ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï Strategic Research Plan 2026 - 2031
Our Strategic Research Plan (SRP) charts a bold course for ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï’s research over the next five years. Our scale fosters agility. Our depth sustains excellence. We lead in ideas, talent and transformative research, and we will continue to pursue our ambition to set a national standard of excellence.
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Research Excellence Themes
Six themes capture what research at ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï is all about.
Advancing Research for Impact
Areas that highlight key opportunities for ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï to drive real-world impact.
Message from the Vice-President (R+I)
"It is both a privilege and a responsibility to launch ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï’s Strategic Research Plan at a time of profound global and institutional challenge."
Institutional Objectives
Our objectives reinforce the conditions that sustain research excellence—collaboration, talent, innovation, infrastructure, and data capacity.
Introduction + Commitment to Indigenous Research
Our Strategic Research Plan charts a bold course for ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï’s research over the next five years.
Acknowledgement of Traditional Territory
ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï is on land which long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous people whose footsteps have marked this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.
Image: Tsi Non:we Onkwatonhnhets, or “The Place Where Our Life Force Emerges from the Earth." The redesigned Y-intersection celebrates Indigenous presence, collaboration and reconciliation on ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï’s downtown campus. Created through three years of collaboration among Indigenous artists, Elders, community members and multiple ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï departments, the initiative responds directly to ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï’s Call to Action 26: Indigeneity in Public Space. Credit: Jeremy Glenn