We strive to be a global leader in research excellence across the Creative and Performing Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Geographical and Information Sciences.
By fostering collaboration, equity, and open inquiry, we create an environment where inclusive excellence and the recognition of different ways of knowing are cornerstones of high-impact research. Committed to academic freedom and cultivating the value of diverse perspectives, we support both independent scholarship and collective efforts to address complex societal challenges, ensuring our research has a lasting impact locally and globally.
Goals and actions
Action 1.1.1: Advance the ethical conduct of research and promote responsible and rigorous research practices, including in community-led and community-based research and emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, by supporting and adopting guidelines on appropriate best practices.
Action 1.1.2: Support funding applications and award nominations for research and creative practice by addressing gaps and leveraging underutilized federal and foundation funding and development opportunities.
Action 1.1.3: Enhance and expand opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows to develop research skills.
Action 1.1.4: Foster Faculty-wide conversations on the meaning of standards in research and creative practice in today's context, recognizing and embracing diverse approaches and knowledge systems.
Action 1.1.5: Celebrate and recognize research excellence by identifying and implementing initiatives to highlight student and faculty achievements.
Action 1.2.1: Foster Faculty-wide conversations on meaningful ways to recognize knowledge mobilization and public scholarship.
Action 1.2.2: Support researchers and community partners to enhance public engagement through the translation of research into publicly accessible and relevant forms of knowledge that will shape public policy, inform public debates, and contribute to solutions for complex societal issues.
Action 1.2.3: Promote community participation throughout the research lifecycle by identifying and implementing ways to meaningfully involve community members throughout the research process.
Action 1.2.4: Establish a new award in recognition of public scholarship.
Action 1.3.1: Foster Faculty-wide conversations on meaningful ways to recognize the importance and value of equity-led and equity-based research.
Action 1.3.2: Proactively identify and disseminate funding opportunities for historically and systemically marginalized groups, recognizing that equity work is a shared responsibility.
Action 1.3.3: Create opportunities for researchers from historically and systemically marginalized communities to connect, collaborate, and build a sense of community.
Action 1.3.4: Establish a new award in recognition of equity-based and equity-led research.
Action 1.4.1: Recognize and support the diversity of Indigenous research, including decolonization, reconciliation, Indigenous resurgence, community-identified priorities, data sovereignty, and Indigenous-led collaboration.
Action 1.4.2: Support community-based and community-led research practices that incorporate robust ethical considerations and appropriate collaboration frameworks.
Action 1.4.3: Create Faculty-wide forums led by Indigenous scholars, students and community members for knowledge sharing, with a focus on building on existing strengths, reducing barriers to Indigenous-led research, fostering relationships with Indigenous communities, and supporting Indigenous methodologies.
Action 1.4.4: Establish a new award in recognition of Indigenous-based and Indigenous-led research
Action 1.5.1: Facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue, practice, and collaboration by supporting research centres, cultural units, and emerging partnerships.
Action 1.5.2: Support interdisciplinary research funding applications and share funding opportunities.
Action 1.5.3: Support faculty-led interdisciplinary research hubs by assisting in securing external partnerships and grants.