News and Events

Summer holiday hours, Saturday hours for July, and a new data set profile.

Researcher congrats and kudos, Saturday hours for June, and a new data set profile.

Register for the upcoming RDC Showcase, Saturday hours for May, holiday closings, a job posting, and a new data set profile.

Save the date for the upcoming RDC Showcase, a call for researcher accomplishments, Saturday hours for April, and holiday closings.

Saturday hours for March and a new data set.

Saturday hours for February, a holiday closing, and a new data set.

Saturday hours for January, a job posting, and a new data set.

Saturday and holiday hours for December, and a new data set.

Saturday hours for November and a new data set.

Upcoming holiday hour changes, Saturday hours for October, and a new data set.

This year’s Open House will focus on introducing the range of social research “toolkits”. Sometimes a researcher really focuses on one toolkit (like Qualitative Methods) and builds deep expertise with one or more tools inside (interviews, ethnography, and content analysis among them), Other times it’s useful to borrow from other toolkits, or use entirely different types of tools together to analyze an issue. Each session of the open house will introduce one of six social research toolkits and the range of methods inside them, then engage with your thoughts and questions. Feel free to come for one or many sessions. Have we sparked your interest?

Upcoming holiday hour changes, Saturday hours for August, increasing station capacity, and a new data set.

Upcoming holiday hour changes, Saturday hours for July, and a new data set.

Participants, partners and community members are invited to view a video research presentation of the results of Seniors' Housing Futures research study, a multi-year project with the goal of understanding the housing experiences of older adults with lower incomes living in Hamilton.

Saturday hours for April and a new data set.

Upcoming holiday hour changes, Saturday hours for May, and a new data set.

Upcoming holiday hour changes, Saturday hours for April, and a new data set.

Brighter Spark has been working quietly over the last year with a few partners and now will be expanding its work both in the community and with other researchers. It will bridge the gap between academia and the community, by providing research support to groups working on real world issues. In this article, we outline exciting projects in our new launch.

Using the tools of bibliometrics, you can document the influence of your own publications, the work of those scholars you are associated with or the types of articles a particular journal publishes. Dr. Fei Yu, a health technology informatics librarian at the University of North Carolina is very excited about all that bibliometrics can reveal, and wants you to be too.

How does the way our government handles big data influence our daily lives? In a talk in our Productivity during Pandemic series, Laura Mahrenbach speaks about the “Emerging Powers and Big Data: Domestic Transformations and Global Power Shifts”. And boy, did it raise a lot of questions.

Each year, Spark decides on a topic that we think is really important to innovation in social research and we find the most amazing thinkers and doers we can, from all over the world, to offer related workshops. Learn more about our the relevance of research and how it can be effectively translated to the public in this article.