Dr. Cho Jacky Kwun Lun1, Thomas E. Saunders2, Liz Stokes3, Damien Irving4, Amanda Miotto5
1UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2Centre for eResearch, Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 3Australian Research Data Commons, Australia, 4CSIRO, Australia, 5Griffith University, Australia
Biography:
Jacky Kwun Lun Cho – https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7591-100X. Jacky Cho is a program manager with Research Technology Services at UNSW, focusing on infrastructure and governance for research data storage and management. He is also a lead for the ResTech community program, which upskill and engages research communities to make the best use of research infrastructure both at UNSW and nationally. Prior to this, he was a researcher specialising in the physical chemistry of surface coatings and used research data and research computing infrastructure in synchrotrons and universities in Australia and Europe.
Thomas E. Saunders – https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1780-0314. Tom is an Engagement Specialist in the Centre for eResearch at the University of Auckland where he coordinates the Centres digital research skills training programme. He is a co-organiser of ResBaz Aotearoa and a certified Carpentries instructor.
Liz Stokes – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2973-5647. Liz Stokes is a Skills Development Lead (Trainer and Research Communities) in Skilled Workforce Development at the Australian Research Data Commons. They coordinate the ResBaz Network of ResBaz organisers in Australia and New Zealand. As a professional boundary-spanner, Liz is a keen advocate for social infrastructure and facilitating learner communities.
Damien Irving – https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1258-5002. Damien is a Climate Data Scientist at CSIRO and also volunteers for The Carpentries as a lesson maintainer, instructor, and Regional Coordinator for Australia. He was the lead organizer of the first ResBaz event at the University of Melbourne in 2015 and, in the years that followed, helped other institutions around Australia, New Zealand, and beyond get their own ResBaz events up and running.
Abstract:
Research communities traditionally develop across research institutions supported by institutional or disciplinary training programs. As research is increasingly reliant on digital research skills to deliver impactful and interdisciplinary outcomes, the need to bring together infrastructure and digital service providers, trainers, and researchers has never been greater.
ResBaz is a worldwide festival of events held regionally to promote digital literacy in modern research and enable researchers from various career stages to come together and upskill in digital research tools and scholarship. While each ResBaz is tailored to its region's geographical and institutional contexts, the ResBaz Network of Organisers functions as a community of practice sharing experience, knowledge, and resources. From the beginning, the global network of ResBaz events has used open research principles and a distributed delivery model to self-organise, innovate and learn from one another.
In this session, we will reflect on the evolution of ResBaz since 2015 with case studies examining different approaches to delivering ResBaz, the cost, resourcing and effort required to build and maintain an engaging event year to year. We’ll share insights into how we have adapted to changing institutional priorities, researcher expectations and learning preferences, to build and engage research communities around using digital research skills and methodologies.