June 3, 2025, 12-1PM EST.
Funding opportunities increasingly require data management plans or the inclusion of other research data management (RDM) elements. Unfortunately, research support personnel—including administrators and librarians—may or may not have training or expertise in supporting RDM. As a result, RDM outreach and support is typically approached prescriptively, where a research administrator or RDM librarian learns what is required by a funding body, and then informs their researchers what the requirements are and how to meet them.
Funding opportunities increasingly require data management plans or the inclusion of other research data management (RDM) elements. Unfortunately, research support personnel—including administrators and librarians—may or may not have training or expertise in supporting RDM. As a result, RDM outreach and support is typically approached prescriptively, where a research administrator or RDM librarian learns what is required by a funding body, and then informs their researchers what the requirements are and how to meet them.
In this webinar we will discuss the importance of supporting researchers from a discipline-specific perspective. We will consider how we can leverage the development of generic resources to give ourselves the capacity to engage with researchers in that discipline-specific way.
Presented by: Elizabeth Kreiter
Elizabeth is a librarian at Trinity Western University with responsibilities for information literacy, reference, and research data management. She coordinated Trinity's Human Research Ethics Board for several years, allowing her to bring together the perspectives of a librarian, researcher, and research administrator in her approach to her various responsibilities. Elizabeth's recent SSHRC-funded project focussed on the interplay between researchers and research supporters when developing a culture of research data management within a research community. She is currently redesigning Trinity's ethics application to reduce the administrative burden on researchers and research administrators in light of increasing requirements around data management plans.
Event Date: 03 Jun 2025 | City: | Venue: Online