-office) and seeks to redefine performance by incorporating employee well-being and long-term organizational outcomes. Her work also includes a Mitacs internship with Engineers Yukon, where she examined how caregiving skills relate to the engineering profession. An Ontario Graduate Scholarship recipient, Angel has presented at leading international conferences and earned multiple awards, including a Best Paper and Best Reviewer recognition, highlighting her growing impact in organizational research.
Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair
Fulbright Canada and Carleton University have established dedicated research chairs that will allow extraordinary American scholars and top-tier researchers to spend one academic year as a visiting research scholar working in a targeted area of academic inquiry.
Carleton University Research Achievement Award
The Research Achievement Awards are administered by the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International) to recognize exceptional accomplishments by members of Carleton University. Each year, ten faculty members are selected by a committee of past recipients and provided with funds to support a research project.
Sprott Research Awards and Grants
Sprott’s internal awards and grants program recognizes and invests in the scholarly contributions of our faculty and doctoral students. Our awards celebrate excellence in research, community engagement, and emerging scholarly leadership. Our grants support the work that comes before major external funding applications, including building research partnerships, generating preliminary evidence, and advancing rigorous inquiry into teaching and learning. Together, these programs reflect Sprott’s commitment to a research culture that values quality, recognizes contribution at every career stage, and invests in what comes next.
Applications and nominations for the current cycle close at 11:59 P..M on April 10, 2026. Award and grant decisions will be communicated by the end of April 2026.
Awards
Early Career Research Award
Open to research stream faculty within their first five years of appointment as Assistant Professor. Recognizes research promise and early scholarly achievement.
Community Engagement Excellence Award
Open to all research stream faculty. Recognizes exceptional and sustained contribution to building meaningful relationships between Sprott and partners across government, industry, the non-profit sector, and civil society.
Doctoral Research Leadership Award
Open to all current PhD students in good standing. Recognizes doctoral researchers who demonstrate exceptional research excellence and an emerging ability to communicate their work with clarity and purpose.
Carol-Ann Tetrault-Sirsly Research Excellence Award
Open to all research stream faculty. Recognizes outstanding scholarly contribution, research leadership, and meaningful impact over the preceding three calendar years. CURRENTLY CLOSED FOR NOMINATIONS
Grants
Sprott Research Development Grant
Open to all research stream faculty. Replaces the Sprott Research Initiation Grant. Provides seed funding to generate the preliminary data, theoretical grounding, or methodological feasibility evidence needed to compete for tri-agency and other major external funding competitions.
Sprott Community and Partner Engagement Grant
Open to all research stream faculty. Funds the relationship-building, knowledge-sharing, and co-creation work that must happen before meaningful collaborative research with external partners is possible.
Sprott Pedagogical Research Seed Grant
Open to all teaching stream faculty. Supports original research on teaching and learning in the business school context, grounded in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).