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Research Centres and Groups

Western is committed to nurturing a culture of research excellence and innovation. To build on the efforts of individual scholars, the university encourages the formation of collaborative research organizations (groups, centres, institutes) to support more complex models of research that aim to address a wide array of challenging topics of investigation.

Research Centres: Collaborative and typically non-departmental research entities that undertake collaborative, multi- and interdisciplinary research and scholarship with national and international impact, but their size, breadth and scope, and/or operational requirements do not warrant research institute status. Their scope is generally internal to the faculty that recognizes it as a centre, but membership often cross two or more faculties.

Research Groups: Entities that consists of a number of investigators informally organized within - and recognized by - a department, school and/or faculty with shared research objectives, and possibly shared facilities and funds. Groups form, grow, and dissolve on a relatively short time scale, although, in some cases, they can also be stable for relatively long time periods.

List of Research Centres by Faculty

Please note some names reflect legacy naming conventions and do not conform to above-mentioned definitions or institutional policies.

Faculty of Education
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty for Information and Media Studies
Faculty of Health Sciences
Ivey Business School
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Faculty of Science
Faculty of Social Science

 

List of Research Groups

Please note some names reflect legacy naming conventions and do not conform to above-mentioned definitions or institutional policies.