Bednarski created a large number of training opportunities for Canadian students to live, study, and work in the UK. Building on his initial partnership with Queen's University, Bednarski expanded his network, Environments of Change, to include an initial working group of thirty scholars and fifteen agencies (not-for-profits, educational sector partners, and private-sector partners). Environments of Change aims to find ways of using emerging digital technologies to explore the historical relationship between natural environment and human culture in late medieval England. As part of that effort, Bednarski launched Canada's first digital humanities lab dedicated to the study of climate and culture, the Medieval DRAGEN (Digital Research in Arts and Graphical Environmental Networks) Lab at St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo. In April 2019, Bednarski received a SSHRC Partnership Grant valued at $2,500,000 which augments partner cash and in-kind contributions for a total initial operating value of $10,000,000. This amount of research funding places Bednarski as one of the most successful public grant applicants working in the discipline of History in Canada. Career Upon completing his academic formation, Bednarski taught as a contract faculty member in the History Department at York University. Between 2004 and 2006, he also worked concurrently as a high school teacher at St. Michael's College School, an elite Catholic preparatory school for boys founded by the Congregation of St. Basil and located in downtown Toronto. In 2006, he was appointed Assistant Professor of History at St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo. In 2011, he was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor. In 2017, he was promoted to Full Professor. Bednarski also holds associate faculty appointments at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto and in the History Department at Queen's University. Awards & distinction In addition to receiving a high level of research funding, Bednarski has won two teaching awards and other distinctions. Notably, in 2011, he was the recipient of the University of Waterloo's Distinguished Teacher Award and, in 2017, of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education's D2L Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning. In 2019, he was the recipient of the Ontario Council for University Faculty Association's (OCUFA) Lorimer Award for Collective Bargaining. References External links St Jerome's University History Faculty Medieval Technology 1973 births Canadian male film actors Canadian male television actors Canadian male voice actors Living people Canadian medievalists Male actors from Montreal York