[Postgrad] Data management plans & annual progress reviews

[Gordon Robb]

A reminder that part of the annual progress review form on SPIDER 
involves uploading a Data Management Plan (DMP) (with hindsight this 
should have been included in the guidance notes for the annual progress 
reviews...)

You can find information on how to produce a data management plan, 
including funder-specific tempates, at
https://www.strath.ac.uk/research/researchdatamanagementsharing/datamanagementplans/

Year 1 students should upload a draft plan, which will be reviewed by 
their supervisors/viva committee.
Year 2/3 students should review the plan uploaded at their last annual 
review, and update if necessary.

There will be some exemptions to this requirement, for example,
1.       Too early for a data management plan;
2.       There is no data over and above thesis or publications text 
(e.g. entirely theoretical research);
3.       No changes to the previous plan uploaded.

Where exemptions apply, students are asked to record this in SPIDER - 
this is to enable internal compliance reporting.
The Research Data Management & Sharing team can help review plans, which 
can be uploaded to their DMP Inbox.

For those interested, there is also an optional, credit-bearing 
university course on ‘Creating Research Data Management Plans’.

Gordon
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Dr. Gordon Robb
Department of Physics & SUPA
University of Strathclyde
John Anderson Building
107 Rottenrow
Glasgow, G4 0NG,
Scotland, U.K.