Engagement and education working group

Lead: Yan Wang and Anne Aarts

Mem­bers: Heather Andrews, Mar­i­an­na Avetisyan, Judith Brands, Con­nie Clare, Nico­las Dintzn­er, Simone Fricke, Chiara Gallese Nobile, San­tosh Ilam­paruthi, Paula Mar­tinez Lavanchy, Zafer Özturk, Diana Popa, Phuong Truong, Yasemin Türky­il­maz van der Velden, Qian Zhang and Eiri­ni Zorm­pa.

Objec­tives: This work­ing group brings the data stew­ards from the 4TU.ResearchData part­ner insti­tu­tions togeth­er to explore oppor­tu­ni­ties for cross-insti­tu­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tions to deliv­er edu­ca­tion and train­ing for data sup­port­ers and researchers. The group shares knowl­edge and expe­ri­ences of imple­ment­ing data man­age­ment plans and poli­cies; and, meth­ods for effec­tive­ly engag­ing researchers with data man­age­ment.

Expec­ta­tions: Mem­bers attend a one-hour month­ly meet­ing on the fourth Tues­day of each month. Mem­bers con­duct exer­cis­es and under­take prepara­to­ry work in between meet­ings as required.

Deliv­er­ables: 

I. Inven­to­ry of Research Data Man­age­ment Train­ing 

The group has start­ed to col­late infor­ma­tion about the cur­rent research data man­age­ment train­ing cours­es and work­shops organ­ised at each of the 4TU part­ner insti­tu­tions. This is a liv­ing doc­u­ment that will be updat­ed and made pub­licly avail­able in the Autumn.

II. A col­lec­tion of dis­ci­pli­nary use cas­es 

The data stew­ards are dis­ci­pli­nary experts who are the first point of con­tact for pro­vid­ing research data sup­port with­in their fac­ul­ties and depart­ments. It fol­lows that they encounter a diverse range of research projects that each require dif­fer­ent solu­tions and approach­es regard­ing data man­age­ment.

Cur­rent­ly, the group is col­lect­ing dis­ci­pli­nary use cas­es that show­case var­i­ous dif­fer­ent data col­lec­tion, stor­age, shar­ing, pri­va­cy, ethics and legal con­sid­er­a­tions. Our col­lec­tion of dis­ci­pli­nary use cas­es will be made pub­licly avail­able to ben­e­fit data sup­port­ers and researchers at the end of this year.

Web­page con­tent con­trib­u­tors: Heather Andrews, Con­nie Clare and Eiri­ni Zorm­pa.

4TU.RESEARCHDATA WORKING GROUPS

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Pri­va­cy and GDPR work­ing group