- Plan My Research
- Fund My Research
- Manage My Research
- Further My Research
- Resources
Training
Intellectual Property at SFU
- Types of IP
- Authorship & Inventorship
- SFU’s policy on IP
- IP Agreements
- IP Scenarios
- IP Resources
Conflict of Interest
- Personal bias and COI
- Types and areas of conflicts
- Examples of COIs
- Disclosures
- The SFU process
- COI and Procurement
- The COI form
ORS & the Research Life Cycle
- Introduction to ORS
- Research lifecycle: Pre-Award
- Research lifecycle: Post-Award
- Kuali Research Information & Training Materials
- Approver & Reviewer Onboarding
CITI courses
Select CITI Canada courses are available free of charge to all members of the University community with a valid SFU email account, including faculty, students and staff. Course completion is documented by a completion certificate.
For more information, please visit the CITI Program - Details page.
CORE Tutorial
All SFU researchers (faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, and staff), applying for human research ethics approval are required to complete the most recent version of the Tri-Council Policies' research ethics training tutorial, the CORE Tutorial. Copies of the completion certificate must be retained by the researcher as per recordkeeping requirements and student researchers are required to include a copy of the certificate with their application.
San’yas: Indigenous Cultural Safety training
San’yas: Indigenous Cultural Safety (ICS) training is a unique, facilitated on-line training program designed to increase knowledge, enhance self-awareness, and strengthen the skills of those who work both directly and indirectly with Aboriginal people. The goal of the ICS training is to further develop individual competencies and promote positive partnerships. The program was developed by the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) Aboriginal Health Program. The Core ICS training is general, and relevant for foundational learning for many disciplines.
For information about enroling in this training, please visit this page.
Ownership, Control, Access and Possession (OCAP)
The First Nations principles of OCAP® establish how First Nations’ data and information will be collected, protected, used, or shared. OCAP® is a tool to support strong information governance on the path to First Nations data sovereignty.
ISED Training
ISED (Innovation, Science & Economic Development) Canada offers a suite of courses under the umbrella of Safeguarding Your Research.
- Introduction to Research Security
- Cyber Security for Researchers
- Safeguarding Research Partnerships with Open Source Due Diligence
NSF Training
NSF has created 4 modules for training of departments with high research security needs like Department of Defense (DOD).
This training has been condensed from approximately 4 hours into the SECURE Center training that takes 1 hour to meet the new research security training requirements for NSF, NIH, DOE and DOD.
Kuali Research Training
Kuali Research is a cloud-based platform customized for SFU processes. The system provides Faculty and Administrators real-time visibility into the status of proposals within their purview. Review workflows are managed directly within the system.
- Kuali Research - Frequent Challenges
- Kuali Research - Access Checklist
- Kuali Research - Term Equivalents
- Pre-award Workflow Timeline & Special Approvals
Creating & Managing Proposals
- Creating a simple pre-award submission (; Instructions)
- Creating a VPR Travel Grant submission (; Instructions)
- Creating a SSHRC Small Explore submission (Instructions)
- Copying a Proposal (; Instructions)
- Finding your Proposal (; Instructions)
- Adding a Co-Applicant (; Instructions)
Approving Proposals
- Approving a Proposal (; Instructions)
- Approver Role Management (; Instructions)
- Turn on Notifications (Instructions)
Special Use Cases
- Contract Approval Memos: for information on reviewing and approving Contract Approval Memos (CAMs), please refer to this document
- Sub-out requests: please use the sub-out request form in Kuali Build
- Non-funded agreements (Non-Disclosure - NDA, Data Access - DAA, Memorandum of Understanding - MOU, Material transfer - MTA): for information on the specifics for the proposal fields for non-funded agreements, please refer to this document
Additional Materials
- Kuali Research Training Guide - Proposal Development
- (80 min Zoom meeting capture)
- (45 min Zoom capture)
- (50 min Zoom capture)
- (50 min Zoom capture)
Research Account & Expenditure Management
To view the balance of your account in , please refer to the following document.
Interpreting Financial Terms In Contracts:
Training for Reviewers and Approvers of research expenditures
- Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Slide Deck: Research Expenditure Management Slides
Event Recording:
Research Finance for Administrators
- Financial Compliance Training - June 29, 2023 -
- Enhanced project costing refresher - May 31, 2023 - Slides |
- Payroll appointment form (PAF) changes training January 25, 2022 - (video)
Tri-Agency Eligibility of Expenses
Eligibility of expenses is determined based on:
- Program and Funding Opportunity guidelines
- Four principles which govern the appropriate use of grant funds
- TAGFA directives
- SFU Policies and Procedures
Download a quick reference sheet
TAGFA - March, 2020
Faculty and Staff - Presentation slides Questions and Answers
TAGFA - April, 2020
Researchers - Presentation slides