Applied Research 101:
Context, community, culture
Robert Luke, Ph.D.
Director, George Brown Applied Research and Innovation
Outline
 Agenda
 10-11: Office of Applied Research and Innovation
 Who is…
 What is…
 Our services, and others
 11-11.30: Projects
 Inter-College research consortia
 Faculty applied research projects
 11.30: Lunch; Faculty poster presentations; Networking
 12-1: Keynote address by Roger Fisher, Fanshawe College
Who we are
 Joy McKinnon
Vice President, International and Applied
Research
 Robert Luke
Director, Applied Research and Innovation
 Meadow Larkins
Assistant to VP, International and Applied
Research
 Business Developer (TBD)
What is applied research?
 Focuses on problem solving
 Idea push versus problem pull
What you told us
Consultation in Fall 2006
 Many and varied applied research activities
currently underway
 Opportunities
 Supports required
 Establishment of Office of Applied Research
What can we do for you?
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Finding funding
Proposal Writing
Navigating processes, policies and procedures
Conducting research
Publishing and presenting
Integrating results in teaching and learning
Finding funding
 Internal
 Seed funding: $130K for projects ending 31 March 2008
 RFP process: June
 External
 NSERC: $48m Colleges fund
 CCL: $10m under various envelopes
 Other governmental (SSHRC, CIHR, HRSDC, CFI, MRI,
OCE, et al.)
 Industrial and other organizations
Proposal writing
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Identify project
Funding source
Focus on gap
Write early, often
How can results be applied to a particular
context?
Processes, policies and procedures
 Research Ethics Board
 Members
Jaswant Kaur, Ph.D. (Chair)
P. Christopher Timusk, M.Sc.F
Mariana Ionescu, PhD
Sarah Evans
 Alternate Members
 Rose-Marie Nigli
Paula Johnson Tew, MBA, PhD
 Integrity in scholarly research, Annual renewal, Study
completion, Intellectual property
Conducting research
 Research ethics
 Collaboration
 Multidisciplinary focus
 Involve your students
Publishing and presenting
 Academic, trade publications
 Journals, books
 Our website
 Poster presentations
 Pre-prints
 Applied Research community
 Internal peer review (Sheila Latham)
 Funding for scholarly communications
Teaching and learning
 Involving students in applied research projects
 Integrating results in teaching and learning
 Scholarship of teaching
Communication
 Website
www.georgebrown.ca/applied-research
 Blog
applied-research.blogspot.com/
 Links
del.icio.us/GBCresearch
Connection
The Office of Applied Research and Innovation is your
conduit for connecting to
 Industry
 Industrial research partnerships
 Funding bodies
 Eg. Ontario Centres of Excellence for
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Communications and Information Technology
Earth and Environmental Technologies
Energy
Materials and Manufacturing
Photonics
Community
 Communities of interest
 Communities of practice
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Types of research/domains
Publishing, presenting
Advanced/terminal degree cohorts (Nancy Miyagi)
Collecting information on projects:
 liad.gbrownc.on.ca/research/
 Please tell us what you think
 Survey
Inter-College research consortia
 CONII
 Colleges Ontario Network for Industry Innovation
www.conii.ca
 $20K+ p.a. faculty fellowships program
 CONCERT
 Consortium on New Media, Creative and
Entertainment R&D in the Toronto Region
Questions/discussion
Robert Luke
416.415.5000.6713
rluke@georgebrown.ca
www.georgebrown.ca/applied-research
Faculty applied research projects
 Jamie McIntyre
 Joanne Clare, Maureen Hynes, Rose-Marie
Nigili, Georgia Quartaro
 Sandra Neill
 Alice Lee
 James Smith and Winnie Chiu
research@georgebrown
Jamie McIntyre
Handwriting Data Acquisition Device
research@georgebrown
Joanne Clare, Maureen Hynes, Rose-Marie
Nigili, Georgia Quartaro
Documenting Student Gains in Emotional
Intelligence from Program Start to Completion
research@georgebrown
Sandra Neill, Learning Innovations and
Academic Development
Digital Literacy Program for the Breast Cancer
Survivorship Transition to Employment
Project (STEP)
research@georgebrown
Alice Lee
Institute without Boundaries
The Consortium on New Media, Creative, and
Entertainment R&D in the Toronto Region
research@georgebrown
James Smith and Winnie Chiu
The Compliments Culinary Centre