Madness Canada helps bring new voices, perspectives, and insights into the public understanding of mental health history. Our awards fund projects with contemporary relevance, community connection, and a focus on understudied histories or creative research approaches.
Established by Madness Canada in memory of E.M. “Lil” Hewton and Dr. John D.M. Griffin, and originally awarded by the Friends of the CAMH Archives, the Hewton & Griffin Awards support innovative archival research exploring the Canadian history of psychiatry, mental health, addiction, and mad activism. Annual grants provide up to $5,000 to students and people with lived experience.
Madness Canada, dedicated to the history of Canadian psychiatry, mental health and addiction, have established two endowment funds (formerly awarded by the Friends of the CAMH Archives). These endowments annually provide funding in memory of their late colleagues, Ms. E.M. (Lil) Hewton and Dr. John D.M. Griffin, OC.
Our 2024 research funding recipients: Alex Myrick, “Adolf Meyer’s Ideas in Canadian Psychiatry, 19th and 20th Centuries.” Danielle Landry, “Psychiatric Consumer/survivor Businesses in Ontario, 1985-2005.” Suki Lee, “Analysis of Geographical Data Related to Confinement in the Asylum for the Insane, Toronto.”
And the winners are…
And the winners are…
