🔍 What does a Data Steward really do?
Spoiler Alert: It’s a lot more than just handling spreadsheets. 😎

The role of a Data Steward is multifaceted, think part advisor, part trainer, part strategist, and always a champion of responsible research data management.

The Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) is pleased to announce its first funding call for 2025 🚀🚀

Details & link to the application: www.psdi.ac.uk/funding-call...

➡️It is aimed at accelerating research within the physical sciences community.

Thank you!! So looking forward to today 😻

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Enterprise Fellow (CaSDaR Network+ Coordinator) We are seeking to appoint a dynamic, enthusiastic, proactive Network+ co-ordinator to work with our small, friendly team. This is a fixed-term, full-time appointment (1.0 FTE/35 hours per week) until ...

Are you passionate about data stewardship? Do you enjoy building communities and organising events to bring diverse groups together? Apply to coordinate our UKRI funded Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research Network. Fixed-term until 31/03/29.

Apply here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

This image shows Cerys Willoughby, Samantha Pearman-Kanza, Colin Bird, Nicola Knight and the PSDI mascot Sharkcat stood in front of the introduction slide for the workshop we are running on "Creating communities around best practices and common challenges in data - the role of data stewards" as part of the International Digital Curation Conference

On behalf of @psdi-uk.bsky.social myself, Nicola Knight, Cerys Willoughby, Colin Bird and Sharkcat are running a workshop on "Creating communities around best practices and common roles in #data - the role of #datastewards" at the International Data Curation Conference! @digitalcuration.bsky.social

Researcher Development and Travel Grant Apply to the Royal Society of Chemistry's Researcher Development and Travel Grant for grants of up to £250 for activities that will help you develop skills for your research career.

The current round for @roysocchem.bsky.social
Researcher Development & Travel Grant closes 27th Jan, don't miss out! PhD students & ECRs can apply for up to £500 to develop new skills, increase knowledge present at a conferences or organise scientific meetings! www.rsc.org/prizes-fundi...

Check out @rsc-cicag.bsky.social Distillate! Lots of informative articles, and of course featuring our regular @psdi-uk.bsky.social update :)

On 30 October 2024 Dr Samantha Pearman-Kanza gave a presentation on behalf of PSDI at Lab Innovations 2024. For further information the presentation can be download here: zenodo.org/records/1401...
#psdi #lab #enotebooks