The Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research (CaSDaR) Network+ is excited to announce the launch of its Funding Call, aimed at supporting and empowering Data Stewards across the UK research landscape. To mark this milestone, CaSDaR is hosting a dedicated online event to introduce the funding opportunity and engage the community in shaping its future.
In this Data Stewards Stories session, Dr James Steele will provide an overview of his career in supporting data stewardship from a holistic perspective, from navigating research dissemination to the appropriate use of statistics.
CaSDaR's Funding Call was launched on the 5th November 2025 with an online webinar. We want to ensure that our community feel supported to apply for the funding opportunities, so we're inviting anyone who has queries to come to a Q&A session where we'll answer your queries.
We have created an additional Q&A online session to support applicants for CaSDaR's Funding Call round 1 - come prepared with your queries!
Join us in the Sheldonian Theatre on Wednesday 11 February 2026 and find your perfect match when it comes to storing and sharing your research data. To coincide with the annual International Love Data Week, Research Data Management (RDM) support colleagues and services from the University of Oxford will be on hand for anyone wanting to learn more about how the University provides love and care for its valuable data collections. We will also be welcoming special guests to this year's event, and we will be joined by members of both the Trusted Research Environments Software Stewardship (TRESS) research project and the Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research (CaSDaR) network. This event will provide a valuable opportunity for Academic Researchers, Students, IT and Research Support teams, and any other interested parties, to be introduced to colleagues from the Bodleian Libraries, IT Services and Academic Division and beyond who are responsible for delivering the various Research Data Management services and platforms used at Oxford and support good practice in the UK sector more widely.
In this third training workshop, we consider some technical aspects around data reusability. We take a particular focus on several important elements of data management that are crucial for data reuse: metadata, data documentation, and data citation. The event presents the perspectives of specialists who are developing tools to encourage the creation of rich and complete metadata, supporting data documentation, and tracking data impact through citation practices.
Trusted Research principles are vital to data stewardship but often misunderstood. This webinar introduces TR and builds user understanding. In partnership with Loughborough University and CaSDAR, NPSA and HEECA are delivering this inaugural webinar as a fantastic opportunity to introduce trusted research (TR) and begin to touch on how you as repository and data managers already are or could be involved in TR as part of your work. We aim to support you by recognising and highlighting the critical role and value you hold in delivering world-leading institutional research, whether this be ensuring compliance and mitigating security risks, dealing with commercial data, and much more. This webinar is the beginning of a wider package of work highlighting the significance of the repository/data community in TR. NCSC will also be present to provide information about cybersecurity.
