We are excited to announce the launch of Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA), a portal for discovering digital research training events, materials, providers and trainers in Australia, New Zealand, and the region. The portal will be launched at the eResearch Australasia conference on Monday 11 October 2021.

“Australian researchers need training in data and digital research skills to effectively conduct world-leading research that tackles the critical problems the world is facing.,” said Kathryn Unsworth, Manager of the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Skilled Workforce team.

“DReSA is a central training registry for researchers and others in the sector looking to uplift their digital research skills, and for trainers to find best-practice materials and colleagues to collaborate with.”

DReSA is a critical piece of the ARDC’s National Digital Research Skills Agenda, providing skills uplift opportunities across the sector. It was developed by the National Training Registry (NTR) Working Group, which was formed at the ARDC Skills Summit in 2020. The working group partnered with ELIXIR’s TeSS platform, and an exchange of the TeSS infrastructure resulted in the development of DReSA.

DReSA received co-investment from the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and ARDC, and is a partnership between 13 Australian research organisations: ARDC, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Australian BioCommons, Australian Space Data Analysis Facility, CSIRO, Deakin University, Federation University, Intersect, Monash University, National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), QCIF, University of Sydney, University of Queensland.