About the Event
On the 14th October 2025, our Coordinator Dr Louise Saul delivered FAIR Data Training for one of our project partners – the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN). This was a remote whole day session on the 14th October 2025, delivered to individuals from member institutions of the UK Reproducibility Network’s Open Research Programme (ORP).
This was a Train-the-Trainer event, so attending individuals were supported to design and deliver a training session that met the specific needs of their institution, including developing learning objectives and designing activities to support their learners, whilst promoting good practice.
Event Programme
Appropriate management and curation of data is of increasing relevance to the current research landscape. Planning for FAIR data from the beginning of a project is crucial, yet the FAIR principles are often conflated with open data and similar practices leading to confusion and a lack of implementation. However, Open Research (OR) practices and the FAIR principles are interlinked, therefore the training supported individuals to indicate to others how these two areas are complementary and how OR practices can support FAIR data.
Event Audience
This was designed for anyone with an interest in data curation and management at all stages throughout the data life cycle and has a role in supporting others to make their outputs FAIR. Participants were shown a representative training session which links OR practices to FAIR outputs and gives an overview as to why the FAIR principles are relevant for research outputs.
Event Organiser
The UKRN is a peer-led consortium, founded in 2018, that seeks to investigate the factors leading to trustworthy and transparent research and support embedding positive research practices. It is one of CaSDaR’s project partners, providing support and advice at the management board level as well as support in CaSDaR events. UKRNs Open Research Programme is a 5-year UKRI funded project that supports member organisations to embed Open Research practices into their institutions.
Outputs
Louises slides can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17064335