The Canadian Social Knowledge Institute and its partners, including the Implementing New Knowledge Environments project, are delighted to announce the winners, and honourable mentions, for the 2025 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
Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne and the PARADISEC team), Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
Honourable Mentions
Andrea Webb (University of British Columbia), “But I Live” Educators’ Resource
Stephen Robertson (George Mason University), Harlem in Disorder: A Spatial History of How Racial Violence Changed in 1935
Emerging Researcher Open Scholarship Award, for open scholarship carried out by undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-stage professionals
Award
Stefano Morello (CUNY Graduate Centre), East Bay Punk Digital Archive
Honourable Mentions
Silvia Rivera Alfaro (CUNY Graduate Center), Ni una menos: A collective identity in Rebeca Lane’s rap
Jazmyne Olson (Undergraduate, Weber State University), Collaging the Queer: An Abstract Self-Portraiture Workshop on Gender Abolition and Identity Creation
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 2026 Open Scholarship Awards later this year.