Research and Innovation
York University believes that by bringing experts from different disciplines together, whether they are York faculty or researchers from other institutions, comprehensive solutions to complex problems will result.
Building research capacity is a top priority for York. We plan to extend our significant strengths in specific areas within four research themes—health, culture and entertainment, international studies and environmental sustainability.
In Health, areas for research capacity building include: biotechnology, the convergence of information technology and biomedical technology, disease diagnosis, vision, health geomatics, child and youth development, social determinants of health, and health ethics.
In Culture and Entertainment, our focus is on virtual, augmented and immersive environments; human-computer interaction and artificial life; digital technology and its relevance to education and entertainment; cultural diplomacy, policy and marketing of cultural technologies, and the relationship between science and culture in society.
The emphasis for Environmental Sustainability includes monitoring, modeling and improving the quality of the atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere; alternative energy; invasive non-indigenous species; the ethics and psychology of sustainability; the economics of sustainability; public policy; and food security.
International Studies’ areas for capacity building include understanding the operation, governance and structures of organizations; economics; culture, principles of justice; social innovation; space exploration policy and regulation, Europe, the global south; global health; human security; and, immigration and settlement.
For more information about Research & Innovation at York and our priorities, please contact Shirley Freek, Chief Development Officer, at (416) 650-8206 or by email at sfreek@yorkfoundation.yorku.ca.
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York awarded $4.2 million to build two national research networks
Professors Susan McGrath (left) and Stephen Gaetz (right) received $4.2 million, over seven years, to build new national research networks on homelessness and refugee studies, from the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
