Research data training – from Nature Research Academies

While stakeholders including funding agencies and publishers increasingly require researchers to share their data openly, researchers are often unsure about data best practices. In a 2018 survey of 7,000 researchers, almost half said that they find organizing data a challenge, one third didn’t know where to share data, and 30% admitted to having lost data.*

Support your researchers with research data training

• 1-day and 2-day workshops and 120-minute webinars, delivered by expert research data trainers
• Available to institutions globally. Workshops hosted on-site at your institution; webinars scheduled for a time that suits your researchers
• Workshops for up to 30 researchers; webinars for up to 100 researchers – appropriate for those new to data sharing, at any career stage, in all disciplines**
• Highly interactive and practical, with discussion and exercises
• Receive a post-workshop report containing researcher feedback. In 2019, 89% of have researchers have rated their workshop as excellent or good and 97% feel more confident in their skills

Institutions already benefiting from data training include Cancer Research UK, RMIT University, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), and the University of Birmingham.

Choose from 3 workshop agendas and 2 webinar agendas:

1. One-day workshop agenda
2. One-day workshop agenda (including sensitive data)
3. Two-day workshop agenda
4. 120-minute webinar agenda: the principles of data sharing
5. 120-minute webinar agenda: the practices of data sharing

“The workshop covered a lot of material in a way that was easy to understand and included active learning exercises to reinforce the concepts taught.” Researcher, Australia

^{*Stuart, D., Baynes, G., Hrynaszkiewicz, I., Allin, K., Penny, D., Lucraft, M., & Astell, M. (2018). Whitepaper: Practical challenges for researchers in data sharing.}

^{**We also offer workshops for research support staff who are supporting researchers with data sharing – information available upon request.}