News and Events

Saturday hours for April and a new data set.

Upcoming holiday hour changes, Saturday hours for May, and a new data set.

Upcoming holiday hour changes, Saturday hours for April, and a new data set.

Brighter Spark has been working quietly over the last year with a few partners and now will be expanding its work both in the community and with other researchers. It will bridge the gap between academia and the community, by providing research support to groups working on real world issues. In this article, we outline exciting projects in our new launch.

Using the tools of bibliometrics, you can document the influence of your own publications, the work of those scholars you are associated with or the types of articles a particular journal publishes. Dr. Fei Yu, a health technology informatics librarian at the University of North Carolina is very excited about all that bibliometrics can reveal, and wants you to be too.

How does the way our government handles big data influence our daily lives? In a talk in our Productivity during Pandemic series, Laura Mahrenbach speaks about the “Emerging Powers and Big Data: Domestic Transformations and Global Power Shifts”. And boy, did it raise a lot of questions.

Each year, Spark decides on a topic that we think is really important to innovation in social research and we find the most amazing thinkers and doers we can, from all over the world, to offer related workshops. Learn more about our the relevance of research and how it can be effectively translated to the public in this article.

Saturday hours for March and a reminder about COVID protocols and resource reductions.

Upcoming hour changes, Saturday hours for February, and a reminder about COVID protocols and resource reductions.

If you will be conducting interviews, the Productivity during Pandemic talk “Better Interview Questions” with Allison Van can help you with the first step: figuring out your questions.

We're pleased to invite you to a launch party for Spark: the centre for social research innovation on January 25, 2021. Join us for research-related breakout sessions, musical performances and drag bingo, and learn more about the research support and services we offer the McMaster community.

Upcoming holiday hour changes, Saturday hours for January, and a new mandatory COVID protocol.

Upcoming holiday hour changes, Saturday hours for December, and a new data set.

New RDC safety protocols, Saturday hours for November, and a new data set.

The CRDCN 2020 virtual conference, hours changes for October, and a new data set.

The CRDCN-SAS-StatCan Policy Challenge, hours changes for September, and a new data set.

New RDC safety protocols, hours changes for August, and a new data set.

New RDC safety protocols, hours changes for July, and a new data set.

The RDC is reopening on Monday June 15th on an appointment-only basis. Safety measures and new procedures are outlined here; please read carefully before coming to the Centre.

The RDC will be closed as of Tuesday March 20th, until further notice.

Saving the date for the 2020 RDC Showcase, Saturday hours on-demand for March, and a new data set.