SCVN’s Ghada Youssef Wins SSHRC’s Storytellers Challenge

We are delighted to announce that SCVN research assistant Ghada Youssef has been selected as one of the five winners of the 2026 Storytellers Challenge, presented by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada!

This challenge was open to postsecondary students, inviting them to show Canadians, in up to three minutes or 300 words, how social sciences and humanities research is impacting our lives, our world and our future for the better. For SCVN’s entry, research assistant Ghada Youssef produced a 3-minute video summarizing the project’s goals and outputs. She was selected to join the top twenty finalists in Montreal, Quebec this June to present the SCVN project to a live audience and jury at the Storytellers Showcase and conference. 

Ghada’s selection has since been featured in the UVic News and the VPRI Bulletin article ‘Storytellers on screen’ where she shared that SCVN was among her motivations to pursue her doctoral studies: “I was very excited that the project uses visual mediums to approach social justice topics—it felt like it sat squarely within what I’m already passionate about.” 

Congratulations to Ghada and the media and communications team on this achievement! You can watch the winning entry on the SSHRC YouTube Channel below: