Launch 2025 : The Bonnie Swaine Recognition Awards | Partnership and Knowledge Mobilization – Clinician/Healthcare Professionals

These awards is a distinction created by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal (CRIR) in 2021, in honour of Bonnie Swaine, CRIR’s scientific co-director from 2010 to 2020. CRIR’s scientific co-director from 2010 to 2020. She has empowered numerous clinicians and healthcare professionals in the field of clinical research. She does this by supervising projects that emerge from relevant inquiries or by engaging in action-research embedded in innovative practices.

Dr Bonnie Swaine

Throughout her tenure at CRIR, she provided tangible solutions and collaborated with teams and clinicians and healthcare professionals, including staff and managers, to ensure that the research culture gained its true significance within our partner institutions.

The Bonnie Swaine Recognition Awards | Partnership and Knowledge Mobilization are awarded to clinical members of CRIR who have made outstanding contributions to the field to partnerships and knowledge mobilization as part of CRIR’s mission over the past five years.

OBJECTIves

To recognize the contribution of Clinician/Healthcare Professionals in the development of partnerships and the realization of CRIR’s research mission.
To promote the outreach of partnership research and the participation of Clinician /Healthcare Professionals in the mobilization of knowledge*.

*Knowledge mobilization encompasses a continuum of sharing-dissemination-implementation (Nilsen, 2015). Knowledge mobilization involves capturing and exchanging the right information with the right people, in the right format and at the right time, in order to support the decision-making process of users, their families, caregivers and stakeholders.

Philippe Archambault, O.T. Ph.D. Claudine Auger, O.T. Ph.D.
Scientific Co-Director, CRIR Scientific Co-Director, CRIR

To find out more about this award and previous winners, click on this link.

Launch: 2025 Contest

The Bonnie Swaine Recognition Awards is aims to recognize a maximum of six (6) Clinician/Healthcare Professionals members, i.e. one (1) finalist with honourable mention per CRIR establishment, including partners (CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île de Montréal, CIUSSS West-Central Montreal, CISSS de Laval, CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre, CISSS des Laurentides, CISSS de Lanaudière).

CRIR’s scientific direction will receive the nominations of the person to be considered as laureates from participating CRIR institutions no later than September 30, 2025, and will officially announce the names of the winning Clinicians/Healthcare Professionals, at the CRIR’s Annual General Meeting (AGM, which will be held in person on November 27, 2025.

The contributions of these recipients will be recognized throughout the year, both by CRIR’s administrative headquarters and by their respective institutions, in a manner defined locally.

Procedure

Each CRIR establishment that chooses to participate will set up a local committee to evaluate candidates from among its Clinician/Healthcare Professional members, according to four evaluation criteria (see below). It should be noted that each site is responsible for choosing how to select candidates (internal competition, selection by local committee members, etc.). We invite you to stay tuned to your establishment’s internal communications to make sure you don’t miss out on this contest.

The local committee will be led by the site director (CRIR establishments) and clinical research coordinators (CRCs). The CRIR’s scientific direction recommends that each local committee should have a diversified evaluation committee of 3 to 5 people, made up of researchers, managers and clinical staff.

After deliberation, the person in charge of the local committee will submit the name of the person to be considered as the winner of his or her establishment to CRIR’s administrative headquarters, as part of the Bonnie Swaine 2024 Recognition Awards competition. Please note that this person’s name will remain embargoed until the CRIR AGM.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible, a candidate must be a CRIR Clinician/Healthcare Professionals member in good standing at the time of application. Contact Sabine Leunens, CRIR administrative officer, at sleunens.crir@ssss.gouv.qc.ca to make sure.
CRIR Clinician/Healthcare Professionals member are not authorized to nominate themselves.

Awards presented to winners by CRIR administrative headquarters

A $100 gift card (card of your choice)
Official certificate
Special invitation to attend a recognition dinner with Bonnie Swaine, all the award winners and a representative of CRIR’s scientific direction.

Evaluation criteria

Each local committee will evaluate nominations from among their Clinician/Healthcare Professionals members according to four criteria that refer to the overall contributions made by the individual within the five last years preceding the competition.

This person, through his or her efforts in connection with CRIR-related projects and knowledge mobilization, has produced or demonstrated:

Impact on the practice environment: the candidate’s contributions has had a remarkable positive impact on the provision of care or services in their practice environment, or adds value to the services received by users. The number of practitioners or users concerned and the characteristics of the impact should be taken into account (duration, scope, measurable effects if relevant, etc.), or the innovative quality of his contribution even if the scope is less extensive, etc.
Impact on outreach: in particular, the candidate’s contributions has led to recognition beyond the walls of their home institution, thanks to their clinical or scientific activities, their presentations or their collaborations with partners in other institutions. The extent of the influence should be taken into account (within CRIR establishments, beyond CRIR, outside provincial or national borders).
Impact on the training of the next generation: the candidate’s contributions has had a remarkable impact on the training of students or trainees in their practice environment, the training of new employees, or the training of students in teaching institutions (e.g. when the person teaches at a university). The number of students/employees supervised, the quality of the training offered and the impact on the apprentice experience should all be taken into account.
Demonstrated ability to work intersectorally: the candidate’s contributions to their field is remarkable and recognized by several players from different backgrounds (clinical, academic, community, user, etc.). The number of collaborators who recognize the person’s contributions and the general appreciation of the person expressed by collaborators from different backgrounds should be taken into account.

CRIR’s administrative headquarters will provide each local committee with an evaluation grid.

Key information: Internal contest at CRIR establishments and announcement of winners

Each site is responsible for choosing how to select candidates (internal contest, selection by local committee members, etc.). Please note: CRIR institutions are not required to submit an application for each competition.

The members of the local committee will evaluate the applications and submit the file of the person to be considered as the winner to the CRIR administrative headquarters by September 30, 2025, at the latest. The CRIR’s scientific direction will ensure the validity of the applications.

Launch of the 2025 contest by CRIR administrative headquarters: June 23, 2025
Announcement of the internal contest at CRIR establishments: to be determined by each local committee. Stay tuned!
Official announcement of the winning CRIR Clinicians/Healthcare Professionals member: At the CRIR Annual General Meeting (AGM), which will take place in person at the Gingras-Lindsay Rehabilitation Institute on Thursday, November 27, 2025, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The winner must be present for the event.
The winner will be invited to attend the event to receive their award in front of the CRIR community.

Communications

To receive their prize, and for promotional purposes in CRIR’s communication tools, recipients will be asked to provide the following information at a later date:

Profession, exact title, contact details, CRIR establishment, number of years at CRIR, collaborating with which teams and which researcher members at CRIR.
A photograph (JPEG format).

DOWNLOAD THE 2025 LAUNCH DOCUMENT BELOW:

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Contest: The Bonnie Swaine Recognition Award 2025 – PDF format (pdf)

Good luck to all!