Launch 2026 – 5th Edition : 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.

 

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

 

Launch: 2026 Contest – 5th Edition

 

The Bonnie Swaine Recognition Awards aims to recognize up to four (4) Clinician/Healthcare Professionals members, one (1) per CRIR site (IURDPM of the CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, LLMRC of the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal, JHR of the CISSS de Laval, INLB of the CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre).

The CRIR Scientific Directorate will receive nominations for potential awardees from participating CRIR sites by September 21, 2026, and will officially announce the names of the winning clinical staff members at the CRIR Annual General Meeting (AGM), which will be held in person at the Gingras-Lindsay Rehabilitation Institute, on Thursday, November 26, 2026.

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.

Contest procedure at your site

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 establishment is responsible for choosing how to select candidates (internal competition, selection by local committee members, etc.).

The local committee will be led by the site director (CRIR site) and clinical research coordinators (CRCs). The CRIR’s Scientific Directorate 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 2026 Recognition Awards competition. Please note that this person’s name will remain embargoed until the CRIR AGM.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA 

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

Awards presented to winners by CRIR administrative headquarters

• A prize of $100
• Official certificate

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:

1. 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.
2. 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).
3. 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.
4. 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.

 

Each site of CRIR is responsible for choosing how to select candidates (internal contest, selection by local committee members, etc.). Please note: CRIR site 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 21, 2026, at the latest. The CRIR’s scientific direction will ensure the validity of the applications.

• Launch of the 2026 contest by CRIR administrative headquarters: the week of 15 June
• Announcement of the internal contest at CRIR site: 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 26, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 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).

 

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Contest: The Bonnie Swaine Recognition Award 2026 – PDF format (pdf)

 

Good luck to all!

 

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

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CRIR | June 11, 2026