Training Archive

  • Closing workshop poster: sustainability of project outputs

    Closing workshop poster: sustainability of project outputs

    Our poster, “Research360: Sustainability of Project Outputs“, is now available to download from the University of Bath publication repository. This poster was presented at the JISCMRD programme’s final workshop in Birmingham on 25–26 March 2013. The poster gives an overview of the major strands of work in the Research360 project (Roadmap & Business Case, RDM Policy [...]

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  • 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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  • 8th International Digital Curation Conference 2013

    8th International Digital Curation Conference 2013

    From Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 January 2013, Cathy and I attended the 8th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC13) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. On Monday morning, we ran a workshop, jointly with Hannah Lloyd-Jones from Open Exeter, entitled “Designing Data Management Training Resources: Tools for the provision of interactive research data management workshops“. This offered participants the [...]

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  • IDCC13: Exemplar RDM Training Exercises

    IDCC13: Exemplar RDM Training Exercises

    The 8th International Digital Curation Conference kicked off today with a number of workshops. I attended the one on Designing Data Management Training Resources facilitated by Catherine Pink and Jez Cope from the Research360 project (University of Bat...

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  • JISC MRD progress workshop slides & poster

    JISC MRD progress workshop slides & poster

    On Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 October 2012, Cathy and I attended the JISC MRD programme progress workshop in Nottingham. The workshop was an excellent opportunity to share the lessons we’re learning on the Research360 project and learn from colleagues working on research data management elsewhere, including a number outside the JISC-funded MRD programme. Our slides [...]

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  • University of Bath Research Data web pages go live

    University of Bath Research Data web pages go live

    I’m pleased to announce that our redeveloped Research Data web pages have now been published. We hope that this resource will be useful for researchers and support staff both within and beyond the University. They will continue to be added to and updated as time goes on, particularly over the next 6 months or so as we [...]

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  • Getting the message across

    Getting the message across

    Training is one of the key elements in the JISC Managing Research Data Programme. Ensuring that those involved in all stages of the research lifecycle are up to speed and aware of their responsibilities is a big undertaking.read more

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  • DCC training workshop at iPres 2012

    DCC training workshop at iPres 2012

    The DCC ran a workshop in collaboration with several other digital curation stakeholders today. Pushing the Boundaries - excellence in digital curation education and training through collaboration covered a number of themes, including curriculum develo...

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  • Librarians, data management and listening dogs

    Librarians, data management and listening dogs

    DCC staff were at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress last week. The conference was vast, welcoming over 4,200 librarians to Helsinki and addressing all manner of library concerns. The programme included a number of sessions relevant to da...

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  • Research data management training take 2

    Research data management training take 2

    On Thursday 28 June, Cathy and I ran the latest of our postgraduate workshops on research data management. The session was structured similarly to our last workshop, though without the extended hands-on section on data management planning. The loss of this section was down to time pressures (we had an hour less this time). We started by [...]

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