The Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) was established 25 years ago and works in collaboration with 45 universities in Canada to provide more than 2500 of their researchers annually with access to highly valuable Statistics Canada microdata about Canadian individuals, households and businesses. Enabling research that is relevant for evidence-based policy and programs is central to our mandate.
CRDCN will be visiting each of the 10 provincial capital cities this year to provide a half-day of free programming, with two components: (1) a research-policy nexus session; and (2) a research data management training session. Space is limited. We are therefore sending this email to a targeted list of invitees in your provincial government. More details are provided below on the sessions.
June 16, 9am to 12pm
Harriet Irving Library Research Commons
Research-policy nexus session
Johanne Provençal (Director of Research, Training and Knowledge Mobilization, CRDCN) will lead a 60-minute session that brings together local CRDCN researchers and provincial government department invitees. The session will provide an overview of CRDCN mechanisms that enable researchers and government to collaboratively address shared priorities. The session will close with an open mic that invites attendees to identify key issues for which they would welcome CRDCN-facilitated discussion among researchers and government departments.
Training session
Grant Gibson (Assistant Director, Research and Evaluation, CRDCN) will lead a 90-minute training session on restricted data discoverability for restricted data research projects. Participants will learn how to improve the curation and documentation of their restricted datasets to follow best practice in open science using free tools (Sensitive Data Toolkit, university repositories and discovery services, etc.). Learners will work first-hand with these tools and become comfortable both applying them themselves and in advocating for their use by restricted data providers for greater research transparency.