In 2024/25, ³Ô¹ÏÍø received $3,012,103 from the Research Support Fund. The grant was allocated as follows:
Research Facilities
- Institutional Performance Objective: Maintain quality research space for faculty and student research.
- Indicator: Faculty and student research spaces are operational throughout the year.
- Reported Outcome: 66,367 square feet of research space maintained and operational across all of ³Ô¹ÏÍø.
Research Resources
- Institutional Performance Objective: Maintain the level of institutional support related to dissemination of faculty research through our .
- Institutional Performance Indicator: The number of downloads of faculty research from the institutional repository.
- Reported Outcome: Supported 523,125 downloads of faculty research from the institutional repository.
Regulatory Requirements and Accreditation
- Institutional Performance Objective: Maintain annual reporting compliance as mandated by the Tri-Council policy statement.
- Institutional Performance Indicator: All active protocols submit the required annual report.
- Output: A portion of the RSF used to support online application and tracking system.
- Reported Outcome: Remained compliant with Tri-Council policies for Research Ethics Board.
Management and Administration of an Institution’s Research Enterprise
- Institutional Performance Objective: Continue to support Tri-Council grant applications and process Tri-Council awards.
- Institutional Performance Indicator: The number and quality of Tri-Council grant applications being submitted by ³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty and the number of successful awards.
- Output: A portion of the RSF invested in the salaries of ³Ô¹ÏÍø's research facilitators, research finance team and knowledge mobilization officer.
- Outcomes Reported at Year End: Supported the submission of grants totalling over $26 million, including 96 Tri-Council grants. ³Ô¹ÏÍø is continuing to see success rates above the national average for the SSHRC Partnership Development Grants, Partnership Engage Grants and Insight Development Grants.
Intellectual Property and Knowledge Mobilization
- Institutional Performance Objective: Maintain the level of institutional support for industry-led projects.
- Institutional Performance Indicator: The number of new industry-led projects initiated.
- Output: A portion of the RSF invested in university-industry liaison specialist's salary and activities.
- Reported Outcome: The industry-liaison specialist facilitated partnered research funding including industry contracts, NSERC Alliance Grants and related Mitacs applications.