Selected Gainforth Awards and Distinctions

2023 Health Researcher of the Year Award. University of British Columbia. 

2022 Dave Lostchuck Memorial Excellence Award  Awarded for excellence in spinal research. Canadian / American Spinal Research Association.

2019 Outstanding Revised Textbook in Social Sciences. Routledge. Best Revised Textbook 2019.

2019 Award for Outstanding Leadership MITACS Canada. Professor Nominee.

2016 Top 10 Papers in Theories and Techniques of Behaviour. Change Society of Behavioral Medicine Theories and Techniques of Behaviour Change Special Interest Group.

2014 – 2016 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Selected Awards for Trainees 

2023 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Award. Trainee: Femke Hoekstra. University of British Columbia.

2023 Researcher of the Year. Trainee: Femke Hoekstra. University of British Columbia.

2022 – 2024 SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. Trainee: Maji Shaikh. University of British Columbia Okanagan.

2022 Researcher of the Year. Trainee: Rhyann McKay. University of British Columbia.

2021 – 2024 CIHR CGS Doctoral Award. Trainee: Kelsey Wuerstl. University of British Columbia.

2021 – 2015 SSHRC Doctoral Award. Trainee: Emily Giroux. University of British Columbia.

2021 – 2023 Craig Neilsen Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Trainee: Femke Hoekstra.

2019 Researcher of the Year – Master’s Level. Trainee: Emily Giroux. University of British Columbia.