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Increasing researcher awareness of the importance of the links between good Research Data Management, published articles, funder requirements and the research lifecycle is a large part of a Research Support services’ role. The University of Bristol’s Research Data Service has adapted the cult game ‘Cards Against Humanity’ for a research environment.

Whilst the game demonstrated here is specific to Research Data Management and its relationship to decisions made during the research lifecycle, the mechanism allows for adaptations across multiple fields: teams in contracts, ethics, research development and data protection can also benefit by developing their own questions and using this game as strategy to reach their audience.

In addition to its use as a tool for engaging with researchers, Cards Against Humanity has openness at its core. The originators state it is ‘meant to be remixed’, and have issued Cards against Humanity with a CC-BY-NC-SA licence.

In this course you will learn the basics of programming and how to teach it yourself as a primary or secondary school teacher.

This MOOC teaches programming in Scratch through fun videos which explain programming in an inspiring and clear way. These videos are accompanied by assignments which let kids practice programming and create programs they will like to use themselves!

Every week you build a different Scratch project yourself: a flappy bird game, a virtual pet or a Mondriaan like artwork. Also weekly, new programming blocks are taught and together we’re working on ways to improve your written code. In addition, you will learn how you can integrate the same programming lessons in your class for both primary and secondary education.

Learn principles and strategies for engaging with global communities through partnerships, research, service, and learning.

This course is for anyone — from novices to experienced practitioners — who wants to work more effectively with community members and organizations, including through, but not limited to:

• community-academic partnerships
• social change projects
• community service and learning
• education and work abroad
• traditional and community-based participatory research
• non-profit internships
• public scholarship
• civic performance

Youtube playlist of past webinars organised by the UK Data Service. Topics include:

• mapping crime data in R
• longitudinal data
• census and population data
• getting started with secondary analysis
• data management
• how to anonymise quantitative and qualitative data
• working with twitter data
• web scraping
• consent issues in data sharing

Training workshops, webinars and events on various data managemnet topics organised by the UK Data Service.

Slides of all events are made available on the past events pages. Recordings of webinars are made available on the UKDS YouTube channel. All can be used for training activities.

This section includes information relevant to Personal Data Protection:

• Sources of Data Protection Law
• Basic concepts in Data Protection Law
• Principles of Data Processing
• Key Data Processing Obligations
• Rules Governing International Data Transfers
• Rights of Data Subjects

This section includes information on:

• Licenses in general
• Differences between public and open licenses
• Tools that can help you select a license

This section is an introduction to copyright notions and related rights:

• Overview of copyright
• Copyright exceptions
• Copyright & Software
• Orphan works
• Related rights and Databases

Our academics work in a wide range of research centres and groupings across economics, education, human geography, law, policy studies, sociology, politics and international studies and are committed to conducting world-leading research that matters to society.

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