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2. [Research and Innovation](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/36)
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- [Overview](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation)
- [Open Research Repository](https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/)
- [Research Partnerships](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-partnerships)
- [Research Support Fund](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-support-fund)
- [Canada Research Chairs](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/canada-research-chairs)
- [Research Excellence at OCAD U](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-excellence-ocad-u)
- [Strategic Research Plan](https://www.ocadu.ca/sites/default/files/documents/OCADU-StrategicResearchPlan-FINAL.pdf)
- [Research Policies](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-policies)
# Research & Innovation
Explore
- [Overview](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation)
- [Open Research Repository](https://openresearch.ocadu.ca/)
- [Research Partnerships](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-partnerships)
- [Research Support Fund](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-support-fund)
- [Canada Research Chairs](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/canada-research-chairs)
- [Research Excellence at OCAD U](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-excellence-ocad-u)
- [Strategic Research Plan](https://www.ocadu.ca/sites/default/files/documents/OCADU-StrategicResearchPlan-FINAL.pdf)
- [Research Policies](/index%2Ephp/research-and-innovation/research-policies)
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### As Canada's oldest, largest and leading art and design university, OCAD U offers a range of undergraduate and graduate research.
The University engages in impactful art and design research through a diversity of perspectives, methods and approaches. OCAD U researchers also partner with projects outside the university from every sector and discipline to add design thinking expertise.
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### Research excellence
Learn about award winning researchers at OCADU
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### Researchers
Search our directory of OCAD U faculty members
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## Research centres & labs
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### Global Centre for Climate Action
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### Inclusive Design Research Centre
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### Health Design Studio
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### [Explore other labs and projects](https://ocadu.ca/research-and-innovation/research-projects-labs)
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## Research news
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### Erased from the playbill: how AI is helping to map Nazi censorship of German music theatre
A four-year project led by OCAD U Associate Professor Dr. Helmut Reichenbächer examines how music-theatre programming in Germany was reshaped from the Weimar Republic to the Nazi era.
September 16, 2026
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### Research investigates how sustained material practices can help people process memory, grief and loss
Dr. Nithikul Nimkulrat’s research project is developing a theoretical account of how memory, grief, and loss are experienced not only cognitively or verbally, but through the body, materials, objects, relationships and time.
September 4, 2026
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### SSHRC funds studies of cultural censorship, and grief and nostalgia through craft
One project maps patterns of cultural censorship during the Nazi era while a second is developing a theory of grief and nostalgia through embodied material practices.
July 21, 2026
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### OCAD U receives grants to advance research on the arts
The Knowledge Synthesis Grants were awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for the priority area, The Arts Transformed.
July 8, 2026
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### OCAD U researcher joins federally funded back pain study
Dr. William (Bill) Leeming is a member of a transdisciplinary team project examining how back pain care is delivered in emergency departments.
May 14, 2026
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### Seven faculty members receive research seed funding
Among the projects is one that will investigate Indigenous visual storytelling as a research-creation methodology in design education.
May 8, 2026
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## Strategic Research Plan
Building on over 140 years of internationally recognized art and design education, professional practice in art, design and new media, innovative research, and engaged scholarship, this Strategic Research Plan (SRP) speaks directly to OCAD University’s new and ambitious Academic Plan — OCAD University: Transforming Student Experience, 2017-2022 which re-affirms the central role of knowledge creation and research across the institution.
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### Research Ethics Board
All OCAD University-affiliated research involving human participants requires prior review and approval from the OCAD University Research Ethics Board (REB). The REB works in compliance with the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans and the Tri-Agency Framework: Responsible Conduct of Research.
External researchers carrying out human participant research in collaboration with members of the OCAD U community or utilizing OCAD U resources may also require prior review and approval from the REB.
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### Contact the Office of Research and Innovation
**Physical Address**
OCAD University 205 Richmond Street West, 5th floor, room 520 Toronto, ON
**Mailing Address**
Office of Research & Innovation OCAD University 100 McCaul St. Toronto, ON M5T 1W1