DMP Builder: A Web-based Tool to Help Prepare DATA MANAGEMENT PLANS!!! — HURRAY!

Greetings Everyone.

University of Alberta Libraries invites you to SIGN UP and SIGN IN to
the DMP Builder. Take a few minutes to explore this generalized tool
for producing data management plans which can be used for academic
purposes as well as research in the government and private sectors.
While the various sectors may have different needs from their DMPs, this
is easily resolved through a customized template. Following is the U of
A news released published yesterday.

University of Alberta Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of
DMP Builder . This web-based
application will assist CANADIAN researchers in preparing clearly
stated plans supporting the data in their projects. Such plans typically
identify how researchers will address data security, metadata
production, file formats, file handling conventions, data sharing
practices, data dissemination methods, and arrangements for long-term
preservation. Some of these topics intersect with services that
institutions offer in support of research, such as our Library. Having
researchers identify and work with these institutional services at the
beginning of a research project will strengthen the research process by
putting in place a more comprehensive plan for a project’s research
data.

DMP Builder anticipates the introduction of data management plans as
part of the application process of Canadian research councils. As our
funding agencies determine their requirements and as research
communities in Canada articulate the data planning needs that best fit
their disciplinary profiles, templates will be incorporated within DMP
Builder to accommodate the needs of each organization. For example, we
are currently participating in the development of a template for
clinical research. This is being prepared in partnership with those
supporting the REDCap service on campus, a clinical research data
management system. In the meantime, a generic template based on today’s
best practices and on examples drawn from international research
councils and funding agencies has been provided.

DMP Builder is based on the DMPOnline project of the Digital Curation
Centre (UK). (https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk/)

23 June 2014

Dear Faculty of Education – Faculty, Staff and Students,

It is a pleasure to inform you that Dr Jennifer Tupper, currently Associate Dean (Faculty Development and Human Resources) in the Faculty of Education, has accepted appointment as Acting Dean, Faculty of Education, for the period 1 July 2014 — 30 June 2015.

A graduate of the Universities of Alberta (BEd, PhD) and British Columbia (MA in Education), and a former Killam Scholar, Dr Tupper joined the University of Regina in 2004, and has been Associate Dean since 2011. Further biographical information is available on the Appointments and Renewals webpage at http://staging.uregina.ca/president/searches-reviews/appointments-renewals.html .

The Acting Dean appointment follows a call for input from faculty, students, and staff in the Faculty of Education. My thanks to the more than 30 individuals who provided written input, and who collectively expressed strong support for this appointment.

Please join me in congratulating Dr Tupper. We look forward to working with her in her new role.

Sincerely,

Thomas Chase
Provost and Vice-President (Academic)

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Sovereignties and Colonialisms: Surviving Racism, Extraction and Dispossession

April 30 – May 3, 2015
York University, Toronto

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In December 2012, four women sparked the most recent movement to honour Indigenous sovereignty and protect the environment. They named the exploitation of Indigenous land and resources as the source of state and corporate wealth, and referred to the “interconnections of race, gender, sexuality, class and other identity constructions in ongoing oppression” of Indigenous people (http://criticalethnicstudies.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=63732d131a563864c821247ed&id=bc1cc4705e&e=fe35a6c577) .

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within this context, including food, water and seed sovereignty, struggles between postcolonial state sovereignties and imperialist sovereignties, liberation of racialized groups and other non-state nations, and the implications of economies of race, gender, sexuality and disability in all of these.

Acknowledging the forerunning work of Indigenous feminists, migrant feminists and feminists of color, we would like to open up space for further interconnections at the heart of critical ethnic studies, including disabled Indigenous and people of colour perspectives, and two-spirit and trans/queer of color perspectives. We are interested in facilitating abolitionist and decolonizing conversations on various industrial formations, including the academic industrial complex, in the face of permanent precarity, extraction and exploitation, unequal divisions of labor, risks and benefits of critique, and the uneven institutionalization of liberation movements through programs around gender, sexuality, disability, environmentalism, multiculturalism and Indigeneity. We aim to provide a space where resistance and oppression can be thought transnationally (including outside the US and in the global south), in ways that attend to the travels and cross-fertilizations of racist and
colonial methods in various geopolitical contexts and regimes, such as settler-colonialism, occupation and apartheid; race and coloniality in the global south; globalized travels of anti-blackness; colonialism and development; and confinement, border fortification and global wars on terror.

Please pass this message to doctoral students. Please note the Abstract deadline has been EXTENDED to April 20!
I have attached a conference poster for you to share with those interested, or to put up in an area where students may see it.
Thank you so very much!

Are you a nurse engaged in doctoral studies?

The Faculty of Nursing, University of Regina
is hosting the

Canadian Doctoral Nursing Network Conference

June 19 & 20, 2014

This is an opportunity for you to:
· Meet other nurses engaged in doctoral work from across the country
· Discuss your doctoral journey
· Present your work
· Learn with Canadian nursing leaders who work with doctoral students
o Dr. Judith Shamian, RN, PhD, President of the International Council of Nurses
o Dr. Sean Clarke, RN, PhD, McGill University
o Dr. Florence Myrick, RN, PhD, University of Alberta

Visit the conference web site at http://www.uregina.ca/nursing/cdnnc/index.html

Abstracts are due April 20 to
nursing.research@uregina.ca

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

~Nelson Mandela~

Darlene Sorensen
Faculty of Nursing
Co-ordinator to the Associate Dean (Graduate Programs & Research)
University of Regina
RIC 507
Phone:306 337 2113
Fax:306 337 8493
www.uregina.ca/nursing
www.reginacougars.com

The Centre for Teaching and Learning is offering some exciting new workshops in 2014, as well as our usual programming. One-time workshops (including Turnitin training) can be seen at http://www.uregina.ca/ctl/events/index.html.

Teaching Development Days (for new teaching assistants) will be offered at the end of January. For more information or to register, please see http://www.uregina.ca/ctl/programs/td-days.html

The Graduate Citation Program (http://www.uregina.ca/ctl/programs/citation.html) and University Teaching Certificate Program (http://www.uregina.ca/ctl/programs/teaching.html) will run January to April.

We are accepting nominations for Teaching Awards until January 31st 2014. For information on the awards and how to nominate, see http://www.uregina.ca/ctl/index.html.

We look forward to seeing you in 2014!

First Nations Education Initiative Inc. in New Brunswick has launched a new interactive website that will help First Nations students make informed PSE decisions. The site, PSE Helper (http://www.psehelper.ca/) , includes information about accessing scholarships and bursaries, monitors and reports on student and career events going on around the province, helps students and graduates find work in their field of study, and connects students with community elders. “The website was designed specifically for New Brunswick Mi’kmaq and Maliseet students, but we hope this format and service can be adapted to other First Nations communities and cultures across Canada,” says Bob Atwin, Executive Director of First Nations Education Initiative Inc. The NB government provided $45,000 in funding for the site. New Brunswick News Release (http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/post-secondary_education_training_and_labour/news/news_release.2013.12.1245.html)

In order to better serve the library needs of students during final exams, the hours of operation for the Dr. John Archer Library will be extended through December 20, 2013 as follows:
7:30 a.m. until 11 p.m., Monday through Sunday.

Additional information regarding Library hours and services is available on the Library website at: http://www.uregina.ca/library/#page=page-1.

The Library welcomes your feedback. Comments or concerns may be sent via the form found at: http://www.uregina.ca/library/about_contact/request_forms/comments_concerns.html.

Other ways of getting in touch with the Library can be found at http://www.uregina.ca/library/help/index.html.

We look forward to hearing back from you!

Colleen Murphy
Associate University Librarian, Academic Liaison and User Services
Dr. John Archer Library
University of Regina
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306-585-4028

Data entry support for the Canadian Common CV

SSHRC, NSERC, along with CIHR and other agencies are now requiring a Canadian Common CV (CCV) for their grant applications. As it is a significant time investment to enter information into the CCV, the Office for Research, Innovation and Partnership is pleased to provide data entry assistance for researchers who do not currently have their CV in the Canadian Common CV format.

Please forward your current CV and an indication of which funding agency you will be applying to ORIP@uregina.ca.

Researchers intending to apply to the upcoming SSHRC Insight Development Grant competition are asked to provide these ASAP and no later than November 30, 2013.

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