RESEARCH COORDINATOR BLOG

 As a reminder, the college’s current Academic Plan (available here), includes 4 goals, the fourth of which is to “intensify and strengthen the college’s applied research agenda” and includes four objectives (4.1-4.4) 1)…implement strategies to further develop and strengthen faculty members’ research capabilities. 2)…increase research training opportunities for students to engage in applied research projects both […]

  Last time, I described in detail what is course-based research. In this post, I will outline the REB process and provide some example of projects. As a reminder course-based research is a focus of Goal 4 of the Academic Plan (Objective 4.2) and refers to research endeavours that are undertaken by students within a […]

Providing students with opportunities for research inside and outside of their program of study builds important skills which is one of the reasons why course-based research has been highlighted in Goal 4 of the Academic Plan (Objective 4.2). Course-based research involves embedding research in curriculum (within a specific course). What requirements must be met for […]

 Why are colleges interested in research? Isn’t that a university thing? I received a couple of questions about this last year and I think it’s worth addressing.Colleges are obviously different from universities in important ways, otherwise we wouldn’t have both. Colleges offer different programs and different approaches to teaching. Additionally, our students are different from […]

Research generally refers to a systematic inquiry on a given topic, with an aim to expand our knowledge on that topic. The outcome can describe a phenomena or state of affairs, or try to either predict or change behaviours/outcomes, among other things. Typically, a researcher has a research question to guide their inquiry (e.g., “How […]

Last time, I continued walking you through some of the sections of the REB application and giving you tips for completing them. This week, I will go through the remaining sections in the application and give you some general tips and reminders about the REB process. Full disclosure: I am a member of the REB […]

 Last time, I began walking you through some of the sections of the REB application and giving you tips for completing them. This week, I will go through the more sections of the application. Next time I will wrap things up! Full disclosure: I am a member of the REB (2012-present). These are my personal […]

Another topic requested in the survey I sent out in December is how to fill out the REB application, so that’s the topic for today, but it’s too big a topic to approach in one post, so parts 2 and 3 will be in the next 2 editions!My first tip is to make sure you […]

In December, I asked for your feedback via a survey. One of the comments in it requested information about the types of research projects that are the quickest and easiest to produce. The short answer to that is that projects requiring no new data collection (i.e., those which collect data through secondary use approval) will […]

There are always risks when conducting research, though these are usually minimal (i.e., no greater than participants encounter in their everyday lives). Note, however, that the level of risk varies a little based on your group of participants. For example, students can expect very little danger in their daily lives, but if your participants are […]