Research Operations ‘Space’: Improving and streamlining the entire research lifecycle

Luke W. Johnston

December 4, 2023

Overarching aim of space

  • Connect and collaborate with researchers/staff to build tools to make work easier

  • Run training sessions on skills used across research

Activities

Steno Research Ops

Reduce non-creative or non-social work by automating or streamlining them.

Create training material that helps simplify work that can’t be automated or streamlined.
https://steno-aarhus.github.io/research-ops/

Seedcase Project

Develop software to make it easier to build, manage, share, find, and get data.
https://seedcase-project.org/

UK Biobank

Documentation and R package to simplify work with the UK Biobank.
https://github.com/steno-aarhus/ukbAid

Common Docs

Resources and support for conducting research at Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus.
https://steno-aarhus.github.io/research/

Multi-day formal courses

Reproducible Research in R: Intro course
https://r-cubed-intro.rostools.org/

Reproducible Research in R: Intermediate course
https://r-cubed-intermediate.rostools.org/

Reproducible Research in R: Advanced course
https://r-cubed-advanced.rostools.org/

Ongoing informal training

Virtual Coding Club
https://coding-club.rostools.org/

In-person Coding Café (led by Daniel)
https://coding-cafe-sdca-au.netlify.app/

Next year’s plans

Reproducible Research in R: In Server Environments course
https://github.com/rostools/r-cubed-ise

Packaging R code to maximise re-use and impact
https://github.com/rostools/r-pkg-intro

An introductory course to a collaborative workflow with Git and GitHub