# Open research and community building series - for edits

###### tags: `academic-training` `learning-at-the-turing`

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## Participant info

### About
The Skills Team and Tools, Practices and Systems (TPS) Research Programme to launch the **Open Research and Community Building Series** at The Alan Turing Institute.

The training and community building series will run for 8 weeks, featuring practical concepts from *[The Turing Way](https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/welcome)* across four themes:
* Project Design
* Reproducibility and Collaboration
* Project management
* Ethical Research

### Format

Each topic will host two sets of calls, **alternating between a training workshop and a community building session**, hosted by the Skills and Training team on Wednesdays between XXX and XXX with experts from the broader Turing community leading different sessions.

Training calls will provide hands-on insight into the various projects and ways of working in data science and research infrastucture supported by resources, tools and templates from the Turing to help you advance in your projects.

Peer-led community sessions will provide the opportunity to reflect on lessons and insights gained from the previous week’s training call. Programme participants will come together in smaller groups and discuss how the training applies to their own research/projects with additional communication channels to provide further opportunities for knowledge sharing.

### **Programme Schedule** - UK timezone (UTC)

* All sessions take place on Wednesdays. Hands-on training workshops are 1.5 hours and community building sessions are 45 minutes.
* The time shown below for community sesions is suggestive/groups can decide and self-organise their own sessions

| Date | Time | Topic | Session |
| ---- | ------ | --------| ------|
| | 10:30 - 12:00 | **Project Design**: Roadmaps, goal setting and version control | Workshop |
| | 11:15 - 12:00 | **Project Design**: Roadmaps, goal setting and version control | Peer mentoring |
| | 10:30 - 12:00 |**Reproducibility and Collaboration**: Setting up for internal and external members | Workshop |
| | 11:15 - 13:00 |**Reproducibility and Collaboration**: Setting up for internal and external members | Peer mentoring |
| | 10:30 - 12:00 | **Project Management**: data handling, measuring and reporting on impact | Workshop |
| | 11:15 - 13:00 |**Project Management**: data handling, measuring and reporting on impact | Peer mentoring |
| | 10:30 - 12:00 | **Ethical Research**: Grounded in policy, activism and human rights | Workshop |
| |11:15 - 12:00 | **Ethical Research**: Grounded within policy, activism and human rights | Peer mentoring |
| | 11:00 - 12:00 |**Report out and graduations** | Feedback workshop |

### Eligibility
This series is designed exclusively for Enrichment students, Postdoctoral student and Postdoctoral Enrichment Award holders at The Alan Turing Institute.

### Timeline

- **12 December 2022:** Registration opens
- **6 January 2023** Registration closes
- **January — February 2023:** Course takes place virtually/hybrid

## Speakers

#### Format
* 2 x speakers for each topic subheading w/ activities and then Q&A
* Peer-mentoring session for participants

#### Topic 1: Project design and project lifecycle/reproducibility
**REG**
Intro - Mishka / Bridget / Jules
TPS - Agile/version control - REG (from RDS course)
Assignment: RDS activity (data wranglers)

#### Topic 2: Reproducibility and collaboration (community mgers)
**TPS / OLS**
Intro - Malvika
Research: Reproducibility & Collaboration
Assignment: ~~Mountain of engagement/community mapping~~
- Doesn't align w/ activity
- Binder introduction (Sarah)
- Computational communities, open science communities (plugging the wider networks here?), meta practices (separate section?)

#### Topic 3: Project management
**TPS / PMU**
Intro - TBC
Research: Managing/handling data
Business: Research & business applications
Assignment: Impact related / TTW (impact toolkit)
- GitHub project mgmt / Sophia (resources)

#### Topic 4: Ethical research
**TPS / PPP**
Intro - TBC
Research: TBC
Assignment: Turing Commons activity

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### Questions for 24.11.22
- Speaker suggestions?
- Tips for community management? Share out and graduation?
- keen to learn more on computational communities/structured exposure
- more targeted engagement
- organisations doing open science
- interdisciplinary/applications that go beyond
- Assignments and tips for adapting content/delivering speakers?
- Can we align with Practitioners Hub?
- currently scoping/piloting ideas via ALS and MN
- Application process
- Use Eventsforce.
- Sign-ups
- Feburary-March timeline, but applications are December-January.
- Cambridge training:
- Enrichment 'opps'
- ECRs within the Turing community
- Postdocs (Skills team support)
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