RESEARCH FUNDING

Institutional Goal:

• Increase the amount of external funding for research




Commentary:



• Total research funding for grants and contracts increased by more than $8 million between fiscal 1997/98 and 1998/99.
• Every faculty saw an increase in research funding from 1997/98 to 1998/99 and the largest increase was in the contract category, especially in the Centre for Trade, Policy and the Law which received more than $5 million in CIDA contracts.
• Total research funding fell between 1998/99 and 1999/00 but this was, again, influenced by the Centre for Trade, Policy and the Law which received $2.5 million in new contracts from CIDA, down from the previous year.
• Grant income increased in most faculties between fiscal 1998/99 and fiscal 1999/00. The largest increase was in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences which increased by over $1 million (due to grants in Psychology and Music) while there was a $300 thousand decline in the Faculty of Engineering. The Faculty of Science continues to be the largest grant recipient with the largest grants attracted by projects in Particle Physics.