Energy Research Strategy 2.0

Consultation and engagement with the UCalgary community

UCalgary is developing a new Energy Research Strategy

In 2013, UCalgary launched Energy Innovations for Today and Tomorrow, our institution’s first Energy Research Strategy. It was created by our scholars to foster a culture of interdisciplinary collaboration, addressing key energy and environmental grand challenges at the time. Energy Innovations for Today and Tomorrow enabled significant accomplishments and established UCalgary as an energy research leader nationally and internationally.

We are now looking to build on our success, and expand impactful research and training activities to promote further collaboration, through a new Energy Research Strategy (ERS2). ERS2 is a grassroots strategy built by you and your colleagues. We want to break down the typical silos that exist in the academy and empower transdisciplinary scholarship. ERS2 will drive systematic engagement with our scholars and students, the public, and external stakeholders, resulting in a diverse and inclusive framework that will guide energy research, training and innovation at UCalgary.

We are faced with new and urgent social, economic, energy, and environmental challenges, particularly with climate change. Climate change encompasses many energy challenges, and it touches on every aspect of society. The need to substantially and aggressively reduce emissions motivates a new era of energy research at UCalgary. It will take all of our knowledge and skills to address these challenges.

Energy Innovations for Today and Tomorrow (2013)

Process and Timeline

The draft energy research strategy has been developed by eight faculty members and advisors with transdisciplinary scholarship:

Jennifer Winter, Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Scientific Director, Energy and Environment Policy, School of Public Policy
Robert Skinner, Energy Research Advisor and Executive Fellow, School of Public Policy
Petra Dolata, Associate Professor, Department of History
Stephen Larter, Professor, Department of Geoscience and Associate Vice-President (Research-Innovation)
Rudiger Tscherning, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law
Steven Bryant, Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Materials Engineering for Unconventional Oil Reservoirs
Yrjo Koskinen, Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Business Impact, Haskayne School of Business
Ian Gates, Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Director, Global Research Initiative in Sustainable Low Carbon Unconventional Resources

Summer 2020: The group of eight UCalgary scholars began compiling the draft Energy Research Strategy (ERS2)

Fall 2020: The draft ERS2 was shared with the Vice-President (Research)

December 2020: The draft ERS2 was shared with the Research and Scholarship Committee (RSC)

January 2021: The draft ERS2 was shared with the General Faculties Council (GFC)

February and March 2021: Broad internal consultation – we are seeking input from and engagement with UCalgary research, teaching, student, innovation and operational communities on ERS2

Spring/Summer 2021: Broad external consultation – we will seek input from our external stakeholders and partners on ERS2

Goals of broad campus consultation

Obtain your input on the strategy – we want to build ERS2 from the academy up
Ensure we are taking a transdisciplinary approach to energy research at UCalgary
Make sure we are being inclusive throughout our consultation process to build an inclusive ERS2
Learn about your thoughts and feedback for the new energy research strategy and to ensure that the strategy has relevance to you
To share our ideas collectively from the academy, students, and other operational units on campus

Please review the draft documents, and complete the survey to share your thoughts:

Your university (CAS) login is required to access these documents. Please note these documents are draft only and are not for external distribution.

Contact

You are also welcome to submit your thoughts to research@ucalgary.ca.