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Office hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm

Eve serves as the senior administrator, providing oversight for all research compliance functions, including animal care, research ethics, biosafety, and the financial administration of research funding. Eve provides oversight for the Office of Graduate Studies to ensure that our graduate programs and students are supported. 

Office hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm

Office hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm

Roisin leads research capacity-building initiatives at Vancouver Island University including individual researcher development and coaching, community research chair initiatives, and major funding applications through the Canada Research Chairs program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.  In her grant facilitator role, Roisin works with researchers in the Faculties of Science and Technology, Health and Human Services, and Trades and Technology Management.  In her manager role, Roisin oversees the pre-award team that works to develop competitive faculty and student internal and external applications for research funding.  Roisin holds bachelor's and doctorate degrees in environmental biology and ecology and has 20 years of experience in research administration.

Office hours (Part-time):  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 8:30 am - 4 pm

Bettina facilitates all research contracts, from the initial proposal stage to the approval and signing of the final, written agreement on behalf of VIU. She also assists with external and internal research grant applications related to the social sciences, education, management, and humanities, and organizes research-related faculty workshops.

Office hours (Part-time):  Monday, Wednesday, Friday 8:30 am - 4 pm

Office hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm

Larissa assists with external and internal research grant applications. 

Office hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm

Lyn is responsible for providing administrative support to the AVP, Research and Graduate Studies. She also supports committees that the AVP is the chair or a member of, and assists with pre-award internal applications.

Office hours (Part-time):  Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Rebecca is responsible for the administration of externally funded awards.

Office hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm

Sarah is responsible for the administration of externally funded awards.

Office hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm

This position coordinates the internal grants lifecycle at VIU and is responsible for the administration of internally funded awards, the SRCA newsletter, and the SRCA Symposium event. Contact the SRCA by email if you have questions regarding VIURAC grants.

Office hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm

Kendra provides leadership to foster inclusive excellence in undergraduate and graduate research opportunities. She networks with internal and external clients on graduate program matters and student research to ensure programming is community-grounded and resourced. Kendra supports the development and maintenance of high-quality graduate programs and liaises with internal departments to ensure that university-wide standards of quality, policy, equity and access are met. She advocates for institutional capacity development in graduate studies and inclusive excellence in undergraduate research.

Office hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm

Vanessa is your go-to person for items related to students. She is responsible for student training, research-related funding and scholarships, and assisting students with sharing their research.  If you are a student connect with Vanessa to learn more about:

• Funding and grants
• How to go to grad school
• Acquiring more research-related skills
• Going to conferences and other events
• CREATE (Celebrating Research Engagement and Talent Exposition)
• Any student research and creative activity question

If you are a faculty member connect with Vanessa to:

• Discuss ways to get research assistant funding
• Book one of her in-class research dissemination workshops
• Get your students (and yourself!) involved in CREATE

Office hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm

Leyla is responsible for managing the processes that ensure institutional compliance with national ethical standards for research involving human participants, manages the work of the VIU Research Ethics Board, and provides expert advice to the VIU research community regarding research ethics.

Contact Leyla if you have questions regarding the VIU REB and/or ethical review of research involving human participants.

Office hours:  Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4 pm

Office hours (Part-time):  Monday, 9 am - 1 pm; Thursday, 9 am - 12 pm

Jennifer provides institutional oversight for managing biological materials and maintaining safe laboratory workspaces that are compliant with the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Office hours (Part-time): TBD

Margot provides secretarial and administrative support to VIU’s Canada Research Chairs, BC regional Innovation Chairs, and related entities and committees.