CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING OF TRAINERS WORKSHOP

DATA MANAGEMENT AND SHARING FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

AUGUST 28 TO 30, 2022, BEIRUT

Application deadline: Sunday July 24, 2022, 11:00 pm (Beirut time)

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS), through its Arab Public Data Archive initiative, is
pleased to announce a training of trainers (TOT) workshop on “Data Management and Sharing for the
Social Sciences” co-organized with the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The workshop will be held in Beirut from August 28 to
30, 2022, and is designed for those who participated in “Data Management and Sharing for the Social
Sciences” between November 2018 and November 2021 and are interested in delivering the training
in their institutions and/or countries.

Workshop Objectives and learning outcomes

This TOT aims to enable participants to deliver an effective “Data Management and Sharing for the
Social Sciences” training about:
 The benefits of research data management and the sharing of FAIR data (that is they meet the
principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability) and open datasets to both
the individual researcher and to the scientific enterprise as a whole;
 The complexities of research data based on disciplinary context, format, technical requirements,
and applicable policies;
 The implementation of data management standards and best practices across the research data
lifecycle to produce and share high-quality datasets;
 Drafting a research data management plan with real live examples;
 Applications for archiving research data for long-term preservation, discovery, access, and reuse

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

 Deliver, through facilitative skills, the training in a structured and clear manner to promote learner
engagement and skill acquisition
 Use different strategies in delivering the training
 Apply adult learning principles
 Manage the learner and the classroom environment
 Engage with different types of learners and address challenging participants, questions, and
behavior
 Receive and provide effective feedback

Workshop Format
 The training workshop will be held in English
 Training will be from 11am until 5:00 pm (Beirut time)
 Pre-workshop, each participant will be assigned a module of the curriculum to deliver to the
group. The presentation will be followed by feedback/reflections from the trainers and attendees.
 Participants are expected to fully participate in all sessions
 Participants will be awarded an ACSS-Odum Institute certificate based on full attendance and
successful completion of the workshop

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Tentative Training Workshop Agenda

Day 1: Sunday August 28, 2022

12:00 – 13:00 - Introduction
Welcome and course overview
Introductions
13:00 – 14:00 - Thinking about teaching
How Learning works – Building teaching skills – The role of expertise
14:00 – 14:30 - Break
14:30 – 17:00 - Participants presentations: Introduction to Research Data Management
Practice session: Research data management for the social sciences
Practice session: The research data lifecycle
Practice session: Towards FAIR and open data

Day 2: Monday August 29, 2022

11:00 – 13:30 - Planning, conducting and evaluating workshops
Designing lessons – The importance of practice - Co-teaching - Learning from feedback
13:30 – 14:30 - Break
14:30 – 17:00 - Participants presentations: Data Management Plans
Practice session: Introducing Research Data Management Plans
Practice session: Elements of RDMPs: Data storage and backup
Practice session: Elements of RDMPs: Ethical and legal aspects

Day 3: Tuesday August 30, 2022

11:00 – 13:30 - Participants presentations: Data Documentation and Data Sharing
Practice session: Data documentation in the social sciences
Practice session: Codebooks, Readme files, Codefiles, Metadata
Practice session: Data Publishing, Packaging, and Permissions
Practice session: Publishing Data and the ACSS Dataverse
13:30 – 14:30 - Break
14:30 – 15:30 - General discussion about the workshop and how it may be improved
15:30 – 16:30 - Brainstorming about future delivery of training by the participants
16:30 – 17:00 - Workshop evaluation form and farewell

Eligibility Guidelines
Applicants must:
 Have fully participated in one of the “Data Management and Sharing for the Social Sciences”
ACSS/Odum training workshops offered between November 2018 and November 2021
 Be citizens of an Arab League member state or nationals of an Arab country (defined as long-term
residents, even if they do not hold citizenship as in the case of refugees or stateless residents)
 Reside in the Arab region.
 Have at least intermediate level proficiency in English, as the workshop will be conducted in
English
 Prior teaching or training facilitation experience is a plus

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Application Process and Selection
 Applicants are required to apply online through this link: https://acss.grantplatform.com/.
 Please select English when completing your registration on the system.
 Click on ‘Start application’
 Under ‘Chapter’, click on ‘ACSS/Odum TOT workshop’ then click on ‘Save + next’ and
fill out all the fields.
 When done, click on ‘Submit application’.

Application deadline is Sunday July 24, 2022, 11:00 pm (Beirut time)

The selection committee is comprised of staff members from ACSS and faculty of the Odum Institute
who will review applications based on the following criteria:
 Relevance of current position and experience
 Concrete opportunities to facilitate future trainings
 Academic qualifications
 Language proficiency

By submitting the electronic application, applicants affirm that they agree, without any objections, to
the evaluation and selection results as decided and announced by the selection committee and ACSS.
All decisions made by the selection committee are final.

Accepted Applicants
Except for residents of Beirut, Lebanon, accepted applicants will be provided:
 Round-trip transportation from their home country or city
 Accommodations in Beirut for the duration of the workshop and a per diem (daily allowance)

Accepted applicants are expected to:

 Provide their own laptop
 Participate fully and attend all sessions of the workshop
 Deliver one module of the curriculum in a practice session
 Provide and receive constructive feedback

Please direct any queries to assm@theacss.org noting “ACSS/Odum TOT workshop” in the subject
line.

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The Trainers

Dalal Rahme has over 11 years of experience in academic libraries. She received her M.S. in
Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2014 with a
specialization in the Data Curation and Socio-Technical Data Analytics. She currently holds the
position of data services librarian at the American University of Beirut (AUB), where she assists in
the curation of data for different projects, delivers training and workshops related to data literacy, data
management, data curation and data visualization, and helps in administering the institutional
repository at AUB. She is also an instructor at the Graduate School of Information Science at the
Lebanese Public University where she teaches digital preservation and data curation since 2015 and
an instructor at the Library Juice Academy where she teaches a Data Management course.

Armin Straube is the Research Data Manager at the University of Limerick. Besides teaching and
consultancy around research data, he is currently working on the development of a data visualisation
lab and on a data publishing service. Before joining the University of Limerick in November 2020 he
was working in various data roles for the National Library of Germany, the National Library of Qatar,
and University College London. Armin holds master degrees in archives and records management,
history, and geography.

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About the Arab Council for the Social Sciences

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) is a regional, independent, non-profit organization
headquartered in Beirut, Lebanon. The ACSS works across the Arab region as well as globally. It
aims to promote and support the social sciences throughout the 22 countries in the Arab region by
providing funding, training, mentorship, publications and networking opportunities. It seeks to
achieve this objective by promoting quality research in the region; establishing networks of
knowledge production; enhancing research collaborations regionally, cross-regionally and globally;
disseminating, validating and utilizing the produced knowledge; and providing a model for academic
excellence and professional standards in the region. For more information, please visit
http://www.theacss.org.

About the Odum Institute

Founded in 1924, the Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in the Social Sciences supports the
social science teaching and research mission at UNC. The Institute provides a range of consulting
services on quantitative and qualitative methods, GIS and spatial analysis, survey research, and data
management. Odum offers workshops, summer courses, and a graduate certificate program. For more
information, please visit http://odum.unc.edu.

About the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

UNC-Chapel Hill, founded in 1789 as the first public university in the United States, is a global
higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public service. A member of the
prestigious Association of American Universities, the University offers 78 Bachelor’s, 112 Master’s,
68 Doctorate and seven professional degree programs. For more information, please visit
http://www.unc.edu.
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