CER Data Management Symposium

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

UBC Okanagan, Copyright, Scholarly Communication and Research Data Management Librarian

Marjorie has been a librarian at UBC Okanagan since 2005, and has been doing Research Data Management (RDM) since 2014. If you talk with Marjorie for more than a moment, she’ll start tossing “pearls of wisdom” at you, like “There is no such thing as data shaming” or “The best time to create a data management plan (DMP) is at the beginning of your research. The second-best time is today.” She strongly believes that having a DMP should make life easier for a researcher, even if it takes a little while to create your first one.

UBC Okanagan, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Fiona P. McDonald is an assistant professor of visual anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan (UBCO), which exists on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Syilx Okanagan Peoples. She is the founder and director of the Collaborative + Experimental Ethnography Lab (www.ce2lab.org). Her research areas include material culture, digital tools, multimodal approaches, games, labs, social change, accessibility, and climate justice. Fiona is currently turning a long-term ethnographic research project into a monograph that addresses both historical and contemporary uses of woollen blankets, examining the plurality of things and objects that have been reworked and recycled by contemporary artists and customary makers in Canada, U.S., and Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the co-editor (with Nicholas J. Mizer) of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook on the Anthropology of Play and Games (2028). She co-created Anthropocenes, a multiplayer, collaborative tabletop board game that addresses the challenge of preventing runaway environmental change. Her engagement with research ethics and data have appeared in recent solo-and co-authored publications such as: “Making Data From Drawing: How Step-by-Step Protocols Can Enrich Reflexive Inquiry in Qualitative Research” (2026) in Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung Forum: Qualitative Social Research; “Data as Living Entities—Reflections on Values-Driven Approaches to Relational Data in Partnered Research” (2026) in International Journal of Qualitative Methods; and “Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship: an Ethnography Lab as an Apparatus for the Experimental, the Imaginary, and the Relational” (2026) in American Anthropologist. 

UBC Okanagan, Office of the Vice-Principle Research 

Hanna Paul is Métis and Beaver First Nation on her dad’s side and Ukrainian and French on her mom’s side. Her Métis community is in northern Alberta and locally known as Buttertown, or the North Vermilion Settlement. Hanna brought her moon time (menstruation) and body image research idea back to her Métis community because Indigenous youth and women’s confidence is often affected by colonial body shame and taboos; in contrast to colonial taboos, moon time is meant to be a ceremonial moment in a person’s menstrual cycle. Her Master’s research project discusses Métis women’s stories about moon time and colonial body shame through visiting and berry picking in Buttertown, Alberta. She was the 2023 Master’s Researcher of the Year and received the 2023/24 Thesis Award for this work. After completing her Master’s degree at UBC Okanagan (UBCO), Hanna stayed on to take on the role of Indigenous Research Facilitator in the Office of the Vice President of Research and Innovation. This role builds capacity for Indigenous research at UBCO. 

UBC Okanagan Alum, Independent Consultant

Morgan King is an interdisciplinary queer white scholar who lives and works on the lands of the Syilx Okanagan Peoples and grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan, on Treaty 4 Territory and the homelands of the Métis. Morgan brought her interest in sustainability and experience working in the wine and beverage industry to her research. Her Master’s project focuses on the sustainability and resiliency of the Okanagan, Similkameen, and Thompson Valley wine regions in B.C., examining how these terms and ideas are understood and how they are shaped through adaptive strategies. She did this by working with local wine industry community groups, such as the B.C. Wine Grape Council, Sustainable Winegrowing B.C., and the B.C. Grape Growers’ Association. Through her past and current work, Morgan focuses on knowledge that the community seeks and is relevant to the industry by working in industry research partnerships. Morgan is currently consulting as a researcher for the British Columbia Wine Industry Task Force after winning a contract with the Climate Resilience Working Group. She is working on creating a way to catalogue B.C.-relevant climate resilience research, prioritize funding for climate resilience research, and understand how climate resilience can be translated in the B.C. wine industry. 

UBC Okanagan, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

Emily Christina Murphy is Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBCO. She directs the ReMedia Infrastructure for Research and Creation, a Canada Foundation for Innovation-funded facility that focuses on multimedia cultural memory. Projects in ReMedia focus on a wide range of topics: comics, Goodreads, contemporary performance in Canada, and modernist robots. Her co-edited collection, EnTwine: Critical and Creative Teaching with Twine will be published with Amherst College Press in November 2026, and recent and forthcoming work appears in the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, Comparative Literature Studies, and CanLit. Her presentation today focuses on flamenco performance communities in Canada, multimedia cultural memory, and research data management.