Research Coordinator Blog

  As a reminder, the college’s current Academic Plan (available here ), includes 4 goals, the fourth of which is to “intensify and strengthen the college’s applied research agenda” and includes four objectives (4.1-4.4) 1)…implement strategies to further develop and strengthen faculty members’ research capabilities. 2)…increase research training opportunities for students to engage in applied research projects both within and outside curricula. 3)…establish research collaborations with relevant external stakeholders. 4)…increase the profile and awareness of applied research activities across the breadth of our research areas both within and outside of the college. The Strategic Research Plan (SRP, which is available here ) elaborates on these directives and how applied research will be strengthened and supported at the college. For example, it recognizes that community and student engagement are important and that research and teaching are complimentary. It specifies that r...

  Last time, I described in detail what is course-based research. In this post, I will outline the REB process and provide some example of projects. As a reminder course-based research is a focus of Goal 4 of the Academic Plan (Objective 4.2) and refers to research endeavours that are undertaken by students within a particular course. It must be no greater than minimal risk and the course must include at least one CLO related to research and research ethics. All course-based research must be approved by the college’s Research Ethics Board (REB) prior to commencing, but the form is different and the process deviates from the standard REB application process. The faculty teaching the course and assigning course-based research will fill out the course-based research form ( Course-Based Research- Form A ) well before the semester begins. Typically, this occurs in April or May for the following year. Once the course-based research activity is approved by the REB, each student in t...