The HIVE: Innovating Nursing Through Collaboration
The HIVE
A nurse-led, transdisciplinary initiative driving innovation and system transformation through co-created, evidence-informed solutions that improve outcomes, transform healthcare delivery, and strengthen health systems.
A Health Systems Transformation Initiative by UCalgary Nursing
The HIVE connects students, researchers, healthcare providers, community members, and people with lived experience to collaboratively reimagine how care is delivered, supported, and experienced.
Let’s build something bold together
Have an idea? Want to connect?
Whether you are a community member, student, faculty/staff member—on campus or beyond—we would love to hear from you!
HIVE is guided by three key areas of focus that include:
- Co-creating solutions to real world problems
- Activating connections with students, faculty and healthcare professionals
- Advancing innovation and leadership skill
Are you ready to:
- Launch a new collaboration?
- Co-create a From Dialogue to Design event?
- Access mentorship or applied project support?
The HIVE: By The Numbers
1. Community Initiatives & Partnerships
Building connections that matter.
We work closely with community organizations, transdisciplinary colleagues, and healthcare providers to co-create solutions grounded in lived experience. From the lived experiences of kidney disease and rural wellness planning to mental health and nurse-driven innovations across the country, our partnerships drive change where it is needed most.
2. Workshops & Curriculum Support
Shaping the next generation of innovators.
Through custom workshops, mentorship, and curriculum co-design, we support undergraduate and graduate students—and the faculty who teach them—with the skills, tools, and confidence to lead healthcare transformation.
Pathfinders in Practice: Nurse Innovation Award
The Pathfinders in Practice: Nurse Innovation Award supports bold, nurse-led ideas that are shaping the future of healthcare. We will award up to $5,000 per project to a nursing student, or a team led by a nursing student, who are advancing a nurse-led social impact initiative or early-stage social enterprise.
In addition to financial support, recipient(s) will receive mentorship from experienced nurse researchers and innovators to help strengthen, scale, and share their work.
3. From Dialogue to Design Signature Events
Transforming knowledge into action.
Our signature events bring together community members, researchers, healthcare providers, and people with lived experience to explore complex challenges and co-design practical, human-centered solutions that can be put into practice.
The Post-Reproductive Women’s Health Symposium
A transdisciplinary forum that engaged healthcare professionals, researchers, and community members to reimagine post-reproductive health and the menopausal transition through dialogue and design.
Type 1 Diabetes: Tackling School Challenges for Kids
An interactive event that brought together families, educators, and healthcare providers to identify and address barriers to safe and inclusive diabetes care in schools.
The HIVE Summit
A campus-wide gathering that united researchers, students, community partners, and industry to identify gaps, spark new collaborations and co-create solutions for health system transformation.
In the News
Featured Media
In the News My Science
Postdoctoral scholar explores biological impact of parenting program
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Dinos Top Academic All-Canadian: Gabriela Cross
UCalgary Killam Scholars inspire change through research
16 PhD students named 2025 Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholars are advancing discoveries that span health, sustainability and human understanding
In the News The Gauntlet
UCalgary’s introduction to innovation in nursing through the HIVE Initiative
Killam winner sees UCalgary as a place to deliver research with real-world impact
Faculty of Nursing student Alex Cuncannon investigates how supportive relationships can buffer the effects of early adversity
UCalgary researcher named new Cross Canada Chair in Compassionate Care
St. Joseph’s Health System, St. Joseph’s Care Group and Covenant partner with university to advance system-wide model for compassionate health care
Project galleries
HIVE operates and participates in numerous projects and events aimed at fostering innovation and increasing community engagement.