MANTRA

Learn the essentials for managing research data with this self-guided online course.

The course equips you to:

• recognise good practice in managing research data and apply it to your own context
• gain the knowledge to create a data management plan and use it throughout your project
• know how to organise and document your data efficiently during your project
• understand which options are available to you to securely store and back up your data
• learn to use SPSS, NVivo, R, or ArcGIS for data handling.

The course has eight online modules covering these topics:

1. Nature of research data
2. Data management plans
3. Data organisation
4. File formats and transformation
5. Documentation and metadata
6. Storage and security
7. Protecting sensitive data
8. Preservation, sharing and licensing

There is also a set of downloadable tutorials that will help you develop data handling skills with one of these software environments: R; SPSS; NVivo; ArcGIS.

The course is aimed primarily at postgraduate research students and early career researchers but may be useful to other more experienced researchers. It also contains a training toolkit for information professionals.

Free or Paid for:

Free