There, in a partnership he negotiated between his own institution, the BISC, and Queen’s University, he developed a proposal for a research partnership that began to explore the relationship between climate change, land use, and settlement on the Herstmonceux estate. In 2013, he applied for and received four-years of seed funding in the form of a $200,000 SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (PDG). With those funds, 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. Upon completing his academic formation, Bednarski taught as a contract faculty member in the History Department at York University. Between 2004 – 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. 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 theUniversity 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.