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In the 10 years since its founding in 2012, the Lewis and Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship has become a hub through which expertise and resources are shared with the campus community and anyone seeking to do more with digital scholarship. In this chapter, we explore how the centre has leveraged its involvement in teaching and learning to build a community to support the needs of researchers, mentor and develop the talents of emerging scholars, and produce unique programming to make learning about digital scholarship accessible. We share the core values of teaching and learning that guide programming, services, and activities at the centre, prioritizing the social before the technological, striving for equitability of access, and being collaborative by design. The goal of our chapter is to demonstrate how approaching teaching and learning in a way that prioritizes social connections and relationships, a critical engagement with digital technologies, and relational accountability has enabled the centre to iteratively build a reciprocal model of engagement that continues to adapt to the evolving role of digital scholarship in the McMaster community.

This report documents the outcomes and key learnings that stemmed from the 2020-2021 SSHRC funded The Relevant Research Series. A workshop series jointly organized and hosted by the Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship and Spark: a centre for social research innovation at McMaster University. The recommendations can inform future interdisciplinary data science training initiatives at McMaster University and beyond. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

This roundtable brings together researchers from a variety of disciplines to assess the embedded power structures of social media research and the frameworks for assessing such research as ‘ethical’.

Presented as an invited talk at the International Virtual Symposium on Digital Scholarship, hosted by the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, 14-15 October, 2020.

As more scholars incorporate social media data into their research, technical knowledge to acquire and analyze data is necessary, but so too is an understanding of the norms and values embedded within data protocols and practices. What are the ethical complexities of incorporating ‘public’ social media data into research? And what challenges do researchers face when working with social media platforms as sources of evidence and as objects of research? The aim of the workshop is two-fold: 1) we will discuss some of the practical and philosophical questions pertaining to social media data and research ethics; and, 2) we will spend time reviewing the DMP Assistant.

As part of the Sherman Centre's Do More With Digital Scholarship workshop series.

What is digital scholarship and how can I do more with it? This workshop introduces participants to the interdisciplinary and multi-modal sphere of digital scholarship. We will briefly explore the facets of digital scholarly research and dissemination, and spend the bulk of our time authoring digital scholarship research plans.

A workshop dedicated to building one's CV in graduate school, and harnessing academic and non-academic opportunities as means of professionalization.

Part of the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship "Demystifying Digital Scholarship" series, this slide deck accompanied the session providing background and advice for project ideation and development. Topics covered include: exploring digital scholarship tools and resources, planning for a project's long-term success, traditional and non-traditional modes of scholarly dissemination, and the politics of funding.