The focus of the
Award will be on social justice, and especially on issues related to poverty
as experienced by marginalized peoples in Manitoba. The research will normally
have included an analysis of the causes of the condition and/or study of
initiatives that have been implemented to promote social change.
The research might have been
done as a thesis or practicum or as an independent research project, and
it may have used either a quantitative or qualitative methodology.
For the Award which will
be presented in the winter semester of the academic year, the
research must either have been published or must have been
accepted as part of a degree conferred at university Convocation.
The recipient of the Award
will receive a Certificate of Merit and $500 which will be presented at
a public forum to be organized by the Jesuit Centre for Catholic Studies.
At the forum, the recipient will give a public address about the research,
and this will be followed by a reaction panel.
Applications for the Award
must be submitted to Dr. David Creamer,
S.J., Jesuit Centre for Catholic Studies, St. Paul's College, University
of Manitoba.
Previous
Winners:
March 27th, 2000: to The Social
Planning Council of Winnipeg for its report titled, "The Manitoba 1999
Child Poverty Report Card: An Agenda for Action."
March 27th, 2001: to Dr. Tannis
Peikoff, for her Thesis titled, "Anglican Missionaries and Governing the
Self: An Encounter with Aboriginal Peoples in Western Canada, 1820-1865.
March 25th, 2002: to Iris Griffin,
for her M.S.W. Thesis titled, "The Practical Application of Traditional
Aboriginal Healing Practices as a Restorative Justice Process: A
Case Study of the Helen Betty Osborne Story."
