Abstract
This article describes the background work undertaken by Oxford Brookes University in assessing how best to position institutional support for Research Data Management. It further discusses the development of our University’s research data management policy and its collaborative approach to data management support. Finally, it reflects on the challenges of overseeing policy implementation and providing the required enactment infrastructure. The approach that we take is one that will hopefully be of interest to those institutions who are developing their research base and seeking to offer better data management support to researchers in a time of reduced or declining resource. Overall, we feel that the strategic and institution-wide approach that we have taken has worked well, and may be suited to institutions like ours that are less research-intensive. Finally, we feel that our approach is one that can readily be copied.
Highlights
Oxford Brookes is a medium-sized university with about 18,000 students, 4,000 of whom are postgraduates of some sort
The University employs around 1,000 academic staff members, who are all located within four faculties: Business; Health and Life Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences; and Technology, Design and Environment
Academic staff members have been involved in all stages of our work on research data management (RDM), this paper has focused so far on the support side of RDM
Summary
Oxford Brookes is a medium-sized university with about 18,000 students, 4,000 of whom are postgraduates of some sort. Academic data output in the university ranges from large data files in biological sciences, engineering and computing, through social sciences qualitative research to historical datasets, artworks and sound installations. This is likely to be typical of institutions where some research bases may be world-class, but some are still developing or in their early stages, and where the range of disciplines is diverse but there is less activity in each individual research area than more research-intensive organisations. As in RAE 2008, 4* work is classified as “world leading”, 3* as “internationally excellent”, 2* as “internationally recognized” and 1* as “nationally recognized” Those active in research according to the University’s TRAC return for 2013-2014 is 556. This proved to be a prescient position as we were not successful in this bid
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