For fiscal year 2009/10, CFIS employed 77 tenure and tenure track faculty, most jointly-appointed with other faculties. Researchers received $26.2 million in grants, and reached a potential audience of 50 million people through media reports about their research.

CFIS holds nine Canada Research Chairs valued at $1,100,000/year. CFIS faculty members are highly successful in securing research funding. On a per-faculty FTE basis, CFIS ranks similarly to Medicine and Science for research funding. The majority of CFIS’s research funding comes from non-profit (39%) and other government (e.g., non- Tri-Council) sources (39%). Examples of “other government” funding include U.S. federal agencies such as the North Pacific Marine Science Foundation, and Canadian government-funded groups, such as Genome Canada and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Success in obtaining research funding from non-profit groups is attributed to the stewardship efforts of the CFIS Development team, the entrepreneurial skills of faculty members in CFIS, and the desire of non-profit agencies to fund research that impacts policy decisions and finds solutions to complex real-world problems.

UBC has benefited from the contributions of CFIS research in several high profile and stable accomplishments. For example, the University Sustainability Initiative and the Centre for Interactional Research for Sustainability are in part the product of research supported in the Institute for Resource and Environmental Sustainability. The School for Community and Regional Planning celebrates its 60th anniversary this year as Canada’s oldest planning school, with a significant emphasis on community engagement and professional programs. SCARP’s programs are accredited by both US and Canadian agencies. The Fisheries Centre is home to several high-profile research projects and researchers that inform conservation policy and the management of world fisheries. In 2005, the Human Early Learning Program was designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the Knowledge Hub on Early Child Development.