Event Date: Mar 24, 2021
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
The Tri-Agency Research Data Management (RDM) Policy has now been launched. The agencies (SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR) plan to implement the policy incrementally through an ongoing engagement process, with notable dates highlighted below.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Thirteen ongoing projects led by UBC researchers were awarded a total of $939,626 in supplementary funding through the SARS-CoV-2 variants supplement: COVID-19 Rapid Research Funding Opportunity streams. Four UBC researchers are among named co-investigators in a new Coronavirus Variants Rapid Response Network.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
A new website about the responsible conduct of research is now available to support the university’s culture of research excellence.
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The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies congratulates the winners of the 2021 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Research Prize. This year’s recipients come from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Medicine.
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These awards recognize exceptional early-career researchers at our Vancouver and Okanagan campuses who have demonstrated outstanding research achievement and the potential for significant impact in their fields of scholarship.
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Funding supports six projects led by researchers at UBC and affiliated helath authority research institutes
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A total of 35 emerging and established research excellence clusters led by researchers on the Vancouver campus will be supported in 2021/22.
This total includes 24 awards made through the 2021/22 Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters Competition (GCRC) and eleven clusters entering the second year of their current award.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Funding includes 33 Project Grants and 8 Priority Announcement Grants for projects led by UBC researchers
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Canada’s Department of National Defence has announced its support for 48 research and development projects, valued at approximately $8.64 million, aimed at addressing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The projects were funded through the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program.
Three projects led by UBC researchers received support for their projects through contribution agreements with the Department of National Defence.
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Nine projects led by UBC researchers awarded $28.3m in funding. UBC researchers are also collaborators on seven projects being led by other institutions.
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The framework for how equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in UBC’s research ecosystem will be assessed has been published as part of the university’s participation in the federal Dimensions pilot program.
Event Date: Feb 26, 2021
VPRI Unit: Animal Care and Use Program
Animal Care Services has been working to simplify the animal transfer process for both researchers and administrative staff. Based on feedback from researchers, staff, and veterinarians, we have updated the process for transferring animals between UBC Animal Care and Use Program (ACUP) facilities. Our goal remains to ensure full compliance with ACC and CCAC policies and guidelines and approved animal protocols as well as streamlined communications.
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The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) funding through the 2020 Convening & Collaborating (C2) and Reach competitions will create pathways from research evidence to impact and help ensure that cutting-edge health research can directly improve the health of British Columbians and BC’s health system.
These collaborative teams consisting of researchers, health professionals, trainees, and research users, are investigating research areas that address BC health...
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A new UBC webpage has been created to help researchers safeguard their research and scholarly activity. This pulls together UBC-specific resources and information alongside guides produced by the U15 and the Government and Canada.
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The health research community is invited to engage in open dialogue to identify and discuss specific measures that CIHR could implement to address barriers faced by racialized and Indigenous researchers and trainees. CIHR specifically invites the engagement of racialized and Indigenous communities with lived experience of systemic racism in the health research sector, although the online discussion is open to all. Visit https://letstalk-cihr.ca/systemic-racism-and-canadas-health-research-...
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Funding supports 27 partnerships involving UBC researchers.
Event Date: Feb 2, 2021
VPRI Unit: SPARC
We are always looking for new and better ways to serve the UBC research community. It is with this in mind that we want to inform you that we will be integrating the content of SPARC Connects into UBC’s Research Digest.
Event Date: Feb 2, 2021
VPRI Unit: SPARC
In a follow-up to our extra newsletter edition on January 28, below we provide a little more information about SPARC website enhancements. We want to be sure that the UBC research community is readily able to access the information they’re looking for – from program updates and current SPARC support services to upcoming workshops and new resources.
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Dr. Purang Abolmaesumi (NSERC), Dr. Liisa Galea (CIHR) and Dr. Lisa Sundstrom (SSHRC) will provide strategic guidance, advice and leadership regarding research funding for both campuses.
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Twelve UBC researchers have been awarded funding for patient-care research and commercialization through two competitions administered by the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, the results of which were announced today.
SEE MSFHR ANNOUNCEMENT
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Congratulations to Professors Janice Eng, Tina Loo, Bonny Norton, Dolph Schluter, Rashid Sumaila and Dominique Weis.