Grants
- 2021 – Precarity and information marginalization: Exploring how academic casualization complicates workplace information practices (Primary Investigator)
- Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council ($66,661)
- 2021 – Defending our cyberspace: AI-powered search engine for cyber threat intelligence (Co-Investigator)
- Alliance Grant, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council ($1,240,275)
- 2020 – Precarity and progression during a pandemic: Early career academics’ experiences during COVID-19 (Primary Investigator)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grants Program, McGill University ($5,000 CAD)
- 2012 – Information Literacy Alberta Assessment Pilot Project (Co-Investigator)
- Alberta Rural Development Network (Competitive Grant for Information Literacy Alberta Assessment Pilot Project in conjunction with University of Alberta Augustana Campus, MacEwan University and Red Deer College), Government of Alberta ($10,000 CAD)
Selected awards
- 2019 – James M. Cretsos Leadership Award, Association for Information Science and Technology
- 2016-2018 – New Leaders Award – Association for Information Science and Technology ($1000 USD)
- 2014-2016 – Canada Graduate Scholarship – SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada ($20,000 CAD per year for 2 years)
- 2014 – SIG USE Student Conference Travel Award, Association for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group Information Needs Seeking and Use (SIG USE) ($500 USD)
- 2013 – Student Conference Award,School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University ($800 AUD)
- 2013-2016 – Australian Postgraduate Award International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Charles Sturt University ($24, 653 AUD per year for 2.5 years and waived tuition)
- 2012-2015 – Faculty of Education Scholarship, Charles Sturt University ($23, 728 AUD per year for 3 years and waived tuition)
- 2010 – Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Nexen Scholars Program (Competitive), Mount Royal University ($1500 CAD)
- 2008 – Mary Louise Imrie Graduate Student Award, Government of Alberta ($500 CAD)
- 2008 – Graduate Student Scholarship, Government of Alberta ($2000 CAD)
- 2007 – Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada ($17,500 CAD)
- 2007 – Walter H Johns Graduate Fellowship, University of Alberta ($4949 CAD)
- 2006 – Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship – Master’s, Government of Alberta ($7000 CAD)
Rebekah (Becky) Willson 