Award Overview

The InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global) Best Research and Leadership Awards recognize interprofessional scholarly works and leadership that exemplify excellence in the following Award Categories:

• Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Research Award – This award recognizes an academic – practice partnership team that demonstrates impact on learner and health outcomes through sustaining and connecting interprofessional education and collaborative practice in community-based practice settings serving vulnerable and high-risk populations.

• Hugh Barr Global Research Award – This award recognizes an interprofessional team for the evaluation of an outstanding example of collaboration between academic institutions and health/social service delivery organizations in high/middle-income and low-income countries, aimed at promoting and sustaining interprofessional education and collaborative practice.
• John H.V. Gilbert IPR.Global Research Award – This award recognizes the author of an outstanding interprofessional doctoral dissertation, published in the past three years, that has resulted in a learning paradigm which brings interprofessional education and learning to interprofessional collaborative practice in a practice setting where practitioners, students and patients have been engaged in developing measurable interprofessional high quality care.
• IPR.Global Distinguished Leadership Award – This award recognizes outstanding leadership of an individual/team who have made transformative, inclusive, measurable, and sustainable contributions to the promotion, implementation, evaluation, and/or advancement of interprofessional education, collaborative practice, and/or research in and across their educational/practice/network settings with a significant global impact.

The IPR.Global Best Research and Leadership Awards aim to honor innovative interprofessional scholarly work in the form of partnership, evaluation, research, or dissertation work, accompanied by outstanding interprofessional leadership that has had a positive, sustainable impact on the academic, practice, or community setting, with notable contributions to the field of interprofessional education and collaborative practice at the global level.

Who Is Eligible?

Nominations for the awards may be made by individuals (for John Gilbert IPR.Global Research Award and IPR.Global Distinguished Leadership Award) or by teams/partnerships (for Barbara Fifield Brandt IPR.Global Research Award, Hugh Barr IPR.Global Research Award, and IPR.Global Distinguished Leadership Award) from academia, practice, service users/consumers and/or students.

Nominations may be made by individuals external to the project. However, the Application Form must be completed by the Nominee/s (Applicant/s).

Application Process

1. Online Application

• • The application will require the submission of an online application, resume/CV and a nomination letter (see below for more details.

2. Global Evaluations

• • Each application will be thoroughly evaluated by peer-reviewers. The evaluation criteria will follow (but not be limited to) originality, creativity/innovation, (global) impact, dissemination of findings, sustainability, and contributions/future applications to the IPECP field.

3. Award Winners Notification

• • The IPR.Global Steering Committee will make final decisions based on the online application and submitted documents, and will notify the award winners through email.

Application’s Required Documents and Submission

The application is online, and consisted of:

• • Affirmation regarding the originality, creativity/innovation, (global) impact, dissemination of findings, sustainability, and contributions/future applications to the IPECP field. 
  • Abbreviated CV (no more than 4 pages) highlighting related IPECP research/scholarship and leadership.
  • Nomination (cover) Letter (no more than 3 pages) highlighting relevant IPECP research/scholarly work and leadership based on the specific Award Category being applied for, and the evaluation criteria. 
  • Letter of Recommendation (Required): Applicants must submit at least one (max. 3) letter of recommendation to support their application.

2024-2025 Application Extended To The End Of February 2025.

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