Professional Development and Research: Advancement and Governance

  • Raise the maximum per project from $6,000.00 to $7,500.00 (fund of $240,000.00 to $310,892.00) (increase of 30%)

  • Facilitate research collaboration opportunities

  • Overcome governance issues associated with the current grant application and adjudication process

  • Increase members’ participation in the grant adjudication process

  • Ensure that Professional Development and Research funding is equally available to all members in all faculties

  • Promote to ALL members the availability of Professional Development funds and opportunities

  • Demand the assignment of seniority points to members awarded a University-administered research grant
    (e.g., NSERC, SSHRC or CIHR)

  • Ensure that no member’s grant application is summarily dismissed without a review by the entire Executive 

  • Establish a reserve fund specifically for CUPFA members at the Open Access Fund (at the moment only graduate students have priority reimbursements).

  • Create a workshop and publish a guidebook on “How to”  for conferences: 

    • How to find a suitable conference for one’s work

    • How to apply to a conference

    • How to avoid "predatory" conferences

  • Create a workshop and publish a guidebook on “How to”  for publications in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes (How does one determine the suitability, credentials, and Impact Factor (IF) of a journal?)

  • Increase visibility of research output. Establish a clear and effective pathway for inclusion into Concordia’s Spectrum; personal page at Concordia that would include links to the final versions of your text/work; and inclusion into Scopus and Orchid platforms. 

  • Establish close collaborative ties with the newly established Concordia University Press in order to publish and market fiction and non-fiction books/ publications by CUPFA authors.