UKRI funding secured to enhance digital research training resources
Congratulations to PI Professor Emma Rand and the wider team for securing funding to establish the UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst, a highly accessible national digital research training service capable of underpinning creative research and supporting digital research professionals across multiple domains.
The UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst will connect researchers and innovators to a catalogue of CPD training materials through the provision of a dynamic learning portal. The portal will provide a sophisticated search function to enable researchers to easily locate training resources appropriate to their level of expertise, research theme and preferred study mode. The portal will also feature an online support service capable of assisting researchers with their project specific enquiries.
Project background
In 2021 the UKRI funded nine DaSH (Data Science in Healthcare & Biosciences) projects to develop training materials for upskilling data scientists across the life sciences; the Skills Catalyst mobilises seven of these projects and will further develop the established training network.
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UKRI Digital Research Skills Catalyst Project Partners DaSH projects funded under the 2020 “Innovation Scholars: Data Science Training in Health and Bioscience” call |
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Research theme |
Institution |
Lead |
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Medical image acquisition, analysis, management |
University College London |
David Cash |
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Robotics for plant phenotyping |
University of Nottingham and University of Lincoln |
Andrew French Elizabeth Sklar |
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Data Stewardship in Life Sciences |
University of Bradford and Cardiff University |
Krzysztof Poterlowicz |
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Health data science and omics |
King’s College London |
Rebecca Oakey |
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Data science and ML for health and bioscience |
University College London |
Geraint Thomas |
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Cloud High-Performance Computing for Environmental ‘omics |
University of York and Software Sustainability Institute |
Emma Rand James Chong |
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Data science training for bioscience and health. |
University of Edinburgh |
Giacomo Peru |
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Project goals
The Digital Skills Catalyst Portal will empower researchers to navigate their professional development with the following features:
- Streamlined access to all the courses provided by the above DaSH projects
- Detailed pre-requisites and outcomes for courses and materials to help assess learning requirements
- Bookable time slots for one-to-one bespoke guidance with a Digital Research Infrastructure specialist from one of the DaSH projects
- Additional accreditation for new and existing courses to cater for Continuing Professional Development needs
- Occasional in-person workshops and networking events to help address ever evolving training needs
This project is funded by UKRI from October 2024 to March 2027.
Find out more
Professor Emma Rand https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/people/emma-rand/
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Digital Research Infrastructure Programme this scheme is a £129 million UKRI initiative to develop a coherent state-of-the-art national digital research infrastructure.