Workshops

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. You will 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. You will 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. Finally, you will 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.

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.

This workshop will introduce attendees to the emerging research output of Executable Papers. Executable Papers are those that can be opened and run to produce a paper.

In this workshop you will learn how Executable Papers are an increasingly important and popular way to communicate research in a transparent and reproducible way. An explanation of the platforms and systems available will be given, before working through guided exercises using Quarto and Docker. The workshop activities will be performed in a controlled online environment with access to all of the applications required: you do not need to install anything on your own device ahead of the session. Full instructions for setting up your own device and where to access support will be sent following the workshop.

There will be time to reflect, discuss and ask questions on how you can build writing Executable Papers into your own research workflows.

This event will take place on campus, led by and developed in collaboration with Dr. Gabriel Strain, Research Associate in Computer Science.