John Willinsky examines the social bases of literacy and explores ways to create a more critically literate society. He has a deep understanding of the relationship between and among language, literacy, technology and the curriculum. His work on education theory and practice has affected schools and changed the teaching of his colleagues. He has produced work on language teaching in the schools, the origins of the Oxford English Dictionary, the legacy of imperialism in education and the possibilities of the new technologies. His current work focuses on public knowledge and the social sciences.

LONG CITATION J. Douglas Willms is Professor of Education and Director of the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy at the University of New Brunswick. A single question drives the large and varied research program of Doug Willms - What can we do as a society to improve our children’s cognitive, behavioural, and health outcomes while reducing inequalities associated with family background? Willms takes a life-course approach to this question which considers the trajectory or course that children follow from birth to adulthood, and the roles that families, schools, and communities play in shaping these trajectories. He is particularly interested in whether social policies or wide-scale interventions can alter children’s trajectories such that more children stay “on track” during the critical periods in their development. Willms’ personal mission, is to conduct policy research aimed at improving the education and care of Canadian children and youth, to contribute to the training of social scientists in quantitative research methods, and to support low-income countries in their efforts to build research capacity in child development. SHORT CITATION Doug Willms is dedicated to conducting policy research aimed at improving the education and care of Canadian children and youth, to contributing to the training of social scientists in quantitative research methods, and to supporting low-income countries in their efforts to build research capacity in child development. Willms is recognized internationally for his efforts at accomplishing all three of these aims, but what distinguishes him from other scholars has been his ability to integrate high quality research with wide-scale national and international training programs, and to translate the findings of the research into policy and practice.

WILSON, Catharine - Department of History, University of Guelph Catharine Wilson is an internationally regarded rural historian who has challenged previous conceptions of Canadian settlement and opened new avenues of historical research. Employing laconic, under-utilized sources and interdisciplinary perspectives, she reveals profound insights into everyday life, family strategies, neighbourhood networks, and cultural practices of 19th and 20th century people. Her award-winning scholarship and public engagement have pioneered the study of Rural History in Canada, effectively putting Canada on the world’s Rural History map.

WILSON, Catharine - Department of History, University of Guelph Catharine Wilson est une historienne rurale considérée à l'échelle internationale qui a mis au défi les conceptions antérieures de la colonisation canadienne et a ouvert de nouvelles avenues de recherche historique. En utilisant des sources laconiques, sous-utilisées et des perspectives interdisciplinaires, elle révèle des idées profondes sur la vie quotidienne, les stratégies familiales, les réseaux de quartier et les pratiques culturelles des 19e et 20e siècles. Sa bourse primée et son engagement public ont été les pionniers de l'étude de l'histoire rurale au Canada, mettant efficacement le Canada sur la carte d'histoire rurale du monde.

Fred Wilson has established himself as one of the most influential and widely respected philosophical scholars at work in Canada. He has built an international reputation principally in two intersecting research areas: the philosophy of science and the history of British empiricism. All of his work has been marked by a prodigious command of the literature, a meticulous attention to detail, a high standard of argumentative rigour, and the uncovering of novel ways of resolving longstanding controversies. He has made an enormous and quite distinctive contribution to philosophical scholarship in Canada.

Roger Wilson is the world authority on the archaeology of Roman Sicily. For over thirty years his ground-breaking books and articles have reshaped our understanding of the province and its complex cultural interactions. He has also conducted fundamental research on Sicilian mosaics in their Mediterranean context. His meticulous excavations have shed new light through pioneering use of scientific techniques on topics such as ancient Sicily’s rural economy and human health.

Roger Wilson est le plus grand spécialiste mondial de l’archéologie de la Sicile romaine. Depuis plus de trente ans ses livres et articles novateurs ont remodelé notre compréhension de la province et de ses interactions culturelles complexes. Il a également mené des recherches fondamentales sur les mosaïques siciliennes dans leur contexte méditerranéen. Ses fouilles méticuleuses ont apporté un éclairage nouveau grâce à l’utilisation pionnière de techniques scientifiques sur des sujets tels que l’économie rurale et la santé humaine de l’ancienne Sicile.

Anne Wilson is a Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology who studies identity over time. Her interests include autobiographical memory, beliefs about time and change, and how future cognition affects decision making, long-term goal pursuit, and motivation. Understanding how humans negotiate temporal challenges can promote better choices in health, relationships, environmental sustainability, and well-being over the lifespan. Her work is highly cited in her discipline and well-received by the public.

Anne Wilson est titulaire d’une chaire de recherche du Canada en psychologie sociale et étudie l’évolution de l’identité. Elle s’intéresse, entre autres, à la mémoire autobiographique, aux croyances sur le temps et l’évolution et à la façon dont la cognition affecte la prise de décision, la poursuite d’objectifs à long terme et la motivation. Comprendre comment les humains abordent les difficultés liées au temps peut permettre de faire de meilleurs choix en matière de santé, de relations, de développement durable et de bien-être. Ses travaux sont très souvent cités au sein de sa discipline et très bien accueillis par le public.

WINNE, Philip H. – Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University Philip Winne is a pioneering theorist and methodologist contributing to research on self-regulated learning and learning analytics. He launched the cognitive medational paradigm in educational psychology and sparked a methodological shift toward gathering trace data that reveal learning skills and strategies as process events. His team engineers state-of-the-art software to support online learning while simultaneously assembling big data that are fueling advances in 21st century learning science.

Philip Winne est un théoricien pionnier de la recherche sur l’autorégulation de l’apprentissage et l’analyse de l’apprentissage. Il a lancé le paradigme de médiation cognitive en psychologie éducative et a permis de marquer un tournant méthodologique majeur dans la collecte de données centrées sur les traces révélant des compétences et stratégies d’apprentissage comme les événements de processus. Son équipe, à la fine pointe de la technologie de l’apprentissage en ligne, contribue largement au progrès des sciences de l’apprentissage du 21e siècle.

Catharine Winstanley explores the neurobiology underlying impulsivity and decision making, in order to improve treatments for addiction and compulsive disorders. Her work shows that pairing wins with casinoinspired sounds and lights during gambling simulations increases risky choice in rats and humans, and also alters the sensitivity of the dopamine system. This research may help explain why electronic gambling games are so addictive, and why drug and gambling addictions often co-occur.

Catharine Winstanley étudie la neurobiologie qui sous-tend l’impulsivité et la prise de décision, dans le but d’améliorer les traitements contre la dépendance et les troubles compulsifs. Son travail démontre que l’association des gains avec des sons et des lumières de type casino pendant les simulations de jeu augmente la tendance à prendre des décisions risquées chez les rats et les humains, et modifie aussi la sensibilité du système dopaminergique. Cette recherche peut aider à expliquer pourquoi les jeux de hasard électroniques sont si addictifs et pourquoi la toxicomanie et la dépendance au jeu coexistent bien souvent.

Dr. Meghan Winters is a CIHR Applied Public Health Research Chair in Gender and Sex in Healthy Cities. She is a population health researcher leading intersectoral scholarship to understand how city design impacts mobility, safety, and health, and also equity considerations within cities’ policy and plans. She works with decision-makers and community groups at intersection of health, urban planning, and transportation to generate actionable evidence and tools to shape livable, sustainable, and equitable cities.

Meghan Winters est titulaire d’une chaire de recherche appliquée en santé publique des IRSC sur le genre et le sexe dans les villes en santé. Chercheuse en santé des populations, elle dirige des études intersectorielles visant à comprendre comment la conception des villes influe sur la mobilité, la sécurité et la santé, ainsi que les considérations d’équité prises en compte dans les politiques et les plans des villes. Elle travaille avec des décideurs et des groupes communautaires sur des questions touchant à la fois à la santé, à l’urbanisme et au transport afin de générer des preuves et des outils exploitables pour façonner des villes vivables, durables et équitables.

WISE, Daniel – Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University Daniel Wise is one of the world’s top geometric group theorists. His fundamental contributions stand at the core of the most important development in geometry and topology since the proof of the Poincaré Conjecture, namely the proof of Thurston’s virtually fibered conjecture for hyperbolic three-manifolds. The profound impact and originality of Wise’s work have been recognized through several major awards, including the Veblen Prize of the American Mathematical Society.

WISE, Daniel – Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University Daniel Wise est un des meilleurs théoriciens des groupes géométriques au monde. Ses contributions fondamentales sont au centre du développement le plus important en géométrie et topologie depuis la preuve de la conjecture de Poincaré, a savoir celle de la conjecture virtuellement fibrée de Thurston sur les trois-variétés hyperboliques. L’impact profond des travaux de Wise a été reconnus par plusieurs prix majeurs, dont le Prix Veblen de l’American Mathematical Society.

WISHART, David - Departments of Biological Sciences and Computing Science, University of Alberta David Wishart is a scientist at the University of Alberta. He has made important research contributions to structural biology and metabolomics. In the 1990s, he discovered fast and efficient methods to help determine protein structures. In the mid 2000s, he directed the Human Metabolome Project, a multi-year project that helped give birth to the field of metabolomics. The resources he created are now accessed by millions of users each year.

David Wishart est un scientifique à l'Université de l'Alberta. Il a apporté d'importantes contributions de recherche à la biologie structurale et à la métabolomique. Dans les années 1990, il a découvert des méthodes rapides et efficaces pour aider à déterminer les structures protéiques. Au milieu des années 2000, il a dirigé le Human Metabolome Project, un projet pluriannuel qui a aidé à donner naissance au domaine de la métabolomique. Les ressources qu'il a créées sont maintenant accessibles par des millions d'utilisateurs chaque année.