Academic publishing company Springer Nature has partnered with Cancer Research UK to offer their researchers practical support that will increase data sharing and best practice. Early career researchers, clinical fellows and in-house research support staff at Cancer Research UK will participate in specially tailored research data training workshops organised by the Nature Research Academies. The two-day workshops cover the theory and practice of data sharing and management with the aim of ensuring researchers feel more confident and knowledgeable about how and where they should store and share their data. The first workshop will take place on May 9-10, at the Springer Nature Campus in London, and two further workshops have been planned for July and September this year.
The in-person workshop format is aimed at groups of up to 30 participants to ensure an interactive learning experience where attendees participate and ask questions throughout the day. Trainers are specialists with years of experience as research data managers, curators, editors and publishers.
The workshops are one of Springer Nature’s Research Data products and services for institutions, including funding agencies, which launched in 2018. In advance of the workshops, Springer Nature and Cancer Research UK have surveyed attendees to understand their training needs, and allow the content to be adapted to the knowledge and research disciplines of the group. General topics covered include: complying with data sharing policies; Preparing Data Management Plans; creating valuable metadata and understanding metadata standards; copyright and data; approaches to sensitive data sharing; and creating reusable tabular data.
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