Congratulating TAIP Co-Applicant and CRDCN Executive Director, Dr. Natalie Harrower!

Photo, Dr. Natalie Harrower

Dr. Natalie Harrower, TAIP co-applicant and Executive Director of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) has been awarded funding from the Digital Research Alliance of Canada to develop a national data space for researchers who work with sensitive social science data. CRDCN is Canada’s largest national research infrastructure serving social science researchers and this opportunity signifies a meaningful boost for the social sciences!

“With this grant, CRDCN will, over the next 26 months, convene communities of disciplinary researchers and data specialists and conduct the requirements elicitation and requirements engineering to design a repository and trusted research environment for sensitive social sciences data. This work will draw from and expand beyond the existing 2,500+ researchers from all provinces who rely on CRDCN as a national research infrastructure, and outline the research data lifecycle needs from deposit and curation, through discovery and managed access, to archiving and indexing.” 

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Natalie Harrower on this incredible achievement! To read more about the National Data Spaces funding grant, please visit this link. To learn more about the SSCAN Data Space initiative, its proposed activities, and how this initiative aims to strengthen secure data access and collaboration in Canada, please watch the English and French webinar. To learn more about the work of Dr. Harrower, please visit this link.