Discover the winning projects of the 2025 Coalition Publica scholarships!
Earlier this year, we announced the launch of the fourth edition of the Coalition Publica scholarship program. Designed for early-career researchers and students, this program aims to support projects or research that address the scholarly communication system and research dissemination, or that apply digital humanities methods to the corpus developed by Coalition Publica.
The submitted projects were evaluated on the basis of the relevance of their research topics and their originality. The grants were awarded in accordance with the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion, and we are pleased to announce today the list of the six winning projects.
This scholarship program is made possible as part of SSHRC’s Pan-Canadian Access to Knowledge Initiative.
Scholarship recipients:
Analyse des usages d’outils d’Intelligence Artificielle générative dans le processus de conception et de réalisation d’un projet de recherche doctorale
Evarice Benoit Djieufack – PhD, Université Laval
Podcasting and Scholarly Communities
Alison Innes – PhD, Brock University
Setting the Record Straight: Musical theatre bootlegs as a case study for counter-archiving
Jasmin Macarios – Master’s, University of Ottawa
Catalysts for change?: Understanding journal declarations of independence and their effects on scholarly communication
Saskia van Walsum – PhD, University of Ottawa
Identifying Different Dimensions of Interdisciplinary Research and Corresponding Impact
Summer Wilson – Master’s, Dalhousie University
Investigating Cross-Domain Integration as Information Practice
Ciara Zogheib – PhD, University of Toronto
Discover the winning projects of the 2025 Coalition Publica Student Editor Grants!
This year Coalition Publica was pleased to partner with the organizing committee of the 2025 Student Journal Forum to award two grants to support student editors in developing their skills and implementing best practices in digital scholarly publishing within their journals. The submitted projects were evaluated on the basis of the relevance and feasibility of project description to the journal’s proposed objectives and were awarded in accordance with the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to announce the two winning projects and highlight excerpts from their submitted project descriptions.
Student Editor Grant recipients
Valerie Sytnik, Submissions Editor, Spectrum (University of Alberta)
(In collaboration with Spectrum editorial team and Crystal Snyder, Undergraduate Research Initiative Team Lead)
Spectrum is an interdisciplinary, academic, student-run journal at the University of Alberta dedicated to publishing undergraduate research from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, fine arts, health sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. The journal publishes various formats of work, from research and review articles to creative works and multimedia, as long as they are driven by clear research questions. Spectrum is geared toward current undergraduate students and recent graduates (within 1 year) from any post-secondary institution, making it an accessible platform for emerging scholars across disciplines. Spectrum is committed to open access publication under Creative Commons licenses and is one of the few undergraduate research journals in Canada that is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
This grant will fund the project, “Creating a Stimulating Learning Environment for All: Ongoing Training for Authors and Peer Reviewers”. This project will address the needs of novice authors and reviewers participating in the scholarly publication process for the first time. While Spectrum has a well-established training program for editors, we have identified a need to extend structured, high-quality training to our authors and peer reviewers.
Jack O’Grady, Editor-in-Chief, The iJournal (University of Toronto)
(In collaboration with The iJournal editorial team and Malayna Bernstein, Faculty Advisor)
The iJournal is an open-access, multi-disciplinary academic journal, publishing original student research spanning fields including library and information science, museum studies, human-centered data science, user experience design, archival studies, and technology studies. The iJournal is run by graduate students at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. We strive to publish the exemplary work of students and recent alumni from across Canada, showcasing both the breadth and the interconnectedness of information and museum studies.
This grant will support an initiative to produce an audio summary and discussion accompanying each of our bi-annual issues. The aim of this project is two-fold: to support knowledge mobilization by providing an audio discussion of the journal that makes accessing the published articles’ ideas and insights easier for every member of their audience; as well as providing additional professionalization and promotional opportunities by involving team members and authors in the production of this audio discussion.
