2025-05-20 –, Cineac
The Research Cockpit is a new central interface for researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology that helps them navigate Research Data Management support and integrated Research Data IT Infrastructure. The first version of the Research Cockpit went live in September 2024. In this session, we share the thinking behind the system and our initial learnings from both researcher and support staff
The Research Cockpit service from the researcher's perspective is experienced as the central interface where researchers can navigate RDM & related processes and discover/access relevant and appropriate Research Data Infrastructure (RDI) systems and services. The Research Cockpit service from the support staff perspective provides structure and a way to integrate their engagements with researchers in integrated chained processes that span multiple teams.
The system facilitates researchers with, among other things: creating their Data Management Plan in collaboration with Data Stewards, initiating relevant documents such as data sharing agreements, getting Ethical approval from the Ethical Review Board, and gaining access to and support on systems to store and share their research data.
The first version of the system was built and continues to grow in a collaborative effort by a growing group of teams across IT and Research Support. In this session, the team lead of the Data Stewards at the TU/e and Service Manager within the Research Data Infrastructure Lab will present how the system came together via collaboration. We will share how it is experienced from both the researcher's perspective and support staff perspective since the system went live in September 2024.
Service Manager at Eindhoven University of Technology
Liz has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Manchester. She worked as an ESO Fellow in Chile for the largest array of telescopes in the world, the Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA). She then worked at Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands as a researcher and support manager of ALMA. After 12 years in research she switched careers and became a research data steward for the Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM). She is now the Data Steward’s Team Lead of the Eindhoven University of Technology. She is an expert on data management, open science, and public engagement.