DATUM for Health: Research data management training for health studies
We are delighted to announce this new project being conducted at
Northumbria University. 'DATUM for health' is a collaborative project
which seeks to promote research data management skills of postgraduate
research students in the health studies discipline through a
specially-developed training programme which focuses on qualitative,
unstructured research data.
It is being led by the School of Computing, Engineering and Information
Sciences at Northumbria University in partnership with colleagues from
the School of Health, Community and Education Studies and The Graduate
School. External partners are the Digital Curation Centre
(http://www.dcc.ac.uk <http://www.dcc.ac.uk/> ) and the Digital
Preservation Coalition (http://www.dpconline.org
<http://www.dpconline.org/> ). It starts on 1st October and will run to
31st July 2011.
The project is funded by JISC under their Managing Research Data
(JISCMRD) Programme
(http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd.aspx). 'Datum for Health'
is one of 5 projects under the Research data management training
materials strand of the Programme.
DATUM for Health aims to:
* design and pilot a training programme on research data
management for postgraduate research students in health studies as an
integral part of a doctoral training programme
* evaluate the usefulness and effectiveness of the training with
participants and other research stakeholders
* provide other Higher Education Institutions with a model for
research data management skills training
* make recommendations for sustainable research data management
training and associated infrastructure requirements.
The Project Lead is Professor Julie McLeod, School of Computing,
Engineering & Information Sciences (CEIS) at Northumbria University.
Other Project Team Members at the University are Professor Charlotte
Clarke from the School of Health, Community and Education Studies,
Professor John Dean, from The Graduate School, and Sue Childs and
Elizabeth Lomas from CEIS. The external Team members are Kevin Ashley,
Director of the Digital Curation Centre and William Kilbride, Executive
Director of the Digital Preservation Coalition.
A Project website has been set up at http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/datum.
As outputs are produced they will be made freely here under a Creative
Commons License. The Project News page has an RSS feed if you want to
track our activities.
For further information contact Prof Julie McLeod at
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Blog: http://www.acerm.blogspot.com/
Twitter: Northumbria_RM
Susan Childs
Research Fellow
Information Management Innovation Research Group (IMI)
School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences
Northumbria University
Pandon Building, Room 007 Camden St Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1XE
Tel: 0191 227 3761
Fax: 0191 243 7630
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Web site: www.northumbria.ac.uk/isrc <http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/isrc>
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