Lois Klassen, Glen Lowry and Julie York, "Importing a Research Model into Creative Research" (2013) Current Design Journal 3.
Developing a university research agenda requires significant changes to the structure and specialization of an Art and Design institution; it also involves a radical transformation to the “art school” culture and overall mandate. When Emily Carr set out to establish a Research Ethics Board (REB) in 2006, it was responding to a condition of eligibility for funding from the tri-council of federal research agencies—the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). More than this, the development of an in-house REB has demonstrated how determined this eighty-seven year old institution has been at prioritizing a top-flight “research enterprise.”