Skip to main content

Announcements

From the latest news on North America’s first Broadcast-Broadband Convergence (B2C) Lab at Humber College to new developments in research funding to spotlights on rock star researchers, SPARK features stories of exploration, innovation and collaboration.
 
Through SPARK, we hope to encourage the spark of curiosity in everyone at Humber and beyond, one SPARK at a time.
 
 

Latest Annual Report 2021-2022

Read Time:
2 minutes
Annual Report 2021-2022 displayed on a tablet

Humber’s Office of Research & Innovation Annual Report 2021-2022

In a year of constant change and disruption, Humber’s research and innovation community has continued to lead, transform and differentiate through collaborating with industry and community partners and providing unparalleled learning opportunities to students.

 

Humber College now ranks as the #2 research college in Canada and #1 research college in Ontario, thanks to the growing research and innovation ecosystem enabled by all six Humber faculties, emerging and seasoned researchers, staff, and students, as well as the Centres of Innovation and the strong network of internal and external partners.

 

ORI’s Annual Report 21/22 spotlights Humber’s research philosophy, who we are, and how we approach research and innovation. Take a look at the breadth and depth of research projects contributing to Humber’s growing research portfolio. In addition, ORI sheds light on the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) and Humber Press. Also, read about Humber’s rock star researchers who collaborate with industry and community partners to solve real-world challenges, from affordable housing to 3D landfill modelling to youth crime and gang violence reduction. The report also highlights various training and capacity-building initiatives and dissemination opportunities that the ORI team provides in every step of the research and innovation journey, from when an idea is a spark of curiosity to sharing the impact of the research results. We continue to demystify innovation by supporting an inclusive innovation and research culture that celebrates low-cost/no-cost solutions to everyday problems.

 

Ginger Grant, PhD., Dean, Research & Innovation, and Tania Massa, PhD., Associate Dean, Applied Research & Innovation, welcome you into Humber’s research and innovation community with their forewords. As Dean Ginger Grant, PhD., expresses, “An idea is all it takes to begin the journey to research and innovation.”

 

We invite you to join us as we look back on a year of growth, resilience, and success, and we encourage you to share with us the ideas and questions that spark your curiosity. In the meantime, we look forward to creating new pathways for our wider Humber and growing research and innovation community to walk and talk “research” and “innovation.”

 

Read the full report

 

2022-09-14

HUMBER SPARK ISSUE 4 Is here

Read Time:
2 minutes
SPARK features a foreword from Dianna Dinevksi, Associate Dean, Research & Development, and an editor’s note from Anju Kakkar, Managing Editor, Humber Press, Research & Innovation who welcomes you into the world of research and innovation through stories.
SPARK Issue 4

Humber’s quarterly research and innovation magazine SPARK Issue #4 is out now!

SPARK Issue #4 shines the spotlight on three interdisciplinary initiatives from Humber’s Visual & Digital Arts, Baking & Pastry Arts, and Fashion Management programs. From integrating AR/VR in the curriculum to using 3D printing technology to collaborating with global partner institutions, Humber faculty members, researchers and students are transforming their sparks of curiosity into classroom projects that further help students gain a competitive edge in the workforce of the 21st century.

SPARK features a foreword from Dianna Dinevksi, Associate Dean, Research & Development, and an editor’s note from Anju Kakkar, Managing Editor, Humber Press, Research & Innovation who welcomes you into the world of research and innovation through stories.

The new SPARK issue also spotlights “A Study on Skills Gap: Beyond COVID”—a research study led by Barath Roy Michel, Senior Project Manager, Office of Research & Innovation, whose insights have been highlighted in the BBC article, “What ‘upskilling’ means for the future of work.” The research study was published in the Journal of Innovation in Polytechnic Education (JIPE) Vol. 4 No. 1.

Read SPARK Issue #4 today!

 

2022-07-25

Congratulations Barath Roy Michel

Read Time:
1 minute
Congratulations Bharat Roy Micheal and Team

What ‘upskilling’ means for the future of work—many experts believe upskilling is urgent, but most people don’t know where to start…

A great article by Bryan Lufkin, BBC, featuring quotes from researcher Barath Roy Michel, MSW, IMGB™, Senior Project Manager, Office of Research & Innovation (ORI) at Humber College, alongside quotes from experts at McKinsey and LinkedIn.

Read the BBC Worklife article for some great insights.

Barath Roy Michel and his research team recently published an original research paper, A Study on Skills Gap: Beyond COVID, in the Journal of Innovation in Polytechnic Innovation (JIPE), published by Humber Press, ORI.

Michel notes that upskilling can look different for everyone. He states, “Take a step back and see what’s happening in the wider industry, and see how you can get yourself ahead of the curve.”

Congratulations to researcher Barath Roy Michel. Don’t forget to read the article!
 

2022-07-04

Congratulations Ginger Grant, PhD.

Read Time:
1 minute
Ginger Grant Image

Ginger Grant, PhD., Dean, Humber’s Office of Research & Innovation, does it again!

You can now read Ginger Grant’s chapters in the book “Innovative Leadership in Times of Compelling Changes: Strategies, Reflections and Tools (2021): ‘Inclusive Leadership in a Creatively Compelling World’ and ‘Nurturing Creativity in a Culture of Care’” published by Springer. Her next project, also for a new Springer textbook, is titled “ReVisioning: The New World of Work,” to be published in late 2022 / early 2023.

Ginger aims to publish a book chapter yearly.

In the past, she has contributed chapters to “The Routledge Companion to Inclusive Leadership (2020): ‘What Pepper Can’t Do (And Why We Should Care)’”; “The Routledge Companion to Management and Workplace Spirituality (2019): ‘Awakening Leadership: The Outer Reaches of Inner Space’”; and the “Handbook of Personal and Organizational Transformation (2018): ‘The Untapped Power of Imagination in the Workplace.’” Her workbook, Finding your Creative Core, was first published in 2009. 

Humber’s Office of Research & Innovation congratulates our visionary leader, author and storyteller Dr. Ginger Grant!

Purchase "Innovative Leadership in Times of Compelling Changes" today!

2020-10-07
Displaying 1 - 4 of 7

Announcements