Research Services Blog
Research Integrity Report
A report commissioned by the Canadian Research Integrity Committee was released to all the member organizations today. As the member of that committee representing CAURA (the Association of University Research Administrators), I'll provide some context for...More >
Undergrad Research - A New Mission
Among the dizzying array of changes Mount Royal is engaged in, an oft forgotten one is ramping up the role of research in the undergraduate experience. This one won't arrive overnight, as a) we don't have the full complement of upper year students in place...More >
The Internal Grants Process
A number of changes to the way internal grants are dealt with have been implemented over the past year, and here I'll attempt to summarize them and explain the rationale.These include: Less competitions, multi-year grants, reviewers, new adjudication...
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Research Website
If you are reading this blog entry then you've no doubt discovered our new Research Office website. It has a number of features you'll find useful.- Highlighting Projects: You can read about the research projects other faculty are working...
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New Shape for Grants Committee
For the past several years the 'Research Reserve' committee adjudicating internal grants has seen a steep increase in applications, but also a broadening of the topics involved and a steady increase in project complexity. To address this issue, a call has gone...More >
New Finance Officer
Gillian McKirdy has joined the ORS as our Research Finance Officer. This is a position that has been sorely lacking for some time, as the growth of research activity has not only increased the financial activity level, but has substantially changed its nature....More >
AACTI Enterprise Funding
Mount Royal has again been awarded $100,000 in AACTI Enterprise Funding for the 2008/09 fiscal year. This funding will not offered in open competition this year. Instead, we are picking strategic projects and areas to better align with both AACTI's and Mount...More >
Undergraduate Research Workshop
In June a small contingent of faculty from Health & Community Studies joined me at Malaspina (Vancouver Island University) for a very interesting workshop on developing undergraduate research. It was well attended, with teams from both undergrad-only teaching-intensive...More >
Accessing data from the Alberta Ministry for Youth and Child Services
On June 9 2008 myself, Joanne Baxter and Cathy Smey Carston from MRC's Department of Child and Youth Studies took part in an AACTI sponsored video-conference with Red Deer College, Grant MacEwan and representatives from the Alberta Ministry for Youth and Child...More >
Our New Grants Facilitator
I am very pleased to announce the arrival of our new Grants Facilitator, Dr. Susan Isherwood. Susan comes to us most recently from the University of Dundee, where she lectured in Transatlantic Relations, and the U of Warwick, teaching International Politics....More >