The Federal Government has funded a number of initiatives
aimed at boosting Australian research infrastructure. The $50m Research Data Storage Infrastructure project
is one, and the $47m National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources
(NecTAR) project is another.
UK higher education institutions have come under increasing pressure to
manage the data generated by their researchers that cannot be curated by
subject-based data centres and repositories ‒ and many were unsure how to do
this, given the absence of advice, examples and good practice.
One solution on the market is Qualtrics. This advanced survey software
program has many features including survey customisation, online software,
hosted data and data can be exported to SPSS and many other products for
analysis. See Qualtrics homepage for
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Creating a research data management plan: what are the kinds of things you
should consider?
To find out the who, what, where, when, and why … not to mention the how,
come along to this presentation by Belinder Weaver, Manager, Research Data
Collections Service.
The traditional view of humanities scholars is of the
patient worker toiling away alone in archives or on manuscripts. Has the growth
and spread of digital humanities challenged that view?
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:
The United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) works on four main areas that inform their mission:
access to information, sharing policy expertise, meeting space for nations, and
bringing knowledge to the field. Although they work in both developed and
developing countries, as well as rural and urban areas, the FAO has
concentrated their efforts on rural areas, as that is where the majority of
poor and hungry people reside.
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