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Strategic Research Plan Survey

Consultation

Dorys Crespin-Mueller, Director, IPA

September 20th, 2013

Institutional Planning & Analysis 2

ABOUT THE SURVEY


About the survey• Faculty and students

• Census of On Campus and Open Learning Faculty, census of 4th year Undergraduate students and Graduate students

• Surveyed in May and June 2013


Respondents

faculty students total percent Master's Students 0 25 25 8% Undergraduate Students 0 98 98 33% On Campus Faculty 141 0 141 47% Open Learning Faculty 34 0 34 11% Unknown 0 1 1 0% Total respondents 175 124 299 100%

percent 59% 41%


SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS


Importance of research

To the mission of TRU• 82% of faculty said important (40% ‘Very important’)

• 77% of students said important (35% ‘Very important’)

To you personally• 89% of faculty said important (46% ‘Very important’)


To you professionally• 82% of faculty said important (40% ‘Very important’)



Research contributes to student’s growth and development


Research principles

• Accessibility• Creativity• Equity• Excellence in research (quality)• Interdisciplinarity• Internationalization• Social responsibility


Importance of Research Principles

rank importancefaculty students

d Excellence (quality) # 1 # 2b Creativity # 2 # 4a Accessibility # 3 (tie) # 1g Social responsibility # 3 (tie) # 3c Equity # 5 (tie) # 5 (tie)e Interdisciplinarity # 5 (tie) # 5 (tie)f Internationalization # 7 # 7


Research Priorities• Applied research• Benefits of research to society• Entrepreneurship• External Research collaboration• External recognition of TRU’s research excellence• Innovation• Internal research collaborations• Knowledge mobilization/ knowledge transfer• Pure research• Research training for students


Importance of Research Priorities


a Applied research # 1 (tie) # 1 (tie)j Research training for students # 1 (tie) # 1 (tie)h Knowledge mobilization/ transfer # 1 (tie) # 3b Benefits of research to society # 4 # 4 (tie)f Innovation # 5 (tie) # 4 (tie)g Internal collaborations # 5 (tie) # 4 (tie)e External recognition # 7 # 7 (tie)d External collaboration # 8 # 7 (tie)i Pure research # 9 # 7 (tie)c Entrepreneurship # 10 # 10


Research Support • Communication of research activities, successes and results• Grant and proposal writing • Individual research support• Library support• Mentorship• Support for international research• Post-grant administrative support• Recruitment of domestic graduate students• Recruitment of international graduate students• Research administrative support• Research space• Seed funding• Support of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows• Technical support


Importance of Research Support


l Seed funding (internal) # 1 # 6 (tie)m Students and post-docs # 2 (tie) # 1a Communication # 2 (tie) # 2c Individual # 2 (tie) # 3 (tie)d Library # 2 (tie) # 6 (tie)n Technical # 2 (tie) # 9 (tie)b Grant and proposal writing # 7 # 3 (tie)k Research space # 8 # 6 (tie)e Mentorship # 9 (tie) # 3 (tie)g Post-grant administrative # 9 (tie) # 11j Research administrative # 9 (tie) # 13h Recruit domestic GR students # 12 # 9 (tie)f International research # 13 # 12i Recruit international GR students # 14 # 14


Actively engaged in research at TRU

• 34% of 4th year Students• 76% of Masters Students• 75% of On Campus Faculty• 27% of Open Learning Faculty


Responses to open-ended questions

• 1,462 responses were written to the 9 open‐ended survey questions

• Analyses showed a range of main themes:

“Research is important and has a positive impact”

“Research informs my teaching”

“TRU is not a research university”


Questions?

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