Growing the Research

Enterprise at Small Institutions Jason Dyer, AVP Research

Office of Research and Scholarship

Plan, Serendipity or Chaos?

Take your pick…

Our Research Mandate

“A special purpose, teaching university must do all of the following:…”

“…(d) so far as and to the extent that its resources from time to time permit, undertake and maintain applied research and scholarly activities to support the programs of the special purpose, teaching university.”

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Growth & Change

Growth • Over the past ~10 years we have seen a rapid growth in our research activity

• This ties in with our changing mandate

Change • Where we have received funding from, and where it has gone has also changed

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Internal Funding

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A continuum of opportunities SIG funded HSS, matched for S&T ($3k)

Faculty PD grants (up to ~$14k)

Katalyst grant, 2 years ($40k)

Chancellor’s Chair, 3 years ($45k)

Student Lead Research Grants ($1500)

Grant Writing Support Two experienced grant writers on contract

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Eligibility Variability! SSHRC, University; NSERC, College; CIHR, none…

Community Engagement Based in our history as a Community College; we still have strong ties with community groups, and local businesses

Non-Traditional Sources Relatively little (and declining) of our funding is from “standard research grants”; industry sponsorship, and co-sponsorship are in the majority

Collaboration Relatively easy for us; small institution, small research clusters, pre-programmed for Interdisciplinary research

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Significance? Kwantlen has no faculty “review” process that includes scholarly output

Therefore, there has been little motivation to publish

This culture is changing as newer faculty recognize the need for peer reviewed articles to support grant applications

*data is from Microsoft Academic Search

What are we doing about “it”?

Different Model Not the normal funding streams, nor the normal “tech. transfer” model ones associates with research intensive universities.

Community Engagement Partnerships bring ideas into the University

Students Get them involved. These are employees of the future

Collaboration University, Federal Government funding, and local Industry are coming together to improve business outcomes and deliverables

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Major Projects

Canada Research Chairs KPU’s first CRC Awarded (psychology), to be announced in 2013. One pending (horticulture).

Industrial Research Chairs NSERC-College Industrial Chairs Program; two applications pending

Incubating Innovation To be funded by Federal Government, in partnership with Municipalities. Offering SMEs support for innovation activities, and integrating training opportunities into their R&D

Infrastructure Large private/corporate donation pending. Will be associated with a new Master program and significant industrial partnership based research.

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“Minor” Projects

Policy Writing Continue to update, augment; Research Centers/Institutions, IP

Promoting Inclusion Business, Trades & Technology and “science” have felt left out

Recruiting for the Future Significant faculty turnover in the next 5 years; almost all of our new hires have PhD, most have research interests

Strategic Planning …

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