Towards National Consensus: Sustaining an Australian-wide Baseline RDM Training
Adrian Wei Chew1, Jacky Cho1 1UNSW, Kensington, NSW, Australia
Abstract
The Australian Research Data Common (ARDC) Institutional Underpinnings (IU) program has developed a jointly-agreed framework for Research Data Management (RDM). As part of this program, eight universities (i.e., Bond University; Charles Darwin University; Curtin University; Deakin University; Griffith University; University of Canberra; University of New South Wales; and University of Sydney) have developed and pilot tested a Principles Aligned Institutionally-Contextualised (PAI-C) RDM educational/training experience for Higher Degree Research (HDR) candidates. The PAI-C experience is an introductory/baseline RDM training that incorporates the IU RDM framework principles (e.g. storing data safely), and is contextualised based on the respective university’s policies, systems and processes. In addition, the PAI-C experience aims to facilitate cross-institutional management of data by raising HDR candidates’ awareness of RDM best practices to a common baseline level.
Given that the PAI-C experience is built upon the jointly-agreed IU RDM framework principles, it has the potential to function as an Australian-wide baseline RDM training. However, a baseline is always tentative, and has to respond to changes in the RDM landscape (e.g., changes in legislation, technology, institutional risks/priorities, and researchers’ learning needs). As such, the relevance and usefulness of the PAI-C experience may change with time. This BoF will act as a forum to discuss how best, as a sector, we can use the PAI-C experience as a springboard to sustain an Australian-wide baseline RDM training for the long term. This BoF will also allow participants to discuss extension topics/areas that can added to the baseline PAI-C experience.
Biography
Dr Adrian W. Chew is the project coordinator and academic lead for the Principles Aligned Institutionally-Contextualised RDM introductory educational/training experience. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer and Research Fellow with the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.