CREATE & MANAGE DATA
TRAINING RESOURCES
OVERVIEW
Our Managing and Sharing Data: Training Resources present a suite of flexible training materials for people who are charged with training researchers and research support staff in how to look after research data.
The Training Resources complement the UK Data Archive's popular guide on 'Managing and Sharing Data: best practice for researchers', the most recent version published in May 2011.
They have been designed and used as part of the Archive's daily work in supporting ESRC applicants and award holdersand have been made possible by a grant from the ESRC Researcher Development Initiative (RDI).
The Training Resources are modularised following the UK Data Archive's seven key areas of managing and sharing data:
- sharing data - why and how
- data management planning for researchers and research centres
- documenting data
- formatting data
- storing data, including data security, data transfer, encryption, and file sharing
- ethics and consent
- data copyright
Each section contains:
- introductory powerpoint(s)
- presenter's guide - where necessary
- exercises and introduction to exercises
- quizzes
- answers
The materials are presented as used in our own training courses and are mostly geared towards social scientists. We anticipate trainers will create their own personalised and more context-relevant example, for example by discipline, country, relevant laws and regulations.
You can download individual modules from the relevant sections or download the whole resource in pdf format. Updates to pages were last made on 20 June 2012.
Print editions - including the training guide - are available for £30 (plus postage if outside the UK). To request a copy, contact the Communications Team.
