Dr Josep Grau-Bove is a Lecturer in Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology; he works at the Institute for Sustainable Heritage in the Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources, University College London (UCL). He is the Assistant Director of one of the Institute’s Programmes for MRes students. In our interview he reflects on […]
Dr Jenny Bunn is Program Director at Archive and Records Management at UCL. Jenny Bunn worked has previously worked as an archivist at the V&A Museum, The Royal Bank of Scotland Archives, Glasgow University Archives and The National Archives before moving to teaching and research at UCL. Our discussion with Jenny offered an interesting perspective. […]
Dr Martin Zaltz Austwick is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at the Bartlett in University College London (UCL). Martin’s research and teaching makes extensive use of a wide variety of data sources including government data, business data and textual data. Our interview with Martin provides a clear example of a […]
In February 2016 the LEARN project launched a survey addressed to any research institution willing to analyse its readiness to manage research data. The survey’s 13 questions were based on issues outlined in the LERU Roadmap for Research Data. Each question had three possible answers, aligning with one of three possible situations: an institution ready […]
The LEARN Project began in 2015 with a mission to raise awareness of the need for better Research Data Management (RDM), and to help this process along by producing several resources to help institutions with their RDM needs. Two years later, this EU-funded project with five partners has reached its official end point. We’re proud […]
Throughout the two years of the LEARN Project, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN/ECLAC) has invested a lot of effort in awareness raising and in capacity building on RDM issues in the Latin America and Caribbean region. One of the most powerful ways in which ECLAC achieved its aims […]
The LEARN Project has five partners and, uniquely for an EU-funded project, one of them is based in the South American country of Chile. The Chilean-based partner is ECLAC, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and recently ECLAC’s Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena, travelled to Brussels to meet Neven Mimica, the European Union Commissioner in charge […]
LEARN recently hosted a webinar about our new Toolkit of Best Practice for Research Data Management. The speakers were: Wouter Schallier, ECLAC Paolo Budroni, University of Vienna Martin Moyle, UCL The webinar is now available for anyone to view, via the video below. The Toolkit, and other project resources, can be downloaded from our Tools & […]
The LEARN Project is all about creating tools and resources which help institutions improve the way research data is managed. Through workshops and other activities, we’ve spoken to many institutions about the challenges they face in this area. However, data management isn’t something that only comes from institutions. Researchers also need to be actively involved, […]
The LEARN Project has been shortlisted in the “Outstanding Library Team” category, as part of the prestigious Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards (THELMA) for 2017. The annual THELMA awards showcase and celebrate the best examples of professional services innovation, teamwork and enterprise in the university sector. LEARN was entered into the competition by […]
