The resulting materials are being embedded in three participating postgraduate programmes and made available through the Institute for Academic Development and EDINA for use by all postgraduate and early career researchers at the University of Edinburgh as well as made available generally through an open license.

In addition to web-based learning units that students can work through at their own pace, the course includes video interviews with leading academics about data management challenges, and practical exercises in handling data in four software analysis environments: SPSS, NVivo, R and ArcGIS.

The resultant materials are available on a website for anyone to use and will also be deposited with an open licence in JorumOpen, a national repository for open educational resources.

The project was led by the Data Library team at EDINA, part of Information Services at the University of Edinburgh.

https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/about/organisation/edl/data-library-projects/mantra