April 2019 Welcome! The Office of Research & Innovation supports research and scholarly activity at OCAD University. We help OCAD U researchers to find funding, develop projects and partnerships and engage students. Contact us today to learn more about how we can support you in all things research at OCAD University. The OCAD U Research Ethics Board (REB) provides an independent, impartial, and equitable ethics review of all research at OCAD U that involves human participants. Learn more about the REB and its processes here. **If you require information published in this newsletter in an alternate format, please forward your request to [email protected] and let us know what format is preferable. We will provide you with an accessible version.** SPOTLIGHT OCAD U Celebrates Research with CRAM On April 5th 2019, OCAD U participated in CRAM, a city­wide free event that brought Toronto's universities together to share their research with the public. Jointly hosted by OCAD University, the University of Toronto, Ryerson University and York University, CRAM featured 30+ interactive and entertaining events across the GTA. Visitors to OCAD had the opportunity to enjoy the following sessions: · Hey Autonomous Vehicle – Can You Tell Me About Yourself? – Assistant Professor Sowmya Somanath · Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Reversing Our Throwaway Culture – Assistant Professor Michele Mastroeni · Will Our Future Be A+? Avatars, Agents and Adaptive A.I. Assistants – Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Internet of Things, Alexis Morris · Communities on the Move: Finding a Sense of Place in the City – Assistant Professor James Miller · Can I Feel What You See? Multi­Sensory Design – Associate Professor Peter Coppin Read Dr. James Miller's interview about CRAM with Philip Lee­Shanok of the CBC here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto­universities­share­exciting­research­at­first­ ever­cram­festival­1.5038282 As a result of his successful CRAM talk, Dr. Michele Mastroeni was invited to appear on Breakfast Television (CityTv). See the interview here: https://www.bttoronto.ca/videos/how­to­stop­throw­away­ culture/ Visit https://cramtoronto.com/ for CRAM's official event recap. VP MESSAGE New models of research space sharing A message from Dr. Robert Luke, VPRI: With spring comes news of recent grant recipients, and as you have seen elsewhere in this newsletter we are excited to be announcing recipients of funding for research at the University. Congratulations to all who have been successful! Congratulations also to those who applied for research funding. Applying is important as through this process we get to learn more about projects and to further develop them through iteration. The University has over the past decade+ built considerable research infrastructure, from faculty pursuing research through to centres, studios and labs that house specific projects and programs of work. With the growth in University research over the past several years we now face constraints on research space. This is in fact a good problem to have, as it means there are more faculty conducting research and creative practice and being successful at obtaining external funding to support these activities. Over the past two years the Research Office, in concert with the Research Committee, has conducted the Research Space Allocation Project, including numerous consultations with the OCAD University community on how we can best manage access to research space for a growing number of research­ active faculty. This effort has resulted in new models of research space sharing. Effective 1 June 2019 all research space at the University will be considered shared use. A regular process will be used to allocate research space as per the criteria developed through the Research Space consultations. The form that will be used for application for research space as well as the Assessment Criteria were both included in the memo sent to all University faculty on 16 April 2019. New research space allocation will include dedicated space for Research, Equity, Decolonization, Diversity & Inclusion. This project is working to create a more supportive and inclusive research environment for all equity­seeking groups, including Black, Indigenous and People of Colour, people with disabilities, women, the neurodiverse, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, and 2­Spirit. The project is jointly led by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Sustainability Initiatives and the Research Office, and is building on the work to date by the Presidential Task Force on the Under­Representation of Racialized and Indigenous Faculty and Staff. Stay tuned for further updates. I wish you all a happy spring, now that the sun shines warmer. RESEARCH NEWS Dr. Alexis Morris Interviewed on CBC Spark Assistant Professor Alexis Morris, director of ACE Lab and Canada Research Chair in the Internet of Things, has been featured in an interview with CBC Radio's Spark, hosted by Nora Young. The segement, titled "What living in a hyper­connected city means for human beings", explored the critical nature of context awareness when designing smart cities. Listen to the full segment here: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/what­living­in­a­hyper­connected­city­ means­for­human­beings­1.5107888 Research Funding Panel Discussion On Wednesday, April 24th the Office of Research and Innovation hosted an eye­opening discussion on research and arts funding applications and reviews, featuring panelists who have served as reviewers in the past. Topics included: keys to a successful funding application, navigating reviewers’ expectations, experiences with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and funding for the Arts. Thank you to the panelists ­ Dr. Dori Tunstall, Dean, Faculty of Design; Dr. Ashok Mathur, Dean, Graduate Studies; and Ryan Rice, Associate Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and SIS, ­ for sharing their wisdom and experience! THIS IS RESEARCH, V2 The Office of Research & Innovation is excited to announce the launch of the second iteration of the "THIS IS RESEARCH" campaign, featuring the work of Ryan Rice, Jason Baerg, Dr. Lynne Heller, Nina Czegledy, Dr. Gerald McMaster, Peter Morin and the Adaptive Context Environments Lab (dir. Dr. Alexis Morris). The posters and the full announcement are available here: https://www2.ocadu.ca/news/this­is­ research­v2. If you would like your research to be profiled through “THIS IS RESEARCH” please contact our office at [email protected]. New Resources from the OCADU Research Ethics Board (REB) Please see below for new resources available from the OCADU Research Ethics Board: · OCAD University REB ­ Self Assessment Checklist ­ for researchers who would like to know whether or not their research requires ethics review. · OCAD University REB ­ Matrix of Course­based Research and Ethics Oversight – for instructors who would like to know if their course requires ethics review. To make suggestions on other resources you would like the OCADU REB to develop, email [email protected]. Research Achievements Congratulations to the following faculty on their recent research achievements: · Dr. Gabrielle Moser and co­applicant Carol Payne (Carleton University) have been awarded a SSHRC Connections Grant titled "Reparative Frames: Visual Culture After Reconciliation." · Dr. Gerald McMaster has been awarded a SSHRC Connections Grant titled "Arctic/Amazon." · Dr. Michele Mastroeni and co­applicant Francisco Alvarez have been awarded a SSHRC Connections Grant titled "Anticipating Futures: Forming, Reforming, and Transforming." For the Winter 2019 competition for the OCAD University Research Seed Grant, the Research Office received 23 applications of which a total of six were awarded. Congratulations to the successful applicants: · Dr. Gabrielle Moser · Kate Hartman · Veronika Szkudlarek · Dr. Lynne Milgram · Dr. Suzanne Morrissette · Dr. Marta Wnuczko (with co­PI Dr. Peter Coppin) Update on Post Colonial Hot­Ones On Thursday, February 28th Assistant Professor Immony Mèn and Public Visualization Lab hosted the first installment in a new panel series, Post Colonial Hot­Ones. There was a great turnout for the event, which fostered discussions that centered around communal knowledge sharing, tools for resistance, intergenerational healing methods, mobilization plans for marginalized voices, and recipes for dishes/sauces. Featured participants for this installment included Ryan Rice, Camille Turner, Casey Mecija, Dr. Patricio Dávila, and Immony Mén. Stay tuned for details about the next installment of Post Colonial Hot­Ones! Dr. Bill Leeming and Dr. Selmin Kara deliver sabbatical talks On March 26, 2019, Dr. Bill Leeming and Dr. Selmin Kara delivered sabbaticcal talks in RHA 320. Dr. Leeming's talk, titled "Extending the Meaning of ‘Genetic’ in Medicine in Canada and Mexico to include ‘Related to Chromosomes and Genes,’” describes research performed during his 2016­ 2017 sabbatical, including collaborative work with Dr. Ana Barahona of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. The talk explored how medico­scientific reporting of chromosomal anomalies using karyotype cytogenetics permitted scientists in a wide range of fields to manipulate and extend the meaning of “genetic” in medicine from “heredity” to include “related to chromosomes and genes.” Dr. Kara's talk from her recent sabbatical, titled "Cinematic Life in the Anthropocene", tracks ways in which 21st century film has responded to the question of life in the