Data Management Club

Launched in October 2020, this club/working group focuses on ELIXIR-UK activities helping researchers to manage their data.

We welcome participation from data stewards, support staff and researchers interested in Research Data Management (RDM) in the life sciences.  We meet over Zoom, on the first Tuesday of every month.  These regular meetings focus on sharing experience and signposting new resources, communities and training.  This club also forms a point of contact for a growing pan-European network of data expertise within ELIXIR.

If you wish to be involved in the group, please sign up for the mailing list.  Your request will be processed and you will be added to the group.

Activities

Projects have focused on capacity building and training in Research Data Management, and include:

  • ELIXIR-UK FAIR Data Stewardship Training: funded by the UKRI innovation scholars award and partnering the ELIXIR-UK training working group to build and deliver national training FAIR data stewardship using ELIXIR-UK knowledge and resources.
  • ELIXIR-UK FAIR Data Stewardship Fellowship: a chief deliverable of the UKRI innovation scholars award, to build and support a community of Data Steward Fellows in the UK.  This community will contribute and embed Research Data Management know-how and training activities into UK Universities, Institutes and research communities.
  • RDMkit: an online guide containing good data management practices applicable to research projects from the beginning to the end.
  • FAIR Cookbook: an online resource for the Life Sciences with recipes that help you to make and keep data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).
  • ELIXIR-CONVERGE: a project funded by the European Commission to build expert networks, training and toolkits for Research Data Management.  Aims include activities to position, sustain and assess impact of these resources, as well as the mobilisation of resources to enable data management and sharing in COVID-19 research.

ELIXIR-UK People

Leaders

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Dr Robert Andrews
Data Management Working Group Lead
Cardiff University
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Dr Munazah Andrabi
Data Management Working Group Deputy Lead
The University of Manchester

Members

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Diane Hatziioanou
Senior Researcher - Epidemiologist
UKHSA
Dr Korneel Hens
Senior Research Fellow
Oxford Brookes University
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Sonal Henson
Bioinformatician
University of Nottingham
Katarzyna Kamieniecka
Lead Data Stewardship Trainer
University of Bradford
Saskia Lawson-Tovey
Health Data Scientist/Engineer
University of Manchester
Interests My research and training interests lie in a wide range of biological and biomedical sciences fields, from comparative genomics and evolutionary studies to neuroscience research and personalised medicine. I am interested in developing and delivering material in several aspects of bioinformatics and biological data management. My teaching philosophy is the generation of an opportunity to inspire and empower, comprised of a combination of course instruction and student mentorship. I’m aiming at fostering the acquisition of a base of concepts and learning skills to facilitate a person to engage in further learning and independent thinking. My work I am mainly focused on studying the molecular mechanism of neuropsychological disorders and brain tumours. I aim to investigate the molecular origins of diseases and develop novel methods for diagnosis and prognosis, such as designing more targeted treatment strategies. It involves methods originating from systems biology, NGS and “omics” technologies, large multi-dimensional data integration and interpretation, and clinical informatics. I am also the course leader of the MSc in Bioinformatics and the module leader of several modules at the MSc and BSc levels related to data analysis and data management. In my free time, I regularly organise and deliver bioinformatics and data analysis workshops at several Universities across the UK and other European countries profile picture
Vasileios Panagiotis Lenis
Lecturer in Biology (Bioinformatics)
Teeside University
Dr Allyson Lister
FAIRsharing Content & Community Coordinator
University of Oxford
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Prof Krzysztof Poterlowicz
Training Coordinator
University of Bradford
Dr Philippe Rocca-Serra
Group Coordinator and Co-Investigator
University of Oxford
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Prof Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Interoperability Platform Lead
University of Oxford
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Xènia Pérez Sitjà
Data Stewardship Community Manager
University of Bradford
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Dr Nicola Soranzo
Technical Coordinator
Earlham Institute