York joins research information consortia

York University has joined the Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI), a not-for-profit standards development organization specializing in standardizing research data. “York University is pleased to partner with CASRAI and support its initiatives to streamline the research administration process,” said Robert Haché, York’s vice-president research & innovation. “The continued development of these standards […]

What is knowledge mobilization and why does it matter to universities?

David Phipps, director of York’s Office of Research Services, spent part of December in Edinburgh, Brighton and London exploring knowledge exchange and knowledge brokering in the UK, said The Guardian March 9, introducing the first in a series of four articles about knowledge mobilization by Phipps in The Guardian‘s Higher Education Network blog. University knowledge […]

Join us for a Research Open House Oct. 11

The York University community is invited to a Research Open House.  Meet Robert Haché, the new vice-president research & innovation (VPRI), and learn more about research services at York University. The Research Open House will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011,  from 1 - 3 p.m., on the 5th Floor of the York Research Tower.   […]

Four things you need to know about SSHRC's streamlined program architecture

Over the past year, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) has reviewed the way its funding programs are structured to provide researchers with a simpler, more flexible and more effective system of application and assessment. SSHRC president Chad Gaffield addressed this process during a town hall meeting held with faculty and students […]

Video: Graduate students benefitting from space in York's Research Tower

The 10-storey York Research Tower provides new facilities purposely designed to help graduate students be more effective researchers on floors six, seven and eight. Professor Susan Henders, director of the York Centre for Asian Research, spoke about the new facilities during a recent research celebration. Her remarks are available on the Research Web site's multimedia […]

Video: Research, Knowledge Mobilization and Careers

Knowledge Mobilization connects research and researchers to the outside world to benefit society.  At York, the Knowledge Mobilization unit helps people and organizations seeking to develop sustainable solutions to social, environmental, economic and cultural challenges access appropriate researchers and expertise at York. David Phipps, director of York University's Office of Research Services, heads the university's […]

York leads all Canadian universities in SSHRC’s largest awards

York researchers awarded two of SSHRC’s largest grants to study long-term residential healthcare and global suburbanism Two teams led by York University researchers have received $5 million in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Their multinational research teams, involving multiple universities and community partners in a large-scale collaboration, […]

New ResearchSnapshots get knowledge to the community

York University’s Knowledge Mobilization (KM) Unit has released 40 new ResearchSnapshot summaries and opened two new Community Collaboration Stations. The announcement of the new initiatives was made Dec. 2 during an afternoon research forum hosted at the University by the KM Unit. The summaries are available in a searchable online database located on the KM Unit's […]