Research & Scholarship Governance

MRU Research and Scholarship Plan 2024-2030

The 2024-2030 Research and Scholarship Plan sets Mount Royal University’s research and scholarship direction to 2030.

The Research and Scholarship Plan is a blueprint for building a scholarly community that is actively engaged in reimagining the learning experience, innovating beyond the classroom, nurturing a culture of curiosity, and celebrating success through knowledge mobilization.

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Guidelines and Procedures

Standard Operating Procedures & Documents

Establishing and Recognizing Research Collaborations other than Institutes

Reassigned Time for Externally Funded Research and Scholarship

Visiting Scholars

Volunteer Student Researchers

MRU Research and Scholarship Policies and Procedures

Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

CFI Funding MRU Application Process

CFI Internal Letter of Intent

Committee Information

Research and Scholarship Committee

The Committee provides advice and recommendations with respect to policies, programs and other initiatives related to research, creative and other scholarly activities at Mount Royal University. Click the link below for more information and a list of committee members.

Research and Scholarship Committee Charter

Undergraduate Research Dissemination Fund Adjudication Committee

The URDF Adjudication Committee is a working group comprised of members from the Research and Scholarship Committee. The group meets once per semester to overview URDF applications and award funding to the successful applicants. More info about applying for the URDF can be found here.

Name	Department	Email
Melissa Deane (Chair)	Director, Office of Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement	mdeane1@mtroyal.ca
Brian Jackson	Library	bjackson@mtroyal.ca
Sara Sharun	Library	ssharun@mtroyal.ca
Gwen O'Sullivan	Faculty of Science and Technology	gosullivan@mtroyal.ca
Jeella Acedo	Faculty of Science and Technology	jacedo@mtroyal.ca
Jared Fletcher	Faculty of Health, Community, and Education	jfletcher@mtroyal.ca

Scholarship Review Committee

Committee Charter

The Scholarship Review Committee (SRC) reviews all institution-wide internal grant applications, makes decisions on ranking, and provides recommendations on funding to the Director, Research. The SRC also acts as a team of topic-specialist reviewers that may be called upon by the Grants Facilitator, the Human Research Ethics Board, or individual faculty (through the Office of Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement), to review specific portions of applications. Committee members may also be called upon to review specific types of external calls where the institution is the manager of the funds, such as through NSERC USRA or SSHRC Institutional Grants.

Members

Name	Department	Email
Connie Van der Byl (Chair)	Associate Vice-President, Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement	cvanderbyl@mtroyal.ca
Melissa Deane (Vice-Chair)	Director, Office of Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement	mdeane1@mtroyal.ca
Anupam Das	Arts	adas@mtroyal.ca
Harpreet Aulakh	Arts	haulakh@mtroyal.ca
Rebecca Gilmour	Arts	rgilmour@mtroyal.ca
Mark Gardiner	Arts	mgardiner@mtroyal.ca
Hadi Fariborzi	Business and Communication Studies	hfariborzi@mtroyal.ca
Harris Rubin	Business and Communication Studies	hrubin@mtroyal.ca
Matthew McLarnon	Business and Communication Studies	mmclarnon@mtroyal.ca
Eunah Kim	Business and Communication Studies	ekim@mtroyal.ca
Genevieve Currie	Health, Community and Education	gcurrie@mtroyal.ca
Peter Choate	Health, Community and Education	pchoate@mtroyal.ca
Lynn Headley	Health. Community and Education	lheadley@mtroyal.ca
Marva Ferguson	Health, Community and Education	mferguson@mtroyal.ca
Sara Sharun	Riddell Library and Learning Centre	ssharun@mtroyal.ca
Yasaman Amannejad	Science and Technology	yamannejad@mtroyal.ca
David Bird	Science and Technology	dbird@mtroyal.ca
Alexis Morris	Science and Technology	amorris@mtroyal.ca
Lynn Moorman	Science and Technology	lmoorman@mtroyal.ca
Cherie Woolmer	Academic Development Centre	cwoolmer@mtroyal.ca
Karen Pheasant Neganigwane	General Education	kpheasanrneganigwane@mtroyal.ca

Ethics Committees

All information regarding research ethics processess and requirements can be found under Research Ethics.

Human Research Ethics Board (HREB)

Student Human Research Ethics Committee (SHREC)

Animal Care Committee (ACC)

Research Support Fund

The Research Support Fund (RSF) program assists Canadian post-secondary institutions and their affiliated research hospitals and Institutes with the expenses associated with managing the research funded by the three federal research granting agencies. The RSF program, formerly known as the Indirect Costs Program, is a Tri-agency initiative of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The RSF program helps post-secondary institutions to manage the financial demands of the indirect costs of research. Indirect costs are defined as the central, faculty, departmental and/or institute cost that MRU incurs to support research but that is not attributable to specific research projects. Some examples of the costs supported by the RSF program are:

salaries for staff or students who provide administrative support for researchers and their projects;
training costs for workplace health and safety;
costs related to the maintenance of libraries and laboratories; and
administrative costs associated with getting a patent for an invention.

Mount Royal University applies annually to receive a grant through the RSF program to help pay for a portion of the administrative costs related to federally funded research. The amount of the grant is based on the average Tri-agency funding received by Mount Royal University in the previous three years.

The amounts Mount Royal University received from RSF in the last several years are listed below.

2019-2020: $213,289
2020-2021: $264,422
2021-2022: $331,732
2022-2023: $429,348
2023-2024: $537,685

Mount Royal allocation for 2024-2025 is $583,988. For transparency, and to demonstrate the importance of the RSF program to our researchers, staff, students, community members and elected officials, this report is prepared and made public annually.

Mount Royal University's 2023-2024 Research Support Fund Report

In 2023-2024, Mount Royal University received $537,685.00 in Research Support Funds and allocated these funds to the following categories:

Research Resources: $37,246.36
Management and Administration of the institution's research enterprise: $480,703.87
Regulatory Requirement and Accreditation: $4,734.77
Intellectual Property and Knowledge Mobilization: $15,000.00

Institutional Performance Objectives

2024 -2025

Eligible Program Expenditure Category	Output (investment or expense of RSF grant funds)	Performance Objective	Performance Indicator	Target Outcome	Reported Outcome
Research Facilities	$29,199(5%) invested in research facilities	Refurbishment of a space for the AVP Research Scholarship and Community Engagement	Stronger and more impactful research space recognition both internally and for external communtiy	Refurbishment complete and upgrades/maintenance complete in summer 2024	TBD
Research Resources	58,398.80 (10%) for research software and subscription for research resources	Maintain and expand access to research resources for faculty through collaboration with the Library and faculty	Number of faculty accessing software and databases	2% increase in faculty access to resources	TBD
Management and administration of an institution’s research enterprise	$437,991 (75%) to enable grant-writing support, compliance, operational excellence, risk assessments, ROMEO support, training/ workshops, promotion of research, research data security, EDI action plan and training and implementation of the Research and Scholarship Plan including new SOPs.	Continued high quality support for research, given increased research capacity and new initiatives. SOPs developed.	Number of grant and award applications processed in fiscal year 2023-24 and increased success rate. Execution of EDI Action Plan and training as well as expanded research data management/ security strategy. Research and Scholarship Plan implementation measures.	Increase in grant and award applications processed in 2023-24 compared to 2022-23 with slightly higher success rate. Progress on Research and Scholarship Plan implementation.	TBD
Regulatory Requirements and Accreditation	$17,519.64 (3%) for REB, Animal Care and Biosafety compliance	Sustained regulatory compliance. Increased training and knowledge sharing for HREB and ACC.	Positive compliance record and strong process execution.	Zero compliance infractions and positive process feedback.	TBD
Intellectual Property and Knowledge Mobilization	$40,879.16 (7%) for community engaged knowledge dissemination	Increased general public awareness and engagement with MRU research and researchers	Number of engagement and marketing activities	1 large public event highlighting research and creation of faculty profiles for public dissemination.	TBD

Historical RSF Reporting

2023-2024

For more information about research and scholarship governance, please contact Connie Van der Byl, the Associate Vice President of Research, Scholarship, and Community and Engagement, at cvanderbyl@mtroyal.ca.

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