Best Practices in Research Data Management

Presented by Danica Evering, MA

Join us for a virtual CE event on June 25th, 2024: Registration is free for UNYOC members; non-members may register for $35.00

Prominent healthcare funders are rolling out requirements for research data management planning and data deposit. In March 2021, CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC released the Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy requiring that research institutions develop an RDM strategy to support researchers in meeting requirements for data management plans (DMPs) and data deposit. In January 2023, the NIH released a new Data Management and Sharing Policy with similar requirements. Major journals are also increasingly asking health sciences researchers to share data to support reproducibility and research integrity.

Join Danica Evering, Research Data Management Specialist at McMaster University to learn how librarians can get ready to guide researchers in meeting best practices and requirements for planning for, managing, storing, securing, depositing, and sharing research data. No prior experience is required! This will be an introduction to the requirements and will focus on available resources and examples for researchers—from clinical data to evidence synthesis projects.

Danica Evering brings expansive experience with research support, education, project management, advocacy, and knowledge translation. They braid together broad fluency in social practice art, healthcare, community research, data, and systems development to provide comprehensive RDM services. Danica supports McMaster students, postdocs, faculty, and staff with RDM through the data lifecycle—Data Management Plans, storage and backup, data security, data sharing. With an MA in Media Studies from Concordia, they are interested in fostering RDM within curious scholars and disciplines.

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