Research Data Service Training, Advice and Contacts: Training Sessions

This collection of online resources will introduce a set of strategies and practices that will help you gather your data in the most helpful form, keep them secure and well organised, and archive and publish them so they can support your work and increase your potential impact. It will also make you aware of the main requirements on you regarding your research data, and help you to satisfy them.

After using these resources you will be able to

• know who to contact to help with the management of your research data
• be aware of your obligations when managing your research
• know what a data management plan is, and locate resources to help you to write your project data management plans
• be able to choose the data storage most suitable for your projects
• be able to think about how you can organise your data files and folders
• be able to choose a data archive to preserve and share your data at the end of your projects

This is suitable for all researchers.

You can access the Introduction to Research Data Management course via Moodle (requires University of Bath login). 

**If you would like to attend an online-live version of this session, please visit here to book.**

This self-paced online course  will help you meet the particular challenges of working with data from human participants: obtaining informed consent, keeping data confidential, meeting legal, ethical and contractual requirements, and setting up restricted data sharing both during and after your project.

After the course you will be able to:

• understand the legal and ethical frameworks for human participant data
• cover the relevant data issues when wording your consent forms
• keep data secure from unauthorised access
• how to manage your human participant data when working in the field
• share human participant data securely with other researchers during and after the project
• ask the right people for help with issues regarding the management of research data from human participants

This is suitable for all researchers.

You can access the Managing Human Participant Research Data course via Moodle (requires University of Bath login).

During this Moodle course you will start to draft your doctoral Data Management Plan using the University of Bath Doctoral Data Management Plan template.

After this course you will be able to:

• understand why planning data management in advance is important and useful
• consider the issues you might face with your data, and take suitable precautions
• complete a data management plan for your current project
• write data management plans to support grant applications
• ask the right people for help with your data management plan

This is suitable for all researchers and includes optional sections on managing human participant and commercially sensitive data.

You can access the Writing a University of Bath Data Management Plan course via Moodle (requires University of Bath login).

The Library, in collaboration with the University of Stellenbosch, has launched a new online game to help you learn how to better manage your research data.

The Research Data Management Adventure is a self-paced text adventure, also known as interactive fiction, in which you take the role of a staff researcher in a University department, working on a project from its very beginnings to its closing stages. Through the game you make choices to guide your project in a certain direction and discover the outcome of your decisions on the success of your project.

To find out more about the game, please visit the link below.

If you are a member of staff and you would like to request a departmental seminar on any aspect of research data management to be delivered to your department or research group, please contact us via our enquiry form (requires University of Bath login).