CRIS Research Roundup
A weekly digest of research and innovation communications.
In This Issue
Issue 278: Week of Monday, December 15, 2025 - Sunday, December 21, 2025
Please note that the next issue of Research Roundup will be published on January 13, 2026.
Resources for the Research & Innovation Community
Featured Training & Events
- Cyber Security and Your Research(ers) Office Hours
January 13, 2026, 1:00pm-2:00pm - Project Management for Research
January 16, 2026, 11:00am-12:30pm - AI-Assisted Quantitative Data Analysis
January 22, 2026, 10:30am-12:00pm
More Training & Events
- Privacy Book Display at Robarts Library
January 5, 2026 - Navigating U of T’s Internal Grant Landscape
January 8, 2026, 12:00pm-1:00pm - CBRC Community of Practice: Arts-Based Research & Acute Care Collaborations
January 9, 2026, 12:00pm-1:00pm - Film and Scholarship: A Research-Creation Workshop
January 12, 2026, 9:30am-2:00pm - Understanding Your Responsibility to Preventing Racial Discrimination & Harassment in the Work Environment
January 12, 2026, 1:00pm-3:00pm - Beyond Treatment: Advancing Cancer Survivorship Team Grants
January 13, 2026, 11:00am-12:30pm - U of T Privacy Clinic
January 13, 2026, 11:00am-2:00pm - FemSTEM 2026 Kickoff Event & Panel
January 13, 2026, 3:30pm-5:00pm - Where Research Begins: “Meaningless Questions” and Other Secrets to Groundbreaking Research Projects
January 14, 2026, 11:30am-12:30pm - CBRCanada E-Learning Series: “Decisions for Affordable Social Housing”
January 15, 2026, 12:00pm-1:00pm - We’re Talking About the Wrong Error: Why Variance Matters More than Bias in AI
January 19, 2026, 11:00am – 5:00pm - Open Doors: Faith & Anti-Racism @ U of T
January 20, 2026, 1:30pm-3:00pm - Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead
January 20, 2026, 5:00pm-7:30pm - Research Roundtable on 2SLGBTQI+ (Rainbow) Entrepreneurship
January 21, 2026, 9:30am-5:00pm - Data Sciences Institute Talent Showcase
January 22, 2026, 8:00am-5:00pm - CBRCanada E-Learning Series: “Centering Lived Experience of Incarceration in Research”
January 22, 2026, 12:00pm-1:00pm - The Art of Storytelling: A Workshop with Lidia Akar
January 22, 2026, 5:00pm-7:00pm - SDGs Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-Production CoP
January 23, 2026, 9:00am-4:00pm - Excel and the Fundamentals of Data
January 23, 2026, 3:00pm-5:00pm - Surveillance, Policy and Art, with Professor Evan Light
January 27, 2026, 10:30am-11:30am - Let’s Talk International Partnerships Fireside Chat – International Students: Life After Graduation documentary screening
January 27, 2026, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Funding & Information from Sponsors & Partners
Announcements
Funding Calls and Program Changes
Applications Open for Lab2Market Validate Foundations Women in STEM Winter 2026 – Ontario
Original Communication – Research Alert: December 19, 2025
BRN IGNITE Grant 5.0
Original Communication – BRN website: December 16, 2025
Connaught Major Research Challenge for Black Researchers
Original Communication – BRN website: December 16, 2025
CANSSI Ontario AI Applications in Statistical Sciences Research Grant
Original Communication – Research Alert: December 15, 2025
Horizon Europe: 2026-27 Work Programme Released; Information Sessions and Brokerage Events
Original Communication – Research Alert: December 15, 2025
News, Information & Updates
News
Information & Updates
Survey on Draft Principles for New Discrimination Policy
Original Communication – Provost Digest: December 19, 2025
In response to the recommendations of the Co-Chairs Report on the Review of the University’s Statement on Prohibited Discrimination and Discriminatory Harassment , the University is creating a new policy to address discrimination and harassment under the Ontario Human Rights Code. The Vice-President & Provost and Vice-President, People Strategy, Equity & Culture welcome your feedback on the draft principles and key elements for the new policy. The online consultation survey will close January 31.