A working committee composed of representatives from all faculties worked hard over several months to review uOttawa’s strategic areas of development in research. Its recommendations have now been approved by the University’s Senate and Board of Governors.
The University of Ottawa is at a crucial stage in its development as a research-intensive institution, aiming to be among Canada’s top five in research by 2010. While the University fosters and supports basic and applied research in all of its domains, Vision 2010 called upon the University to review its strategic areas of research developed in 1998 to include emerging fields The University has identified a number of key areas that are strategically important on a provincial, national and global level.
While strategic areas of development in research can expect to receive attention in the form of funding and development, they also have important responsibilities: to attract significant external funding in the form of grants, contracts, donations and external partnerships; to devote considerable resources to the training of students, particularly at the graduate level; and to disseminate knowledge widely within the academic community, to policy-makers and to the broader public.
“Research at the University of Ottawa already makes important contributions within the national and global research community,” says Adele Reinhartz, associate vice-president, research. “The process of revising our strategic areas of development in research has allowed us to identify some key domains in which that contribution can continue and further increase. These areas will continue to foster a positive climate for interdisciplinary initiatives by promoting cooperation between academic units and combining the expertise of various disciplines in the advancement of knowledge.”
The revised strategic areas of development in research are:
Human rights
Further details about the stategic areas are posted at www.research.uOttawa.ca.
