Amplify the power of research and innovation

To tackle the biggest health, wellness and societal challenges 

Bolstering the efforts of students, faculty and partners to encourage novel solutions and unexpected breakthroughs 

Dr. Shane Sinclair recognized with Alberta Medical Association Achievement Award for impact on health care in Alberta

Utilize Health Systems Transformation Initiative (HSTI) to establish initiatives which may include:

Opportunities for students to leverage their projects into something more robust (eg. create living labs in communities);
Innovation and solutions through transdisciplinary partnerships across campus;
Cross-experience connections with patient/family partners to explore real-world health, health care and accessibility problems;
Building community and industry partnerships for knowledge mobilization;
Providing training, offering support and creating opportunities to ideate solutions and bring innovative ideas to action through current and new UCalgary Nursing – and other campus – offerings

Increase participation of undergraduate nursing student in research-funded teams:

Provide student summer internship opportunities to put their ideas into action via things like SEED funding
Continue marketing UCalgary opportunities like PURE through stories and social media

Align graduate certificate grand challenge projects with societal challenges (identified in collaboration with community partners)
Establish and formalize a pathway for academic-research-clinical connectedness:

For example, Pathfinders in Practice is a partnership between UCalgary Nursing and Alberta Children’s Hospital where research by nurses and allied health professionals explores barriers and facilitators to bedside research. The goal is a co-designed pilot project to facilitate, support and promote the implementation and success of bedside research.

Create research funding ladder for early career researchers and/or students:

Align new position of Assistant Dean, Mentorship for Research and Grant success with graduate program for mentorship

Continue increasing the number of award nominations and grant applications – including for large research infrastructure grants – and potentially offer more general writing supports for early career researchers/grad students/post-doctoral fellows (eg. workshops on predatory publishing, software, etc.)

Develop and incorporate the Four Elements Indigenous Framework for nursing education into graduate courses