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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.

The Centre for Research and Empirical Social Science (CRESS) Transparent Research Series offer in-depth training sessions once a month throughout the academic year. These day-long workshops provide direct, practical skills and experience to ensure that researchers are ready for the paradigm shift in transparency that is coming.

Very soon, all federally funded research, both quantitative and qualitative, will require data management plans. Are you ready? Dive into the world of rigorous and secure data management with experts from the Data Management Expert Group. Sept. 13, 2019 in L.R. Wilson Hall.

McMaster University Library and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ Portage Network will host a Canadian Data Curation Forum from October 16-18, 2019 at the McMaster Continuing Education Centre at 1 James St. North, Hamilton, ON.

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.