Congratulations
to Dr Andrew Cox who has secured funding for the following project.
Wicked
Ways with Research Data Management
The Leadership Foundation for Higher Education has
funded this small project to create a community of practice around the
exploration of Research Data Management (RDM) as a "wicked problem",
i.e. the kind of complex issue that is interpreted differently by different
actors.
Many issues in UK
universities have all the hallmarks of being “wicked problems”: complex, hard
to solve issues that stakeholders perceive in very different ways. A new
wicked problem for universities that has emerged in the last few years is what
to do about RDM.
The aim of the ‘Wicked Ways’ project is to bring
together a network of those involved in tackling the wicked RDM problem in
different institutions and through an iterative, reflective and participative
process construct an open educational resource about leadership in wicked
problem contexts. This resource will be
freely available to the wider UK HEI community and will help promote the
understanding of the wicked problem concept. The process will also help to create a
supportive community of practice for participants.
The collaborators who
will be involved in in creating this learning resource are drawn from the
various stakeholders in RDM: researchers, research administrators, IT
professionals, librarians and record managers.
Facilitation will be managed by the Information School. Collaborators will be drawn largely but not
exclusively from the White Rose Consortium partners, the Universities of Leeds,
Sheffield and York. As people currently
engaged in addressing this wicked problem space, they will have immediate
experiences to reflect on and opportunities to try out ideas in practice.
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