2023-24 Lunchtime Seminars

Discover key digital tools in your lunch hour.

Our popular Digital Research Lunchtime Seminars will be back for the second semester of the 2024-25 academic year! Stay tuned for more details on the schedule, topics, and speakers.

You can catch up on all the insightful presentations from last year's seminar series below.

Research Planning

Lunchtime Session 1: How to plan and design your research project better

22nd January 2024

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

Store and Organise

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

Intrepret and Analyse

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

Manage, Publish, Share and Preserve

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