Enacting Community Engaged Research Data Management Symposium
September 18 and 19, 2026
UBC Okanagan, Syilx Okanagan Territory
UNC 200
Data stewardship, rooted in community.
A symposium on responsible research management data in community contexts.
For researchers, students, community partners, librarians, and archivists.
Do you have recordings, photographs, stories, artwork, or data samples from community research projects? Where are you storing them? Have you shared them with your community partners? Are they in an archive and, if so, who has access? Do you report this information in your publications about the project? If these are questions you’ve been asking yourself or want to learn more about, please join us as we discuss Community Engaged Research – Data Management (CER-DM).
You are invited to attend this two-day symposium which explores wise practices of Research Data Management in the context of Community Engaged Research. One focus of the symposium will be to share and workshop the Community Engaged Research Data Management (CER-DM) Handbook – concrete guidelines for responsible data storage and stewardship in community research contexts.
Day one will feature keynote presentations by the invited speakers and panel discussions. On day two, you will participate in a live peer review of a draft of the CER Research Data Management Handbook. Copies of the Handbook will be shared with you prior to the start of the conference. You will receive a Peer Review Certificate after your participation in day two.
To Register, please complete the registration here: CER Research Data Management 2026.
Registration includes: Two breakfasts, two lunches, and two snacks each day. If you require parking, we will also issue you a parking coupon. Please contact us to request this.
Students, staff and community partners: $30 total
Faculty: $50 total
Please note: During the registration process, you will be asked to click on the Touch Net payment link which will take you out of the Qualtrics registration environment to a new tab. After you have completed the payment process, please return to the Qualtrics registration tab and hit SUBMIT in order to complete your registration.
QUESTIONS: Please email Christine or Joanne at icer.ok@ubc.ca
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
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Felicity Tayler, (she/her)
University of Ottawa, Data Literacy Research Institute Dr. Felicity Tayler is presently working on a book manuscript, which combines oral histories with the visualization of metadata representing co-publishing relationships in magazines. Emergent storytelling honours coalitional moments for artistic community formations in 1980s Toronto. An occasional visual artist and curator, Tayler has produced numerous exhibitions and published scholarly writing on this topic. At the University of Ottawa, Tayler is the Research Data Management Librarian, and a founding member of the Data Literacy Research Institute, where she is the Lead of the Ethical Data Cluster. She contributes data curation expertise to the SSHRC-funded Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex digital platform and living network that showcases the work of Black, Indigenous, People of Colour artists. As a Research Associate of the uOttawa Humanities Data Lab, she has published bilingual Digital Humanities pedagogical resources, endorsed by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. |
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Karen Emmons, (she/her)
Harvard School of Public Health Dr. Emmons is a Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, whose research focuses on community-based approaches to cancer research with under-resourced communities. She is currently the Faculty Director of the Community Engagement Program for Harvard’s Clinical Translational Science Award. Dr. Emmons is the lead author of the pivotal paper “Data sharing in the context of community-engaged research partnerships”. This paper introduces the concept of FAIR-ER principles of data management, which we plan to build on in our CER-DM Toolkit. |
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Taya Jardine (she/they),
Xwi7xwa Library, UBC Vancouver Taya Jardine is a two spirit Mi’gmaw e’pit from Natoaganeg First Nation. They are the Indigenous Metadata Librarian at Xwi7xwa Library and part of UBC Library’s Technology, Discovery and User Experience Unit. She is an expert in Indigenous metadata, cataloguing, and naming practices from an Indigenous data sovereignty perspective. |
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Heather Gainforth, (she/her)
UBC Okanagan, Faculty of Health and Social Development Dr. Heather Gainforth is an Associate Professor in the School of Health and Exercise Science & the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Research Coproduction & Implementation Science, whose research focuses on closing the gap between health behaviour change research and practice by examining knowledge mobilization — the act of moving research evidence into the hands of research users. |
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Robyn Hall, (she/her)
MacEwan University, Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications Robyn Hall is the Unit Coordinator for Scholarly Engagement at MacEwan University Library and a faculty librarian supporting research in the social sciences. She has presented widely on the open access movement. Her current research focuses on how libraries can support the creation, dissemination, and preservation of community-based research outputs. Robyn also leads the Community Scholars Program across the Prairie provinces and Northwest Territories, connecting non-profit organizations and charities with scholarly resources and research supports. |
