ARDC National Skills Forum (July 2025): Growing and Adapting to New Audiences and Scales

About the Event

Join us to learn more about how training and audience engagement has helped 2 platforms succeed.

• Learn how user-centric design and platform development at Biosecurity Commons have ensured that multidisciplinary audiences are actively engaged through ongoing feedback loops. These loops help identify where additional training materials are needed. Workflow templates have been co-developed with representative user communities, demonstrating how different experts can contribute to different parts of a shared workflow. While in-person training sessions based on these insights have proven successful, the team is now exploring ways to scale this training.
• Hear why training is a core part of the Australian BioCommons’ mission to enhance life science research through digital infrastructure. You’ll learn about the key role that the National Bioinformatics Training Cooperative plays in bringing bioinformatics training to everyone regardless of location and hear about the benefits (and challenges!) of scaling training through a distributed online model.

Come ready to discuss lessons you have learned while trying to grow, adapt and scale to new audiences.

The ARDC National Skills Forum is a monthly community event for trainers and research support professionals hosted by the ARDC Skilled Workforce Development Team. Our purpose is to facilitate knowledge exchange across the trainer community, and showcase digital research skills development activities, resources and best practice across the sector.

Recording

Watch a recording of this session:

Speakers

• Dr Rob Clemens, Skills Development Lead (Planet), ARDC
• Dr Melissa Burke, Training Manager, Australian BioCommons
• Ellen Lyrtzis, Skills Development Lead (NCRIS), ARDC (facilitator)

Who Should Attend

People who train researchers and broader stakeholders invested in data skill uplift in research, including but not limited to:

• trainers and training managers
• digital infrastructure project managers and staff
• research software rngineers (RSEs), and NCRIS and compute facilities staff

What You’ll Gain

• Hear about some of the ingredients to successful platform adoption.
• Explore and contrast 2 different approaches to integrating training with service goals.
• Get an opportunity to discuss what is working in other training communities.

Do you have questions about this event? Contact us.

Please note that parts of this event will be recorded and shared by the ARDC. The ARDC respects the privacy of individuals. Information collected is in accordance with the ARDC Privacy Policy.

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