Research data management – Staff Workshop

The University Library is running a series of workshops for staff this July with the aim of helping you get the best results for your research. One of their sessions covers Research Data Management, details are provide below.

Tuesday 15th July, 2-4pm
Whilst efficient data management has always been part of good research practice, research data management is growing in importance in higher education. An increasing number of funding bodies require a data management plan to be submitted in a funding bid and the data produced to be shared, where possible. This session examines the importance of managing your data effectively and how to express this in a data management plan. It will also consider the issues of sharing and archiving data and how you can do this to meet funder requirements, as well as your own research needs.

Research Data Managament for academic and research staff

Explore Research Data Management in more depth at this workshop:

Research Data Managament for academic and research staff
Friday 4th April 10-12, Library Seminar Room 1:

Whilst efficient data management has always been part of good research practice, research data management is growing in importance in higher education. An increasing number of funding bodies require a data management plan to be submitted in a funding bid and the data produced to be shared, where possible. This session examines the importance of managing your data effectively and how to express this in a data management plan. It will also consider the issues of sharing and archiving data and how you can do this to meet funder requirements, as well as your own research needs.

Please book via Learn: http://learn.lboro.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=9758&section=5 (You will need to accept an enrollment key when you first access this module). Please note that this session is designed for staff; workshops for PGRs will take place in May and can be booked via the Gradauate School’s booking page on Learn.

DCC research data management planning training

We have had another brilliant training session from the Digital Curation Centre. Once again the topic was research data management planning but this time looking at costing for RDM. The outline for the session was as follows:

  • Introduction
  • What are Data Management Plans and why are they important?
  • Funders’ policies on data management and eligible costs
  • Q&A Discussion: key issues affecting support provision
  • Data Management Plan Examples
  • Breakout session for discussion the example plans
  • What next? Planning future DMP support

Feedback from participants was excellent and I now have some useful resources to help those creating a research data management plan. I will compile these into a post soon.

Anonymising data

There are a number of really helpful sources of information on anonymising research data for sharing.