RDC News: May 2023
Saturday hours and holiday closures for May, researcher congrats and kudos, a call for abstract submission to the CRDCN conference, and registration for the 2023 RDC Showcase!
Apr 25, 2023
REMINDER: Register now for the RDC Showcase!
A reminder that the McMaster RDC will be holding its third 'Showcase' on Wednesday May 10th (10AM to 3PM) in the Community Room (main floor) of L.R. Wilson Hall.
The morning session will describe the RDC and its partnership with Data Services in the Mills Library. It will also consist of brief presentations on GIS applications, tips and strategies for the effective use of data (including data linkage and weighting), informing patient care in the pediatric setting, and the exciting potential of education data from the Toronto District School Board.
After a free catered lunch, the afternoon session will consist of 4-5 researcher presentations highlighting the type of work that is being conducted in the Centre. Watch for a formal call for researchers to present in the afternoon portion to come via email soon.
You can register to attend via our Eventbrite page at THIS LINK.
Please contact Peter (rdc@mcmaster.ca) if you have any questions.
Holiday Closures
This month we will have the following changes to our usual operating hours:
- Closed until ~3pm - Wednesday May 10th for the RDC Showcase event
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Closed all day on Victoria Day - Monday May 22nd
Saturday Hours - On Demand
We will be offering on-demand Saturday hours this month. We will be open on an 'appointment' basis, only if requested. Please sign up via the online booking system as usual.
Offered dates for Saturday hours this month are:
- Saturday, May 6th - 12pm to 4pm
Call for abstracts – CRDCN conference
The Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) invites abstracts of no more than one page by June 15, 2023, proposing papers and/or posters (see poster guidelines, below), to be presented in-person at the CRDCN conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Hamilton Ontario, November 21-23, 2023. All research applying microdata is welcome, with preference given to research conducted at Canadian Research Data Centres. It is expected that at least 60 proposals will be accepted. CRDCN researchers are generally in disciplines such as health, economics and business, sociology, social work, political science, geography, and environmental studies, but researchers from all disciplines are welcome.
Please send your abstract via the submission form.
More information can be found at this website.
Congrats & Kudos
Congratulations to the following groups of our RDC researchers for two new publications:
- Karanpreet Kaur Azra, Andrew Nielsen, Chungah Kim, Gabriel John Dusing, and Antony Chum. "Investigating suicide related behaviours across sexual orientation and neighbourhood deprivation levels: A cohort study using linked health administrative data." PLoS one 18, no. 3 (2023): e0282910. --> using the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) linked to longitudinal health administrative datasets including the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Ontario Mental Health Reporting System (OMHRS), National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), and the Canada Vital Statistics Database (CVSD)
- Andrew Nielsen, Karanpreet Kaur Azra, Chungah Kim, Gabriel John Dusing, and Antony Chum. "Is the association between sexual minority status and suicide-related behaviours modified by rurality? A discrete-time survival analysis using longitudinal health administrative data." Social Science & Medicine (2023): 115896. --> using the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS)