Overall Rating Platinum - expired
Overall Score 88.31
Liaison James Gordon
Submission Date May 31, 2018
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Thompson Rivers University
AC-9: Research and Scholarship

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 James Gordon
Environmental Programs and Research Coordinator
TRU Office of Environment and Sustainability
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in research (headcount):
236

Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff that are engaged in sustainability research (headcount):
96

Percentage of the institution's faculty and staff researchers that are engaged in sustainability research :
40.68

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts research:
31

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
24

Percentage of research-producing departments that are engaged in sustainability research:
77.42

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
The institution’s inventory of its sustainability research that includes names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory (including the types of faculty and staff included as researchers):

In order to complete the research inventory, the following methodology was used:
• Each faculty members’ own webpage (from their respective faculty’s main website) was reviewed in order to determine if A) they had engaged in any sort of research over the last three years, and B), if they had, then if that research was ‘sustainability research’. (Seven of the eight TRU faculties have faculty who are engaged in research).
• When questions were still unanswered after this review (for example, if faculty members websites did not show any research publications/conference presentations in the last three years), then meetings/phone calls/emails with faculty deans or secretaries, or department chairs took place in order to get clarification.
• Information from the TRU Office of Research and Graduate Studies also helped to answer some of these types of questions as well as other, more general types of questions about who is doing sustainability research .


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