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Webinar: Data management basics

17 May 2018 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online
Training
Data skills
Other

This introductory webinar is intended for anyone who wants to learn about research data management. Data management is essential to make sure that well organised, well documented, high quality and shareable research data result from your research project. This webinar provides an overview 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.

We will discuss the key essential processes: of writing a data management plan for research grants; the ethical and legal issues in data sharing and handling confidential information; documenting your data effectively; formatting and organising your data; and, storing your data, including data transfer, encryption, and file sharing.

The webinar will consist of a 40 minute presentation followed by 20 minutes for questions.

Presenter: Scott Summers

Level: Introductory
Experience/knowledge required: None
Target audience: Anyone interested in research data management

Event resources

Webinar recording| Presentation