Data Carpentry, one of our partners, has received $750,000 in funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Data Carpentry develops and provides training to researchers in fundamental data skills to enable more effective and efficient research progress. The Institute is excited by the success of Data Carpentry, because it provides the basis for further collaboration and allows us to help deliver the workshops across the UK.

The new grant will help support Data Carpentry for two years. It will allow the project to grow its core team, establish better infrastructure, work with the volunteer community to develop content, conduct more workshops in more scientific domains and plan for sustainability.

In particular Data Carpentry plans to focus on expanding into new domains by developing new lesson content, particularly in the life sciences and physical sciences. Thousands of researchers will be receive the skills they need to conduct research using large scale data​ through regular workshops at universities and research organisations. The Data Carpentry instructor pool will be scaled up in collaboration with Software Carpentry by training instructors in both evidence-based teaching practices and the specifics of teaching and delivering Data Carpentry workshops. And for those reserachers who cannot male a workshop in person, strategies will be developed for delivering workshops online.

Read the original announcement from Data Carpentry. The text of the grant proposal is available on Figshare.