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Mount Allison offers several internal funding opportunities for full- and part-time faculty members and librarians to support the development of their research and creative activities.

Some of these funds are intended to allow researchers to participate in research activities and conferences in their field, while other may serve to allow researchers to carry out essential developmental work that will be used in preparing applications for funding at the regional or national level, and/or to carry out research and creative activities that have a limited scope or scale.

Please contact us and visit the

The Office of Research Services has extensive experience working with our regional and national funding partners like CFI, CIHR, MITACS, ResearchNB, NBETF, NBWTF, NSERC, and SSHRC.

Please speak with one of our staff and visit the should you be interested in securing external funding for your research and creative activities.

The Mount Allison animal care committee (ACC) is a presidential committee that oversees the use of animals in teaching and research in accordance with the guidelines provided by the

Any faculty or student researcher interested in conducting research with animals must receive approval by the ACC prior to the commencement of any research.

For more details and resources: (F&S Gateway)

The biosafety committee oversees and manages the use and disposal of biohazardous materials and biosafety, governed by .

Researchers and instructors wishing to use biohazardous materials must first obtain a Biohazard Certificate from the university's Biosafety Committee.

For more details and resources: (F&S Gateway)

Mount Allison’s Research Ethics Board (REB) oversees all research involving human participants and is strictly guided by the   (TCPS).

The REB will approve, reject, propose modifications to, or terminate any proposed or ongoing research involving human subjects which is conducted within or by members of °®¶¹´«Ã½app using the considerations set forth in the TCPS as the minimum standard.

Any faculty or student researcher interested in conducting research with human subjects must familiarize themselves with the information contained within this section and receive approval by the REB prior to the commencement of any research.

For more details and resources: (F&S Gateway)

For faculty researchers, please contact Research Services to discuss any of the following items you may be working on:

• Commercialization of research
• Patents
• Intellectual property protection
• Technology disclosures
• Partnership funding for commercialization opportunities
• Funding programs related to private sector participation
• Collaborations with visiting researchers (also see the F&S Gateway -- )

For external parties, please contact Research Services if you are seeking to connect with °®¶¹´«Ã½app researchers to assist you with your project or R&D activities, we can help.

We have knowledge of funding supports, and we know who on campus has the expertise to help you.

Research Services: research@mta.ca

The Strategic Research Plan identifies:

• strategic objectives and action items to increase the capacity for research and creative activity success at °®¶¹´«Ã½app
• strategic areas of research intensity and emphasis which guide future nominations and appointments in the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program and which justify future investments through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)

The plan also outlines areas of research intensity and emphasis — thematic areas where Mount Allison has a critical mass of researchers and impact or where there are latent and emerging opportunities.

The Research and Creative Activity Committee is a Senate committee that helps to set the strategic vision of research and creative activity at Mount Allison in its role as an advisor to the Provost and Vice-President, Academic and Research, through its policy and procedural recommendations, and through its adjudication of some internal grants and awards.

Many of the policies relevant to research and creative activities at Mount Allison can be found in Section 5200-5299 Research & Creative Activities of the University’s policies and procedures, particularly the following:

• 5200 — Internal Research Grants
• 5201 — Policy on Conflicts of Interest in Research
• 5202 — Policy Statement on Integrity in Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity
• 5205 — Portion of Salary as a Research Grant
• 5210 — Policy Statement on Research Contract Administration
• 5211 — Policy Statement of Research Overhead