REDUCING ADMINISTRATIVE BARRIERS TO RESEARCH

VPRI portfolio lead
Shelley Gair
Executive Director, Office of the Vice President Research & Innovation

On this Page:

1. Challenge
2. Action
3. Project Goals

Challenge

Faculty members have identified “lack of time” as the biggest constraint in increasing their research output. For individual faculty members, balancing the competing demands of research, teaching and service is challenging. For department chairs, school directors and deans, balancing the need to deliver academic programming—and to support a dynamic research environment—is also challenging.

Action

Consulting with deans, chairs and directors, ADRs and SFU Faculty Relations, we will identify barriers to availability and effective use of research time for faculty members. Best practices across faculties, schools and departments will be shared and places where flexibility exists in the system (e.g., course scheduling/stacking) and within the current collective agreement will be examined.

Project Goals