Recipients for 2023 grants to be announced in late June; Applications for 2024 available next spring

One of the important ways that The Carnegie Initiative works to ensure that hockey is inclusive, supportive, and welcoming to all is through the awarding of two academic grants each year. The CI Canada provides $25,000 CAD and The CI USA funds $25,000 USD to academic institutions to study the issues facing the sport of hockey and the underrepresented constituents it means to serve. These grants serve as catalysts to deepen the study of critical issues plaguing the sport and will propose solutions that change the culture of hockey.

The grant application deadline for 2023 has passed and submissions are currently under review. The recipients of this year’s grants will be announced in late June.

Applications for the 2024 cycle will be available next spring.

The CI first awarded the grants in 2022. Dr. Richard Norman, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ted Rogers School of Management and Future of Sport Lab, at Toronto Metropolitan University and his co-researchers are examining “New Frontiers: Assessing Equity, Acceptance, & Belonging Programming in Canadian Hockey.” 

The grant in the United States was given to Dr. Nicole Melton, Associate Department Chair & Associate Professor Co-Director, Laboratory for Inclusion and Diversity in Sport (LIDS), Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues are conducting “A Comprehensive Research Study of the State of Inclusion & Acceptance in College Hockey.”

The 2022 recipients presented their findings to date at The CI Summit held in Toronto earlier this year.

Photo: Dr. Richard Norman at The CI Summit on January 21, 2023