Securing funding and building your research team
A note about research data
Your research data is the information you collect, observe or generate to support and validate your findings.
- Evidence-based: Research data serves as the foundation for research. It’s what allows researchers to build a case for their findings and conclusions.
- Varied formats: Data can come in many forms and can be digital and non-digital. For example, research may involve experimental data, surveys or field studies, observational data, reusing existing datasets, textual analysis, archival research, qualitative data or artworks.
| Open Research practice | Links to resources | Alignment with FAIR |
|---|---|---|
| State your intention to share data openly, outlining specific data types and access conditions | UKRN Primer Data sharing | Accessible & Interoperable |
| Name your chosen data repository and outline your data management plans for during and after the project including file type | Digital Curation Centre: Data Management Plans FAIRsharing: identify standards and repositories for your discipline: FAIRsharing for you: researchers Re3data is a global registry of research data repositories covering different academic disciplines |
Findable & Interoperable |
| Commit to making your research findings open access (via publisher or repository routes) | UKRN Open Access animation (3 minutes) and video (10 minutes) UKRN Primer: Open Access |
Accessible |
| Explain your commitment to transparent and replicable research methods | Sharing the Recipe: Reproducibility and Replicability in Research Across Disciplines | While not directly addressing with FAIR principles, this promotes transparency (by referencing open methodology resources) and reproducibility (by pre-registering the study) |
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