This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm. You can join the meeting starting at 10:30 am for our open social. After 12:30 pm, we will also have an extended discussion for half an hour, until 1:00 pm.
The Canadian government has restricted its funding program for academic research through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Environment Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to members of academic institutions, academic hospitals, and research institutions. Importantly, the funding flowed through CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC or CFI are not passed through the Canada Social Transfer or Canada Health Transfer, but directly to principal investigators and academic institutions which may pose problematic when attempting to make transparent the milieu of the modern research enterprise. Our featured speaker, Tim Mt. Pleasant, will survey a Toronto Star article on this topic and provide some relevant context for consideration and discussion by participants.
Participants are asked to review the following article prior to the meeting, if possible.
Canada bans funding for some foreign-linked research (thestar.com)
Tim Mt Pleasant has spent six years undertaking academic training at the intersection of applied philosophy and bioethics, particularly in the ever-developing area of research ethics within a Canadian context. Tim completed his undergraduate training at TorontoMU in 2021, receiving his Honours Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with Distinction and was offered admission to postgraduate programs at Johns Hopkins University, NYU and McGill University.
For the last two years, Tim served as a Postgraduate Student representative to the Advisory Council on Human Research Ethics and was appointed by the Board of Governors to the Research Ethics Board while working to complete degree requirements for the Master of Arts in Philosophy with Bioethics Concentration. Tim is considering all available options on a path forward to meet his postgraduate research training while maintaining sight on the Research Ethics space, particularly as it relates to Indigenous communities, particularly First Nations, in Canada.
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Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
This meeting has been recorded: GMT20240204-164101_Recording_1856x1024.mp4