Browsing by Author "Milligan, Ian"

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Building an Inter-Institutional and Cross-Functional Research Data Management Community: From Strategy to Implementation
(2025-04) Abel, Jennifer; Milligan, Ian; Hitchens, Alison; Namachchivaya, Beth Sandore; Hyslop, Caroline; Eber, Anneliese; Chung, Vicky; Moon, Jeff; Doiron, James; Poloney, Kelsey; Steeleworthy, Michael; Cochran, Colleen; Caspary, Kaelan; Bryant, Rebecca
With the release of the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy (Government of Canada, 2021) in March 2021, all Canadian post-secondary institutions and research hospitals that administer Tri-Agency funding were required to develop and post institutional research data management (RDM) strategies by March 1, 2023. As institutions finalized their strategies, they began to consider what implementation would look like. To support inter-institutional, cross-functional dialogue around implementation, a two-day, SSHRC-supported workshop was hosted at the University of Waterloo in September 2023. Over 30 institutions of varying sizes and research intensities sent cohorts of three staff members—representing libraries, information technology, and research offices—to participate in five dialogues with researchers and key partners around challenges and collaborative solutions in RDM strategy implementation. Through the dialogues, the participants made the following key high-level recommendations: 1. Provide clear expectations and communication around compliance, requirements and service provision 2. Secure buy-in from campus leadership 3. Identify financial support for RDM at institutions 4. Build staff capacity and support skills development, both within institutions and nationally 5. Create and sustain intra-institution coordination, collaboration and service integration around RDM 6. Explore inter-institution coordination and collaboration, including support for smaller institutions in meeting their RDM needs and requirements 7. Support the development of Indigenous Data Sovereignty policies and guidelines 8. Increase researcher training, support, and awareness around RDM 9. Develop national RDM support structures for collaboration and strategy, including a common understanding and language of RDM These recommendations are relevant to a broad audience, including research funders, government agencies mandating and/or supporting RDM, professional organizations, academic consortia, university administration, researchers and practitioners. The Waterloo workshop did not provide definitive answers as to how these recommendations should be implemented; rather, it was an opportunity to build a community of professionals from across RDM-supporting units who can work towards successful strategy implementation in their institutions. However, community is not enough. Institutions, research funders, and infrastructure providers must all commit to supporting RDM, whether through clear and timely guidance, sustainable resource provision, hiring and development of staff, or regular and robust training offerings. Ongoing, stable funding—both at the national and the institutional level—will also be necessary to ensure that support and services can be sustained for the long term. RDM is—and has always been—a shared responsibility, and all the parties mentioned above must step up to ensure that its implementation is a success in Canada.
Création d’une communauté de gestion des données de recherche interfonctionnelle et interinstitutionnelle : de la stratégie à la mise en oeuvre
(2025-04) Abel, Jennifer; Milligan, Ian; Hitchens, Alison; Namachchivaya, Beth Sandore; Hyslop, Caroline; Eber, Anneliese; Chung, Vicky; Moon, Jeff; Doiron, James; Poloney, Kelsey; Steeleworthy, Michael; Cochran, Colleen; Caspary, Kaelan; Bryant, Rebecca
En mars 2021, la publication de la Politique des trois organismes sur la gestion des données de recherche (gouvernement du Canada, 2021) obligeait tous les établissements postsecondaires et les hôpitaux de recherche canadiens qui administrent des subventions des trois organismes à produire et à publier leur stratégie de gestion des données de recherche (GDR) au plus tard le 1er mars 2023. Tandis qu’ils s’exécutaient et que les premières exigences relatives aux stratégies. Les établissements visés ont commencé à réfléchir à l’application de ces stratégies. Pour alimenter les conversations interinstitutionnelles et interfonctionnelles à ce sujet, un atelier de deux jours s’est tenu à l’Université de Waterloo en septembre 2023, avec le soutien du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH). Une trentaine d’établissements de toutes tailles et d’intensités de recherche variables ont délégué trois de leurs membres représentant les bibliothèques, les technologies de l’information et les bureaux de la recherche pour prendre part à cinq conversations avec des chercheuses et chercheurs et des partenaires clés au sujet des défis et des possibles collaborations pour la mise en oeuvre des stratégies de GDR. L’atelier a débouché sur plusieurs recommandations : 1. Communiquer clairement les attentes concernant la conformité, les exigences et la prestation des services 2. Obtenir l’adhésion de la direction de l’établissement 3. Trouver des fonds pour la GDR à l’interne 4. Accroître les effectifs et le perfectionnement à l’interne et à l’échelle nationale 5. Établir durablement une coordination, une collaboration et une intégration des services en matière de GDR à l’interne 6. Explorer les possibilités de coordination et de collaboration interinstitutionnelles, notamment en ce qui concerne le soutien aux petits établissements pour les aider à répondre aux besoins et aux exigences 7. Établir des politiques et des lignes directrices encadrant la souveraineté des données autochtones 8. Accroître la formation, le soutien et la sensibilisation en matière de GDR au sein de la communauté de recherche 9. Établir des structures nationales de soutien à la GDR pour favoriser la collaboration stratégique, ainsi qu’une définition et un vocabulaire communs Ces recommandations s’appliquent à un large public comprenant les bailleurs de fonds, les organismes gouvernementaux en lien avec la GDR, les organismes professionnels, les consortiums universitaires, les administrations d’établissements et les communautés de recherche et de pratique. L’atelier n’a pas apporté de réponses définitives quant à la manière dont ces recommandations devraient être mises en oeuvre; il se voulait plutôt une occasion de tisser une communauté professionnelle regroupant toutes les unités qui contribuent à la GDR afin de faciliter la mise en oeuvre de la stratégie dans leurs établissements. Toutefois, une communauté ne suffit pas. Les établissements, les organismes subventionnaires et les fournisseurs d’infrastructures doivent tous s’engager à soutenir la GDR, que ce soit par des orientations claires et opportunes, la fourniture de ressources durables, l’embauche et le développement de personnel, ou des offres de formation régulières et solides. Un financement stable (tant au niveau national qu’au niveau d’établissement) sera également nécessaire pour garantir que le soutien et les services puissent être maintenus à long terme. Le GDR est - et a toujours été – une responsabilité partagée, et toutes les parties mentionnées ci-dessus doivent s’impliquer pour que sa mise en oeuvre soit un succès au Canada.
Freaking Fans: An Oral History of Disability in Fan Spaces
(University of Waterloo, 2025-03-24) Vero, Eric; Milligan, Ian; Dolmage, Jay
This oral history, under the lens of critical access studies, provides case studies that illustrate the long and interconnected history of disability and fan communities. Through interviews of eight disabled fans from varying communities, I have discovered a key understudied theme in the shared history of disability and fandoms. I argue that a fan community is a relational space where fans share access with each other. To be a fan is to offer room in this shared space for people of similar body/minds. For disabled fans, their identity founded on lived experiences facilitates relationships or fosters barriers within these fan spaces, constituting “access.” Disability activism within fan spaces consists of disabled fans finding empowerment through creating inclusive spaces that further empower other disabled individuals who share in this space. Disabled fans seek inclusion through providing extra room in spaces for others that they see themselves in. In this way, relationships form and sustain fan spaces. Rather than conceiving of fandom as a textual relationship between fan and creator, I advocate for considering how fans construct their own spaces, their opening or closing of which reveals whom they identify with among their fan communities. This reveals a perceived hierarchy based in historical forces in fandom that excludes marginalized groups, not just the disabled community. However, “fannish” acts and practices of inclusion resist the exclusion present in fan spaces where historical forces such as ableism encourage fans to share space at the expense of the marginalized. This is a novel and useful paradigm to conceive of fan communities as inclusive and exclusive spaces, as it reveals the hidden lives of my interviewees who shared with me their practices of inclusion, accessibility, and access. This study is also activist for stressing the importance of joy and pleasure in the disabled experience to complement the more common disability narratives of marginalization and activist struggles.
From Console Wars to Flame Wars: The Evolution of Masculinity in Video Games
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-01) Vero, Eric; Milligan, Ian
Today, gaming culture stands at a critical junction. Either it must adapt to house new diverse voices within its community, or be stationary in its old norms and mores. Specifically, female gamers are excluded from having a voice by the predominantly male presence within gaming culture. Overall, masculinity pervades gaming culture, and has since the beginning of video gaming. This thesis charts the evolution of masculinity within video game culture, examining the early days of video game arcades all the way to online culture on forums. Using print and web sources from online archives, this thesis explores how masculinity in gaming was about competition and violence, and intensified with the introduction of the Internet.
In Protection of No Woman: Consent, Illegitimacy, and Gender-Based Violence in Early Modern Somerset, 1600-1699
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-29) MacAlpine, Rebecca-Ann Preston; Milligan, Ian
Over the course of the seventeenth century, 1298 women came before the Quarter Sessions to secure financial resources for the upkeep of their unborn children. These interactions with the legal system highlight the ways in which female experience did not always translate into the adjudication of their cases. The preoccupation of the court, which was to shift financial support away from the parish to the putative father, highlights that the lived experiences of women were secondary to the primary economic objective. The inability to fully engage with these experiences and adjudicate accordingly demonstrates the violating nature of these proceedings. Who did the court intend to protect through bastardy proceedings, and what was the marginalizing impact of these decisions? This dissertation explores the marginalizing processes embedded in the Quarter Session records of bastardy. Through the employment of a mixed methodological approach that engages both qualitative and quantitative strategies, this work shows that the Sessions were designed and implemented in a way that continued to marginalize unwed mothers for their failure to conform to socially accepted courting rituals. It also failed to account for the varied lived experiences of these women. As a result, the entire adjudicating process perpetuated institutionalized gender-based violence. The system was designed to not protect the well-being of mothers and their illegitimate children, but rather to protect the financial interests of the community at large, and reinforce gendered cultural expectations through a public shaming process. As a result, the processes ensured that women’s voices were present but silenced through the procedural mechanisms enacted in the Sessions and institutionalized gender-based violence enacted against unwed mothers in Somerset.
The Queer Eternal September: LGBTQ Identity on the Early Internet and Web
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-21) McTavish, Sarah; Milligan, Ian
This dissertation examines the expression of queer identity and community on the early internet and web, and suggests a methodology for working with archived internet and web sources when exploring the history of marginalized groups. I argue that the explosion of new users which accompanied the popularization of networking technologies between 1983 and 1999 changed and diversified the ways that individuals expressed their own identity, even as these users mediated a codified vocabulary for expressing what it means to be queer. By combining computational methods with traditional close reading, this dissertation suggests a methodology for working with large-scale archived web and internet sources, which can ethically maintain context and significance without losing individual voices. I use a combination of text and network analysis in exploring user interaction and self-narrative within archived internet and web collections. Part one of this dissertation examines the distributed newsgroup service Usenet and the movement of users from one unified “gay and lesbian” newsgroup to hundreds of specialized groups for a multitude of identity categories, including specific sexual orientations and preferences, as well as gender identities. Using text analysis and topic modelling to delve into these large-scale sources, I argue that these archived Usenet materials reveal group tensions, as well as trends in labelling and social organization, during a period when the number of new users and new groups was growing at exponential rates. Part two of this dissertation follows these communities on to a new technology: the web. Faced with a seemingly unlimited platform to gather and communicate, we see user choices constrained by issues of discoverability and monetization, which helped to perpetuate existing queer hegemonies. Through a combination of text analysis and network analysis on large-scale sources like GeoCities.com’s “WestHollywood” community, I examine the implications of the proliferation of an Anglo lexicon for describing queer identity on an increasingly-global stage. This dissertation contributes to the historiography on gay and lesbian history, and suggests methods for researchers engaging with queer and gender theory along with computational methods.