2.7 Embedding and sustaining research data and research software professionals within research teams and institutions (I)

Yan Wang, Celia van Gelder, Julie Beardsell, @martateperek, @mariacruz, Sarah Coombs, Lieke de Boer, & Jeremy Cohen
Research data and software management has become an indispensable activity in interdisciplinary and collaborative research. Emerging skills and expertise in data and software management require research teams to include diverse types of data and software professionals. The integration of such roles in research teams and institutions is still at an early stage. This workshop brings speakers from several key stakeholder organizations in the Netherlands and the UK (digital competence centres, funders, research performing organisations and professional network organisations) to outline the current challenges with regards to sustaining data and software professionals in research teams and institutions. Participants are invited to share best practices and actively discuss together actionable suggestions on how to tackle the challenges.