1 Office of Research and Innovation

The UNBC Office of Research and Innovation (ORI) supports all research goals and aspirations including those of Indigenous people, visible minorities, diversely-abled people, women, and people from the LGBTQ2S+ communities.  The ORI accomplishes this by:

• Providing faculty members with support services to develop outstanding research programs in all disciplines, including offering advice on sources of funding, helping develop proposals, providing institutional letters of support, and negotiating funding agreements;
• Ensuring that we meet or exceed all relevant regulatory standards for research, maintaining our eligibility for funding from the agencies with the most stringent standards;
• Assisting with maintaining and growing our research infrastructure;
• Assisting with the development of research partnerships with local, provincial, national, and international agencies and industry collaborators;
• Supporting technology transfer and commercialization of research discoveries;
• Managing and maintaining relationships with major research funding agencies, so that the local research community has access to the best advice on successful research funding strategies, and acting as the primary institutional contact for these agencies;
• Engaging in high-level advocacy with all levels of government to promote an environment in which world-class research may flourish at UNBC.

For more information on the ORI, please see https://www.unbc.ca/office-research-and-innovation/about-office-research-and-innovation