Call for Nominations: 2027 Pickering Award
The Pickering Award recognizes a Canadian scholar who has made exceptional and sustained contributions to developmental psychology through leadership, mentorship, and scholarship. The award is typically presented annually to a senior scholar whose contributions have had a lasting impact on the field.
Nomination Requirements
A complete nomination package must include the following:
- Nomination letter: A letter from a scholarly peer, colleague, or supervisor outlining the nominee’s qualifications and contributions. Self-nominations are not permitted. The letter should address each of the award’s three pillars:
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- Leadership: Contributions through senior or leading roles in learned societies, community organizations, intersectoral partnerships, government agencies, NGOs, or other relevant academic and non-academic organizations.
- Mentorship: Contributions to the supervision and mentorship of undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career scholars.
- Scholarship: Significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the developmental psychology literature.
- Curriculum vitae: A current CV for the nominee.
- Letter of acceptance: A letter from the nominee confirming their acceptance of the nomination and willingness to deliver the Pickering Lecture, if selected.
- Trainee testimonials: Letters of support from current or former students and trainees. There are no restrictions on the number, length, or format of testimonials, and group-authored letters are welcome. The adjudication committee places considerable weight on these testimonials when evaluating the mentorship criterion.
Award Presentation
The recipient will be invited to deliver the annual Pickering Lecture in Ottawa, Ontario on a mutually agreed-upon date. In years that coincide with our quadrennial Development conference, the lecture will be presented as part of the conference program.
Submission Deadline
Please submit the complete nomination package as a single PDF to info@pickeringcentre.org by December 18, 2026, 11:59 p.m. ET. Nominators and nominees will be notified of the outcome by February 2027.
Selection Process
Nominations will be reviewed by a subcommittee of faculty representatives from the Pickering Centre for Research in Human Development. Any representative with a conflict of interest involving a nominee will be excluded from the adjudication process.
For questions about the award or nomination process, please contact the Pickering Centre at info@pickeringcentre.org.
