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2025-26 Research Support Fund Report
June 18, 2026
Print | PDFIn 2025/26, Wilfrid Laurier University received $3,008,432 from the Research Support Fund. The grant was allocated as follows:
- Research Facilities: $532,097
- Research Resources: $288,285
- Regulatory Requirements and Accreditation: $24,099
- Management and Administration: $2,114,869
- Intellectual Property and Knowledge Mobilization: $142,655
- 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.
- 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 1,321,046 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 and research finance team.
- Outcomes Reported at Year End: Supported the submission of 170 Tri-Council grants. Laurier saw success rates above the national average for SSHRC Insight Grants and SSHRC Partnership 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.