Pre-fieldwork PhD, Master's students and early career researchers in social anthropology will find good advice on research practices in their discipline here. The advice is presented in three modules:

• Basic
• Advanced
• Writing up

The Basic module covers the process of fieldwork, the kinds of data collected, and the methods of collection. It also covers the organisation of data, and software tools that might make it easier.

The Advanced module covers metadata, ontologies and other methods of data organisation, and looks at ethics and data protection, as well as tools for sharing and disseminating data.

The Writing Up module is aimed at at early-career researchers and students engaged in writing their theses. It covers digital curation and preservation, digital repositories, eTheses, publication, and intellectual property.

The guide was produced as part of the JISC-funded Data Train project.