Our Team

Elizabeth Parke

Faculty Programming Development Officer

Elizabeth Parke

Elizabeth joined the CRIS team from UTM, where she was the Senior Research Associate for Collaborative Digital Research. Elizabeth has tremendous experience working closely with humanities and social science researchers and we are thrilled to have her leading the development of new programming to align with our Researcher Development Framework.

Garin Ohannesyan

Programming & Events Coordinator

Garin Ohannesyan

Garin joined the CRIS team in 2022 in the role of Programming and Events Coordinator. Garin coordinates and hosts numerous workshops for the research community. She also takes the lead creating communications to help faculty learn about the many resources available to support research and innovation.

Krystyna Kongats

Collaborative Programs Officer

Krystyna Kongats

Krystyna leads the design and delivery of collaboration focused supports that enable faculty and their key partners to engage in meaningful cross-divisional, interdisciplinary, community-based and major team partnerships. Krystyna holds a PhD in Health Promotion and brings nearly a decade of experience in collaborative and participatory approaches to research

Prisca Obierefu

Research Technology Liaison (on leave)

Prisca Obierefu

As Research Technology Liaison, Prisca promotes the visibility and access to the research and innovation supports for faculty available across the tri-campus with a particular focus on information technology tools. Prisca has a M.Sc. in Forensic Psychology from London Metropolitan University, UK, and brings years of experience as a Research Support Specialist, and Research Scientist from academia and the research industry

Saira Mall

Project Officer, Digital Research Infrastructure

Saira Mall

Saira joins the CRIS team on a 2-year secondment to support a number of Digital Research Infrastructure projects including establishing the institutional research data management strategy for the University and accompanying guidance documents for the research community. She will also identify and document existing DRI offerings including expertise, platforms, services, technology, training and resources to be housed on the new DRI web portal.

Vinita Haroun

Director, CRIS

Vinita Haroun

Vinita joined the University of Toronto in July 2019 as the founding director of the Centre for Research & Innovation Support. Vinita is passionate about building capacity for research and innovation overall and is looking forward to working with our faculty and partners across the University.

Our Collaborators

Amy Ratelle

JHI Program Officer

Amy Ratelle

Amy collaborates closely with our team and divisional colleagues, designing and delivering research excellence programming and supports for Humanities scholars across the tri-campus. This role was created as a direct response to the Supporting Humanities Research at U of T Working Group Recommendations, and will build upon the JHI’s mandate of advancing interdisciplinary and collaborative humanities scholarship within the university and the discipline as a whole.

Joshua van Ry

Research Services Officer, UTSC

Joshua van Ry

Bio coming soon.