RDMSG Explores the Skills to Pay the RDM Bills

Laurian Williamson reports on the RDMSG's highly successful recent event looking at emerging workforce skills requirements for research data management.

The Mercian Collaboration RDM Special Interest Group exists to provide local and regional support and a forum for exchanging experiences and challenges in providing RDM services and tools. We hold two face to face events/workshops a year, and last month we held a successful and well-attended event which focussed on the skills required to support RDM in University libraries, explored the different channels and opportunities for professional development in this area of research service activity, as well as ideas on how we collaborate with other colleagues and stakeholders within our institutions...

Read the rest of Laurian's report extensive report on the Gradschool Reading Room Blog: https://gradschoolreadingroom.blogspot.com/2019/04/event-report-mercian-research-data.html

Find out more about the Research Data Management Support Group's (RDMSG) activities here.