Data Management and Sharing for Researchers Training Programme
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Essex
Department Name: UK Data Archive
Abstract
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Organisations
- University of Essex (Lead Research Organisation)
- NEW PHILANTHROPY CAPITAL (Collaboration)
- University of Michigan (Collaboration)
- Heritage Lottery Fund (Collaboration)
- Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
Publications
Corti L
(2015)
Learning to manage and share data: jump-starting the research methods curriculum
in International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Corti L
(2018)
HOW CAN WE UP-SKILL CHARITIES TO GAIN INSIGHTS FROM DATA?
Corti L
(2012)
Recent developments in archiving social research
in International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Corti, L.
(2017)
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection
Corti, L.
(2018)
20 years of archiving and sharing qualitative data in the UK
Coti, L.
(2019)
SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods
Jared Lyle
(2016)
Curating and Managing Research Data for Re-use workshop
in Zenodo
| Description | This project ran from 2015-17 and was funded under the ESRC/NRF International Centre Partnership. The UK Data Service worked with South Africa's DataFirst on knowledge transfer on big data infrastructure - across data, technical and capacity building angles. This 18-month project strengthened data expertise and research partnerships between South Africa and the UK, through the formation of a new network created to investigate access to, and the use of, household energy data for policymaking and planning. The work focused on data infrastructure and brought together data professionals, energy researchers and policymakers in SA and the UK. It made use of knowledge exchange and capacity building events that helped us to better understand data needs for answering key research and policy questions, as well as agreeing on optimal methods and protocols for governance, storage of, and access to, these data. Teams worked across the network to address key policy challenges through shared scoping, planning and analysis of UK and South African household energy data. Substantive cases from the UK focused on how smart meter data could be harmessed to address end user demand and fuel poverty. Case studies in South Africa highlighted some of the challenges faced both by the shortage of data that is needed to provide evidence for evaluation and impact monitoring of, for example, consumption, fuel poverty and demand reduction, but also the lack of systems and tools to extract and present intelligence from data. The work connected centres of expertise to further progress in areas where there is less capacity than is required for progressing the next generation of data infrastructures, and in turn, foster new research agendas. For the UK Data Service, a key aim was also to develop and test infrastructure for 'big data' with household energy data as a limited yet realistic use case. The project further aimed to contribute to the development of an internationally-networked cohort of experts charged with the brokering of, and access to, new and novel forms of data who have the skills to work globally. To meet this aim, the project designed a joint UK-SA five day summer school programme that focused on data management and sharing in the social sciences, aimed at researchers. The theme of household energy data provided an excellent exemplar for the training. The summer school built on the global data science educational programme developed under the wing of the Research Data Alliance (RDA). |
| Exploitation Route | The case studies and blog listed on the webpage are useful resources for anyone working in this field. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/about-us/our-rd/smarter-household-energy-data.aspx |
| Description | The early work on this project spawned many other training programmes and resource on research data management and led to the sage Publication Book: Managing and Sharing Research Data; A Best Practice Guide. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2012 |
| Impact Types | Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | EC FOSTER: FACILITATE OPEN SCIENCE TRAINING FOR EUROPEAN RESEARCH |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 04/2014 |
| End | 05/2015 |
| Description | ESRC NCRM Collaborative Projects |
| Amount | £80,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | JISC managing research data programme award : Essex data repository |
| Amount | £250,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | DIINNAA - RMD |
| Organisation | Jisc |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2011 |
| End | 09/2013 |
| Description | Medical Research Council data management support service |
| Amount | £80,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2011 |
| End | 09/2013 |
| Description | Medical Research Council data management support service |
| Amount | £80,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2011 |
| End | 09/2013 |
| Title | A method for sharing and archiving qualitative data |
| Description | Using the Uk Data services's tools and templates a solid methodology is available for the sharing and archiving qualitative data |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2012 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Many archive around the world use the Qualidata approach. |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/manage-data/plan |
| Description | Collaboration with new Philanthropy Capital (NPC) and Heritage Lottery |
| Organisation | Heritage Lottery Fund |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Ran a workshop on encouraging CHARITIES TO BE ABLE TO USE DATA FOR IMPACT and showing practical ways to do so. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We ran the workshop providing expert discussion on data sharing and handling of civil society sector, and on how best to visualise their data. |
| Impact | Blog on NPC site. Planning for more training events in the third sector. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Collaboration with new Philanthropy Capital (NPC) and Heritage Lottery |
| Organisation | New Philanthropy Capital |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Ran a workshop on encouraging CHARITIES TO BE ABLE TO USE DATA FOR IMPACT and showing practical ways to do so. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We ran the workshop providing expert discussion on data sharing and handling of civil society sector, and on how best to visualise their data. |
| Impact | Blog on NPC site. Planning for more training events in the third sector. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Construction of adapted materials for a regular methods course for sociology and philosophy students |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Consultancy to work with the University of Exeter managing research data programme team to construct adapted materials for a regular methods course for sociology and philosophy students at Exeter. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Partnership with CESSDA on regular training courses on Managing and Sharing Research Data |
| Organisation | Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
| Department | CESSDA Training |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Partnership with CESSDA to co-develop regular training courses on Managing and Sharing Research Data. Successful funding via the EC FOSTER programme to pay for free workshops for post graduate in UK, Slovenia, Switzerland and Germany |
| Collaborator Contribution | Developed regular and reusable materials for training courses on Managing and Sharing Research Data aiemd at post graduates in the social sciences. |
| Impact | A number of workshops |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Partnership with ICPSR, University of Michigan on an an annual International Summer School course on Managing and Curating Research Data |
| Organisation | University of Michigan |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Partnership with ICPSR to create and teach on a week's summer school course as part of their Summer Programme for Managing and Curating Research Data in the social sciences. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Louise Corti and Veerle van den Eynden both teach on the course. |
| Impact | A Summer school course |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Partnership with the JISC managing research data programme and the Digital Curation Centre |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Department | Digital Curation Centre (DCC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This project has enabled us to work closely with the JISC Managing Research Data Programme and the DCC, we have fed into their strategic thinking, helping draft the bids, and reviewing grant submission to the JISC Managing Research Data strands. The Training Resources strand was launched just after our RDI grant was awarded. We helped evaluate the bids and also our materials have been assessed and re-used by many of the 5 projects. The MRD projects regularly ask us to do talks and workshops based on our RDI materials. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | 4 Day Summer school: Encounters with Big Data: An Introduction to using Big Data in the Social Sciences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The highly successful week long course , 'Encounters with Big Data: An Introduction to using Big Data in the Social Sciences' was rerun as part of the University of Essex Institute of Analytics and Data Science in the UK in July 2018. The foundation of the course lies in one of the key objective of the Smarter Household Energy Data project, a joint International Centre Partnership Grant between the UK Data Service and DataFirst and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK and the National Research Foundation in South Africa, to create a collaborative research infrastructure for large-scale household energy data. 25 researchers, from across sectors and countries, attended the school (for which bookings were twice filled). Participants fed back that they had gained great support in understanding and analysing large and complex datasets, focusing on using the power of popular statistical software like R in a big data environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5349 |
| Description | Anonymisation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop on Social science data documentation and management, Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Archiving your data : planning and managing the process |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU) and Narratives of Varied Everyday Lives and Linked Approaches (NOVELLA) special seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Benefits of data management and sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop on Social science data documentation and management, Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Copyright |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop on Social science data documentation and management, Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Data life cycle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop on Social science data documentation and management, Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Data management planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop on Social science data documentation and management, Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Data management planning for research projects and groups |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This webinar showcased the UK Data Archive's recommendations and tools to help research projects and groups plan how to manage and share data. The UK Research Councils are committed to sharing and re-use of research data they fund and have introduced data sharing policies. The 2010 ESRC Research Data Policy is the first to introduce new formal requirements for data management and sharing plans as part of research applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Data storage and security |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop on Social science data documentation and management, Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Documenting and contextualising research data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop on Social science data documentation and management, Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Helping empower researchers and their institutions to manage and share research data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This workshop showcased the materials produced by the UK Data Archive as part of our support and outreach work on managing research data from the social sciences. The workshop materials have been developed as train the trainer materials our of various ongoing work and projects which have provided practical training for students, researchers and support staff in the social sciences on key issues pertinent to managing and sharing social science research data. The workshop used a combination of ppt presentations (reflecting materials given to researchers and support staff) and hands-on activities such as: assessing and evaluating authentic consent forms for data sharing; trying out anonymisation exercises and working through other practical training materials. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | How can researchers preserve, share, and re-use sensitive data? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Video interview with Louise Corti by the University of Cambridge data management team Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1123202 |
| Description | Introduction to the UK Data Archive |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop on Social science data documentation and management, Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Lessons from managing a research archive project for sensitive personal data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Video interview with Libby Bishop by University of Cambridge data management team Section not completed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1123263 |
| Description | Looking after and managing your research data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | How confident are you that you know how to manage, organise and store your research data properly? How much do you know about keeping data safe - by backing up and encrypting them - and about quality and version controlling them? How do you ensure that you and others can understand your data in the future? Are you familiar with the legal and ethical issues in data handling and sharing? The UK Data Archive will guide you through the key aspects of how to manage, document, store and safeguard research data well and how to plan and implement good data management in research projects, with a view to optimising data sharing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Looking after your research data : a workshop for trainers : welcome and introduction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | The introductory slides for the final RDI woprkshop, showcasing outputs from the Researcher Development Initiative (RDI) project Data Management and Sharing for Researchers Training. The workshop was aimed at people who are tasked with training or teaching researchers - at all levels - in how to look after social research data, specifically UK-based lecturers, tutors, graduate teaching assistants and research support staff in universities, colleges and research organisations. Over one and a half days, participants will work through a series of training modules covering the seven key areas of data management identified by the UK Data Archive: sharing your data - why and how data management planning for researchers and research centres documenting your data formatting your data storing your data, including data security, data transfer, encryption, and file sharing ethics and consent data copyright Programme: Day 1: A comprehensive overview plus modules of exercises focusing on key challenges faced in managing and sharing data. Day 2: More exercises and evaluation plus 20-minute clinics providing an opportunity to discuss bespoke issues with Archive specialists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Looking after your research data well : data management planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This half day training workshop was offered to staff and students of the University of Llubjana, covering the following topics: -sharing your data -planning data management -formatting your data -storing your data -anonymising survey data The workshop consisted of presentations and group and individual exercises |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Managing and sharing social science research data : legal and ethical issues |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The UK Data Archive and the Social Research Association (SRA) hosted a workshop on managing and sharing research data for quantitative and qualitative social science research. The workshop aimed at social researchers at all stages of their career - from new to experienced - and covered key legal and ethical issues surrounding the managing and sharing of data in research with people (surveys, interviews, focus groups, observations and ethnography). The workshop provided guidance and practical exercises and discussions focusing on: ethical and legal issues in data sharing and re-use handling and sharing confidential information and personal data informed consent and data sharing anonymising data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010,2011 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/manage-data |
| Description | Planning data management and data sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Paper at Data Sharing Workshop, Government Social Researchers: Knowledge Exchange series. The workshop aimed to highlight the benefits of data sharing, and identify roles and responsibilities, and the guidance available. It provided practical help on how research data can be shared, how to plan for sharing, and how to avoid restrictions to sharing. It also showcased current examples of data sharing by government departments. This was a closed event organised by HM Treasury as part of their knowledge exchange series. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Preparing data for long_term management, curation and sharing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop titled 'Digital Curation 101 Lite: How to Manage Research Data'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Quality control, formats, software, versioning, digitising |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop on Social science data documentation and management, Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Ran a workshop for civil society:Supporting civil society organisations to deliver insights and impact from data: an ESRC and UK Data Service workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The workshop provided a forum for participants from knowledge managers in civil society organisations to discuss the opportunities and barriers to gaining meaningful insights from 'data' - their own data, data from other organisations and the wider data landscape. The morning session will look at data sources and strategies required for civil society organisations to become successful knowledge managers and report and campaign effectively with data-based evidence. A debate with high profile speakers was held on meaning of evidence and reporting on impact. In the afternoon we ran a hands-on workshop showing how to use some simple open source tools to visualise data, for example, creating a basic regional map using Indicators of Multiple Deprivation. The focus is on turning data into more structured formats so that simple graphs can be presented; representing a realistic first achievable step for organisations who do not have capacity or funds to support larger scale collaborative projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=5058 |
| Description | Research ethics and data confidentiality : informed consent |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop on Social science data documentation and management, Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Transcription : purposes, formats and templates |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Presented at workshop on Social science data documentation and management, Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Who owns your research data? : legal and ethical issues in using and sharing data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Who owns your research data? You? The University? Your respondents? Would you like to safely share your data with colleagues? Would publishing your data give them greater impact? Are you afraid to share your data because of concerns about confidentiality? Most research funders now require data to be shared; does yours? This workshop will introduce you to several key legal and ethical issues surrounding uses of research data. You will gain hands-on experience assessing research ethics committee applications, designing suitable consent forms, anonymising qualitative data and regulating access to data. This workshop is offered as part of the Staff Development training programme at the University of Essex and is open only to University staff. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Workshop Challenge Lab for Essex County Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Led by the Essex Uni Chief Scientific Advisor, the event brought bring together academics, representatives from Essex County Council and other public sector partners (Police, NHS) to help to bring together ideas to help transform delivery of public services through a set of joint research projects. Faced with reducing budgets but increasing demand for services, the public sector needs to improve the delivery and targeting of services to make sure money is spent where it is needed most. The aim is for Essex University, with partners like the UK Data Archive, cutting edge of research and latest thinking which could help the public sector with the challenges it faces. Over two days the gathering identified what could be done , working with the partners, to develop ideas to improve service delivery for the benefit of the whole Essex community.A successful pitch for an award for £10k led out of the this with UKDS as a key partner. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.essex.ac.uk/news/2017/07/26/new-approach-to-delivering-public-services |