Strategic Research Plan 2010-2015

The 2010-2015 Strategic Research Plan was prepared by the Vice-President, Research with input from three rounds of public consultation. The resulting plan attempts to articulate the University's strengths by amplifying the original integrative research themes, and by adding two new themes on Origins and Pedagogy. In addition, the critical role of the fundamentals of research is stressed in this plan.

Background

The 2005-2010 SRP was intended to explain how SFU would use CFI infrastructure funds and deploy its allocated CRC Chairs, to identify our research priority areas in order to guide decision-making in the allocation of resources, and to provide a mechanism for assessing how we meet our objectives.

The audience for SFU's SRP is external as well as internal. The document is a means for informing and promoting our strengths to government, community partners, and funding organizations.

Consultation Process

In late 2009 and early 2010, the Vice-President, Research worked closely with the Faculty Deans and Associate Deans of Research to optimize SFU's Strategic Research Plan to guide us through 2010-2015.

Through a public consultation process, we invited the University community's input on whether the existing SRP's research themes and subthemes should be revised and expanded to include emerging areas of strength. New/expanded research themes and subthemes are broadly based, cross Faculties, and represent the overall interest of the University in accordance with our statement of values of commitments.

The following schedule for the consultation process was established:

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Sept to Oct 2009

Initial Consultation
  • Members of the university community were invited to communicate their ideas to their Faculty Dean through their departmental Chair/Director.
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Nov 2009

1st public consultation
  • Public sessions were held at each campus to provide all SFU community members with an opportunity to provide input to the VP-research on the SRP.
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Jan 2010

1st draft / 2nd consultation
  • An initial draft of the SRP was posted for second round of University consultation on January 4, 2010.

  • Input on the living document was open until January 25, 2010
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Feb 2010 -
Next draft/
3rd consultation
  • The SRP draft went through a third round of public consultation.

  • Input on the draft was open until noon on February 15, 2010
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University Approval

Helpful Links

SRP summaries of other Canadian universities

Tri-Council Strategic Plans: CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC

Advantage Canada Report

Canada's Science and Technology Strategy