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CRDCN 2025 Conference Program

May 13, 2025

Plenary: National Research Infrastructures – Building capacity and sustaining research excellence for Canada

The first plenary of the conference will assemble a panel of key figures in the research ecosystem in Canada to discuss recent movement toward a new paradigm for a federal research support system that addresses issues of sustainability for “major” research infrastructures. The panel chair and discussants will explore questions such as:

  • an understanding of “major” research infrastructures that values and supports researchers and expertise as much as research equipment;
  • the lifecycle and portfolio approach to funding national research infrastructures;
  • the false dichotomy between investigator-driven research and mission-driven research; and
  • the importance of a national research data strategy.

Frédéric Bouchard

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences/Doyen de la Faculté des arts et des sciences

L'Université de Montréal

Sylvain Charbonneau

President and CEO/Président et directeur général

CFI/FCl

Janet Halliwell

President/Présidente

J.E. Halliwell Associates Inc.

Rhonda Kropp

Associate Vice-President, Research - Strategy/Vice-présidente associée, Recherche - Stratégie

CIHR/IRSC

Sylvie Lamoureux

Vice President, Research/Vice-présidente, Recherche

SSHRC/CRSH

Headshot of Mona Nemer

Mona Nemer

Chief Science Advisor of Canada/Conseillère scientifique en chef du Canada

Government of Canada/Gouvernement du Canada

CRDCN’s 25th Anniversary Celebration Event

The reception will celebrate the CRDCN’s 25th anniversary. We have a lot to celebrate – our collaboration with Statistics Canada and 46 Canadian universities and research institutes supports more than 2500 researchers per year across a broad spectrum of academic disciplines to advance research and inform evidence-based policy. We hope that you will join us in Ottawa for this celebration, as we look back at 25 years of accomplishment and look ahead to the next 25 years of research.

May 14, 2025

Plenary: Data management and supporting FAIRly restricted data

The second plenary of the conference will launch the nation-wide outreach campaign for the CRDCN’s SSHRC Connection Grant project. The panel members will discuss the challenges and best practices related to the data life cycle for restricted data, and opportunities for growth and improvement, both for researchers and research infrastructures (including data providers, repositories, and search tools).

The panel is intended to inspire and motivate the research community to improve and champion FAIRification and research data management with restricted data, and to provide a pathway for research infrastructures to improve their own practices and processes related to restricted data.

Alexandra Cooper

Data Services Coordinator/Coordinatrice des services de données

Queen's University/Université Queen's

James Doiron of U of A

James Doiron

Research Data Management Strategies Director/Directeur des stratégies de gestion des données de recherche

University of Alberta Library/Bibliothèque de l’Université de l’Alberta

Natalie Harrower

Executive Director/Directrice générale

CRDCN/RCCDR

Ted McDonald

Director/Directeur

New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (NB-IRDT)/Institut de recherche, de données et de formation du Nouveau-Brunswick

Kevin Read

Research Data Management and Open Science Associate Librarian/Bibliothécaire associé de gestion des données de recherche et science ouverte

University of Saskatchewan/Université de Saskatchewan