Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC)
Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Analytics (archived: September 26, 2022)
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Socio-Economic Value of Renewable Energy in Remote Communities (archived: September 26, 2022)
Canada 150 Research Chair
Canada Research Chairs (CRC)
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Public Accountability and Transparency Requirements
Commitment Strategy
The University of Saskatchewan (USask) uses the following equity, diversity, and inclusion statement related to the Canada Research Chair Program (CRCP) and the university’s broader research enterprise:
“The University of Saskatchewan is committed to diversity, inclusion, and equity in the workplace and believes that our workforce should reflect the diversity of our students and community. The university is actively taking steps to achieve a representative workforce where everyone feels a sense of belonging, including women, members of a visible minority/racialized group, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of any sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, and any others who contribute to the diversification of ideas and perspectives.”
The CRC Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan (updated March 16, 2020) reaffirms USask's commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity, and aligns with the federal government’s policies on non-discrimination and employment equity.
Awareness Strategy
The university’s mission, vision and values statements describe USask’s commitment to promoting diversity, inclusion, equity, and meaningful change. Awareness of these intrinsic values is actively promoted at all levels of the university. From the President’s Office, and his messaging, to the active participation of Human Resources (HR) in ensuring that diversity, inclusion, and equity are imbedded in discussions that influence, shape, and direct development, leadership and organizational culture to reach institutional goals of a diverse and inclusive university. The university planning process currently underway reflects our commitment to the principle of diversity. Embedding this concept into the fabric of these strategic planning efforts will focus the university’s work in the future and emphasize to our community its importance in all we do.
All CRC Program Search Committee members are required to complete the unconscious bias training module available on the Government of Canada website. Committee members have the option to attend A Self-Reflection on Diversity workshop, provided by an Inclusion and Diversity Consultant. The workshop is intended to:
- increase self-awareness of personal thought patterns and behaviours;
- discover how assumptions, unconscious bias, and stereotypes impact our everyday interactions; and
- raise awareness of the importance of diversity and inclusion at the university.
The outcomes of this training include recognizing one’s own cultural biases, stereotypes and prejudices and how they play out in the workplace, such as recruitment, selection, and hiring; grow one’s own self-awareness and what actions can lead to inclusion; and understand the principles behind equity and equality.
Governance
The governance structure for the institutional equity, diversity and inclusion action plan has been established. The President has ultimate authority for institutional goals and actions that will make the University of Saskatchewan more fully diverse and inclusive, as espoused in the university’s mission, vision and values. The Provost and Vice-Presidents affirm the institutional goals and actions and are responsible for ensuring the execution of goals and actions specific to their portfolios. The Director, People and Resources, is responsible for monitoring the progress of University of Saskatchewan’s Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan and for reviewing and updating the goals and actions, including measuring progress. The institutional Diversity and Inclusion Plan is an action plan supporting the university’s mission, vision and values and does not need approval by the university’s governing bodies.
The CRC EDI Action Plan is an evergreen document refined through ongoing input from the CRC EDI Advisory Group, reviewed and approved by the CRC Advisory Committee and Research Chairs Oversight Committee. The Oversight Committee is responsible for ensuring implementation and progress on EDI goals and targets.
Contact Information
Questions or concerns related to equity, diversity, and options for support may be directed to:Kelly McInnes, Director, People and Resources
E140-105 Administration Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A2
Phone: (306) 966-7939
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Concerns
Equity, diversity and inclusion concerns are treated as an alleged discrimination or harassment complaint. These complaints are brought forward to the Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Services (DHPS) office through multiple platforms, including optional confidential or anonymous means. As described in the DHPS Full Policy document, university officials have a legal responsibility to take prompt, effective action to address incidents of discrimination and harassment. These actions include seeking advice from DHPS, human resources and escalating the complaint to an appropriate senior administrator who will decide if a formal investigation is warranted and oversee the investigation. The DHPS office maintains an audit trail of all discrimination and harassment concerns and reports all serious matters to the Director of Human Resources and AVP Human Resources.
USask's Equity Targets
As an eligibility requirement, all institutions that participate in the program were required to develop and submit their 2021-2029 equity target plan to the CRCP by June 2021. These plans will require setting equity targets for each of the four designated groups, for each of the target deadlines, to lead institutions incrementally, over the period of 2021-2029, to the population-based equity targets. See USask’s 2021-2029 Equity target-setting tool.
The following table shows USask’s equity targets for the December 2022 deadline (number of chairs based on USask's 19 active chairs as of November 1, 2022).
Designated Group |
Target (actual number) |
Representation (actual number) | Gap (actual number) |
Women and Gender Minorities |
6 | 9 | No gap |
Indigenous Peoples | 0 | * | * |
Persons with Disabilities | 1 | * | * |
Members of Racialized Minorities | 3 | * | * |
*In keeping with the Privacy Act, numbers lower than 5 were removed to protect the privacy of chairholders. |
Utilization Table
The University of Saskatchewan’s CRC utilization table (updated November 2022) outlines the number of CRC allocations at USask, how many are filled and by which chairholders (with their term end and start dates) and which allocations are available.
University of Saskatchewan Public Reports
- USask’s CRC EDI Progress Report and EDI Stipend Report (reporting period: December 2020 to December 2021; submitted June 30, 2022)
- USask’s CRC EDI Progress Report and EDI Stipend Report (reporting period: December 2018 to December 2020; submitted May 28, 2021)
- University of Saskatchewan's CRC Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Progress Report (updated December 17, 2018).
CRCP Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Practices and Requirements of the 2019 Addendum to the 2006 Canadian Human Rights Settlement Agreement:
Current Postings
External
- Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Refugee and Migrant Health Promotion and Integration
- Tier 1 or Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Community-Engaged Plains Archaeology
- Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Environmental Exposomics and Integrative Toxicology
- Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Fluid Waste Processing
No internal postings.
Emergency Retention Transparency Statement
No current transparency statement.
Archived Postings
External
- Canada Research Chair Tier 2 (or Tier 1) in Oral & Systemic Health Equity (March 2023)
- Canada Research Chair Tier 1 or Tier 2 in Big Data Analytics in Digital Agriculture (December 2022)
- Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Climate Action and Social Innovation (November 2022)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Developmental Origins of Health and Disease in Indigenous People (April 2022)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 1 or 2) in Tuberculosis (April 2022)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Remote Sensing of Snow Hydrology (April 2021)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Developmental Origins of Health and Disease in Indigenous People (September 2020)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Social and Cultural Decision Making in Engineering Design (September 2020)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Cancer Genomics and Systems Biology (April 2020)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Imaging & Artificial Intelligence (March 2020)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Space Environment Physics (March 2020)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Indigenous Storytelling (March 2020)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 2), in Plant-based Foods for Nutrition and Health (February 2020)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 2), Energy Technology (June 2019)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), in Plant-based Foods for Nutrition and Health (June 2019)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), Health and Social Justice (May 2019)
- Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), Cancer Genomics and Systems Biology (April 2019)
Internal
Archived Emergency Retention Transparency Statement
- Emergency Retention: Tier 1 NSERC CRC (January 2020)
- Emergency Retention: Tier 2 SSHRC CRC (April 2022)
In 2000, the Government of Canada created the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, a permanent program to establish 2000 research professorships - Canada Research Chairs - in eligible degree-granting institutions across the country. The Canada Research Chairs program invests $300 million per year to attract and retain some of the world's most accomplished and promising minds. Allocation of Chairs to individual universities is based on the funding received by researchers from the three federal granting agencies – CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC – in the three years prior to the year of the allocation.
Note: as of December 1, 2022
Kristina Bidwell, Indigenous Storytelling
Lori Bradford, Social and Cultural Decision Making in Engineering Design
Ken Coates, Regional Innovation
Miroslaw (Mirek) Cygler, Molecular Medicine Using Synchrotron Light
Ajay Dalai, Bioenergy and Environmentally Friendly Chemical Processing
Erika Dyck, Health and Social Justice
Graham George, X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Philip Griebel, Neonatal Mucosal Immunology
Robert (Bobby) Henry, Indigenous Justice and Wellbeing
Regan Mandryk, Digital Gaming Technologies and Experiences
Alexander Moewes, Synchrotron Radiation
Ingrid Pickering, Molecular Environmental Science
John Pomeroy, Water Resources and Climate Change
Tara Kahan, Analytical Environmental Chemistry
Dwight Newman, Indigenous Rights in Constitutional and International law
Natalia Stakhanova, Security and Privacy
USask Management of CRC Allocation: Allocation of Chairs; Renewals and Advancement; Nominations; and Lost Chair Allocations (also described in the University’s CRC Action Plan, pages 8-10)
Recruitment and Nomination of a Canada Research Chair
The university follows the CRC Program’s guidelines for ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment and nomination process. The co-chairs of the university’s CRC Advisory Committee, the Vice-Provost Faculty Relations and the Associate Vice-President Research, participate in all searches and will certify that the recruitment process was transparent, open and equitable. The co-chairs also ensure that all short-listed candidates are approved in advance by the CRC Oversight Committee.
The university is also subject to the following policies, regulations and other requirements that are taken into consideration in the recruitment and nomination of CRC chairholders:
- University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association Collective Agreement (2017 to 2022)
- University of Saskatchewan Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy (approved October 2020)
- Saskatchewan Human Rights Code, 2018 (human rights laws)
- Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (agency that enforces the Code to protect and promote human rights and to discourage discrimination)
University guidelines and practices, inclusive of advertising, search committee membership and responsibility, and nomination process include:
- USask CRC Committees:
- Call for Canada Research Chair theme areas (March 2023)
- USask CRC Recruitment and Nomination Guidelines (April 2020)
- CRC Program Nomination Process
- John R Evans Leaders Fund - Funding for infrastructure associated with a Canada Research Chair
Renew a Canada Research Chair
Administration of the CRC Award
Strategic Research Plan
For information on the Canada Research Chairs program at the University of Saskatchewan, contact Doreen Canillas at 306-966-2452
Centennial Enhancement Chairs
Current Centennial Enhancement Chairs (CEC) as of January 2023:
Helen Baulch, Aquatic Ecosystem Biogeochemistry
Markus Brinkmann, Mechanistic Environmental Toxicology
David Cooper, Synchrotron Sciences
Colleen Dell, One Health and Wellness
Grant Ferguson, Groundwater-Energy-Food Nexus
Kerry McPhedran, Water Stewardship for Indigenous Communities
Petros Papagerakis, One Health
Gregory Penner, Ruminant Nutritional Physiology
John Tse, Material Science (Synchrotron Science)
Suraj Unniappan, Comparative Endocrinology
NSERC Industrial Research Chairs (IRC)
NSERC IRCs assist universities in partnering with industry to build on existing strengths to achieve critical mass in a major research endeavour, build capacity in an industry-relevant research field currently undeveloped in Canada and provide an enhanced training environment for graduate students by exposing them to industry-unique research challenges in natural sciences or engineering.
Externally Sponsored Research Chairs
Jeanie Wills, Seaman Chair in Professional Communications
Dionne Pohler, Co-operative Retailing System (CRS) Chair in Co-operative Governance
Gabriela Mangano, George J. McLeod Enhancement Chair in Geology
Alexandra King, Cameco Chair in Aboriginal Health
Michael Levin, Saskatchewan Research Chair in Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Research
Holly Graham, CIHR Indigenous Research Chair in Nursing
Maureen Reed and James Robson, UNESCO Co-Chairs in Biocultural Diversity, Sustainability, Reconciliation and Renewal
Maryse Bourgault, Western Grains Research Foundation (WGRF) Integrated Agronomy Research Chair
Ron Geyer, Nutrien Clinical Research Chair
Rudy Bowen, Iver and Joyce Graham Small Indiana Professorship in Psychiatry
Ivar Mendez, Fred H.Wigmore Professorship in Surgery
Robert Laprairie, Saskatchewan-GlaxoSmithKline Research Chair in Drug Discovery and Development
David Blackburn, Chair in Patient Adherence to Drug Therapy
Peter Slade, Canadian Canola Growers Association Agriculture Policy Chair
John McKinnon, Beef industry Research Chair
Meena Sakharkar, Chair in Rational Drug Design
Rex Newkirk, Ministry of Agriculture Endowed Research Chair Feed Processing Technology
Yongfeng Ai, Research Chair in Carbohydrate Quality and Utilization
Richard Gray, Canadian Wheat Board Research Chair in Canadian Grain Policy Enhancement
Sean Maw, Jerry G. Huff Chair in Innovative Teaching
Tony C.Y. Chung, SaskPower Chair in Power Systems Engineering
Bruce Eglington, Murray W. Pyke Chair in Geological Sciences
Karen Wiebe, Stuart and Mary Houston Professorship in Ornithology
Jeff Baker, Chair in Aboriginal Education
Barbara Phillips, Rawlco Scholar in Advertising
Gary Entwistle, Sutherland Scholar in International Business
Maureen Bourassa, PotashCorp Enhancement Chair for Saskatchewan Enterprise
Fred Phillips, George Baxter ICAS Scholar
Ganesh Vaidyanathan, Accounting Centre Scholar
Kent McNeill, Law Foundation of Saskatchewan H. Robert Arscott Chair
Murray Jelinski, Alberta Chair in Beef Cattle Health and Production Management
Jens Muller, Thorvaldson Professor in Chemistry
Haissam Haddad, Louis Horlick Chair
Peter Robinson, Bateman Professor of English
Aaron White, Jarislowsky Chair in Biotechnology
Stuart Smyth, Agri-Food Innovation Chair
David Natcher, Global Institute for Food Security - Social Dimensions of Food Security
Bruce Coulman, W. J. White Professorship
Gupreet Aulakh, Fedoruk Chair in Imaging Science
Ekaterina Dadachova, Fedoruk Centre for Nuclear Innovation Chair in Radiopharmacy
Darrell Mousseau, Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia
Michael Kelly, Clinical Stroke Research Chair
Ministry of Agriculture Strategic Research Program (SRP) Chairs
The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture SRP was introduced in 1986 with a commitment to funding research chairs to ensure that Saskatchewan has the capacity to develop new agricultural knowledge and technologies relevant to Saskatchewan climatic conditions. Each chair represents an area of strategic importance where Saskatchewan previously lacked intellectual capacity. These chairs are tenable for 5 years.
Pierre Hucl, SRP Chair in Specialty Wheats and Canaryseed Breeding and Genetics
Curtis Pozniak, SRP Chair in Durum and High-Yield Wheat Breeding and Genetics
Aaron Beattie, SRP Chair in Barley and Oat Breeding and Genetics
Helen Booker, SRP Chair in Flax Breeding and Genetics
Tom Warkentin, SRP Chair in Field Pea Breeding and Genetics
Randy Kutcher, SRP Chair in Cereal and Flax Crop Pathology
Sabine Banniza, SRP Chair in Pulse Crop Pathology
Martin Reaney, SRP Chair in Lipid Quality and Utilization
Michael Nickerson, SRP Chair in Protein Quality and Utilization
Bill Biligetu, SRP Chair in Forage Crop Breeding
Peiqiang Yu, SRP Chair in Feed Research and Development
J. Diane Knight, SRP Chair in Soil Biological Processes
Richard Farrell, SRP Chair in Soil Biological Processes
Jeff Schoenau, SRP Chair in Soil Nutrient Management
Agri-Food Innovation Fund (AFIF) Chairs
In addition to the SRP Chairs, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture has also created four Agri-Food Innovation Chairs to complement and strengthen expertise at the university.
Distinguished Professorships
James Waldram, Arts and Science
Ken Coates, School of Public Policy
Soledade Pedras, Arts and Science
Rose Olfert, School of Public Policy
John Pomeroy, Arts and Science
Douglas Chivers, Arts and Science
Ernie Walker, Arts and Science
Susan Whiting, Pharmacy and Nutrition
Peter Phillips, School of Public Policy
Henry Classen, Agriculture and Bioresources
Reuben Mapletoft, Western College of Veterinary Medicine
Bill Kerr, Agriculture and Bioresources
Brian Rossnagel, Agriculture and Bioresources