Training
What data management training is available at the University?
What external training is available?
Who can help me find researcher training at the University of Glasgow?
What data management training is available at the University?
For staff:
A number of courses are provided through Staff Development Service on areas relevant to data management, such as managing research data, publishing in refereed journals and writing impact statements for grant proposals. See their courses for researchers.
A number of IT training courses are available on using software such as Excel, Access, NVivo and Endnote.
Research and Enterprise host a number of training courses and annual conferences to support researcher development.
For postgraduate students:
There are lots of training courses for PhD students noted here.
What external training is available?
The Digital Curation Centre offers basic data management courses for researchers of all disciplines, called DC101. Upcoming courses are listed here: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/training/dc-101.
JISC Digital Media offers various audiovisual training courses.
The UK Data Archive offer training for social science researchers and has produced an excellent introductory guide to managing and sharing data for all researchers.
The JISC Managing Research Data programme has produced training materials for research data management in various specific disciplines:
- CAiRO (Curating Artistic Research Output): live performance and visual arts. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15706
- DataTrain: Archaeology: http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15992. Social anthropology: http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15994
- DATUM for Health: Research data management training for qualitiative health studies data. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15904
- DMTpsych: Psychology. A draft version of the psychology-specific guidance is available along with other project outputs.
- Research Data MANTRA: online learning materials for social science, clinical psychology, and geoscience. http://dspace.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/16055
Who can help me find researcher training at the University of Glasgow?
Elizabeth Adams is the University's Skills Training Officer. She co-ordinates the Researcher Development initiative, providing transferable skills training for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers. You can contact her on:
Email: elizabeth.adams@glasgow.ac.uk
Telephone: 0141 330 2953