News and Events

November hours changes and Saturday hours, free online SAS courses for researchers, and the availability of a new data set.

October hours and Saturday extended hours, and the availability of a new data set.

September hours changes/closures, a national policy challenge, and the availability of a new data set.

Summer hours changes/closures and the availability of a new data set.

July hours and the availability of a new data set.

June hours and Saturday extended hours, a call for proposals for the 2018 CRDCN conference, and the availability of a new data set.

The CRDCN 2018 National conference will be held in Hamilton on October 18 & 19. The Organizing committee is now accepting proposals; the deadline is June 15th.

Two-day hands-on workshop on Digital Humanities tools for graduate students in East Asian religions

May hours and holiday closures, and the availability of a new data set.

April hours and holiday closures, upcoming CRESS Research in Focus series talks, and the availability of a new data set.

A PhD candidate in the Department of Religious Studies, Gerjan is especially interested in Buddhism and East Asian Religions. He is creating a series of infographics presenting a map of the intertexuality of some Buddhist monastic commentaries found within the Tibetan Buddhist Canon. Gerjan says that “this project will be helpful to scholars and translators working on Buddhist monastic literature in the Canon.” Gerjan is sponsored by Dr. Shayne Clarke.

Farhana Khanam is an Economics student specializing in econometrics and health economics. Because Farhana is currently working at the RDC, she is able to use data from Statistics Canada for all three chapters of her Ph.D. dissertation, which examines different aspects of access and utilization of health by immigrants to Canada. She is supervised by Dr. Arthur Sweetman.

Political Science Ph.D. Candidate, Marcel Goguen, explains that a recent increase in large data projects has caused an increase in 'datafication', which is the process of transforming activities into data. Goguen's research examines how “big data functions in practice and how it, and the 'datafication' it entails, is in the process of changing how human beings interact, form groups, and organize themselves.”

A call for proposals to the University and College Academic Staff System (UCASS) data base for 1970 to 2010 / Data Pilot Project has been released.

A call for proposals for Economic Research using T2-Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program in the Research Data Centres has been released.

Supervised by Dr. Paul Glavin, Tomislav will be conducting a study that investigates the factors associated with whether an individual remains self-employed over time, or transitions to wage work or unemployment. Tomislav's research asks the question, "under what conditions are self-employment patterns indicative of the spread of precarious work versus growing entrepreneurialism in Canada?" His research would build upon previous work to determine what factors cause a transition from self-employment to wage work or unemployment.

March hours, upcoming CRESS Research in Focus series talks, and the availability of a new data set.

Sponsored and supervised by Dr. Marisa Young, Allison has been a research assistant at McMaster University and collaborated with Dr. John Fox on an article titled ‘R and the Journal of Statistical Software’. Allison is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Sociology.

Shaun is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics. Part of his thesis investigates the analysis of trends in health data under non-classical measurement error using a novel approach combining the presence of multiple cross-validating diagnostic codes and advanced methods in the econometrics of partial identification. Through CRESS, Shaun hopes to “network with empirical researchers in the broader social sciences that can introduce me to other interesting and useful areas of application for my current and future research interests.”

Daina aims to contribute to CRESS by partaking in various workshops and seminars, as well as giving a presentation about her innovative approach to penology. Being someone who is committed to the health and well-being of imprisoned communities, Dania says that her “dissertation fieldwork experience crystallized her determination to become an academic researcher working to bring about meaningful change in the lives of marginalized communities.”

The Ontario Research Fund (ORF) has awarded $1.1 million to the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) which is hosted by McMaster University.