Most
recent
data
available:
2022/23
Update
frequency:
Annually
Next
update:
June
2024
Definition
Total sponsored research awards by source by award year
Data Sources
Office of Research database (InfoEd)
Inclusions and Exclusions
Inclusions:
- Research awards granted by Federal Tri-Agency, Federal (excluding Tri-Agency), Provincial, Industry, Universities, Non-profits, and Public Sector.
- Includes awards to the Affiliated and Federated Institutions of Waterloo (AFIW) and/or non-academic units
- For multi-year awards, the budget allocated for the fiscal year is reported (not the entire award)
Exclusions:
- Any research awards not administered through the University of Waterloo Office of Research - the Affiliated and Federated Institutions of Waterloo (AFIW) and non-academic units may choose administer their awards directly (but includes research funding that is held in Development)
-
Any research awards submitted by the Affiliated and Federated Institutions of Waterloo (AFIW) that were not administered through the University of Waterloo Office of Research
- Research Chairs set up in an operating fund (Schlegel RIA)
Revisions
2017/18: University Research Centres and Institutes now report to the Vice-President, Research; accordingly research awards previously attributed to these entities have been moved to the Office of Research (included under “Other”). Previous years have also been revised.
2018/19: Tri-agency has been reclassified into 3 categories, Tri-Agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR), TIPS (Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat) and Tri-Agency Other. This has been necessary to accommodate the increasing number of Tri-Agency programs that are not funded directly from one of the three original agencies (i.e. NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR). A number of other minor changes have been made as part of this exercise to move sponsors to the correct category.
• UW – SSHRC has been moved from Tri-Agency to Tri-Agencies SSHRC
• CERC, CFREF, CRC and Research Support Fund (RSF) has been moved from Federal (excluding Tri-Agency) to Tri-Agency TIPS.
• NCE has been moved from Federal (excluding Tri-Agency) to Tri-Agency Other.
• Canada 150 Chairs and New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) have been moved from Tri-Agency to Tri-Agency TIPS
• CanmetMATERIALS has been moved from Tri-Agency to Federal (excluding Tri-Agency)
• Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute has been moved from Federal (excluding Tri-Agency) to Provincial
• Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance has been moved from from Federal (excluding Tri-Agency) to Canadian Private Sector Industry
• Canadian Ornamental Horticultural Alliance has been moved from Federal (excluding Tri-Agency) to Canadian Non-Profit Industry.
• FedDev has been moved from Provincial to Federal (excluding Tri-Agency).
Previous years have also been revised.
2019/20: Sponsor type ‘Private Sector – Other’ has undergone a cleanup exercise. Previous years have also been revised. With this change you may notice shifts in funding from one sponsor type/grouping to another.
2022/23: Sponsor grouping ‘Other’ has undergone a cleanup exercise. Previous years have also been revised. With this change you may notice shifts in funding from one sponsor type/grouping to another.
- Sponsor grouping ‘Other’ has been reclassified into 3 new categories: Universities, Non Profit, Public-Sector Other
- Sponsor Types: Canadian, Foreign and US – Private Sector – Other, have moved from Sponsor Grouping Other to Industry
- Various Sponsor has been renamed to Various Sponsor (CFI In-Kind) and moved to new Sponsor Type, Canadian – Private Sector – Industry – CFI In-kind
- The Arthritis Society has moved from Canadian - Private Sector - Other to Canadian - Non Profit - Foundations/Charities
- Mitacs Inc and Mitacs – Globalink has moved from Canadian - Non Profit – Other to Canadian - Gov and Public Sector – Other
- SCIEX has moved from Canadian - Private Sector – Other to Canadian - Private Sector – Industry
- Teagasc has moved from Foreign - Private Sector – Other to Foreign - Gov and Public Sector - Other