Both demands and opportunities in data management have only increased. Therefore, the four data stewards have an important task in helping AAU researchers not only to manage data correctly, but also to exploit the potential of new opportunities that can help research along the way.

It is the plan that the four data stewards will be very active in reaching out to researchers locally, as well as be available for researchers to contact whenever the need for feedback and guidance arises.

Currently, planning is underway and activities on the drawing board include:

• Courses on how to create a data management plan, for example
• Dissemination of the FAIR principles (fair.aau.dk) and how to use them in your research
• Presentation of tools, e.g. AAU Data Deposit
• Dialogue and discussion about researchers' needs, challenges and experiences
• Creating shortcuts to new technological possibilities for data management, e.g., computing power at LUMI
• Workshops etc.

The four data stewards are respectively Kamilla Hall Kragelund, Freya Vamberg Delfs, Dennis Aagaard Pedersen and Thomas Andersen, who all four bring experience, competences and as well as a huge commitment to their work as data stewards at AAU. They are organizationally anchored in the CLAAUDIA team at ITS, but will be largely in contact with and active in the organization locally among the researchers.

You are very welcome to contact the new data stewards at claaudia@aau.dk

You can read a more detailed presentation of the four data stewards below:

"I'm looking forward to talking to researchers and getting their input and connecting them with how we can make the possibilities of data management more accessible to them, to help them reach their goals."

Thomas holds a bachelor’s in Information Science and Cultural Communication from KU and a MSc in Information Technology and Information Science from AAU.

Prior to Thomas' appointment as data steward, he worked as a research assistant at UCPBL, where his work included gathering knowledge about the experiences of researchers during COVID-19 lockdown.

"I am generally interested in data dilemmas and can recognize the challenges that I now want to help researchers with. It will be exciting to meet new needs and requests where we don't yet have a solution ready - I'm passionate about us working towards that."

Freya holds a MSc in Sociology from AAU and has experience from the Danish Agency for IT and Learning, where she, among other things, has worked on research of teachers' digital everyday life, Aula and ICILS - (International Computer and Information Literacy Study) and the European School Network.

"First of all, I am looking forward to the ripening process, where we will dive into qualifying and standardising services and offers to researchers. It sounds challenging, which fortunately only makes me even more eager to see how we can go about it and succeed."

Dennis has a Cand.IT, Multimedia with a Bachelor in English and comes with experience from the IT industry, where he has been primarily in media production and e-learning as a link between user and development with a strong focus on getting the user's demands out and incorporated into the digital solutions.

"I come from a scientific position (VIP) at SDU, where I worked with health data sets and experienced how the FAIR principles worked. Many applied for access to our datasets and used it in their research, and it worked really well, I therefore understand the researchers' work and challenges with data and am looking forward to sitting on the other side of the table as a data steward and helping the researchers at AAU with solutions for their research data."

Kamilla holds a Bachelor of Medicine from AAU and a Master of Science in Molecular Nutrition and Food Technology from AU and brings experience from a position as a scientific assistant at the National Institute of Public Health (SDU), where she conducted population surveys and worked with quantitative data sets in the health field, such as the National Health Profile.