Conducting research and unsure on how to achieve most from your project? Join SSHOC two-day interactive workshop on Data Management Planning and taking place on the 14th and 15th of February 2022 from 11.00 to 13.30 CET each day.

A Data Management Plan helps achieve optimal handling, organising, documenting and enhancing of research data. It is particularly important for facilitating data sharing, ensuring the sustainability and accessibility of data in the long-term and allowing data to be reused for future research. For the effective management of data, planning must start when research is being designed and needs to consider both how data will be managed during the research and how they will be shared afterwards. In this two days online workshop, we will discuss the main challenges of data sharing in social sciences and how these can be overcome by implementing best data management planning practices. The workshop will cover the following topics:

• Challenges in data sharing for social science projects.
• Data collection and assessment of existing sources.
• Documentation, metadata and quality assurance.
• Ethical and legal context.
• Storage, backup and preservation.
• Facilitating data sharing, project roles and responsibilities.

The workshop will be delivered online and will combine lectures and presentations with individual and practical exercises and group discussions. At the end of the workshop, participants would have gained a better understanding of research data management best practices, particularly on how a Data Management Plan facilitates compliance with data protection legislation and data sharing. The attendees will be provided with further resources including readings and open source tools to ease and enable data sharing.

Learning objectives

• Be able to recognise challenges in sharing data and identify techniques to overcome these.
• Gain a better understanding of Data Management Planning requirements in Social Sciences.
• Be able to design a comprehensive, accurate Data Management Plan which enables data sharing.

Target Audience

• This workshop is intended for early career researchers and support staff.

Speakers

• Cristina Magder manages the UK Data Service's Data Collections Development and Research Data Management teams at the UK Data Archive.
• Hina Zahid is the Senior Research Data Services Officer working in the UK Data Service's Research Data Management section based at the UK Data Archive, University of Essex.
• Vlad Voina is the Data Integrity Officer at the UK Data Service. He conducts assessment of data integrity, metadata and disclosure risk for data offered and deposited into the UK Data Service's self-deposit repository, ReShare.
• Anca Vlad has been part of the collections development and data publishing team at the UK Data Archive for the past 6 years.
• Maureen Haaker is a scholar in the field of qualitative methodology. She has worked with the UK Data Service for 10 years as a senior qualitative training officer and is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at University of Suffolk.