James Ford » Awards

Honour Young Innovator Award from the Government of Canada for outstanding achievements in research and science outreach 2007
$81 000 Postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) 2008-2010
$3500 Funding to develop climate change indicators. Consulting work with Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (the national Inuit organization) 2007
$4000 Facilitation of climate change planning workshop in Atlin BC. Consulting work for the Northern Climate Exchange 2007
$75 000 Postdoctoral scholarship awarded from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 2006-2008
$4000 Funding received to represent Canada as an emerging scholar to brief the symposium on Contaminants and Arctic Human Health, organized by the Human Health Assessment Group of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program and the International Arctic Science Committee 2006
$1000 Invitation to present at, and funding received to attend, the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, Ottawa, March 2006 2006
$1000 Winner of student paper competition at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, Ottawa, March 2006 2006
$9000 Funding received from Inuit owned airlines First Air and Kenn Borek Air, and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (the national Inuit organization) for presentation of ‘Inuit and Climate Change’ display in collaboration with an Inuk hunter at the United Nations Conference of the Parties, Montreal, November 2005 2005
$60 000 Awarded Commonwealth Scholarship (declined) 2005
$1500 Scholarship to present at Rapid Landscape Change in the Arctic conference, Whitehorse, June 2005 2005
$500 Jeanne X. Kasperson student paper award at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Denver, March 2005 2005
$1000 Latornell Travel Grant Award, University of Guelph 2005
$3000 Scholarship to present a paper at the Northern Research Forum Open Meeting, Yellowknife, September 2004 2004
$5000 Seed Grant from the Integrated Management Node of the Ocean Management Research Network for preliminary field work in Nunavut 2004
$3000 ARCUS Scholarship to present a paper at the Human Dimensions of Arctic Change conference, Seattle, October 2003 2003
$65 000 Rhodes House Scholarship to study in Canada 2002-2004
$4000 University of Guelph entrance scholarship 2002
Honour Best MSc Thesis Prize, University of Oxford 2001
Honour MSc wih Distinction, University of Oxford 2001