When you do research, you must ensure that your project is conducted in accordance with good research practice. You are required to follow a number of regulations and before you begin your research, you need the necessary permits and approvals. You will find more information on the page for legal and ethical issues.

If you are going to write a data management plan for a research project, or if you have questions related to openly available publication of research data, the data management support can help with that. Read more below.

Do you need to write a data management plan?

Those of you who are planning, or have been granted funds for, a research project where data collection is included probably need to write a data management plan. The major Swedish and European research funders require a data management plan for projects where data is collected. Regardless of external requirements, it is strongly recommended to write a data management plan, as it helps the project manage its data in a safe, structured, and predictable manner. If you are unsure about whether you are handling research data in your project, you can read more about what research data is below.

If your project is going to collect data, look at the template for the data management plan (see the link below) and contact the data management support already in the planning phase of the project, or otherwise as soon as possible. We at the data management support will then schedule a meeting with you where we go through the questions in the template and your proposed answers together. Before the meeting, you should therefore fill in the data management plan template to the best of your ability. The data management plan should then be viewed as a living document, that can be updated as the project progresses.

Contact the data management support: datahantering@sh.se