Nominations for the 2026 Pickering Award are now open!
A complete nomination package for this award includes:
- A nomination letter from a scholarly peer, colleague, or supervisor (self-nominations are not permitted) describing why the nominee deserves to be considered for the Pickering Award. The letter should address each of the three pillars:
(a) Leadership, including senior/leading roles in learned societies, community organizations, inter-sectoral partnerships, government agencies, NGOs, or other relevant scholarly and non-scholarly organizations;
(b) Mentorship, including supervision of under/graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, and mentorship of early-career scholars; and
(c) Scholarship, including theoretical and empirical contributions to the extant literature - The nominee’s curriculum vitae.
- A letter from the nominee indicating their acceptance of the nomination and willingness to deliver the Pickering Lecture if selected for the award.
- Testimonials from students and trainees. There is no number, length, or format requirement for testimonials, and group-authored letters are acceptable. The adjudication committee will heavily weigh testimonials in assessing the mentorship criterion.
The recipient of the Pickering Award will deliver the annual Pickering Lecture at Development 2026 in Montreal on June 3rd, 2026.
Nominations will be adjudicated by a subcommittee of faculty representatives from the Pickering Centre for Research in Human Development. Representatives who are in conflict of interest with any of the nominees will not participate in the adjudication process.
Nominations for the 2025 Pickering Award should be submitted electronically (as a single PDF document) to info@pickeringcentre.org by December 15, 2025, 11:59 ET. Applicants and nominees will be notified of the results in January, 2026.
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