After eight months of consultation with the community, as well as internal and external research partners, the York Senate has unanimously approved the University’s new strategic research plan, "Building on Strength".

“York’s new strategic research plan commits to building research on our strengths and provides a strong aspirational vision for the development and recognition of York’s research over the next five years,” said Robert Haché, vice-president research & innovation.  “I would like to thank the entire York community for your positive response to the consultation process and earnest engagement that made such important contributions to the development of the plan.  We will continue to invest in the growth and development of our research as a foundational part of our efforts to grow our academic reputation as a recognized leading research-intensive university.”

Robert Haché

The plan supports the University’s research vision to better understand the human condition and the world around us and to employ the knowledge gained in the service of society as described in six intersecting themes:

• advancing fundamental discovery and critical knowledge,
• analyzing cultures and mobilizing creativity,
• building healthy lives and communities,
• exploring the frontiers of science and technology,
• forging a just and sustainable world,
• integrating entrepreneurial innovation and the public good.

The plan also articulates five areas of opportunities that complement past accomplishments, new developments, momentum and timing to provide particular opportunities for building research success.  They include:

• digital cultures,
• engineering research that matters,
• healthy individuals, healthy communities and global health,
• public engagement for a just and sustainable world, and
• scholarship of socially engaged research.

Through this plan, the University is implementing the objectives set out for research in both the University Academic Plan and the Provost’s 2010 white paper, which identify research intensification as a key University goal and recognize research as a core endeavor that broadly enriches the institution. The plan is meant to be a living document, responsive to the University's successes, as well as being sensitive to a rapidly evolving landscape.

Through a strategic combination of broadly based and focused investments over the course of the next five years, �첥��Ƶ will continue its impressive development as a leading Canadian research university whose scholarship enhances our culture and improves society.

To view the full plan, click .

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Vice-President Research & Innovation Robert Haché invites the �첥��Ƶ community to share their thoughts and perceptions with respect to research at York by participating in an online survey as part of the broader consultation process. The data gathered will help to inform the development of the new Strategic Research Plan: 2013-2018.

The survey seeks input on the importance of various forms of research support, explores the core research values at York, the availability of research tools and infrastructure, and other research-related information. All members of the �첥��Ƶ community are invited to participate and responses will remain confidential.

Robert Haché

“The online survey provides members of the York community with an additional opportunity to share their thoughts and feedback in a manner that is convenient and easily accessible,” said Haché. “One of our goals for the Strategic Research Planning consultation process is to ensure that all members of the �첥��Ƶ community have an opportunity to engage. I encourage all members of the York community to participate in the consultation process. We are interested in hearing your thoughts and suggestions about the development of the new plan.”

To participate in the survey, .

Strategic Research Plan Consultation workshops are scheduled for Oct. 26 and Nov. 1. The workshops are open to all members of the �첥��Ƶ community and seek to engage the research community in examining York’s core values with respect to research, probing our perceptions and seeking to prioritize our commitments to the support of research.

To register, .

Members of the York community can also drop in to have a discussion about the development of the new Strategic Research Plan with Haché during community chats. To view the schedule, .

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Robert Haché

“I am pleased to announce the members of the Strategic Research Plan Advisory Committee,” said Haché.  “I am looking forward to working together with the members of the committee and the University community to develop a new strategic research plan that articulates our values and vision for York research and provides direction for accelerating strategic research planning initiatives across the University over the next several years.”  

The committee has a mandate to advise the VPRI on all aspects of the consultation with the York Community and in the development of the plan, which will articulate a vision and aspiration for York research over the next five years. The goal is to provide the community with a draft reflecting the discussion near the end of 2012, with a final version going to the Senate of �첥��Ƶ for approval in spring 2013.

The Strategic Advisory Plan Advisory Committee planning and consultation process is being facilitated by Gary Miller, Instructor in the MBA Program at the Schulich School of Business, as well as at the Schulich Executive Education Centre and Celia Haig-Brown, Professor, Faculty of Education.

The advisory committee members include:

• Robert Haché, vice-president research & innovation, Chair of the SRP Advisory Committee
• Walter Tholen, associate vice-president research, vice-Chair of the SRP Advisory Committee
• Celia Haig-Brown, professor, Faculty of Education and Strategic Research facilitator of the SRP Advisory Committee. 
• Thaddeus Hwong, professor, cross-appointed to the School of Administrative Studies and School of Public Policy & Administration. 
• Mark Lievonen, Member of York's Board of Governors and president of Sanofi Pasteur Ltd.
• Doug Lindeblom, director of Economic Strategy & Tourism, Regional Municipality of York
• Rhonda Lenton, vice-provost
• Janine Marchessault, professor, Department of Film, Faculty of Fine Arts, and Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media & Globalization
• David Mutimer, professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS), director of York Centre for International & Security Studies and Chair, Academic Policy, Planning and Research Committee
• Laurie Wilcox, professor of psychology and biology, member of York’s Centre for Vision Research
• Danielle Zanotti, CEO, United Way of York Region, external member
• Joanna Pearce, PhD candidate, Department of History, LA&PS
• Martin Singer, dean, LA&PS
• Joan Steigerwald, professor, Department of Humanities, and the graduate programs in Science & Technology Studies, Humanities and Social & Political Thought.  
• Jim Whiteway, Canada Research Chair in Space Engineering & Atmospheric Science and professor of Space Engineering in the Faculty of Science & Engineering. 
• Georg Zoidl, professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Department of Biology, Faculty of Science & Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience.
• A member from Glendon College is still being sought

Haché, in collaboration with the Strategic Research Plan Advisory Committee, invites all members of the University community to be an engaged part of a comprehensive consultation process that will help �첥��Ƶ continue to move forward in research excellence and scholarship.

To share your thoughts on the Strategic Research Plan consultation process, click .

To view committee member’s biographies, .

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