Learner Profiles
Postgraduate Researcher
- Starting point: Has encountered basic RDM and is planning or producing their first research outputs.
- Goal: Understand what others need to discover and reuse the work, and distinguish exploratory analysis from prospective plans.
- Teaching needs: Small worked records, clear terminology, a retained assessment and publication decisions with immediate feedback.
Research Staff Member
- Starting point: Creates datasets, workflows, protocols or scholarly resources, often with collaborators and access constraints.
- Goal: Improve output metadata, interpretation, provenance, permissions and contribution records.
- Teaching needs: Cases beyond articles and biomedical data; explicit treatment of restricted access, unknowns and justified priorities.
Academic or Project Lead
- Starting point: Makes publication, supervision and collaboration decisions across a project lifecycle.
- Goal: Select a feasible combination of Open Research practices and agree who implements and reviews them.
- Teaching needs: Publication routes, preregistration and Registered Report distinctions, credit discussions and defensible strategies for sensitive or third-party material.
These profiles guide facilitation, not separate prerequisites. All learners can use a browser or printed materials, and no coding or repository account is required.