Awards

The Allen Ponak Best Student Paper Award is devoted to recognizing research excellence across several disciplines relating to employment relations among master, PhD, and post-doctoral students. 

Students wishing to apply to the Allen Ponak Best Student Paper Award should submit a full paper before May 1, 2022 to: cira2022@queensu.ca.  Both French and English student papers are welcome.

The Law of Work Award is CIRA’s distinction given to the best paper presented at the annual conference. All pre-tenure members (graduate students, post-doctoral and pre-tenure faculty) are invited to submit a full, unpublished paper that will proceed through a blind review process to determine acceptance for presentation at the conference and the winner of the competition.

Graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and pre-tenure faculty submitting a paper on employment and labour law in Canada and wishing to apply to the Law of Work Award are invited to submit a full paper before May 6, 2022 to: cira2022@queensu.ca.

This award is presented annually “to a person or organization that has made an outstanding contribution to promoting understanding of and compliance with international standards regarding the right to organize and bargain collectively as those standards apply to Canada”.

Please send your nomination proposal along with a short text stating why you believe your nominee should be awarded the Canadian Freedom of Association Award to cira2022@queensu.ca before May 1, 2022.

For more than 40 years, CIRA has given the Gérard Dion Award to a person or an organization who made a remarkable contribution to our field of study or the world of work. Since 1990, the award is named after Gérard Dion, professor of labour relations at Université Laval and founding member of our association. 
 
The organizing committee of the conference is mandated to submit a list of candidates to the executive committee. In order to do so, we would like you to take part in this consultation process by suggesting candidates to be shortlisted.
 
Suggestions should be made by at least two (2) CIRA members, and sent no later than May1 , 2022 to the following address: cira2022@queensu.ca.