Internal Funding Results
The Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation coordinates a number of internal funding programs designed to support research by Ontario Tech University faculty and reward research excellence. The results from these internal programs are below.
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Research Excellence Chairs Program
Ontario Tech has a Research Excellence Chairs Program that recognizes and rewards the high‐quality research and scholarly achievements of our Faculty members. The program is designed to enable accomplished scholars to complete a major research program or project.
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Research Excellence Award
The Research Excellence Awards (REA) are prestigious awards granted annually to recognize up to three tenured and/or tenure track faculty members for their outstanding contributions and achievements in research while at Ontario Tech University.
- Emerging Researcher: Faculty within the first six (6) years of their first independent academic appointment and are pre-tenured. This award recognizes both early excellence in research and future promise.
- Award Recipient: Dr. Robyn Ruttenberg-Rozen, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education
- Mid-career Researcher: Faculty who are between the seventh and twelfth (7-12) years of their first independent academic appointment. This award recognizes recently established research programs that are opening up new fields or insights of inquiry.
- Award Recipient: Dr. Olena Zenkina, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science
- Established Researcher: Faculty who are beyond the twelfth (12) year of their first independent academic appointment (i.e. 13th year and beyond). These awards recognize recent national and/or international leadership in research in the last 6 years.
- Award Recipient: Dr. Bill Kapralos, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Information Technology
There were 9 REA applicants for the 2023 round and the award recipients for each category are as follows:
- Emerging Researcher Category: Theresa Stotesbury
- Mid-Career Researcher Category: Martin Agelin-Chaab
- Established Researcher Category: Ahmad Barari
- Emerging Researcher: Faculty within the first six (6) years of their first independent academic appointment and are pre-tenured. This award recognizes both early excellence in research and future promise.
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SSHRC Small Grants Competition
The Office of Research Services (ORS) secures funds from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Institutional Grant program to support and strengthen Ontario Tech University’s research capacity in the social sciences and humanities.
More specifically, these funds are used to support research activities that enhance the research programs and expertise of Ontario Tech researchers, leading to the development of competitive applications to external SSHRC programs, or to effectively mobilize social sciences and humanities research knowledge within and beyond the academic community.
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Research Infrastructure Fund
The purpose of this fund is to provide financial support to faculty members to enhance their research capacity at our university. The fund will support the purchase of research equipment, operating and maintenance costs of equipment, and other related infrastructure costs required to acquire and maintain research equipment.
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NSERC CREATE
The NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) program is designed to improve the training and mentoring environment for the Canadian researchers of tomorrow by improving training in areas such as professional skills, communication and collaboration, as well as by providing mentoring and experience relevant to both academic and non-academic research environments. NSERC has a quota system at the Letter of Intent (LOI) stage of this program. An internal competition must be held to determine the Ontario Tech LOIs to be submitted to NSERC, if the number of internal applications exceeds the quota.
Results are posted for the years in which the number of internal applications exceeded the institutional quota and an internal selection process was needed. The internal selection process was not required for the 2024 NSERC CREATE competition.
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CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF)
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) enables researchers to undertake cutting-edge research by providing them with the foundational research infrastructure required to be or become leaders in their field. In turn, this enables institutions to remain internationally competitive in areas of research and technology development, aligned with their strategic priorities. JELF is an allocation-based fund whereby CFI predetermines the maximum amount of funding for which each eligible university may apply.
