Data Management Plans: Starting from Scratch

Audience: PG research

Date: Wednesday 19 February 2025

Times: 09.30 to 11.30

Programme: GRADskills

Key details: Online workshop. This session is an introduction to research data management plans for postgraduate research students (especially relevant for first-year PhD students, but open to all postgraduate research students).

Target audience

Postgraduate research students

Course pre-work

None.

Course mapped to

Vitae's Researcher Development Framework domains: A1 (Information literacy and management); C2 (Research management)

Follow on course

First-Year Review Data Management Plans: Writing Workshop (optional)

Course information

This 90-minute introductory course will present the basics of data management planning, introduce the St Andrews DMP template, and overview the resources available to support you throughout the data management process. We will also look to the future for why data management plans are important now and discuss how your first-year review data management plan can be useful to you throughout your research. 

Aims and objectives

By the end of this workshop you should be able to:

1. Learn what research data management plans are, why they are helpful, and where to start when creating one 
2. Learn what resources are available to assist in data management planning throughout your research 
3. Understand the requirements for First-Year Review DMPs and the process for submitting them 
4. Consider some examples using the St Andrews DMP template and discuss the assessment rubric for the First-Year Review DMPs

Tutors

Dr Federica Fina

Mel Oakley

Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk