Senior lecturer presents at National Research Data Management Workshop

Posted on October 20, 2021

Dr. Paul Laughton, senior lecturer in the Department of Information Science, presented at the National Research Data Management Workshop, on the 12th of October 2021. The online workshop took place from 11 to 13 October 2021 and was hosted by the Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA).

This is the fourth workshop hosted by DIRISA and feature important contributions by leading scholars, research managers and other experts who are currently moulding the future of data intensive research and data management. The workshop also included a data science training tutorial with the aim to prepare university students who will participate in the annual Dotation student competition in December 2021.

Dr. Laughton’s paper was titled What COVID has taught us about research data management, with an abstract that reads as follows:

With so much change in the world and adaptation to what we call the new normal, society has had an opportunity to transform norms and practices. This has created opportunity and advancements in a number of fields. As researchers, data generators and data users, there is much to learn from this transformation. This work takes an anecdotal look into some of the significant changes that can be incorporated in research data management, taking it to the next level (or new normal).

This opportunity to view challenges as possible solutions, and consider new possibilities should be seized, and may encourage a new era of research data management. There is so much to learn from the pandemic, as we look to normalise the ‘new normal’ on many levels, and research data management is one discipline primed for change.

- Author Anneke Nel

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