| Actions | Progress Indicators | Anticipated Results |
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Communicating and celebrating Waterloo research successes more effectively to a variety of audiences, including industry Identifying and pursuing strategic opportunities to promote Waterloo research and researchers nationally and internationally |
Maintain and improve research performance in international rankings More sponsored research chairs Better tracking of research impacts (citations / publications) More prestigious awards for faculty and students |
Waterloo, its faculty and students will be recognized internationally for excellence and innovation in education, research and scholarship The impact of Waterloo’s research productivity and impact will be more widely known among important stakeholders |
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Pursuing existing, and identifying new, emerging, legacy and inter/transdisciplinary national and international opportunities to conduct high quality research Enhancing institutional infrastructure that supports and enables research excellence and impact Reviewing human resources policies to ensure that they maximize opportunities to support research excellence and impact |
More sponsored and diversified research funding is raised by Waterloo researchers Increase in proportion of research conducted with industry Infrastructure to support research is optimized More faculty pursue research in new, emerging, legacy and inter/transdisciplinary areas More research networks that are in new, emerging and legacy areas or are inter/transdisciplinary in nature More publications in new, emerging, legacy and inter/transdisciplinary research areas |
Waterloo’s environment and infrastructure will be optimized to maximize research excellence Waterloo will have increased research activity and partnerships in new and emerging, interdisciplinary and legacy areas Waterloo faculty members will attract more research funding compared to other U15 universities |