Scientific Research Community Management (RCM-101)

Workshop delivered at Office for National Statistics Research Capability 2024: Building Research Capability and Community

Workshop title: Scientific Research Community Management 101

Facilitators: Dr Cassandra Gould van Praag; André Piza 

Workshop duration: 75 min (delivered twice)

Synopsis: Participants will be introduced to the essential principles, practices and values for building sustainable research communities, with a particular focus towards the adoption of open research methodologies. Materials will draw from the training developed and undertaken by the Open Research Community Management group, who successfully lead research communities across multiple disciplines, and The Turing Way: A community contributed handbook to reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science. We will also reference our recent preprint on professionalising Community Management roles in interdisciplinary research projects.