The Office of Research Services provides primary support for peer-reviewed grant competitions. To discuss contracted research with members of industry or government, please contact the University-Industry Liaison Office.
Most UBC research is funded by external agencies, including government and non-profit foundations. These organizations offer funding programs that award research grants through peer-reviewed competitions. These support a range of research efforts from individual project grants to large scale, multidisciplinary, inter-institutional team grants.
Approximately one-third of UBC research is funded by three federal funding agencies known collectively as the “Tri-Council” – these include the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Major infrastructure funding for buildings, renovations and large equipment is typically funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) in partnership with the BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF). Contact UBC's Institutional Programs Office for more information about infrastructure funding opportunities through CFI, BCKDF or Western Economic Developoment (WD).
The most common sources of external funding for UBC research include:
- The Government of Canada "Tri-Council": SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR
- The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the BC Knowledge Development Fund (BCKDF)
- Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program
- Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada (NCE)
- The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR)
- Genome BC and Genome Canada
- The American National Institutes of Health (NIH)
