Selected Awards and Distinctions
"Dr. Schneider’s research offers a better understanding of how social
media has changed police and criminal justice response to crime and
provides a renewed emphasis on the necessity to due process in a
world where information about a criminal event is available immediately to the public."
- The Canadian Criminal Justice Association
I have received national and international award recognition for my research contributions and public
service and more than a dozen teaching awards and related honours. Selected examples include:
Research Awards
Midwest Sociological Society Distinguished Book Award (2024)
For Defining Sexual Misconduct: Power, Media, and #MeToo in recognition of a book “which makes an exemplary, original, and substantive contribution to sociological understanding."
Brandon University Senate Award for Excellence in Research (2022)
University-wide award that “recognizes and honours those individuals who excel in scholarship and research.”
Emerald Literati Award: Outstanding Author Contribution Award (2020)
“2017 Couch-Stone Symposium Keynote Address: The Interaction Order in the 21st Century and the Case of Police Legitimacy” (published Studies in Symbolic Interaction in 2019) award given in recognition of “authors who have contributed something new or of significant value to the body of knowledge, either in terms of approach or subject matter.”
Community Service Awards
Brandon University Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Community Service (2024)
Recognizes “an employee of Brandon University who demonstrates an exemplary commitment to community service.”
Public Education Awards
Canadian Criminal Justice Association Public Education Award (2017)
Recognizes “persons who significantly advance public understanding in Canada of the need for, and elements of, a humane, effective criminal justice system.”
University of British Columbia, Okanagan Provost’s Award for Public Education through Media (2010)
Awarded for “actively and creatively sharing research expertise via the news media.
Distinctions
Charles Horton Cooley Book Award, Honorable Mention (2023)
Defining Sexual Misconduct: Power, Media, and #MeToo in recogntion of "a book that represents an important contribution to the perspective of symbolic interaction."
Defining Sexual Misconduct Informed Military Policy Amendments (2023)
Defining Sexual Misconduct: Power, Media, and #MeToo informed policy change that removed "sexual misconduct" from Canadian military policy instead using "sexual assault."
Defining Sexual Misconduct Listed in The Hill Times Best Books of 2022
“List is based on Canada’s non-fiction bestsellers’ lists, book reviews, opinions,
and publishers’ lists."