Data Literacy with Focus on Research Data Management: Upskilling your data competencies for your thesis (17.11.-10.12.2025)
This on-site course teaches essential skills in handling data in accordance with the FAIR principles and focuses on developing data literacy across five key competence areas: data collection, data management, data evaluation, data application, and the conceptual framework. Special attention is given to data management which is practiced in all phases of the research data life cycle using students‘ own PhD projects as example.
Lessons’ Contents:
- Research Data Management, Data Management Plan
- Open Science: FAIR and CARE principles
- data storage and documentation: storage devices, file structure
- repositories: metadata, archiving, licences
- data protection: legal and ethical aspects, anonymisation/pseudonymisation
- RDM tools: data cleaning, qualitative coding
Instructors: Dr. Barbara Löhde & Dr. Merle Schatz
As team members of the State Initiative Research Data Management Lower Saxony, Dr. Barbara Löhde and Dr. Merle Schatz are jointly committed to building the data literacy skills of students and researchers, and are happy to share their combined expertise in teaching in higher education and in the management of qualitative, ethnographic, and text-based data.
Schedule: The workshop consists of seven sessions which belong together:
- Session 1, Mo 17/11/2025, 10:00-13:15
- Session 2, Th 20/11/2025, 10:00-13:15
- Session 3, Tue 25/11/2025, 10:00-13:15
- Session 4, Th 27/11/2025, 10:00-13:15
- Session 5, Wed 03/12/2025, 10:00-13:15
- Session 6, Mo 08/12/2025, 13:00-17:15
- Session 7, Wed 10/12/2025, 10:00-13:15
Venue: SUB – ZB Großer Seminarraum 1.10/1.11
Credits: 4 ECTS
Recognition: PhD candidates in Social Sciences who are doing their doctorate according to the doctoral degree regulations of 2024 can have the workshop credited for the module “P.SOWI.160: Data Literacy with Focus on Research Data”. If you have any further questions about recognition, please contact your respective degree program coordinator (Studiengangskoordination).
For details visit: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/698702.html