Our 2026 winners cover research into Canada’s Defence Research Board’s psychiatric research on Indigenous people, police assisted mental health response, and the social control of “morality” at the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital..
Our 2025 winners are researching the transition from lobotomy to early psychopharmaceuticals, mad art ecologies, writings from and about francophone women’s hospitalization in asylum, conversion therapy at CAMH, and the life and legacy of Mary Huestis Pengilly
Our 2024 award recipients are looking at Adolf Meyer’s ideas in Canadian psychiatry, psychiatric consumer/survivor businesses in Ontario, and geographical data related to confinement in Toronto’s Asylum for the Insane.
