RESEARCH AND GRADUATE EDUCATION Sample Clauses

RESEARCH AND GRADUATE EDUCATION. This component identifies the breadth and depth of institutional research activity (both basic and applied), and will identify institutional research strengths from niche to comprehensive research intensity.

RESEARCH AND GRADUATE EDUCATION. Over the last decade since becoming a university, OCAD University has increased its research revenue tenfold and established internal capacity and recognition by Tri-council and other funding agencies. In 2011-12, the university generated a total of $4.57M or $44,800 in research per full-time faculty, ranking it 14th out of 20 Ontario universities. The Canada Research Chairs program has recently awarded OCAD University its first allocation, consisting of a Tier 1 Chair and a Tier 2 Chair. As an institution with a strong history of professional practice, OCAD University has developed “practice-based” (or “practice-led”) research that includes practice and theory, and links researchers, practitioners and receptor communities. Today, the community benefits from a unique research environment that combines critical and theoretical thinking with professional practice, and with the applied methodologies of building, constructing and prototyping — in the university’s wood and metal shops as well as in its digital media, technology and 3D-printing laboratories. According to the report Inter}Artes: Tapping into the Potential of Higher Arts Education in Europe, “Artists are increasingly equipped to shape new knowledge in their fields, creating and extending knowledge and embedding this into both academic and public domains. Artistic research is understood as part of complex practice and builds upon the changing role of arts in society.”3 This context has amplified the drive towards a rigorous research environment within the university, which bridges fundamental and applied research in art, design, digital media and related fields. The growth of research capacity and practice has been recognized in Canada by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council through the Research/Creation stream, which has now been integrated and normalized into SSHRC Insight Grants. In addition, Canada (and within Canada, Ontario) and other nations have adopted digital strategies that make significant investments in research into digital media and underlying technologies. The research culture at OCAD University enriches the experiences of undergraduate and graduate students, with 126 formal research assistantships in 2012-13, and dozens of other informal research opportunities for students The Digital Media Research + Innovation Institute at OCAD University, with its founding support from the Ministry of Research and Innovation, comprises a network of 21 research labs, including: • T...