In early September 2025, Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza was invited to present on CaSDaR at the ELIXIR-UK Research Data Management Club.
This is a regular online zoom meeting that occurs over Zoom on the first Tuesday of every month (excluding July, August and January). These regular meetings focus on sharing experiences and signposting new projects, resources, communities and training.
The ELIXIR-UK RDM Club was launched in October 2020. This club focuses on ELIXIR-UK activities that help people manage their life science research data, and encourages participation from data stewards, support staff and researchers interested in Research Data Management (RDM) in the life sciences. ELIXIR-UK is a valued project partner of CaSDaR and their community represents a range of stakeholders who will benefit from CaSDaRs work and who can provide valuable insight into how we should build and develop our community.
In her presentation, Samantha introduced the role of data stewardship and discussed its status within the research technical professional landscape, noting that unless we invest the time and resources in the people who have the skills to steward our data, that we are not going to progress in our journey towards FAIRer well managed data. The presentation also introduced the now active CaSDaR (The Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research Network+), detailing our roadmap, deliverables, projects partners and team, and our overarching plans for the next four years.
Samantha’s slides can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17036303