Research data are the building blocks of knowledge and understanding of the world around us.  As graduate students, data will likely be an important part of your research endeavour, whether you collect it yourself or make reuse existing data.  Increasingly granting institutions such as SSHRC, CIHR and NSERC will require you to have a Data Management Plan in place as part of your grant application.

Part 1 of the workshop will examine what we mean by research data management, why it is important to your work as a graduate student and how research data management is becoming an essential professional skill.