Research policies and procedures are published here to provide a reference for researchers, students, employees, and industry and community research partners. Some are BCIT policies and procedures, some are external and apply to BCIT research activities.
The Applied Research Liaison Office (ARLO) supports research across BCIT, and all enquiries about research-related policies and their application should be addressed to ARLO.
Any applied research activity involving human subjects carried out by a person connected with the Institute must be reviewed and approved by the BCIT Research Ethics Board (REB) before work is started.
The Federal Tri-Agencies are the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Funding from these agencies is governed by: