Two workshops were recently held providing an opportunity for members of the 91亚色 community to share their thoughts on the development of the new plan with vice-president research & innovation Robert Hach茅 and the Strategic Research Plan facilitators, Celia Haig-Brown, professor, Faculty of Education and Gary Miller, instructor,听Schulich School of Business MBA program and the Schulich Executive Education Centre.

鈥淚 am pleased that the 91亚色 community is taking an active role in participating in the discussion about the development of the new Strategic Research Plan,鈥� said Robert Hach茅 (left), vice-president research & innovation.听 鈥淭heir feedback is being heard and will be valuable in informing the plan. We are very much encouraging all community members to take part in the SRP consultations and conversations as we work towards the development of a new institutional plan, one that best supports and integrates the core research values and priorities of the entire 91亚色 community.鈥�

During the workshops, participants were asked to discuss the value that research brings to 91亚色 and explore 91亚色鈥檚 competencies in key areas of research.

Among the comments resulting from the workshops were: the hope that the new Strategic Research Plan be inclusive, recognizing and capturing the wide variety of research being conducted and balancing both specific and overarching research focus areas, a desire for the plan to have some impact on hiring, resourcing, budget听 and decision making, a recommendation to ensure graduate students and post-doctoral fellows research is encouraged, ensuring the plan addresses ways to better enable research at 91亚色, a suggestion that the plan encourage a more interest in research at all administrative levels at 91亚色, and an emphasis placed on collaborative research initiatives.

Meeting notes are accessible to the 91亚色 community and can found on the 听website by clicking on Meeting Notes and using a Passport 91亚色 login. The next workshops will be held Oct. 16, 26 and Nov. 1. To register, click .

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Organized by the Faculty's Committee on Research Policy & Planning, the celebration comprises four themed presentations from noon to 1:30pm daily. Scheduled venues include the Senate Chamber, Scott Library Atrium and the 91亚色 Research Tower.

On Monday, the week begins with "Ideas at Work: Special Research Team Edition" in the Senate Chamber, 9th Floor, North Ross Building. Learning to work with each other is an important learning outcome in university education. In "Ideas at Work", students will discuss how their research can advance knowledge, how their collaborations work and what they are learning from the collaborative research experience.

Presentations by 11 91亚色 undergraduates include topics such as the Stanford prison experiment of 1971, a look at the two Canadas through cheese production, supply chain economics and the environment, corporate tax cuts, and pornography and personal narratives.

Tuesday's presentations feature a series of one-minute lectures titled "Instant Knowledge Transfers" by LA&PS Faculty members in the Scott Library Atrium.

Presenting knowledge discovery in an accessible yet precise and concise way is a daily challenge. Faculty members will each present the essence of a discovery in 60 seconds. The lecturers from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies include:

• Christopher Innes, Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in Performance & Culture;
• Naomi Couto, Public Policy & Administration;
• Sophie Bury, business librarian in the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library, Schulich School of Business;
• Lisa Sloniowski, English literature librarian, Scott Library;
• George Georgopoulos, Economics;
• Marie-Helene Budworth, Human Resource Management;
• Luin Goldring, Sociology;
• Alison Kemper, Administrative Studies;
• William Wicken, History;
• Philipp Angermeyer, Languages, Literatures & Linguistics
• Sean Kheraj, History
• Niru Nirupama, Administrative Studies
• Sotirios Liaskos, Information Technology

Wednesday's lunch session in the Senate Chamber features conversations led by Wade Rowland (Communications Studies) with four 91亚色 professors, titled "Up Close and Personal: Different Research Journeys". Professors George Fallis (Economics and Social Science), William Wicken (History), Darryl Reed (Social Science) and Ananya Mukherjee-Reed (Political Science) will talk about why they chose to become academics and share lessons learned from setbacks and successes in their personal research journeys. After the conversations, student researchers from the Student Council of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies will ask the scholars questions on what they would love to know but did not have the chance to ask before.

In Thursday's final session, in Room 956, 91亚色 Research Tower, another group from Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies will take part in an interdisciplinary panel discussion titled, "Do the Right Thing: Self-interest vs. Societal Interest". Panel members include:

• Uzo Anucha, Social Work;
• Kym Bird, English;
• Tom Cohen, History & Humanities;
• Paul Grayson, Sociology;
• Richard Wellen, Social Science;
• Brenda Spotton Visano, Economics, Public Policy & Administration

All are welcome. For more information, visit the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies research website.

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