{"id":88515,"date":"2024-07-23T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T09:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.science\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=88515"},"modified":"2025-07-02T08:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:16:55","slug":"david-castle","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/council.science\/profile\/david-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"David Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Involvement at the ISC<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chair of the <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/member\/world-data-system-wds\/\">World Data System (WDS)<\/a> Scientific Committee.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chair of the IDRC-funded projects for the <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/our-work\/centre-for-science-futures\/\">Centre for Science Futures<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Castle\u2019s research is focused on science, technology and innovation policy, with a particular emphasis on regulation, standards, intellectual property and public consultation associated with life science innovation. His work includes analysis of the organizations and institutions that jointly act as determinants of innovation by shaping the context in which science and technology innovation transpires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Castle joined the International Science Council\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/council.science\/member\/world-data-system-wds\/\">World Data System (WDS)<\/a> Scientific Committee in 2019. As Vice-President Research at the University of Victoria (2014-19), he supported the creation of the WDS International Technology Office hosted at Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria. Prof. Castle is a Director for Canada\u2019s national research and education network provider, Canarie, and is the Chair of Research Data Canada\u2019s Steering Committee. He was a member of the OECD Global Science Forum Expert Group that released the report, Building Digital Workforce Capacity and Skills for Data Intensive Science in July, 2020. He is also a member of the Science Advisory Committee of the Council of Canadian Academies. Through these and other efforts, Prof. Castle contributes to the Canadian and international research environments by focusing on the interactions between science policy, supporting infrastructure, and skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This page was updated in 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Background information retrieved from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvic.ca\/hsd\/publicadmin\/people\/home\/faculty\/castle-david.php\">University of Victoria<\/a> in 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Involvement at the ISC Background Prof. Castle\u2019s research is focused on science, technology and innovation policy, with a particular emphasis on regulation, standards, intellectual property&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"region":[],"tag":[],"class_list":["post-88515","profile","type-profile","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>David Castle - International Science Council<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Involvement at the ISC Chair of the World Data System (WDS) Scientific Committee. 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