Welcome to the UNBC Strategic Research Plan renewal webpage. Here you will find an overview of the planning process, engagement events and opportunities, and links to important documents and resources.
What is a Strategic Research Plan?
UNBC’s Strategic Research Plan sets out a collective vision and plan for research and innovation for 2025-2030 and beyond. The plan serves as a roadmap, setting out our goals and priority areas over the coming five years.
What currently exists?
UNBC’s current Strategic Research Plan can be found here. Our current plan is in place to the end of 2024. A draft summary of key outcomes from our previous Strategic Research Plan can be found here.
Planning process
UNBC is a vibrant research-intensive university with research and innovation activities that span diverse disciplines and sectors. This renewal is occurring alongside the renewal of the UNBC Academic Plan, and both are carried to build upon the overall UNBC Strategic Plan, READY.
In preparing this renewed strategy, our team are committed to undertaking broad consultation with UNBC community members and partners through engagement sessions, interviews, focus groups, surveys, and more. This webpage will include details of our planning activities to date, important dates and events, and links to resources and documents.
We recognize that multiple engagement processes are taking place concurrently. Where possible, we have worked with other planning teams to avoid overlap and to collaborate where possible.
Dates and activities
Please see the events calendar for engagement activities and events. We will update these at regular intervals.
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Date and time |
Venue |
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| Engagement Session Thursday, October 3, 2024 |
Peace River-Liard campus (Ft. St. John, B.C.) | Completed |
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Engagement Session |
South-Central campus (Quesnel, B.C.) |
Completed |
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Engagement Session |
Prince George campus |
Completed |
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Engagement Session |
Prince George campus |
Completed |
| ORI in the Wild! Thursday, October 31, 2024 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
Prince George campus UNBC Teaching and Learning Atrium |
Completed |
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Engagement Session |
Northwest campus (Terrace, B.C.) |
Completed |
| ORI in the Wild! Monday, December 2, 2024 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Prince George Campus Good Earth Coffee Shop |
Completed |
| ORI in the Wild! Thursday, December 5, 2024 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Prince George Campus Degrees Coffee Shop, T&L Building |
Completed |
| Engagement Session Friday, December 13, 2024 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Session will be led by Prime Strategy Group (No ORI leadership will be present) |
Completed |
| ORI in the Wild! Monday, December 16, 2024 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Prince George Campus Good Earth Coffee Shop |
Completed |
| UNBC SRP Refresh Survey Live until December 15, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. |
Link: https://ca.research.net/r/DT3VKWY | Closed |
| ORI in the Wild! Wednesday, January 8, 2025 11:00 am - 12:15 pm |
Prince George Campus First Nations Centre |
In-Person |
| SRP Feedback Session Thursday, January 9, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
This session will provide an overview of what we heard during the consultations and will present a draft framework to inform the UNBC SRP for 2025-2030. The session will include an opportunity for ongoing discussion and feedback. |
Virtual Link |
| SRP Feedback Session Tuesday, January 14, 2025 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
This session will provide an overview of what we heard during the consultations and will present a draft framework to inform the UNBC SRP for 2025-2030. The session will include an opportunity for ongoing discussion and feedback. |
Virtual Link |
* Venue and video-conference details will be provided when available.
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Where are we?
Stage 1: Engagement with UNBC and external interest holders (In Progress)
Stage 2: Synthesizing data and generating draft plan (by January 2025)
Stage 3: Reporting back and feedback (by February 2025)
Stage 4: Plan refinement, completion, and endorsement (by March 2025)
Stage 5: Launch (April 2025)
Latest progress
To date, we have conducted a wide range of engagement activities, including dedicated in-person and hybrid engagement sessions, focus groups, individual interviews, ORI in the Wild pop-up events, and an online anonymous survey. We thank you for your continued support and for the insights provided to date. We have some final engagement activities planned in January and invite you to join us in whatever ways you can! We will also be holding SRP Feedback Sessions in January. These sessions will provide an overview of what we heard during the consultations and will present a draft framework to inform the UNBC Strategic Research Plan for 2025-2030. The sessions will include opportunities for ongoing discussion and feedback.
Have your say!
Please use this form below to provide input, feedback, questions, or suggestions.
Resources
Stay connected
We welcome you to reach out at any time via VPR@unbc.ca or feel free to contact one of us: Paula Wood-Adams, Davina Banner-Lukaris, and Mark Barnes at our individual emails.