Brian P. Cozzarin serves as Director to the South-Western Ontario Research Data Centre, working closely with the Statistics Canada Data Analyst, Dr. Patricia Newcombe-Welch. The National Steering Committee on Research Data Centres, chaired by Dr. Raymon Currie of the University of Manitoba, is the body responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Research Data Centre program and contains representation from all the host universities and government agencies.

Strategic and long-term planning for the South-Western Ontario Research Data Centre is vested in an eleven person Steering Committee chaired by Dr. Paul Guild, Vice-President Research, University of Waterloo, with representation from the four participating universities. A four person Management Committee, with membership from each university, is chaired by Dr. Cozzarin and is responsible for operations and advancement.

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The Management Committee is chaired by the Director.

The current constitution of the committee is:

Brian Cozzarin, Director, U. Waterloo, Management Sciences

Mohammed Dore, Brock University, Department of Economics

Susan Johnson, Wilfrid Laurier U.

Bo Wandschneider, U. Guelph, Data Resource Centre

Derek Wilkinson, Laurentian U., Sociology

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Role of the University of Waterloo Survey Research Centre

The Research Data Centre is financially separate from the UW Survey Research Centre. From the outset, however, it was envisaged that the UW Survey Research Centre would play a key role in promoting and helping the RDC. Thus mailouts for the RDC user community are integrated into the SRC mailing list, with many of the names common to both. A twice-yearly printed communication with RDC news is included as part of the SRC Newsletter. Talks, workshops and seminars for the RDC and events more specifically for the SRC are integrated so as to avoid scheduling conflicts and as a way to introduce a wider body of researchers to the activities of the RDC.

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