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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Anonymising data

There are a number of really helpful sources of information on anonymising research data for sharing. UK Data Archive (UKDA) advice on anonymisation of quantitative and qualitative data: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/create-manage/consent-ethics/anonymisation UKDA presentation on anonymisation techniques to enable data sharing: http://www.esds.ac.uk/news/eventsdocs/consentdec09vvde1.pdf University of Edinburgh provide explanation and some useful examples: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/records-management-section/data-protection/guidance-policies/anonymisation Information Commissioners Office code of practice […]

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