Research teams with UBC PIs and collaborators awarded close to $1M to strengthen national capacity in metaresearch

November 14, 2025

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and Michael Smith Health Research BC have announced $2.7 million in funding for 14 research teams over the next three years through the Research on Research joint initiative.

Four research teams led by UBC researchers and one research project with a UBC collaborator have been awarded a collective $991 thousand through this initiative.

Recipients of this funding will explore a variety of important topics, including urban Indigenous governance in health research, how to advance scientific integrity across disciplines, and how reviewer expertise and engagement impact the peer review of grant applications.

See SSHRC's announcement

UBC-Led Research Teams

Equalizing Research Grants for Open Research Impact in Health: The ERGO-Impact Project
Project Director: Clare Ardern (Physical Therapy)
UBC Collaborator: Dean Giustini (UBC Biomedical Branch Library)

Applying early health technology assessment in peer review: A framework for ‘a priori’ potential impact assessment of translational health research proposals
Project Director: Mark Harrison (Pharmaceutical Sciences)
UBC Co-Applicants: Nicolas Dragojlovic (Pharmaceutical Sciences); Larry Lynd (Pharmaceutical Sciences)

What is the Impact of Involving Transdisciplinary Model Users in Policy-Oriented Simulation Modelling? A Meta-Research Study
Project Director: Kate Johnson (Pharmaceutical Sciences; Medicine)
UBC Co-applicants: Nick Bansback (School of Population and Public Health); Christopher Carlsten (Medicine); Adam Easterbrook (Knowledge Translation - The Centre for Advancing Health Outcomes); Stephanie Harvard (Medicine)

Urban Indigenous governance in health research: Pathways for engagement, data sovereignty and knowledge translation
Project Director: Gabrielle Legault (Community, Culture and Global Studies, UBCO)
UBC Co-Applicants: Skye Barbic (Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy); Alanaise Ferguson (Community, Culture and Global Studies, UBCO); Peter Hutchinson (Community, Culture and Global Studies, UBCO); Shawn Wilson (Community, Culture and Global Studies, UBCO)
UBC Collaborators: Keyara Brody (Community, Culture and Global Studies, UBCO; Dante Carter (Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, UBCO)

Research Teams with UBC Collaborators

Designed to thrive: Generating consensus-built guideposts to support successful cross-disciplinary research teams
Project Director: Meredith Young (McGill University)
UBC Collaborator: Laura Nimmon (Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy)

See all research teams


First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s two main campuses are situated within the ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.



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