Research Support
LFS Research Support offers support for faculty members in all LFS departments and units in applying for research grants and awards. They provide services that support the full life cycle of proposal development.
Find out more on the LFS research site: https://researchsupport.landfood.ubc.ca/
News: Fall award season is coming up! (action by June 16, 2025)
As mentioned at the May 28 LFS Community meeting, the LFS Faculty Research Awards Committee is here to help faculty members gain recognition for their research and mentoring. The Committee focuses its efforts on increasing awareness of awards and generating nominations, leading to greater success in winning prominent awards.
What’s coming up? The Committee wants to bring your attention to these upcoming awards that are open to both early-stage and experienced researchers. As LFS is limited to recommending one (a,c below) or two candidates (b,d below) for these awards, nominations for each of these awards require approval from the Dean’s Office to go forward, and we want to hear from you, if interested:
(a) Killam Accelerator Research Fellowships (faculty must be within 15 years of obtaining their PhD)
(b) Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring (mid- and senior career categories available)
(c) UBC Distinguished Scholar (full-time tenured UBC faculty members in the research or educational leadership streams; active IRCs, CRCs and Endowed Chairs not eligible)
(d) John McNeill Excellence in Health Research Mentorship Award
Supporting Statements: (Deadline is June 16, 2025)
If you believe there is good potential, we encourage you to send us your name or the name of someone in LFS who may meet the criteria for these awards. Please include a SUPPORTING STATEMENT (maximum 1 page in length – to include 1.Short bio; 2. Rational for nomination; 3. How does the candidate meet the award criteria; and, 4. Previous Awards). The Committee will evaluate these STATEMENTS and provide feedback. The Committee will also review and assess which candidates will be endorsed by the Dean’s Office to go forward with a full nomination.
Please send any Supporting Statements or questions you have to [lfs.research@ubc.ca].
Read about research and mentoring awards
In addition, many awards allow for self-nominations or peer nominations (i.e., they do not require the Dean’s Office to approve candidates). If you want to learn more about the varied internal and external awards, visit the Office of Research Prizes and Awards:
News: Your story in UBC’s Annual Sustainability Report (action by June 16, 2025)
This annual publication aims to broadly summarize UBC actions to support sustainability and climate action across Teaching, Learning, & Research, Operations and Infrastructure, and Community activities.
Call for new research content – now open until June 16.
The UBC Sustainability Hub is looking for content contributions from UBC’s academic community. This could highlight significant sustainability and climate action progress such as:
- Major research projects, new pilot projects
- New research groups and/or collaboration
- Significant funding awards
- New hires / new positions
If you have interesting work to share, let the team at UBC Sustainability Hub know! The content will be considered for the Annual Sustainability Report, and potentially other UBC external communications. The Word Doc, 2024-25 ASR Research Content Request, describes the type of information needed (it is short and high level).
Please fill the Word document and return it to Angelique Pilon (angelique.pilon@ubc.ca) or Jon Garner jon.garner@ubc.ca before June 16.
See last year’s report pp.15-18 featuring research content.