Research Support

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Tailored guidance

The CLL team connects faculty and staff across diverse units, offering guidance to develop living lab ideas, foster collaborations, identify resources, and navigate UBC procedures and requirements. By leveraging the campus as a testing ground, we help empower the UBC community to co-create impactful solutions to urgent global sustainability challenges.

 

Facilitating partnerships between academics and operations

A core requirement of all CLL projects is the co-creation process, led jointly by academic and operational staff. This ensures that both research excellence and implementation expertise work together to address sustainability challenges. The CLL team facilitates these partnerships to ensure projects are deeply rooted in UBC’s real-world context, create pathways for impactful outcomes, and connect solutions from the university to broader communities.

 

Proposal development and coaching

Whether developing a proposal for the CLL Fund Competition or conceptualizing a new living lab idea, our team can help refine ideas, align them with UBC’s sustainability goals, and offer insights into how to structure proposals for maximum impact. We help teams enhance clarity, feasibility, and collaborative potential, while also connecting them to resources and networks that strengthen their proposals.

 

Collaboration with research teams

Our role extends beyond project initiation. We work closely with research teams to foster ongoing collaboration, build strategic partnerships, and ensure effective knowledge mobilization. By connecting living lab teams with internal and external resources and support units, we offer assistance through the project lifecycle.

 

Major grant application support

We actively support researchers to strengthen major grant applications by identify living lab opportunities and integrating the living lab concept and methodology into their proposals. This approach leverages UBC’s exceptional academic and operational resources to enhance the relevance, feasibility, and potential of proposed solutions.

Additional Research Support at UBC

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Office of the Vice-President, Research & Innovation (VPRI)
VPRI connects UBC researchers to support across the research lifecycle, including funding guidance, research administration, and access to specialized support units across both campuses.
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UBC Applied Science Research + Partnerships
Applied Science’s Research + Partnerships team helps build collaborations with industry, non-profit, and government partners, while supporting grant development and applied research with transformational impact.
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Learning Technology Innovation Centre (LTIC)
LTIC supports faculty, staff, and students with learning technologies and helps advance teaching and research innovation through digital tools, training, and experimentation.
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Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
ARC supports UBC researchers with high-performance computing, data management, consultation, and access to digital research infrastructure.
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Indigenous Research Support Initiative (IRSI)
IRSI supports collaborative, community-led research by helping Indigenous communities and UBC researchers build reciprocal partnerships and undertake projects grounded in community priorities.
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Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (OISI)
OISI provides guidance across UBC to help faculties, departments, operational units, and student groups align their work with the Indigenous Strategic Plan and its research, learning, and service priorities.

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