Supporting RDM through training staff and students at UELStephen Grace & John Murtagh, UEL

Jisc Managing Research Data Programme Workshop, Aston University 25-26 March 2013

► TraD project• Embedding good RDM practice at UEL

Create, deliver and evaluate Training doctoral students in Psychology

Training taught students in Geo-informatics

Generic workshop in Graduate School

• Training course for liaison librarians (supportDM)

• Seek to adopt in curricula and training programmes

► Psychology 1• First Intro class included 27 professional

doctoral students in clinical psychology.

• Second Intro class included 12 professional doctoral students in educational psychology and 1 PhD student.

► Psychology 2

The Introduction lasted from an hour to two hours and re-purposed useful slides previously featured in other JISC-funded RDM projects in psychology

1) Data Management Planning and Storage for Psychology (DMSPpsych)

2) DMTpsych: Postgraduate training for research data management in the psychological sciences

► Psychology 3Our online course covered the following MANTRA modules designed by Xerte & delivered via Moodle:

1. Research Data Explained2. Organising Data 3. Documentation and Metadata4. Storage and Security5. Data protection, rights & access

(Adapted slightly to include the data fabrications of social psychologists Dirk Stapel and Dirk Smeesters)

► supportDM

• Blended learning approach• Introductory meeting ► • Online hour-long learning module ► Using Moodle (VLE) and Xerte templates

• Reinforcing task(s) ► • Group meeting to review session and prepare for the next

• Repeated over five modules with a concluding meeting

• Developed with DCC

Who is supportDM for?

• In our context, aimed at subject librarians• One per academic School (8 Librarians)• Principal library contact with academics• Focus is on teaching and learning• Stephen’s Research Services Librarian role• Also includes 2 Commonwealth Fellows & 1 Assistant

Librarian

• May help raise awareness in other library staff• Repositories, metadata, digital archives, collection

development, customer services…

• Each online module may help inform other service contexts

• IT services, research office, compliance, ethics…

► Geoinformatics

• Devising RDM Training programme for Masters taught students

• Close collaboration with a Professor and Senior Research Fellow for inclusion into curriculum

• Online Moodle-only delivery• Builds on and formalises what is being taught in

the Centre for Geo-Information Studies

Thank you for listening

Find us at www.uel.ac.uk/trad

Our blog at datamanagementuel.wordpress.com

Trad is funded by Jisc, and is a project of UEL’s Library and Learning Services with the Digital Curation Centre