Doctoral Training Centre Archive

  • Updated postgraduate data management planning guidance

    Updated postgraduate data management planning guidance

    Since our original post about data management planning for postgraduate researchers we’ve updated the template a couple of times. We’ve also created a guidance document to accompany it, which will help researchers develop a data management plan even if they haven’t been able to attend a face-to-face workshop. We’ve started using the template as part of [...]

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  • Postgraduate DMP template first draft

    Postgraduate DMP template first draft

    A lot of people have asked for this to be made available, so here it is: Data Management Plan for PGRs v0.2. It’s also available as a PDF. This template is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. We welcome comments and suggestions for improvements, and we’d love to hear from anyone who finds it [...]

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  • Research Data Management 101 — Data Management Planning

    Research Data Management 101 — Data Management Planning

    A few weeks ago, we got together some of our students from the Doctoral Training Centre in Sustainable Chemical Technologies to run a pilot training session on data management. As part of that, we asked them to trial a selection of data management plan (DMP) templates. We split the students into smaller groups, and assigned each [...]

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  • Research Data Management 101 — Intro & definitions

    Research Data Management 101 — Intro & definitions

    On Wednesday 15 February, we ran our first workshop/focus group with PhD students from the Doctoral Training Centre for Sustainable Chemical Technologies. This is the first of a series of posts summarising the outcomes of that event. Overview We had three aims for this session: To introduce the participants to data management planning and have them start writing [...]

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  • Doctoral Training Centres as catalysts for research data management

    Doctoral Training Centres as catalysts for research data management

    As I’ve already mentioned, the focal point for a lot of the pilot work in Research360 is the Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) in Sustainable Chemical Technologies. This presents us with some interesting opportunities and challenges, and is well worth investigating: DTCs (or CDTs depending on the research council) are fast becoming the norm for PhD [...]

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