Workshops
Workshops and training for researchers
Attendance at MRE sessions counts towards Postgraduate Researcher training hours. Add details to your eProg record following our MRE_eProg_guide.pdf.
Introduction to Research Data Management part one: Starting your research journey (online)
Researchers collect, receive and manage research data in many forms.
Managing your data can be complex, but a little planning at the beginning can save you time, raise your research profile and help you work more effectively.
This session aims to provide you with confidence in data and information management and introduce you to resources and services to help with Research Data Management.
How to book on
This event will take place online via Teams. Booking onto the event is essential to receive the link to join.
Further support
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Find out more about the workshops and online resources offered by My Research Essentials on the library webpage. Online resources related to this workshop include:
Introduction to FAIR data principles (online)
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.
Please note: This event is bookable by all staff and PGRs, simply follow the 'Book on this event' button below to register.
Research Data Conversations with Dr Victoria Yorke-Edwards (UCL) and Dr Christopher T. Tibbs (University of Exeter) [online]
Research Data Conversations is part of a series of My Research Essentials and Data Stewardship Community events exploring themes within research data and data stewardship.
In this session we will be joined by Dr Victoria Yorke-Edwards (Senior Research Data Steward, Centre for Advanced Research Computing, UCL) and Dr Christopher T. Tibbs (Research Data Steward, Research Software and Analytics Group, University of Exeter).
Victoria and Chris will lead a discussion on their roles as research data stewards at UCL and Exeter, their personal journeys to entering the profession, in addition to a broader conversation about the professional data steward landscape and data stewardship infrastructure in the UK today.
Time: 10-11am Thursday 30 April
Location: Online via Teams.
Introduction to Research Data Stewards: A key role in modern research (online)
Do you have an interest in managing, organising, and analysing research data? Are you interested in Open Research and making data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR)? If so, then the world of research data stewardship could be for you.
In this session you will:
- have the opportunity to discover and learn about research data stewardship and the work of research data stewards; an emerging profession in higher education and an increasingly key role in managing data for research projects at research-intensive universities.
- learn about the concept of research data stewardship and how it is applied to embed research data management (RDM), FAIR, and open data practices into the research project lifecycle.
- learn about the different roles and responsibilities of research data stewards working today, both in the UK and internationally, exploring the wide variety of tasks and challenges they experience in making open, reusable, and responsible research a reality.
- be shown how you can join in and participate in the research data stewardship community here at the University of Manchester and find opportunities and resources to develop your data steward skills and knowledge further.
How to book on
This event will take place online via Teams. Booking onto the event is essential to receive the link to join.
Research Data Conversations with Phil Reed, Research Community & Training Manager at the eScience Lab [on campus]
Research Data Conversations is part of a new series of My Research Essentials and Data Stewardship Community events exploring themes within research data and data stewardship.
The sessions will have a collaborative and conversational format and explore themes that promote open and FAIR data practices, and the promotion and development of new and emerging ideas in research data management.
In this last session for the current academic year we will be joined by Phil Reed, Research Community and Training Manager at the eScience Lab and Open Research Fellow at the Office for Open Research, University of Manchester.
Phil will lead a discussion focusing on his Open Research Fellowship project Continuing digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) Career Development at the University of Manchester, Nationally, and Beyond, in addition to his roles working with European and global partners such as ELIXIR to further facilitate and encourage FAIR data and reproducible research practices.
Time: 12.00 - 13.30 with lunch (vegetarian / vegan pizza) provided at 13.00
Date: Tuesday 12 May 2026
Venue: Main Library, Ground Floor Seminar Room