 This video shows you how to write a data management plan for a research project. Writing a data management plan is simply good practice for any kind of research, as it means that in the early stages, when you're designing and planning your research, you think about how your data will be managed throughout your project and shared afterwards with the wider research community. Increasingly, also research funders require a data management plan to be included as part of a grant application. A good overview of funder requirements in the UK is given by the Digital Curation Centre on their website. The data requirements of the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK are as followed. Grant applicants who plan to create data during their research include a data management plan with their applications. And once a grant finishes, the grant holder submits the research data to our reshare repository within three months of the end of the grant. Also, the ESRC framework for research ethics makes reference to considering the sharing and wider use of research data in the long term as part of ethical considerations. These are the topics the ESRC expects to see described in a data management plan. On our website, we provide you with easy guidance on how to address each of those topics, referring to relevant guidance on our website or elsewhere. If you're applying for research funding from another council, they may equally have a template and guidance available on their website. Else, the Digital Curation Centre developed the DMP online tool that can be used for writing a data management plan for any kind of research project. This can help you in planning how to manage your data throughout your research, sketch the data cycle of your research project and decide at which stage which data management aspects need to be considered. Key issues to know before you write a plan is what are the legal, ethical and other obligations you may have towards participants, funders, your institution. What are your institution's policies and services that may be available such as a backup strategy, an IP policy, an institutional data repository? Assign roles and responsibilities to specific people within your team or across institutions for collaborative research and make sure to implement and review the data management practices that you had planned at the start of your project. Funders equally expect you to cost data management into a grant application For this purpose, we have a simple tool that starts with a checklist that can help you to consider which activities you may need to cost in to your data management plan. The tool is available online and lists different activities you may need to consider where these are relevant. Specific tips make reference to suggestions on how to cost this into a grant in terms of extra time or resources needed. If you want us to review a data management plan you plan to submit with a grant application please get in touch. We're happy to do this at any one time.