Research and Scholarship
Where we are
- Consistent and positive growth in nursing research and research capacity
- First Canada Research Chair in Spring 2020
- Multiple research chairs and professorships
- Strategic refocusing and value on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and educational research
- Top 5 in research among nurse education schools (Maclean’s 2019 rankings)
- Pre- and post-award infrastructure/support (UCalgary Nursing Research Office)
- Community-engaged research and scholarship
Where we are going
- Enhancing adjunct and community partner relationships
- Making strategic hires in emerging priority areas to build bench strength and critical mass
- Developing criteria and pathways for teaching professors
- Developing leaders and innovators at the doctoral level by offering two terminal degree pathways (DN and PhD)
- Developing nurse leaders in entrepreneurial thinking and social innovation
- Increasing focus and building capacity for knowledge translation/mobilization and implementation science
How we will get there
- Acquiring sustained funding to support research activity including increased endowments and donor funds; increased tri-council funding; matching/leveraging funds and partnership grants; potential contract work with agencies and health systems that align with our areas of strength
- Fostering researcher development through ReDI (Researcher Development Initiative): applied research workshops with micro-credentials for faculty, staff, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows
- Recruiting and retaining a diverse community of faculty and students who help us strike a balance of research and scholarship excellence; fit with our faculty culture; match our areas of strength; and build on momentum to achieve research excellence
Living the Plan - Research and Scholarship
In the News CTV News
Dr. Nicole Letourneau: Intimate partner violence rates are on the rise
UCalgary Nursing announces second CIHR Research Chair on infant feeding
Dr. Merilee Brockway, BN’04, PhD’19 is named Calgary Research Chair for Early Life Exposures and Child Health Outcomes
Perspectives on the four-year anniversary of the pandemic declaration
RN and Masters’ student, Lisa Alphonsus researches the experience of emergency nurses during COVID-19
2024 Nursing Research Day to showcase graduate students’ thesis work
Meet the eight participants who will be presenting their research at UCalgary Nursing virtual event on March 7
UCalgary-created family intervention program reaches international audiences
Nicole Letourneau's ATTACH (Attachment and Child Health) program will be implemented in Brazil and Denmark in 2024
UCalgary researcher pushes compassion measure internationally
Nursing professor Shane Sinclair sees translation of UCalgary compassion measure for health care into Spanish