Welcome to the 2025 Research Security Conference

Researchers and scholars are increasingly having to assess and manage risks that emerge when their research intersects with economic, political or security interests. Institutions, funders and government agencies can provide the framework and environment for researchers to collaborate in ways that maintain core principles of openness and exchange, while also ensuring that our research ecosystem is as secure as necessary.

Join with colleagues at UBC’s Vancouver campus for two days of informative presentations, interactive discussion and networking with research security practitioners from around the world. Together, policymakers, researchers and research security practitioners will explore and navigate the domestic and global frontiers of research security in 2025.

UBC’s Research Security team looks forward to welcoming you to the beautiful West Coast. All accommodation, transportation, and event details will be available once your registration is approved by our team.

The conference is now sold out and registration is closed. If you can no longer attend, please withdraw your registration or reach out to research.security@ubc.ca for assistance.

Conference Themes

Implementing Current Canadian Policies
Best Practices for Establishing a Research Security Program
Research Security Frontiers Beyond Canada
How to Incorporate Global Policies in our Research Security Programs

This conference and its attendees will be encouraged to respect Chatham House Rule. It will not be recorded and sessions will not be live streamed.

UBC’s Research Security team is part of the VP Research & Innovation portfolio and receives support from the federal Research Support Fund. This event would not be possible without its generous support.

UBC Research Security respectfully acknowledges that the 2025 Research Security Conference will take place within the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).