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
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