the year in research: 2009-2010
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The Year in Research: 2009-2010. Ulrich Krull Vice-Principal Research. Report to Academic Affairs Committee. Overview of the data & sources Limitations of the data 2009-2010 findings. Data Sources. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Year in Research:2009-2010Ulrich KrullVice-Principal Research
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+Report to Academic AffairsCommittee
Overview of the data & sources
Limitations of the data
2009-2010 findings
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+Data Sources
Revenue values & award count numbers come from the Cognos data model, based on data uploaded from the Research Information System (RIS)
The data is accurate as of May 14, 2010
Annual tenure-stream faculty FTE data was obtained from the Office of the Vice-Provost, Planning & Budget
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+Pro-Rated Revenue & Award Counts
Research grants tend to be multi-year, with revenue coming to UTM in annual grant award installments
Active award counts are similarly pro-rated, with awards only included up to the designated ‘grant end date’ (not the ‘fund end date’, which is the date by which the funds must be spent)
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+Data Categories
Councils: All direct NSERC, CIHR & SSHRC funding, including the SIG funds attributed to Departments
GRIP: Infrastructure & salary-support programs, including CRCs, CFI, and ORF
Other: All other external sources, such as industry, government agencies, and council sub-grants from other universities
Internal: Connaught & other U of T funding programs
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+Administering Units
Faculty have the option to designate any U of T administrative unit (with which they are affiliated) as the ‘home’ of the award
Any awards held by UTM faculty anywhere else at U of T are not captured in the Cognos data as ‘UTM’ awards
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+Co-Principal Investigators
RIS data is only linked to a sole U of T Principal Investigator
Research revenue (& award counts) for UTM faculty who engage in research as co-PIs is not identifiable in the data
A solution: Co-PIs can request (from the PI) an internal sub-grant that would result in a new fund to be established for the co-PI’s share of the research funding
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+Non-Funded Research Activities
Not all the research activities of our faculty can be captured through quantitative analysis of revenue dollars & numbers of grant accounts
Some research activities proceed without direct financial support from funders
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+St. George Comparisons
Per faculty comparisons with St. George can be skewed in favour of St. George when UTM & UTSC researchers administer their awards downtown, but are not counted as St. George FTEs
Status-only researchers, sessional lecturers, CLTAs and others who hold grant awards can also skew the per faculty comparisons, as their research awards are counted, but the PIs are not captured as tenure-stream FTEs
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+Aggregate Data
Data in the Cognos system does not identify individual PIs, nor individual grant awards
Data is aggregated by sponsor, by administering unit, by faculty, etc.
Lack of PI identifiers in the data prevents data ‘clean up’ to remove specific PI’s awards from the data (ie: status-only)
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+Cognos Data: Imperfect, But Free
The data, while not flawless, and not a perfect reflection of the research activity of our researchers, is the most accurate, consistent and readily accessible information we have available
For the purpose of having quantifiable UTM research performance indicators, the Cognos data is the most reliable available
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+2009-2010 Research Revenue
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+UTM Research Funding Trends
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+UTM Active Award Trends
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+Primary Council Grants
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+Per-Faculty Funding Sources
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+Per-Faculty Primary Council Grants
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+St. George Comparisons
Comparator units were chosen for each UTM department (ie: Rotman for Management; Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology & Physics for CPS)
Only primary Council programs were included in the analysis (SSHRC Standard, NSERC Discovery & CIHR Operating) to create a reasonably equitable basis for comparison
All comparisons are pro-rated & per-faculty
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+Comparison: Per-Faculty Primary Council Program Funding
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+Comparison: Per-Faculty Primary Council Program Award Count
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+Impact of ‘UTM’ Awards Held at St. George
A manual search was conducted in RIS to identify the pro-rated value of awards administered at St. George by the 8 UTM PIs known to hold their grants downtown 2009-2010: $461,700 2008-2009: $792,218 2007-2008: $566,259
The majority of this money was awarded to one faculty member through a SSHRC MCRI
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+Department-Specific Data
The analysis done for UTM was duplicated for each academic unit at UTM individually, and the results distributed to the Chairs in July
There were a number of interesting findings, including UTM units that are ahead of their St. George counterparts in per-faculty funding and awards from the primary Council programs, including: Economics; English & Drama; and Geography.
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Questions?
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