Royal Society of Canada Fellows

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Royal Society of Canada

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Award Details

Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Fellows are those with exceptional and original publications, intellectual achievements, and creative activities, with achievements in the arts, humanities, social sciences, or sciences. They are either Canadian citizens or have been Canadian Permanent Residents for at least 3 consecutive years. 

Download the 2025 FRSC Nomination Guide. Note that the sponsor deadline is now December 15 at 2 pm Pacific Time. 

Departments, divisions, institutes, schools and faculties are encouraged to embed equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) considerations in their nomination strategies. 

There are two distinct routes by which candidates may be nominated for election to the Society: 

1) Nomination by Fellow:

  • Fellows are eligible to nominate candidates and are encouraged to support their peers.
  • Nominations of UBC faculty members by RSC Fellows are submitted by the nominator, but can access ORPA support.

2) Nomination by Institutional Member (UBC):

  • UBC can nominate Fellows as an Institutional Member (under UBC's President). IM nominations do not carry additional weight in the RSC adjudication process.
    • The main implication is the timeline, as there are internal deadlines for this type of nomination. More information on internal deadlines will become available around mid-August 2025.
  • Nominations under this category are facilitated by the VPRI Office of Research Prizes and Awards.

In order to facilitate planning and support, we request notice of planned nominations (including requests for institutional nomination and renomination) for this competition. We are also aiming to prioritize institutional nominations under UBC’s President for departments or units that do not have access to Fellows or College members as nominators. ORPA support will be available for nominations of UBC research faculty members regardless of nominator.

Please submit notice of planned nominations, or request institutional nomination, by Monday, October 6 here:
https://prizes.research.ubc.ca/2025-notice-planned-rsc-nomination

For nomination support: Contact Stephanie O'Neill, Award Nomination Development Officer stephanie.oneill@ubc.ca 

See also: RSC College Members

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Previous Award Winners

2025

  • Allan Bertram (Chemistry)

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    William W. L. Cheung (Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries) 

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    Joanna McGrenere (Computer Science) 

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    Tamara Munzner (Computer Science) 

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    Kiran Soma (Psychology)

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    Ingrid Stairs (Physics and Astronomy)

2024

  • Barbara Dancygier (English Languages and Literatures)

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    Patricia Duff (Language & Literacy Education)

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    Torsten Nielsen (Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)

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    Gina Ogilvie (School of Population and Public Health)

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    Cindy Prescott (Forest and Conservation Sciences)

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    Margo Seltzer (Computer Science)

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    Edward Slingerland (Philosophy /  Psychology / Asian Studies)

2023

  • Timothy Cheek (History / School for Public Policy and Global Affairs)

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    Leah Edelstein-Keshet (Mathematics)

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    Catherine L.  Johnson (Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences)

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    Kevin Leyton-Brown (Computer Science)

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    Kathleen Martin Ginis (School of Health and Exercise Sciences / Medicine)

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    Diane S. Srivastava (Zoology)

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    Mark van Raamsdonk (Physics and Astronomy)

2022

  • Barbara Arneil (Political Science)

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    Jiahua Chen (Statistics) 

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    Villy Christensen (Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries)

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    Nicholas Coops (Forest Resources Management)

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    Marcel Franz (Physics & Astronomy)

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    Kai Li (Sauder School of Business)

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    Steven Miller (Pediatrics / BC Children's Hospital)

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    Fabio Rossi (School of Biomedical Engineering / Medical Genetics)

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    Margaret Schabas (Philosophy)

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    Sunera Thobani (Asian Studies)

2021

  • Alejandro Adem (Mathematics)

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    Jeannette Armstrong (Community, Culture and Global Studies)

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    Curtis Berlinguette (Chemistry / Chemical and Biological Engineering)

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    Isabel Grant (Peter A. Allard School of Law)

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    Stephen Guy-Bray (English Language and Literatures)

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    C.W. (Toph) Marshall (Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies)

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    Raymond Ng (Computer Science)

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    Roger Wilson (Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies)

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    Alison Wylie (Philosophy)

2020

  • Jinhua Chen (Asian Studies)

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    Mark Halpern (Physics & Astronomy)

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    Scott Hinch (Forest & Conservation Sciences)

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    Ara Norenzayan (Psychology)

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    Leonie Sandercock (School of Community and Regional Planning)

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    Alla Sheffer (Computer Science)

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    Amanda Vincent (Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries

2019

  • Susanna Braund (Classical, Near Eastern & Religious Studies)

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    David Huntsman (Pathology & Laboratory Medicine)

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    Patricia Schulte (Zoology)

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    Poul Sorensen (Pathology & Laboratory Medicine)

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    Rashid Sumaila (Institute for Oceans & Fisheries)

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    Michael Whitlock (Zoology)

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    Juncheng Wei (Mathematics)

2018

  • Uri Ascher (Computer Science)

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    Andrea Damascelli (Physics & Astronomy)

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    Shoukat Dedhar (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)

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    Peter Dauvergne (Political Science)

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    Bryan Gick (Linguistics)

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    Daniel Justice (First Nations and Indigenous Studies)

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    Shawn Mansfield (Wood Science)

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    Christopher Overall (Oral Biological and Medical Sciences)

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    Thomas Oxland (Mechanical Engineering/Orthopaedics)

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