Jay Brodeur (he/him) brings to the Centre years of experience working with data in a wide variety of formats and interdisciplinary contexts. A scientist by training with a PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences, he’s comfortable working and advising on all kinds of data-related activities, ranging from data wrangling and integration to analysis and mapping to research data management. Jay’s also keenly interested in the application of digital approaches to support experiential learning opportunities within and outside of the classroom.

Email Jay at brodeujj@mcmaster.ca.

Alexis-Carlota Cochrane (she/they) is passionate about connecting students, faculty, staff, and community members to resources, tools, and training that advance their digital research projects. A PhD Candidate in the Department of Communication Studies and Media Arts at McMaster University, she brings a rich foundation in critical data studies, platform studies, data feminism, and digital humanities.

Interested in getting involved with SCDS, but not sure where to start? Alexis can get you in touch with the right people for your digital scholarship needs!

Email Alexis at alexiscarlota@mcmaster.ca. She is also on the other end of the SCDS general inbox: scds@mcmaster.ca.

Christine Homuth (she/her) draws on her wide range of experiences to provide support for teaching and research to students, researchers, and faculty members working with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geospatial data. Some of her more recent work includes georeferencing historical maps and developing web map indexes as finding aids to make the Lloyd Reeds Map Collection’s resources more readily accessible. Email Christine at homuthc@mcmaster.ca. 

Christine offers consultations on Mapping and Geospatial Data. Schedule a consultation with Christine.

Vivek Jadon (he/him) provides research support in the use of numeric research data. As part of his role, Vivek is McMaster University’s official representative for Statistics Canada’s Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) program and Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Both of these programs provide researchers with vast archive of research data from various disciplines for high quality research and instruction. Vivek is also involved in building awareness and promoting RDM activities/services at McMaster. Email Vivek at jadonvs@mcmaster.ca. 

Vivek offers consultations on Data Analysis and Statistical Analysis. Schedule a consultation with Vivek.

Isaac Pratt (he/him) 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. His 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. Email Isaac at pratti@mcmaster.ca. 

Isaac offers consultations on Data Management Plans, Data Storage and Backup, Data Security, and Data Deposit and Sharing. Schedule a consultation with Isaac.

Jack Young (he/him) is McMaster’s Research Impact & Bibliometrics Librarian, supporting the use of bibliometric data to enhance the reporting and strategic planning practices of the University, its researchers and research units. Jack provides training and consultations on the tools and techniques available at McMaster for tracking the impact of research and knowledge mobilization activities.

Email Jack at jkyoung@mcmaster.ca

After reading History at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, Myron Groover completed his library and archival studies at the University of British Columbia. His work currently focuses on collection development and teaching in archives and book history. Myron’s teaching practise seeks to facilitate direct student engagement with special collections materials as interstices of memory, labour, material culture, and shared meaning-making.

Katie Harding works with the Faculty of Engineering to help engineering students learn how to understand, find, read, interpret, and create different types of information sources. She has spent the last decade teaching and providing research support to students and researchers in science and engineering. Her recent projects have focused on the development of some exciting new open educational resources.

Tim Ribaric (he/him) holds a Masters of Computer Science and is presently working on his PhD in the Educational Studies program at Brock University. His work encompasses many different areas of digital scholarship including the teaching of programming languages but he focuses on social media and text analysis. He is also a certified Carpentries Instructor and past member of the Carpentries Advisory Committee.