Following an extensive consultation culminating in the Strategic Integrated Plan (SIP), the following Strategic Research Strengths and Priorities have been identified by Deans in support of the SIP.

The revised Strategic Research Strengths takes what has been achieved over the last five-year period and extends our ambitions in concert with our SIP to explicitly include wellness and sustainability as focus areas. While these appear as separate foci, they are, in fact, also inter-connected. In all domains of research, we encourage and support the use of multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches based on strong disciplinary foundations.

Each of these domain areas will similarly be impacted by the development of emerging cross-cutting technologies and multi-factoral concepts, such as Information and Communications Technology, the use and visualization of Big Data, Cybersecurity, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and Public Policy. This appendix will be updated on a regular basis as new areas emerge.

Our three identified areas of strength and priority are as follows:

  1. Sustainability: the health and growth of the natural and built environment
  2. Wellness: the social, economic, cultural, mental and physical health of human kind
  3. Connectivity: the critical inter-relatedness of individuals and communities and how they communicate

SUSTAINABILITY

WELLNESS

CONNECTIVITY

Sustainability is the
health of the planet

Considers fundamental elements of our natural and built environments — from sea to earth to air — and examines the impact of climate change while studying how sustainability translates into effective policy.

Wellness is the
health of individuals

Considers mental wellness and physical health and explores how social, cultural, and economic factors impact our daily lives and our future endeavours.

Connectivity is a healthy relationship with the world around us

Considers community as the cornerstone of Carleton’s culture, our way of connecting in person and online with partners, innovators, and diverse populations at home and across the globe.

SUB-THEMES

Natural Environment

  • Conservation biology
  • Geographic information systems
  • Landscape ecology
  • Northern studies
  • Resource development

Built Environment

  • Advanced and applied materials science
  • Buildings in the 21st century: sustainable, resilient, affordable, and accessible
  • Heritage conservation
  • Infrastructure protection and security
  • Smart environments
  • Spatial justice and decolonization of design practices

Climate & Environmental Concerns

  • Climate impacts on northern communities
  • Climate stabilization and adaptive response
  • Ecology and the environment
  • Energy and climate change communication and policy
  • Energy efficiency
  • Environmental pollutants, toxicology, and measurement
  • Low carbon economy, smart grid technology, and energy storage
  • Sustainable communities
  • Sustainable energy
  • Water and food safety and security

Mental and Physical Wellness

  • Accessibility
  • Aging
  • Assistive and biomedical devices, diagnostics, and data
    Biomedical engineering
  • Cognition and mental health
  • Disability justice
  • Future of remote work and wellness
  • Indigenous, racialized, and vulnerable Population health
  • Healthy childhoods
  • Human development across the lifespan
  • Indigenous, racialized, and vulnerable population health
  • Medical physics
  • Mental health
  • Patient-centred care
  • Poverty alleviation and prosperity
  • Public health engineering
  • Psychology
  • Tissue engineering
  • Work-life balance

Socio-Cultural & Economic Wellness

  • Care economy
  • Circular economy
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Economic development and entrepreneurism
  • Health policy and economics
  • Inclusive workplace
  • Indigenous economic development
  • Organizational and management relations
  • Political economy
  • Public history, oral history
  • Public policy and knowledge mobilization
  • Social movements and social justice
  • Sustainable accounting

Community Connections

  • Creative arts
  • Cultural connotations of space
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Income security
  • Indigenous knowledge and languages
  • Indigenous land treaties and governance
  • Municipal-provincial-federal relations
  • Policing and Public Safety
  • Prisons and criminalization
  • Public safety and security

Global Connections

  • Aerospace
  • Africa and its diaspora
  • Democratic institutions
  • Entrepreneurship and inclusive entrepreneurship
  • Ethics, human rights, gender equality
  • European studies
  • Globalization
  • International relations and democracy building
  • Language acquisition and endangered languages
  • Migration and diaspora studies
  • Particle physics and robotics in an evolving universe
  • Philanthropy and non-profits
  • Racialized inclusion and representation
  • Refugees and Migration

Cyber Connections

  • Cloud computing
  • Communication and information systems
  • Communications-enabled applications
  • Computer science
  • Data analytics and emerging digital tools (artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning)
  • Digital humanities and interactive technologies
  • Digital technologies and social change
  • Human computer interaction
  • Information and Communications Technology
  • Intelligence, security, and defense
  • Media policy and regulation
  • Quantum Technology
  • Remote sensors and applications
  • Robotics
  • Social media, robo-news, disinformation, consumer/human behaviour, and economic impact
  • Transportation and autonomous systems
  • User-centred design
  • Wireless communications

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