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Developing Career Options for Data Stewards (In Person & Online) #LondonEdition

Blue Room, UCL Blue Room, UCL Main Campus, Gower Street [OR ONLINE], London, United Kingdom

Join us for one of two participatory research events exploring the future of data stewardship. In collaboration with the Research Data Alliance’s Data Steward Careers Track Working Group, the University of Sheffield Library and CaSDaR are bringing together people from across the sector to co-create Data Steward personas. Bursaries are available for in-person attendance, and this event is offered as a hybrid sessions. This event is one of two events run in collaboration with UCL's Office for Open Science and Scholarship and STEP-UP.

Free

Workshop about UK dRTP skills and competencies community collaboration @ SSI Collaborations Workshop

Online

The Software Sustainability Institute's annual Collaborations Workshop (CW) is an immersive, three-day unconference, which emphasises active collaborations, dynamic discussions, and hands-on problem-solving. The highly anticipated Collaborations Workshop 2026 (CW26) will take place as a hybrid event from Tuesday 28 April to Thursday 30 April at ICC Belfast. The event is set to feature an impressive lineup of speakers and an interactive programme of sessions. The theme is Strengthening The Research Software Community. The programme includes a one-hour mini-workshop titled How should the DIRECT Framework adapt to serve diverse dRTP communities?

£90

CaSDaR’s Data Steward Stories: Dr Agnes Jasinska

Online

In this Data Stewards Stories session, Dr Agnes Jasinska from the Digital Curation Centre will provide an overview of her career in supporting international Data Stewardship, as well as her wide ranging interests in the responsible use and sharing of data. This session will have a 30 minute presentation from Agnes, followed by an opportunity for audience members to ask questions. Join us to hear more from Agnes about how she developed her skills and how this informed her career in Stewarding data.

Free

ELIXIR-UK FAIR Contentathon #1

Online

The ELIXIR-UK RDM Club has been awarded a BioFAIR Pathfinder grant for a project called The FAIR-in-action Bridge. In summary, many UK research-performing organisations have FAIR data policies.  Many have guidance documents. What’s often missing is the middle layer: the practical, ready-to-use materials that let RDM professionals in the life sciences turn that guidance into something researchers actually engage with. The FAIR-in-action Bridge is a BioFAIR Pathfinder project, led by coordinators of the ELIXIR-UK RDM Club, that sets out to fill this gap. The project will produce two FAIR-in-action playbooks for life science RDM professionals. We're running three online Contentathons, and we'd love you to join the ones that fit. This first Contentathon is a scoping session. Drop-in. Help us define what each playbook needs to contain and what FAIR resources you use already in the life sciences.

Free

UKDS: Introduction to effective and practical research data management

Online

During this free 90-minute online workshop, UKDS will explore the key components of effective research data management, including data management planning, organising, and documenting data, ensuring data quality, storing and backing up data, as well as strategies for data preservation and sharing. The workshop will also cover practical tools and techniques for data management, such as metadata standards for documenting data, data quality semi-automated freeware, and best practices for data sharing and archiving.

Free

CaSDaR’s Data Steward Stories: Dr Jeanne Wilbrandt

Online

In this session, Jeanne will describe her journey and how her research experience informed her development as a Data Steward. This session will have a 30 minute presentation from Jeanne, followed by an opportunity for audience members to ask questions.

Free

EOSC EDEN project: Seminar on Digital Preservation

Online

The EOSC EDEN project, an EU-funded initiative, is continuing its webinar series to share key results and insights from its work on advancing digital preservation strategies across Europe. At the heart of EOSC EDEN lies the ambition to develop a framework for identifying research data that should be prioritised for long-term digital preservation at both European and national levels. In this fourth seminar, we will present the findings from the survey run by EOSC EDEN between May and July 2025. The survey investigated current practices in digital preservation, and the guidance documents that inform these practices. Survey questions interrogated long-term preservation across different domains and organisation types, and identified issues that potentially affect how preservation and the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of digital data objects may change over time. 

Free

ELIXIR-UK FAIR Contentathon #2

Online

The ELIXIR-UK RDM Club has been awarded a BioFAIR Pathfinder grant for a project called The FAIR-in-action Bridge. In summary, many UK research-performing organisations have FAIR data policies.  Many have guidance documents. What’s often missing is the middle layer: the practical, ready-to-use materials that let RDM professionals in the life sciences turn that guidance into something researchers actually engage with. The FAIR-in-action Bridge is a BioFAIR Pathfinder project, led by coordinators of the ELIXIR-UK RDM Club, that sets out to fill this gap. The project will produce two FAIR-in-action playbooks for life science RDM professionals. We're running three online Contentathons, and we'd love you to join the ones that fit. This first Contentathon is a scoping session. Drop-in. Help us define what each playbook needs to contain and what FAIR resources you use already in the life sciences.

Free

STEP-UP Training: Structuring Research Materials: Folder structures, file naming, and version control

Online

Do you know where all your files are? Are you confident you're working on the latest version? If the answer is "probably…" then this session is for you. This free, beginner-friendly online training will walk you through practical strategies for organising your research materials, from folder structures and file naming conventions to version control. Whether you're just starting out or looking to build on existing habits, you'll leave with clear, actionable approaches you can put into practice straight away.

Free

University of Manchester dRTP workshop 2: support for data stewards and recognition for all RTPs

Nancy Rothwell Building, The University of Manchester Nancy Rothwell Building, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Connecting digital research technical professionals (dRTP) at The University of Manchester. Discuss data stewardship, support & recognition. This workshop is supported by the Office for Open Research, The University of Manchester and N8 CIR. If you're a dRTP at the University of Manchester,at other universities in Greater Manchester, north of England and across the N8 universities, please join us! If you work outside this region, you are welcome too.

Free

STEP-UP Training: Tabular Data Collection

Online

Is your data as clean as you think it is? Inconsistent formats, ambiguous entries, and poorly documented variables can cause real headaches come analysis time - but many of these problems are avoidable with a bit of planning upfront. This free, beginner-friendly online training introduces practical approaches to collecting and documenting tabular data well. Whether you're setting up a new dataset or trying to make sense of an existing one, you'll come away with tools and habits that will save you time down the line.

Free

Jisc Digital Research Community June Meetup: The people who make Digital Research Infrastructure work

Online

Digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs) are a crucial part of the computational research community, and a corner stone of Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI). This session will talk about what dRTPs are, where they come from, and what they do, and then present some UKRI-funded DRI projects which provide events and funding for dRTPs and people who are interested in engaging with this space. Come prepared to ask questions and join in discussions! In this meet-up, we’ll hear from Dr Marion Weinzierl, Principal Research Software Engineer at the Institute of Computing for Climate Science at the University of Cambridge, in her role in the Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) project https://www.cake.ac.uk/.  There will also be representatives from several dRTP related projects.

Free