Research Support
The Office of Research Services (ORS) supports researchers. We provide assistance to researchers though a variety of activities, including every step of the pre and post research grant funding process, grant funding administration, knowledge mobilization, human participants research ethics, animal use protocols, and intellectual property management and technology transfer.
Advancing Indigenous Research (AIR) Fund
Application Deadline: September 14, 2018 at 4:30 pm
(submit by email to Dr. Robin Craig at rj_craig@laurentian.ca)
Laurentian University's AIR Fund aims to encourage and support Indigenous research initiatives at Laurentian, to strengthen capacity for Indigenous research in Northern Ontario, to create and reinforce collaborative networks of Indigenous research regionally and nationally, and to respond to the calls for action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Research Highlights
Here are some ways Laurentian is leading the charge in Ontario for research
Laurentian is one of five university collaborators in Nobel prize-winning neutrino research led by Dr. Arthur McDonald
Laurentian has embarked on an unprecedented $104 million research effort to help the mineral industry lower risk of exploration investments
Laurentian is Canada’s #1 Undergraduate University in total sponsored research income, according to Research Infosource.
Federal Research Support Fund
The Federal Research Support Fund assists Canadian postsecondary institutions and their affiliated research hospitals and institutes with the expenses associated with managing the research funded by the three federal research granting agencies. (Source)

