DARE creates social and intellectual space to examine, build and develop anti-colonial, anti-racist digital and geospatial methods, tools, technologies, pedagogies, capacities, practices and policies, with particular focus on heritage and social sciences. We are located in the Arts and Sciences building at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, on the unceded, ancestral lands of the syilx/Okanagan people.

Dr Neha Gupta will work with Dr Holly Wright at the University of York, UK, on developing a framework for digital data in the practice of archaeology through the FAIR, CARE and GREENER Principles. Funding for this seed grant comes from the SSHRC Destination Horizon and The University of British Columbia.

Dr Neha Gupta is a team member on an awarded CFI Innovation Fund for the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Archaeology Centre led by Andrew Martindale (UBC Anthropology) and Leona Sparrow (Musqueam Indian Band). As director of the DARE lab, Dr Gupta will contribute expertise to the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm archaeology centre’s digital infrastructure and training in community governance of heritage.

Anita Lal (Poetic Justice Foundation), Dr Neha Gupta (UBC Okanagan) and Dr Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra (Belonging Matters) are continuing the conversation on caste in Canada in the second event of the Community-University Engagement Support project at the UBC Okanagan campus.

Congratulations to Dr Neha Gupta on her contribution to the recently launched Community Research Data Toolkit, edited by Danica Evering and Subhanya Sivajothy and published by the McMaster University Libraries.