CREATE & MANAGE DATA

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DATA MANAGEMENT AND SHARING FOR RESEARCHERS TRAINING

This project, funded as part of the ESRC's Researcher Development Initiative, is providing practical training and training materials for students, researchers and support staff in the social sciences on key issues pertinent to managing and sharing social science research data.

The training focuses on all aspects of 'data handling', which is an area of need recognised across the UK, and will concentrate on the core skills that are vital for the practices of both primary data collection and secondary analysis:

  • why and how to share research data
  • ethics, consent and confidentiality when sharing research data
  • data copyright and the use of existing data resources
  • data description, contextualisation and documentation
  • data formats and software
  • data storage, back-up and security

A programme of workshops is being held around the country between June 2010 and September 2011, with a number of travel bursaries available for postgraduate students. These workshops use hands-on, practical training methods based on expertise, and archived data sources from the UK Data Archive. Re-usable workshop materials are being prepared.

The project seeks to engage with trainee and new researchers and is running 'train the trainer' sessions with senior research, lecturing and front-line staff in universities such as librarians, IT staff and local ethics committee co-ordinators.

Further information

Contacts

The Data Management and Sharing for Researchers Training Programme is run by the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex

Project team

Libby Bishop
Louise Corti
Bethany Morgan Brett
Veerle Van den Eynden

Tel: +44 (0)1206 872140
Fax: +44 (0)1206 872003
Email: datasharing@data-archive.ac.uk

A QUICK GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVE  

1 of 10: We provide continuous access to the UK’s largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences
2 of 10: We hold thousands of data collections for social science research and teaching, quantitative and qualitative
3 of 10: Each of our data collections has a unique persistent identifier (DOI) that makes it easier to find and cite
4 of 10: We hold the only copy of many of the UK's large national surveys charting social research back decades
5 of 10: We are an established national archive at the forefront of managing, preserving, sharing and delivering data
6 of 10: We are certified to ISO 27001, the information security standard, and helped develop the Data Seal of Approval
7 of 10: We are a collaborative organisation supporting emerging and existing creators and users of data
8 of 10: We provide best practice guidance and training in managing and sharing research data
9 of 10: You won’t be able to find your family records on our site. You should visit a genealogical site instead
10 of 10: We don’t provide ready-made statistics, but using Nesstar you can view frequencies from popular surveys
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