Service contracts are normally negotiated and administered at the divisional level. A Donation is a gift, usually from an individual or a corporate entity, with no terms and conditions attached. Although the donor can designate a general use for the gift, such as research, Revenue Canada has advised that a contribution can be considered as a donation only when no rights, privileges, material benefits or advantages accrue to the donor or the donor's representative. Principal Investigator is a term applied to a faculty member who provides the intellectual, administrative and ethical leadership to a research project or program. Process Research costs money.
Most faculty members obtain financial support for their research from external sponsors.
This entails the preparation of a research proposal which is forwarded to the potential sponsor for consideration, likely in competition with proposals from faculty at this or other institutions. If very quick processing is needed, please alert Research Services ahead of time and we will try to make special arrangements. If an application for research funding is successful, the work associated with establishing a research account and providing regular financial reports to the sponsor is undertaken by UTRS on behalf of the faculty member. UTRS will move quickly to establish a research account and communicate the related terms and conditions of the award to the investigator, his or her department or Faculty and the Comptroller's Office. It is not unusual during the course of a research project for a Principal Investigator to wish to make a change to the project plan.