Stefanie Bernaudo, PhD
Strategic Research Development Officer
Contact Stefanie for the following:
- Consultations for project alignment with available STEM funding opportunities (local, national - including NSERC and CIHR, and international)
- Leading UTM strategy to support nominations of honours & awards (sciences, humanities, social sciences)
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) applications
- Editing services for grant and award applications (proofreading, feedback on fit with program requirements)
- Feedback on incorporation of EDI best practices into applications
- My Research Applications (MRA) approval process
- Development of partnerships and industrial grant applications, including NSERC Alliance, Mitacs, OCI or similar programs.
- Provides bibliometric analysis and visualization (Scopus & SciVal)
- Development of targeted workshops for UTM community
- Maintains and provides access to Funding Application Repository
Veron Fernandes
Office Administrator
Contact Veron for the following:
- General inquiries
- Vice-Principal, Research and Associate Vice-Principals, Research scheduling
- Information dissemination
- Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation meetings and event organization
- Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation conference room booking
- UTM ethics committee submission
- Office space management support
Email: veron.fernandes@utoronto.ca
Phone: 905-569-5768
Hayley McKay
SpinUp Program Coordinator
The UTM community can contact Hayley about:
- Working with SpinUp startups as a trainee (internships, work-study) and/or researcher (partnered projects)
- Incubation of your research innovation and to learn more about SpinUp
- Upcoming entrepreneurship programming and events
Email: hayley.mckay@utoronto.ca
Anastassia Pogoutse, PhD
Strategic Research Development Officer
Contact Ana for the following:
- Consultations for project alignment with available STEM funding opportunities (local, national - including NSERC and CIHR, and international)
- Consultation and feedback on Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) applications (IF, JELF)
- Assistance with contacting the Digital Research Alliance of Canada
- Inquiries related to the Canada Research Chair (CRC) program
- Editing services for grant and award applications (proofreading, feedback on fit with program requirements)
- Feedback on incorporation of EDI best practices into applications
- My Research Applications (MRA) approval process
- Feedback and assistance with research ethics applications
- Lead on research funding metrics/analytics
- Development of targeted workshops for UTM community
- Maintains and provides access to Funding Application Repository
- Help with contacting the U of T central research services office
Email: a.pogoutse@utoronto.ca
Tanya Rohrmoser
Senior Communications Officer
Contact Tanya for support with the following:
- Sharing your research: consultations, support, and strategy
- Items for the newsletter and social media channels
- Website updates
- Digital communications, including best practices and content development
- Building your 'brand' and growing your audience
- Messaging, storytelling, and media outreach
- Marketing for events and programs
- SpinUp communications: startup and sponsor support
Email: tanya.rohrmoser@utoronto.ca
Kate Steinmann, PhD
Strategic Research Development Officer
Contact Kate for the following:
- Consultations for project alignment with available social science and humanities funding opportunities (local, national - including SSHRC, and international)
- Editing services for grant and award applications (proofreading, feedback on fit with program requirements)
- Feedback on incorporation of EDI best practices into applications
- Lead on supporting large-scale, multi-disciplinary social sciences and humanities funding opportunities, including SSHRC Partnership suite grants
- First Book Workshop
- Collaborative Digital Research Space (CDRS) liaison
- My Research Applications (MRA) approval process
- Development of targeted workshops for UTM community
- Maintains and provides access to Funding Application Repository
Email: kate.steinmann@utoronto.ca
Rong Wu
Internal Competitions & Events Coordinator
Contact Rong for the following:
- Internal funding opportunities for faculty and postdoctoral fellows
- Internal faculty awards: Annual Research Prize and Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award
- University of Toronto Excellence Award and tri-agency Undergraduate Student Research Awards
- Office of the Vice-Principal, Research and Innovation events: Summer Undergraduate Research Fair and Annual Celebration of Books
Email: rong.wu@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416-979-4904
Location: MN 3231
Shaun Young, DPhil
Manager of Research Administration and Operations
Contact Shaun about the following:
- OVPRI support for research grant applications and research awards/honours nominations
- Establishment and operation of UTM research centres and institutes
- Institutional Strategic Initiatives at UTM
- UTM research-related data
- UTM Research Council
- OVPRI administrative and operational policies and processes
Email: shaun.young@utoronto.ca