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These resources present a suite of flexible training materials to help people who are responsible for training or teaching researchers and research support staff in how to look after research data. The training materials are relevant to lecturers, tutors, graduate teaching assistants and research support staff in universities, colleges and research organisations.

This collaborative project sought to promote research data management skills of postgraduate research students in the health studies discipline through a specially-developed training programme which focuses on qualitative, unstructured research data. The project was funded by JISC under their Managing Research Data (JISCMRD) Programme. The project ran from 1st October 2010 to 31st July 2011.

This Web page provides an overview of the outputs of projects in JISC's Managing Research Data programme. It includes links to project websites, how to guides, data management planning tools and guidance, case studies, reports, and training materials.

The DataTrain teaching materials have been designed to familiarise post-graduate students in good practice in looking after their research data. A central tenet is the importance of thinking about this in conjunction with the projected outputs and publication of research projects.

Research Data MANTRA is a course designed for PhD students and others who are planning a research project using digital data. The online learning units on the left cover a number of important topics. This course is an Open Educational Resource that may be freely used by anyone. It is available through an open license for rejigging, rebranding, repurposing