10.4225/03/57C635E6413C3
Neil Dickson
Neil
Dickson
From silo to systematic: a new approach to building research data management skills at Monash University
Monash University
2016
Monash University Library
research data management
RSD researcher skill development framework
2016-08-31 01:41:56
Poster
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/poster/From_silo_to_systematic_a_new_approach_to_building_research_data_management_skills_at_Monash_University/3795561
<p>This poster describes the origins and aims of a Monash University
Library project that represents a significant change of direction in efforts to
build researchers’ data management skills.</p>
<p>The project aim was to position data management skills as core research
skills and, over time, to embed the development of these skills within programs
such as faculty-based PhD coursework and the Graduate Certificate of Academic
Practice (the GCAP – for new academic staff). This will require active cross-divisional
collaboration within the Library, between staff coordinating the data
management portfolio and staff tasked with improving teaching and learning. The
pedagogic models, tools (including e-learning) and educational expertise of
contact librarians and learning skills advisors will be applied rigorously to research data
management in the same way as to other kinds of information research skills
(e.g. database searching and bibliographic management).</p>
<p>This was within a framework of broader institutional
partnerships with critical stakeholder groups. Engagement with faculties and the
new Monash Institute for Graduate Research (MIGR) is essential and timely: new
PhD program requirements from 2013 provide an opportunity to develop embedded
and parallel units that can be taken by students as part of required coursework
and professional training. Engagement with the Office of the Pro
Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) (PVC(L&T)) has already resulted in data
sharing and dissemination being included as part of a GCAP unit dedicated to
research leadership. Over time, linkages with the Office of the PVC(L&T) enabled cohorts of Honours and undergraduate researchers to
improve their data management skills.</p>
<p>Working together across divisions and broadly within the institution,
Library staff deliver professional development opportunities that better
meet researchers’ needs and that can be delivered in more effective and
sustainable ways, to a greater number of researchers. The resulting wide
dissemination of knowledge and experience within the Library and across Monash improves institutional capability, and provide a base for collaborating
with other institutions with similar requirements to build research staff and
students’ data management skills.</p><p>Published in November 2011</p>