We are proud to share that Danica Evering and Isaac Pratt of the Research Data Management Services Team at the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship have been awarded the 2023 President’s Award for Outstanding Service. The President’s Award for Outstanding Service recognizes employees, or groups of employees, who have gone above and beyond to support the mission of the University.
In recent years, Danica and Isaac have revitalized the University’s programming on the research data lifecycle including planning, storing and publishing data.
Danica Evering brings expansive experience with research support, education, project management, advocacy, and knowledge translation to the Research Data Management Services Team. They braid together broad fluency in social practice art, healthcare, community research, data, and systems development to provide comprehensive RDM services. With an MA in Media Studies from Concordia, they are interested in fostering RDM within curious scholars and disciplines.
Isaac Pratt is a research scientist by training and has a PhD in Anatomy & Cell Biology. He leverages nearly a decade of interdisciplinary research experience to help support students, staff, and faculty as a Research Data Management Specialist. Isaac’s expertise lies in questions surrounding data storage, security, planning, archival, and sharing. Isaac also provides support and curation services for McMaster Dataverse. His other interests include reproducible research methods, open science, and data science.
Danica and Isaac are available to help students, postdocs, faculty, and staff with RDM through the data lifecycle—Data Management Plans, storage and backup, data security, data sharing. Their outstanding portfolio includes the development of McMaster’s Institutional RDM Strategy, the delivery of a SSHRC-funded two-day workshop on community research data toolkits and social justice, the development and launch of the Data Management Plan Database, the presentation of the Summer Learning Cohort on Indigenous Data Sovereignty, partnership on Spark: A Centre for Social Research Innovation’s Data Champions project and the creation of an RDM community of practice for the McMaster and Hamilton research communities. project and the creation of an RDM community of practice for the McMaster and Hamilton research communities.
The RDM Services Team developed and maintain the vital Research Data Storage Finder, an interactive tool that lists the data storage and backup providers available to McMaster researchers. The team also collaborated with the Research Software Development Team to create a first-of-its-kind Research Assets Management Plan to help researchers manage data and software development. The template will be available nationally on the Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s Data Management Plan Assistant. The team’s contributions to research data management also extend beyond McMaster as both team members are involved in the provincial, national and international RDM communities, including organizations such as Compute Ontario, the Canadian Dataverse Administrators, the national Data Management Planning Expert Group and the Research Data Management in the Canadian Context open educational resources.
Congratulations, Danica and Isaac!
For information on Research Data Management, including best practices for sharing and preserving research data, consult McMaster’s Research Data Management website or if you need assistance please contact: rdm@mcmaster.ca
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