Research Data Management Skillbuilder 1: Core Concepts In-Person / Online
Everyone in a research library has a role in supporting researchers—faculty, students, librarians or staff engaged in research. This includes caring for data through the research lifecycle. Join Research Data Management Services for Research Data Management Skillbuilder 1: Core Concepts, a hybrid session introducing the most common research data management concepts to prepare you to better understand challenges researchers face; as well as resources and specialists to refer patrons to. This session may be also be applicable to managing your own research and digital projects.
No prior experience is expected! This will be an introduction to research data management requirements from journals and funders; as well as resources to support good practices—from working with photos from archives to clinical trial evidence synthesis projects.
- Date:
- Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Time:
- 9:15am - 11:15am
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Health Sciences Library, HSC 2B3
- Audience:
- Everyone
- Categories:
- Research Data Management SCDS Sponsored Events Workshops
CODE OF CONDUCT
The Sherman Centre and the McMaster University Library are committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive environment for its presenters and participants. As a participant in this session, you agree to support and help cultivate an experience that is collaborative, respectful, and inclusive, as well as free of harassment, discrimination, and oppression. We reserve the right to remove participants who exhibit harassing, malicious or persistently disruptive behaviour. Please refer to our code of conduct webpage for more information.
Danica Evering is a Research Data Management Specialist. They braid together broad fluency in social practice art, healthcare, community research, data, and systems development to provide comprehensive RDM services. Danica is available to help students, postdocs, faculty, and staff with RDM through the data lifecycle—Data Management Plans, storage and backup, data security, data sharing. With an MA in Media Studies from Concordia, they are interested in fostering RDM within curious scholars and disciplines in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Isaac Pratt is a Research Data Management Specialist. Isaac holds a PhD in Anatomy & Cell Biology, and has research experience is in biomedical science and social science, specifically in Physics, Biological Anthropology, and Anatomy. He is available to help with any RDM related questions including data management planning, data storage & backup, data security, and data deposit and sharing. Isaac is a member of MREB and can help with questions about data management for ethics and sensitive data.