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2024-25 Research Support Fund Report

2024-25 Research Support Fund Report

Oct. 9, 2025

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In 2024/25, Wilfrid Laurier University received $3,012,103 from the Research Support Fund. The grant was allocated as follows:

Research Facilities

  • Institutional Performance Objective: Maintain quality research space for faculty and student research.
  • Indicator: Faculty and student research spaces are operational throughout the year.
  • Reported Outcome: 66,367 square feet of research space maintained and operational across all of Laurier.

Research Resources

  • Institutional Performance Objective: Maintain the level of institutional support related to dissemination of faculty research through our institutional repository.
  • Institutional Performance Indicator: The number of downloads of faculty research from the institutional repository.
  • Reported Outcome: Supported 523,125 downloads of faculty research from the institutional repository.

Regulatory Requirements and Accreditation

  • Institutional Performance Objective: Maintain annual reporting compliance as mandated by the Tri-Council policy statement.
  • Institutional Performance Indicator: All active protocols submit the required annual report.
  • Output: A portion of the RSF used to support online application and tracking system.
  • Reported Outcome: Remained compliant with Tri-Council policies for Research Ethics Board.

Management and Administration of an Institution’s Research Enterprise

  • Institutional Performance Objective: Continue to support Tri-Council grant applications and process Tri-Council awards.
  • Institutional Performance Indicator: The number and quality of Tri-Council grant applications being submitted by Laurier faculty and the number of successful awards.
  • Output: A portion of the RSF invested in the salaries of Laurier's research facilitators, research finance team and knowledge mobilization officer.
  • Outcomes Reported at Year End: Supported the submission of grants totalling over $26 million, including 96 Tri-Council grants. Laurier is continuing to see success rates above the national average for the SSHRC Partnership Development Grants, Partnership Engage Grants and Insight Development Grants.

Intellectual Property and Knowledge Mobilization

  • Institutional Performance Objective: Maintain the level of institutional support for industry-led projects.
  • Institutional Performance Indicator: The number of new industry-led projects initiated.
  • Output: A portion of the RSF invested in university-industry liaison specialist's salary and activities.
  • Reported Outcome: The industry-liaison specialist facilitated partnered research funding including industry contracts, NSERC Alliance Grants and related Mitacs applications.
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