CaSDaR Townhall Launch event: Working with Other Data Steward Initiatives - UCL ARC

This video is a talk from the Data Steward Initiatives session at the CaSDaR Townhall Launch event on the 18th September 2025, in person at the Library of Birmingham and online.

The presentation speaker was James Wilson from ARC-UCL.

Abstract: A brief overview of how UCL is addressing the challenges of Research Data Stewardship from an institutional perspective, including our approach to professionalising the role, involving the community, and working on both research and services.

Speaker Bio: James has been involved in research data management in university settings for over 15 years, working with researchers from various disciplines and leading projects developing software, services, and infrastructure. He joined UCL as Head of Research Data Services in 2016, initially as part of the university's central Information Services Division, latterly as a member of UCL's Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC). During that time, he has led the development of their Research Data Storage Service, implemented their Research Data Repository, and established an institutional Electronic Research Notebook. More recently, he has built a team of professional Research Data Stewards, who collaborate with research teams and academic departments to help ensure data is well managed and as FAIR as possible. His academic background is in 18th-Century English Literature and the history of ideas, although that now seems like a very long time ago..

More information on the event can be found here: https://casdar.ac.uk/event/careers-an...

The slides for this session can be found here: https://10.5281/zenodo.17478273

This video is an output from the Careers and Skills for Data-driven Research (CaSDaR) initiative, a 4-year UKRI funded dRTP initiative, grant number UKRI739.