Scholarly Activity Resources

Resources for Conducting Scholarly Activity

Institutional Services:

• School and Institute Research Committees
• Research Handbook
• Research Ethics Board
• Academic Planning and Quality Assurance (for accreditation & program reviews)
• Applied Research Liaison Office (ARLO)
• Respect, Diversity, & Inclusion (RDI) Office (for equity, diversity and inclusion)
• Library:
  • Research Librarian
  • Digital Scholarship LibGuide
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning LibGuide
  • Student Workshops on scholarly inquiry methods
• Learning and Teaching Centre (for Teaching Practice, Curriculum Reviews…)

Related BCIT Policies:

• Academic Freedom
• Faculty Qualifications
• Intellectual Property
• Research Ethics for Human Participants (and procedure)
• Integrity in Research
• Educational Technology Policy (and procedures)
• Authored Books

Associated Documents:

• BCIT Education Plan
• BCIT Strategic Plan
• Applied Research Strategic Plan
• BCIT Learning and Teaching Framework
• Collective Agreements

BCIT Funding Sources

Funding opportunities may be either school-based or available at the Institute-level. You may contact your manager, the chair of your School Research Committee, or the Education Grants Office as they are a source of information regarding funding opportunities. Potential funds available via Collective Agreement and Employee-category provisions are:

Institute-wide available funds:

• Institute Research Funds
• International Mobility Fund
• Instructional Development Grants
• Learning and Teaching Innovation Grant
• Open Education Resource Grants

GEU Faculty:

• Instructional Development Grants
• Provincial Instructor Diploma Program
• BCGEU Faculty Career and Skills Development and 0.6% Upgrading Fund
• .6 Fund (Letter of Understanding #7) [PDF]

GEU Support:

• BCIT Support Staff PD Fund

Faculty and Staff Association Collective Agreement:

• 8.6 Month Free of Teaching
• 10.2 Instructional Skills Development
  • Instructional Development Grants
• 10.3 Professional Development Expenses Fund, Program Administered
  • Article 10.3 Expense Fund Guidelines [PDF]
• 10.5 Professional Development Leave
  • Article 10.5 leaves and funding
  • Article10.5 leaves and funding (non-teaching)
• 10.6 Development Leave, Short-Term
  • Article 10.6 leaves [PDF]
• 10.7 Professional Development Leave Without Pay
• 10.8 Exchange Leave/Secondment:
  • Article 10.8 leaves [PDF]
• 10.11 Professional Development Fund for Part-time Studies Instructors/Lecturers, Lab Assistants/ Demonstrators, Curriculum Writers and Administration
  • Flexible Learning (Part-Time Studies) PD Fund

Management PD Fund:

• Management PD Fund

Additional Funding Sources:

• Applied Research Liaison Office (ARLO) – for example, NSERC, MiTACS, SSHRC, CFI, CRC funding opportunities
• BCIT Education Grants Office (requires log-in)

Resources for Sharing Scholarly Activity

• Library: BCIT Institutional Repository
• BCIT PD Day
• Departmental meetings
• Lunch and Learns (e.g. Food for Thought series)
• Technical seminars and workshops (e.g. School of Energy Technical Seminar Series)
• Scholarly activity/research day (school-wide or pan-institutional)
• Journals and other publications, including open access journals, blogs, and other open publishing opportunities
• Professional development fund – reporting of funded activities

Ideas for Reviewing Scholarly Activity

• School Research Committees
• School Quality Committees
• Program Advisory Committees
• Departmental committees or meetings
• Sharing among colleagues
• Presenting at technical seminars
• Formal peer review as part of submission to a journal