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The HIVE: Innovating Nursing Through Collaboration


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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.


HIVE

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

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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

Learn about our guiding pillars

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

HIVE 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. 

Post-Reproductive

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.

Community Report


Type 1

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.

Community Report


HIVE Summit

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.

Community Report


In the News


Featured Media

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

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.

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