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The Dr. Joy Calkin student award ($5,000 each) supports a senior Indigenous student (4th year undergraduate degree in Fall 2026 or graduate student, any year) working in an academic program or advocacy work focusing on children’s and young people’s lives and/or children’s rights. Preference will be given to students studying early childhood and children’s rights (generally children under six years of age).

The award is open to:
•Senior undergraduate Indigenous students (entering 4th year in Fall 2026), or
•Graduate Indigenous students (any year)

Any discipline is eligible as long as student’s work addresses a rights-related issue experienced by children and young people for their capstone projects, honours theses, graduate theses, or advocacy initiatives. Examples of eligible topics include - but are not limited to:
•Children and caring environments
•Digital Lives
•Children’s rights education and schooling
•Climate driven disasters
•Identity and belonging
•Child welfare
•Food insecurity
•Mental health
•Forced migration and mobility
•Living with disability
•Gender-based violence and harmful practices
•Child and family policies