The 2025 Digital Research Lunchtime Seminars focus on the theme of "Conducting Digital Research Safely". These seminars present resources, services, and tools throughout the research lifecycle, helping the University community to maximize technology use without compromising safety and security. It is also an opportunity to connect with services and support teams to enhance your research.
The seminars will be hybrid, taking place in person, at EFI (Room 1.55), and online, via MS Teams, and are open to all staff and postgraduate researchers. In-person attendees are invited to join a networking lunch after the seminars.
Is there a safe way to engage with AI?
EDINA - 18th February 2025
Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) Room 1.55 & Online via MSTeams
EDINA colleagues will present ELM, the University of Edinburgh's AI innovation platform, along with Noteable and Digimap. The seminar will highlight EDINA’s services and technical expertise in geospatial analysis.
Highlights:
- Access AI technology and computational notebooks for research
- Discover GIS data
- Enhance your research with EDINA’s technical expertise across technologies
- Learn the latest updates from the Automated Literature Reviews project
Safe & secure research data storage
Research Services - 18th March 2025
Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) Room 1.55 & Online via MSTeams
Join research services colleagues for a seminar on data storage solutions (DataStore), data exchange with external collaborators (DataSync), version control (GitLab), supercomputing (Eddie), and cloud computing (Eleanor).
Highlights:
- Store and organize your research data securely
- Access research computing services
- Implement version control efficiently
2023-24 Sessions
Research Planning
Lunchtime Session 1: How to plan and design your research project better
This session will provide overview presentations of available services and support for planning your research project, including the following:
- Research Data Management Planning to comply with funders’ requirements
- DMPOnline, the online platform for the development of DMPs
- Developing data skills to assist you conducting your project
- Resource Finder to build your personalised toolkit
- Research Computing Funding checklist to budget your project properly
- Research Funding Support provided by Edinburgh Research Office
Contributors: Edinburgh Research Office, Research Data Support, Digital Skills, Research Facilitation
Lunchtime Session 2: How to store and organise your data
27th February 2024
This session will provide overview presentations of available services and support for data storage and organization of your research data, including the following:
- Services to store your data properly and safely
- Services to enable collaborations with data within UoE and beyond
- Version control services
Contributors: Research Services, Open Science Framework, Research Facilitation
Lunchtime Session 3: How to interpret and analyse your data efficiently
13th March 2024
This session will provide overview presentations of available services and support for interpretation and analysis, including the following:
- Free at the point of use high-performance and cloud computing services at The University of Edinburgh
- Regional and National supercomputing services
- Automated Systematic Reviews
Contributors: Research Services, EPCC, EIDF, EDINA, Research Facilitation
Lunchtime Session 4: How to manage, publish, share and preserve your work effectively
2nd April 2024
This session will provide overview presentations of available services and support for sharing and preservation of research data and publications of research outputs, including the following:
- Repositories to share your data openly and long-term preservation
- Management of your research profile
- Publication Support
Contributors: Research Data Services, Library Research Support, Research Facilitation