Workshops

Are you starting to write your Data Management Plan but have questions? Then this hour long session is for you. Here is the format:

* Introduction and a brief overview of the Data Management Plan, including why each section is important

* 20 min question and answer session - ask any DMP related questions on your mind

* 10 min break - we would encourage this time to be spent looking at your DMP to see if you can apply what you've learnt

* 10 min for any further questions and session wrap up

If this sounds like something that would be useful to you, book onto a session today and start getting your questions ready.

Participant information

This session will take place on the online video conferencing app Zoom. Please sign up and download the app for free via this

link: https://zoom.us/

We will send you the Zoom link for the workshop a day before the workshop is to take place, booking onto this workshop is essential.

If your research involves working with people (e.g. through surveys, interviews, trials, experiments, focus groups or other methods) then it is essential to know the legal, ethical and contractual obligations you have towards research participants and how to put them into practice.

This course will outline how to collect, store, protect and share the personal data you may encounter as part of your work. Specific attention will be paid to the requirements of data protection legislation for recruiting participants and gaining consent, managing the data securely, and anonymising data so that it might be shared for future use.

This is a blended learning course comprising:

1. Mandatory pre-course learning (ca. 80 minutes) delivered via a collection of online resources (see links below) that introduces key principles and practices. Interactive quizzes are used to help check comprehension.

2. An interactive face-to-face session (200 minutes) where you apply your pre-course learning to real-life research project case studies. Working together in groups, you will explore the issues and risks, and present back your mitigation strategies for wider discussion to formulate optimum solutions. Expert facilitators will be on hand to provide practical guidance and support. There will also be opportunity for attendees to seek specialist advice from the expert facilitators.

Expert content creators and facilitators are drawn from the Information Governance Office; Research Governance, Ethics and Integrity; Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis; Research IT; and The University of Manchester Library.

Please note:

• Failure to complete the mandatory pre-course learning would place unnecessary burden on other participants and facilitators and would be considered un-collegial.
• The face-to-face session is designed to be highly interactive, so you must be willing to actively participate in the group work and discussions.

Links to mandatory pre-course learning:

• Find out how the data protection principles apply to research (9 minutes read)
• Research with human participants: your responsibilities under UK GDPR (7 minutes read)
• Participant engagement and consent (3 minutes read)
• Recruitment of research participants (6 minutes read)
• Participant Information Sheets (5 minutes read)
• Obtaining informed consent (7 minutes read)
• Research with children and young people (5 minutes read)
• Research with additional considerations (4 minutes read)
• Data protection considerations (8 minutes read)
• Anonymisation and pseudonymisation of research data (18 minutes read)
• Keeping your research data secure (6 mins read)

Researchers collect, receive, and manage data in many ways. Making sure this data is well-managed and reusable can be complex, but the FAIR Principles are here to help. The concepts underlying the FAIR principles are grounded in good scientific practice and aim to guide people to maximise the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of digital assets. Making your data FAIR can help you work more effectively, raise your research profile, and engage with open research initiatives.

This workshop is for people in academia with little or no experience of FAIR. This course aims to be succinct in introducing FAIR, its concepts and terminology, and supplements all material with introducing and signposting to useful FAIR resources.

Participant information

This session will take place on Teams. We will send you the Teams link for the workshop a day before the workshop is to take place, booking onto this workshop is essential.