About the Event
In early December 2025, Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza was invited to present on CaSDaR and Data Stewardship at the University of Manchester Research Data Conversations (RDC). These are a mixture of in-person and online sessions, typically lasting 1 hour.
Event Programme
Inspired by the original concept at Lancaster University Library, the series brings in expert speakers to present on interesting and important topics connected to research data stewardship, management, and skills training.
Event Audience
This event series is aimed at research data professionals, data stewards, researchers, technicians, and any staff or PGRs at the University with an interest in research data.
Event Organiser
RDC is the event series for the Research Data Stewardship Community, which is coordinated by the Office for Open Research and part of the Research IT CaDiR (Computation and Data in Research) network of research communities. The CaDiR (Computation and Data in Research) community is the home of special interest groups and user groups from across the University of Manchester that have a data and/or computational focus.
Outputs
In her presentation, Samantha told her own “Data Stewardship Story”, speaking about her journey from computer scientist, to web scientist, to masquerading as a chemist, into leading large-scale initiatives that place people at the heart of data processes, explaining how data – and more importantly the importance of the human effort to produce high quality data – has been central to all of her research and community endeavours. It also Discussed the importance of the role of data stewardship and discussed its status within the research technical professional landscape. The presentation also introduced 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.17818366