WHAT IS THE SUMMER RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE?
The Summer RDM Institute (RDM-I) is a four-month, full-time, paid training program for TWU undergraduate students.
Under the supervision of TWU’s RDM Librarian, the students will learn about RDM and develop RDM infrastructure for the university. Then, working with faculty research mentors, the students will apply their RDM skills—and the infrastructure they've developed—in a real-world research environment.
WHAT IS THE GOAL OF THE RDM-I?
The goal of the Institute is to give undergraduate students the essential information handling skills they need to develop as researchers.
WHAT IS RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT (RDM)?
RDM is the practice of planning how to handle, organize, and protect everything that researchers create during the research process. It is a formal name and formalized process for developing and implementing robust and reliable information-handling skills.
WHO WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE INSTITUTE?
Undergraduate students and faculty researchers will work in partnership with the RDM librarian and members of other departments (eg. IT, the Research Office, the HREB).
Do you like having the freedom to identify and solve problems? Do you appreciate the elegance of a well-thought-out and executed plan? Do you enjoy explaining things in such a way that others understand exactly what you mean?
If this sounds like you, you might enjoy spending the summer as one of our Fellows!
Take a look at what would be expected of you and what you would receive in return, and then fill out your application.
Do you have research that would benefit from some organization? Are you constantly making the compromise between keeping your research tidy and getting it done? Would you like to have a plan tailor-made for your research, and implemented by someone else?
If this sounds like you, you might enjoy spending the summer as one of our Faculty Research Partners!
Take a look at what would be expected of you and what you would receive in return, and then fill out your expression of interest.
HOW WILL THE RDM-I WORK?
The RDM-I will partner a cohort of three undergraduate students with faculty researcher mentors. For 16 weeks, these students will receive a stipend while they learn and apply research data management (RDM) principles and practices from both a multidisciplinary and discipline-specific perspective.
Initially, the students will work under the direction of the RDM Librarian to learn basic RDM skills and develop the necessary generic RDM guidance and templates. This will occupy the first third of the students' time at the Institute.
Once that is accomplished, the students will spend the remaining two-thirds of the Institute in supervised partnerships with their mentors. First, the students will collaborate on the development of discipline-specific guidance documents and templates for RDM at TWU. Second, the students will take the foundational skills learned, and the discipline-specific guidance and templates developed, and develop and implement a specialized RDM plan for their mentors' research.
This approach will alleviate situations where students must gain data- and information-handling (RDM) skills quickly and with little guidance. Instead, students will be able to hone their RDM skills as they grow into roles of responsibility, whether in academia or industry.
HOW WILL THE RDM-I WORK?
The Summer RDM Institute (RDM-I) will partner faculty researcher mentors with a cohort of three undergraduate students. For 16 weeks, these students will receive a stipend while they learn and apply research data management (RDM) principles and practices from both a multidisciplinary and discipline-specific perspective. Stipends for the students will be covered in full by a SSHRC Connection grant.
Mentors will be available to the students throughout the summer for regular weekly meetings while the students, under the direction of the RDM Librarian, learn RDM skills and develop the necessary generic RDM guidance and templates.
The majority of the mentors' direct participation will occur over the latter two-thirds of the Institute, when the mentors will provide discipline-specific perspectives and feedback on the students' work. In return, the students will develop and implement a specialized RDM plan for the mentors' research.
| Value | $10 583 |
| Duration | May - August 2024 (16 consecutive weeks at full-time hours) |
| Application Deadline | March 20, 2024 |
| How to Apply | Find all details of eligibility, application, and selection here |
| Application Forms | Find the application forms here |
For more information, contact Elizabeth Kreiter, RDM Librarian.
The Summer Research Data Management Institute is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
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.
