Canada Research Chair

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Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) are Canadian university research professorships created through the Canada Research Chairs Program.

Contents 1 Program goals 2 Types of chairs 3 Chair allocations 3.1 List of Canada Research Chairs 3.2 The Canada Research Chairs Insignia 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Program goals

The program, established in 2000, is an integral part of a Government of Canada plan to drive Canadian research and development excellence, to create world-class centres of research and to enhance Canada's competitiveness in the global knowledge-based economy. Through the CRC program, $300 million is spent annually to attract and retain outstanding scholars and scientists.

Chairholders aim to achieve research excellence in natural sciences, engineering, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences. They improve Canadians’ depth of knowledge and quality of life, strengthen the country’s international competitiveness, and help train the next generation of highly skilled people through student supervision, teaching, and the coordination of other researchers’ work.

[edit] Types of chairs

There are two types of Canada Research Chair:

• Tier 1 Chairs - tenable for seven years and renewable indefinitely, are for outstanding researchers acknowledged by their peers as world leaders in their fields. Nominees for Tier 1 positions are full professors or associate professors who are expected to be promoted to the full professor level within one or two years of the nomination (or, if coming from outside the academic sector, nominees must possess the necessary qualifications to be appointed at these levels by the nominating university). For each Tier 1 Chair, the university receives $200,000 annually for seven years.

• Tier 2 Chairs - tenable for five years and renewable once, are for exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field. Nominees for Tier 2 positions are assistant or associate professors (or they possess the necessary qualifications to be appointed at these levels by the nominating university). For each Tier 2 Chair, the university receives $100,000 annually for five years.

[edit] Chair allocations

The number of CRCs allocated to a university is proportional to the amount of research grant funding that university has received in the three years prior to the year of the allocation. Grant funding must originate from the three federal granting agencies (NSERC, CIHR, and SSHRC).

Of the total 2000 Chairs, 1880 are regular allocations, distributed as follows:

• 846 Chairs (45 per cent) for research in natural sciences and engineering;
• 658 Chairs (35 per cent) for research in health sciences;
• 376 Chairs (20 per cent) for research in social sciences and humanities.

The program sets aside a special allocation of 120 Chairs for universities that have received one per cent or less of the total funding paid out by the three federal granting agencies over the preceding three years.

Roughly 66% of Chairs are allocated to member institutions of the G13, a group of the top research-intensive universities in Canada.

CRC Allocations, by G13 Institution

Institution	# of Chairholders
University of Toronto	253
University of British Columbia	147
McGill University	139
Université de Montréal	103
University of Alberta	97
Université Laval	81
University of Calgary	77
McMaster University	67
University of Western Ontario	64
Queen's University	54
University of Ottawa	53
University of Waterloo	52
Dalhousie University	50

Other universities participating in the CRC Program are:

[edit] List of Canada Research Chairs

The Canada Research Chairs Program maintains an online database of profiles of each chairholder, which include detailed descriptions of each of their research projects.^[1]

[edit] The Canada Research Chairs Insignia

On March 27, 2008, the Government of Canada's Ministry of Industry, as well as the presidents of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research presented each chairholder with a Canada Research Chair insignia^[2] at a national celebration of the program held at the Université du Québec en Outaouais in Gatineau, Québec. The lapel pin is made of sterling silver, symbolizes the pursuit of knowledge and research excellence and is available exclusively to chairholders. As of November 2007, there are 1,851^[3]Canada Research Chairs. Seventy Canadian universities are participating in the program.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website