Kate Giles welcome to Uni of York, Research Data Network

1. JISC Data Management
27th June 2017
Kate Giles
Acting Director, Humanities Research Centre
Acting Associate Dean, Arts and Humanities

2. Introduction
Founded in 1963 with 300 students
Current student population:
~16,000
~1400 research students
including >450 international students
28 departments, in three faculties
• Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Arts & Humanities

3. Research Strategy
Our Vision
York will provide a home for some of the best research in the
world, and be regarded as one of the best places worldwide to
do research.
Foundations for success
• Research Excellence
• Innovation
• International Perspective
• Impact
• Collaboration and Partnership
• Integrity

4. Research Themes
• Creativity
• Culture and communication
• Environmental sustainability and resilience
• Health and Wellbeing
• Justice and Equality
• Risk, Evidence and Decision Making
• Technologies for the Future
Research Champions

5. Implementing the
Research Strategy
• Recruiting and retaining the best researchers
• Driving our major interdisciplinary research themes, while
maintaining our core disciplinary excellence
• Deploying University resources to support research
excellence
• Supporting our postgraduate research students and their
supervisors – the York Graduate Research School
Important opportunities and challenges for research data
management and training

6. Research Data Management
Strong links with Library team
Commitment to supporting and developing arts
and humanities research resources for staff and
students
Particular challenges of arts and humanities
data
- Traditional paper notes, archives
- Digital datasets and digitised archives
- Media (visual, musical, audio)

7. Research Data Management
Borthwick Institute for Archives
https://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick
/projects/archbishops-registers/

8. Research Data Management
Archaeology Data Service
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk

9. Research Data Management