Strategic Research Clusters

• Cluster #1:  Biological and Forensic Sciences
• Cluster #2:  Canadian and Indigenous Studies
• Cluster #3:  Cultural Studies and the Humanities
• Cluster #4:  Education, Health, and Sustainability
• Cluster #5:  Environmental Science, Materials Science and Quantitative Modelling
• Cluster #6:  Understanding People, Communities and Institutions

Review Trent University's Strategic Research Plan

Canada Research Chairs

By helping Canadian universities and their affiliated research institutes and hospitals become world-class centres of research and research training, the Chairs Program contributes to enhancing Canada's competitiveness in the global, knowledge-based economy, improving Canadians' health, and enriching our social and cultural life. The Chairs Program also seeks to:

• strengthen research excellence in Canada and increase Canada's research capacity by attracting and retaining the best researchers
• improve the training of highly qualified personnel through research
• improve universities' capacity to generate and apply new knowledge
• promote the best possible use of research resources through strategic institutional planning, and through collaboration among institutions and between sectors

Julian Aherne - Environmental Modelling

James Conolly - Archaeological Studies
Céline Guéguen - Aquatic Sciences and Biogeochemistry
Marrie Mumford - Aboriginal Arts and Literatures
Dennis Murray - Terrestrial Ecology
Bryan Palmer - Canadian Studies
Davide Panagia - Cultural Studies
Jim Parker - Emotion and Health

Aaron Slepkov - Physics of Biomaterials

Paul Wilson - DNA Profiling, Forensics and Functional Genomics

Distinguished Research Award

Past Recipients

2010- Dr. Bryan Palmer (Canadian Studies)

2009- Dr. Douglas Evans (ERS)
2008- Dr. Stephen Katz (Sociology)
2007- Dr. Jim Struthers (Canadian Studies)
2006 - Dr. Chris Metcalfe (Environment/Resource Studies)
2005 - Dr. Barbara Marshall (Sociology)
2004 - Dr. Leonard Conolly (English Literature)
2003 - Dr. Peter Dillon (Environment/Resource Studies)
2002 - Dr. John Topic (Anthropology)
2001 - Dr. Joan Sangster (Women's Studies)
2000 - Dr. Carlyle Smith (Psychology)
1999 - Dr. Alena Heitlinger (Sociology)
1998 - Dr. Michael Peterman (English Literature)
1997 - Dr. Tom Hutchinson (ERS/Biology)
1996 - Dr. Robert Paehlke (Political Studies/ERS)
1995 - Dr. Doug McCalla (History)
1994 - Dr. Ray March (Chemistry)
1993 - Dr. Paul Healy (Anthropology)
1992 - Dr. John Burbidge (Philosophy)
1991 - Dr. Gordon Winocur (Psychology)
1990 - Dr. Joan Vastokas (Anthropology)
1989 - Dr. John Fekete (English Literature/Cultural Studies)
1988 - Dr. Keith Oldham (Chemistry)
1987 - Dr. David Kettler (Political Studies)
1986 - Dr. John Gilchrist (History)