data stewardship

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). 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.

In November 2025, Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza and Dr Louise Saul attended the the Building a comprehensive and coordinated training landscape for dRTPs Workshop. This event was organised by STEP-UP and was aimed towards organisations involved in developing, delivering, or investing in skills training for research software, data, and computing infrastructure professionals.

We were excited to launch CaSDaR's first Funding Call, aimed at supporting Data Stewards across the UK research landscape. This was launched via an online webinar on the 5th November. In this webinar we described the development of the project grants, provided more detail about both grants, and gave an overview of the application and review process. We also allocated time for questions about these grants; these were not recorded however are available as an FAQ page on our website. 

In November 2025, Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza and Dr Louise Saul attended the Understanding dRTP Training Landscape Workshop. This event was organised by CHARTED, DisCouRSE, and SCALE-UP to collaboratively build a comprehensive view of the current training landscape for digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs) and to understand the dRTP ecosystem in the UK.  

Just before All Hallows Eve, Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza presented a warning spooky tale about the pitfalls of not stewarding your data properly at Lab Innovations 2025. She presented a tale of caution, reflecting on the "end based nature" of the FAIR Principles, explaining why FAIR alone can’t banish the ghosts of poor data practices, and how many of the issues with FAIR data occur at the creation/collection stage.

In October 2025, Dr Louise Saul was invited to present on CaSDaR at the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) Congress 2025. Louise Saul presented on CaSDaR, alongside SHAREing and CHARTED. She described the aims and deliverables of the project in the workshop ‘Knowledge Exchange is a Piece of CAKE!’ run by Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange (CAKE).