Research Support
Smith provides faculty and graduate students with access to a variety of resources and support for their scholarly projects.
Support at Queen’s
The Research Office administers internal funding, assists with events, facilitates external grant applications, coordinates award nominations, and organizes access to critical databases. Faculty research activities are promoted and shared internally with the Queen’s University community, and externally with academic, practitioner, not-for-profit and public-sector based stakeholders.
Vice-Principal Research
The Vice-Principal Research Portfolio provides support to help faculty members achieve excellence in research and scholarship. The Portfolio includes support for funding, compliance and ethics, prizes and promotions, and other resources (Research Data Management, Research Discovery Network, Research Legal Services, and more).
Learn more about vice-principal researchTools for Researchers at Queen’s (TRAQ)
Tools for Researchers at Queen’s (TRAQ) is an online submission portal designed to facilitate research-related administration. Through TRAQ, researchers submit compliance applications (Human Ethics GREB/HSREB or Biohazards certifications) and research projects (grants and contracts) for internal approvals.
Learn moreEthics
Queen’s places a strong emphasis on ensuring the highest standards of research ethics through two Research Ethics Boards (REBs): the Health Sciences and Affiliated Teaching Hospitals Research Ethics Board (HSREB) and the General Research Ethics Board (GREB). These REBs review research protocols and applications to ensure proper guidelines and principles are followed.
Learn more about ethicsQueen’s Libraries
The Queen’s University Library provides access to physical and virtual sources and tools for faculty and students across the university. There is a dedicated department for the humanities, business and social sciences, which Smith students and faculty can engage for support.
Queen’s library journal search toolResearch impact - journal metrics
Funding
At Smith, faculty conduct cutting-edge projects that receive funding from the business school as well as external granting bodies.
Internal Funding
Smith faculty can apply to one of four streams of funding meant to address immediate research needs for up to one year. These awards are intended to complement or supplement external funding for multi-year research programs. Examples of funded projects include hiring research assistants, participant payments, data acquisition, travel for research, collaborator visits and journal fees. Applications are adjudicated by the Research Committee.
Funding streams:
- Monieson Research Grant: Provides small to moderate funding for immediate research needs.
- Conference Funding Award: Supports a small- to medium-sized conference hosted by Smith.
- Postdoctoral Fellow Fund: Facilitates the hiring of a qualified candidate as a postdoctoral fellow at Smith.
- Visiting Scholar Award: Allows faculty to bring an accomplished scholar to Smith to collaborate and engage with the research community.
Application forms available via SmithHub, the business school’s comprehensive internal resource site.
External Funding
Our faculty have a strong record of attracting external funding for their projects. Smith’s Research Office is available to provide support for external grant applications.
Tri-Agency
Tri-Agency including the main federal funding agencies:
Mitacs
Mitacs is an external funding opportunity that offers fellowships for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, as well as travel awards and internships. In essence, Mitacs promotes experiences for students and fellows that involve collaboration between industry and academia. To this end, most Mitacs programs require contributions from partner organizations (i.e., not-for-profits or businesses with which the fellow is working).
Queen’s Vice Principal Research compiles a searchable funding database.
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Conferences
Conferences held at Smith aim to enrich the scholarly environment and research-intensive culture by providing a forum for sharing and discussing research and expanding faculty and graduate students’ research network.
Conference support – marketing and communications, registration, materials, on-site support – can be coordinated through the Research Office.
Seminars
Smith’s research seminar series enables the nine research area groups to host academic speakers from around the world. This initiative contributes to the business school’s vibrant research culture, creating valuable opportunities for Smith researchers and graduate students engage in person with visiting scholars.
Funding and support in organizing the seminar series is facilitated by the Research Office.
Behavioural Lab
The Behavioural Lab at Smith provides researchers a configurable space to conduct a wide range of experiments with human subjects. This includes faculty and graduate students from Behavioural Accounting, Digital Technology, Marketing, Organizational Behaviour and other areas.
Lab Features
- Main room capacity of 15
- Configurable tables and chairs
- Seven cubicle workstations
- Moveable dividers
- Projector/privacy screen
- Two separate rooms (with door), inside the main room and a control room
Technology Features
- Cameras
- Microphones
- Speaker
- Noldus Software (Observer, FaceReader, MediaRecorder
Databases
Bloomberg Terminal
The Bloomberg Terminal revolutionized an industry by bringing transparency to financial markets. More than four decades on, it remains at the cutting edge of innovation and information delivery — with fast access to news, data, unique insight and trading tools helping leading decision makers turn knowledge into action.
Capital IQ
Capital IQ Desktop is a tool for professionals to monitor market movements, analyst sentiment, competitor analysis and investor activity. It provides access to broker research, industry reports, streaming transcripts, ownership data, screening and targeting tools, and board presentations.
Compustat
Compustat’s database provides financial, statistical and market information on active and inactive publicly held companies across Canada, the U.S. This information is also available for 33,900 companies outside North America. Executive compensation data collected directly from each company’s annual proxy (DEF14A SEC form) is also available through Execucomp.
CRSP/Compustat Merged Annual
This database provides the historical matching of CRSP market and corporate action data with Compustat fundamental data.
MSCI ESG Time Series
MSCI ESG Ratings & Climate corporate search tool allows you to search over 2,900 companies that are constituents of the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI).
NYSE Trade and Quote (TAQ)
The NYSE Trade and Quote (TAQ) database offers tick-by-tick trade and quote data of all activity within the U.S. National Market System. TAQ provides transaction information at the intraday level (to the microsecond) covering over 10,000 stock issues listed on 16 major American exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and Nasdaq.
Qualtrics
Qualtrics is a tool used to design, send and analyze surveys online. It's the primary method of collecting feedback at scale whether that's a simple questionnaire or a detailed study such as customer or employee feedback as part of a more structured experience management program.
LSEG Data & Analytics (Formerly Refinitiv)
LSEG Data & Analytics offers a variety of datasets covering everything from historical global data across a mix of asset classes, individual analyst forecasts of company earnings, insider activity, institutional holdings, mutual fund holdings, mergers and acquisitions, ownership structure and financial statement data.
WRDS
WRDS is a data platform that specializes in historical financial information for banks, government bonds, stock exchanges and major companies. Partnering with global vendors, WRDS hosts 350+TB of data — the broadest collection of data on the most robust computing infrastructure to give users the power to analyze complex information at speeds of up to 400MB per second.