Description

Public Safety Canada’s Research Security Centre offers Safeguarding Science online training modules to raise awareness about research security. Developed in collaboration with federal partners, these modules introduce key concepts such as dual-use technologies, vulnerabilities, exploitation practices, threat vectors and relevant laws and regulations. They also provide guidance on best practices for security-conscious research, geopolitical awareness and tools to help identify and mitigate risks to Canadian research, researchers and institutions. 

The Safeguarding Science training modules are intended for all – regardless of academic domain. This includes researchers, research staff (including technicians, postdoctoral fellows and students), research security professionals, research administrators, information technology and information management staff, security personnel, biosafety and radiological safety officers, human resources personnel, supply chain personnel and senior management.

Upcoming Modules and Registration Links

• Module 1: Safeguarding Science: Raising Awareness of Security Risks and Mitigation Tools in the Research Ecosystem by Public Safety Canada; September 11, 2026 @ 1:00-2:30pm
• Module 2: Dual-Use Technologies: Know Your Research – Know your Partners – Assess the Risk by Public Safety Canada; October 6, 2026 @ 1:00-2:00pm
• Module 3: Demystifying the International Student Immigration Process by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (date TBD)
• Module 4: Know before you Export: Canada's Export and Brokering Controls by Global Affairs Canada (date TBD)
• Module 5: Sanctions 101 by Global Affairs Canada (date TBD)
• Module 6: Travelling Safely: Protecting Your Research While Travelling Abroad by Public Safety Canada; November 5, 2026 @ 1:00-2:00pm
• Module 7: Conducting Open-Source Due-Diligence by Public Safety Canada; October 22, 2026 @ 1:00-2:00pm
• Module 8: Beyond the Lab: The Strategic Relevance of Social Sciences and Humanities in Research Security by Public Safety Canada; September 21, 2026 @ 1:00-2:30pm

See the Safeguarding Science webpage for further details. 

Please contact research.security@uoguelph.ca if you have any questions.