IASSIST Webinars

IASSIST Webinar Registration and Recordings

IASSIST Professional Developement Committee organizes and hosts IASSIST Community Webinars. Webinars are free to attend, but a registration is required. IASSIST members will be the first ones to get the information on future webinars. Webinars usually last about 45-60 minutes. Some of the topics have for example been data visualization, qualitative analysis tools, and data curation.

These webinars will be recorded and made openly available under the CC BY license on the IASSIST YouTube Channel playlist .

On this page you will find links to the recordings and information on any webiars that are open for registration.

Webinar registrations

Workshops will continue in March. Check the link below for more information!

IASSIST Workshop Series: Spring 2026 Presentations on Qualitative Data Analysis

See a separate post for info about the individual events and registration info.

April 9 | North of 49: Discovering Canadian Data Resources

Statistics Canada, the nation’s statistical agency, collects and disseminates a wide range of data and statistics about Canada’s population, social conditions, economics and so much more. In this webinar academic library data professionals Alexandra Cooper (Queen’s University), Kevin Manuel (Toronto Metropolitan University) and Michael Steelworthy (Laurier University) will introduce attendees to the Statistics Canada website and what is available on it and how to search and navigate the results for resources such as the Census of Population, geographic classifications, and statistics on representation. The presenters will also highlight other sources for public opinion polling data and where to find them (for free!) and also provide an overview of Odesi and Scholars Geoportal, data platforms used to discover and use Statistics Canada’s data.

Time: Thursday, April 9, 2026, 2:00 pm EDt

Registration

This webinar is brought to you by the IASSIST Professional Development Committee. The webinar will be recorded and made available on the IASSIST Youtube Channel. Slides and the recording will also be linked from the IASSIST webpage.

Most recent webinar recordings

Visual Methods for Multimodal Analysis: Expanding Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research

Angela Wiseman, Marva Cappello, Jennifer D. Turner
Webinar slides on Zenodo

Building on frameworks and approaches from Critical Visual Methods to Advance Racial Justice in Educational Research, this session examines the various ways scholars can use visual methods to understand multimodal artifacts.

Libby Hemphill, Marley Kalt, and Alison Stroud
Webinar slides on Zenodo

This panel discussion offers a roadmap for researchers looking to preserve social media data for long-term use while navigating the evolving landscape of platform policies and global regulations.

Your Voice Matters: Shaping IASSIST Quarterly’s Data Policy and Path to Scopus

Ofira Schwartz and Michele Hayslett
Webinar slides on Zenodo

The editors of IASSIST Quarterly share updates on the journal’s progress toward meeting the requirements for Scopus review and potential inclusion in its index. A critical prerequisite is the establishment of a data policy.

Older webinar recordings

2022

A Conversation About Data on Race & Ethnicity Around the World (Bobray Bordelon, Barbara Levergood, Kevin Manuel, Nigel de Noronha, Anja Perry, Anne Zald. Moderators Alexandra Cooper, Deborah Wiltshire)
(Webinar slides on Zenodo )
De-identifying Qualitative Data (Arja Kuula-Luumi, Kati Mozygemba, Tom Nicolai, James DuBois, Jessica Mozersky) (Slides linked from the YouTube page)
Understanding the 2020 US Census (William P. O’Hare)
(Webinar slides on Google Docs )