UBC researchers with advanced research computing projects can now access consultation, advice, training and risk assessment relating to data security and privacy issues.
Data security and privacy requirements can sometimes be a formidable barrier for researchers. Projects involving protected legal, health, administrative, and demographic information, coupled with a reliance on cloud-based and other highly distributed computing resources, increasingly require a comprehensive knowledge of multiple compliance rules and regulations.
UBC Advanced Research Computing has recently appointed Kaitlyn Gutteridge as Research Data Privacy and Security Officer to help researchers understand and overcome many of these challenges. Working with ARC and in consultation with UBC Legal Counsel, Kaitlyn will provide technical, scientific and administrative support for researchers and research groups working with sensitive data across disciplinary domains including the life and health sciences, the social sciences and the digital humanities.
Kaitlyn will keep up to date on the University’s privacy and information security standards. She will also work in collaboration with Population Data BC to review investigators' research data needs, to keep up to date on Population Data BC's privacy security standards and training, and to improve processes relating to data-sharing agreements within UBC, and across multi-institutional projects.
For more information, contact kaitlyn.gutteridge@ubc.ca