IDEA: Improving Data Engagement and Advocacy

About IDEA: Improving Data Engagement and Advocacy

In our episodes, we’ll be bringing you interviews from real world data professionals who are engaging their researchers in new and novel ways. We’ll also be reviewing the literature and keeping you up to date on what’s getting published that’s worth a read. Or, in your case, a listen. We hope you’ll join us as we talk with our colleagues and see what’s working…or what’s not in the wider world of research data management.

Publisher

Shannon Sheridan and Briana Ezray Wham

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 May 2022

Latest episode

14 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

28 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Aug 2025

   027 - Season 3 Finale: Compilation Episode

   That's a wrap on season three of IDEA! As in seasons past, we're celebrating with our interviewees one final time as we ask them a new set of data management questions: If your role in research data management had a motto, what would it be? What’s the most creative solution you’ve seen to encourage researchers to embrace data management? If you could host a workshop on one exciting aspect of data management, what would the focus be? As always, a big thank you to our guests this season: Kristin Briney, Carla Strubbia, Alessandra Soro, Matt Mayernik, Andrew Johnson, Claudius Mundoma, and Amber Gallant. We couldn't do it without you!

2. 

   11 Jul 2025

   026 - Byte-Sized Data Encounters - Gallant

   In this episode, we’re thrilled to welcome Amber Gallant, Data Services Librarian at Royal Roads University, who will be sharing with us details about her innovative project, Byte-Sized Data Encounters. Amber was faced with the challenge of teaching doctoral students with limited time and the unique needs of a largely online program adoptable data management skills and she adopted an extremely creative approach. She used a micro-education approach which reimagined traditional training by weaving in short, engaging, and hands-on activities to spark curiosity, promote practical learning, empower doctoral students with data management skills, and make the material memorable. Together, we’ll explore how this informal, scaffolded model builds confidence and helps students develop data practices. Amber Gallant is the Data Services Librarian at Royal Roads University. She is interested in data equity and accessibility issues, data justice (or, examining how people are fairly or unfairly represented as a result of their production of data!), data reuse, and exploring sources of secondary data. She brings this work to RRU in discussing data collection and methodologies, among other topics, with faculty and students conducting research. Outside work, she enjoys baking overly complicated desserts, attempting to sample every cheese known to humanity, and exploring the beautiful, unceded lands stewarded to this day by the Lekwungen-speaking peoples. Resources Mentioned: Byte-Sized Data Encounters OSF project: 10.17605/OSF.IO/K46C5

3. 

   18 Jun 2025

   025 - Article Review: Researcher Challenges and Experiences with Data Services, an ITHAKA S+R report

   Chelsea McCracken and Ruby MacDougall's ITHAKA S+R report reveals researcher challenges and experiences with data services, offering insights to improve research data service coordination in this episode.

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Podcast Authority Score: 35 / 100

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