ARDC Digital Research Skills Summit 2023 - day 1
Channel: Australian Research Data Commons - ARDC
Date: 2023-03-01

Recorded: 09/02/2023

Opening Address:
00:00 Keith Russell 
Accompanying slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7710620

Keynote:
08:33 Jason Williams - Professionalizing Training 
Accompanying slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7710784

Lightning presentations:
1:12:40  Dr Pablo Franco - Assessing the Effectiveness of Training: Teaching Digital Skills to Researchers
1:23:22 Aidan Wilson - Intersect Training 2022
1:33:10 Dr Paula Martinez - Building Community
1:38:48 Dr Mark Crowe - Bringing Training to Research Communities
1:46:10  Liz Stokes - The Carpentries Partnership
Accompanying slides: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7710855


The Digital Research Skills Summit was a two-day event designed to engage and motivate collaborative action on the big nuggety issues facing our training communities.  

The event sought to address:

 - What skills and for whom?
 - Do capability frameworks help?
 - What does resourcing, coordination and collaboration look like for ensuring workforce development for skills trainers?
 - What do trainers, execs, national infrastructures and researchers need to do to ensure a sustainable future for skills training?
 - Networking: Welcome back to in-person connections!

Invited speakers from end user groups described the impact and value of data and digital research skills training. What value do researchers, infrastructure managers, data scientists, or industry stakeholders place on skills training.

The event aimed to address to major focus areas:

Day 1 - Explore success factors for skills trainingWhat can trainer communities do to help scale skills training, build community and enhance learner engagement, all within a sustainable model? 

Major themes included:
 - professionalisation of skills trainers
 - measuring the effectiveness of training
 - scalable and sustainable models for training programs
 - reaching audiences and bringing skills training to research communities

Day 2 - Influencing national skills conversations

What can the sector collaborate on to narrow the skills gap?

Major themes included:
 - the role of skills frameworks in guiding national skills policy
 - national approaches to evaluate and advocate for skills training
 - career-spanning learning and the value short-format training can add
 - the importance of community and peer learning.

Importantly, the event welcomed the trainer community back to in-person connections!

Invited speakers from trainer and research support communities described the impact and value of digital research skills training. What value do researchers, infrastructure managers, data scientists, or industry stakeholders place on skills training.

The Skills summit was aimed at people who:

 - provide training programs in research data, software and infrastructure
develop communities to enable knowledge transfer around digital skills for researchers
 - make decisions about research data, software and infrastructure training program offerings at their organisation, institution, or department
 - have an interest in furthering research data management, software design and utilisation, high performance computing, cloud and related digital infrastructure training programs at a local and national level
 - are responsible for policy decisions around digitally skilled research support professionals including technology, education, employment and/or funding policy.

Learn more about the Skills Summit: https://ardc.edu.au/project/ardc-skills-summit/