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Contacts

Name: Reisa Klein
Title: Senior Officer, Major Initiatives, Vice-President Research Innovation
Email: reisa@ualberta.ca

Name: Rachel Hirsch
Title: Major Initiatives Officer, Vice-President Research Innovation
Email: rhirsch@ualberta.ca

Name: Heather Young-Leslie
Title: Senior Research Partner, Portfolio of VPRI
Email: heather.youngleslie@ualberta.ca

The University of Alberta is a research intensive university committed to mission and curiosity driven high impact research. We strive to be a leader in knowledge generation and mobilization, inspiring solutions to grand challenges of local, provincial, national and global importance through creativity, research, innovation and higher education. We recognize that solving these challenges requires strong multidisciplinary and intersectoral connections among researchers, students, industry, the public sector and community members. 

The University of Alberta fosters a broad and inclusive definition of impact recognizing the validity of different dimensions and interpretations across disciplines, research programs and all related scholarly activities, including short- and long-term economic, environmental and social impacts and engagements. We are committed to cultivating a research impact culture through a suite of research support services and are currently developing an institutional research impact framework that aligns with the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) to comprehensively measure and communicate the impacts of research, innovation and creative activity, including contributions to the broader civil society. Our vision includes a strong focus on social impact, advocating for greater representation of the social sciences, humanities, performing arts and fine arts to address the grand challenges of our time.