Holding an RDM-I Fellowship will provide you with skills and hands-on experience that will make you a valuable research assistant while completing your undergraduate degree, and give you a competitive edge over your peers when applying for research-focussed graduate programs. Research data management skills transfer directly into the workplace as effective and efficient information handling, which can increase your potential value to prospective employers.
Participating in the RDM-I as a mentor will highlight the information handling skills that you've learned through trial and error; raise those skills to international best-practice standards; and match you with a trained undergraduate student who will provide the capacity to apply the theoretical knowledge to your own research activities.
Hosting the RDM Institute will develop a foundation for RDM at TWU such that researchers at all stages of their development have the education and support to take ownership of all aspects of their RDM. Research environments that build world-class information-handling-practices into the everyday research culture are the natural breeding ground of world-class research discoveries.
The Institute aims to generate a researcher-driven culture change around RDM, fostering active participation by researchers; creating sustainable student-training opportunities; and establishing organic and discipline-responsive RDM practices. With administrative and financial support, the Institute will help TWU move beyond a point-of-need, administration-driven approach and open the door to a culture-shift in favour of discipline-specific, researcher-driven RDM.
Land Acknowledgement
Trinity Western University's Langley campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Stó:lō people. We are grateful for the opportunity to live, work, and learn on this land.