Winner Chawinga2024-09-252024-09-252020CHAWINGA, WINNER (2020). Research data management in public universities in Malawi. University of Western Cape. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25379/uwc.9173156.v1https://hdl.handle.net/10566/16183The data is based on a PhD study that investigated how research data has been generated, organised, shared, stored, preserved, accessed and re-used in Malawian public universities with a view to proposing a framework for research data management in universities in Malawi. The objectives of the study were: to determine research data creation, sharing and re-use practices in public universities in Malawi; to investigate research data preservation practices in public universities in Malawi; to investigate the competencies that librarians and researchers need to effectively manage research data; and to find out the challenges that affect the management of research data in public universities in Malawi. The data is in three sets: qualitative data gathered through interviews with directors of research from the universities; quantitative data gathered from librarians and researchers.enLibrariesLecturersResearch Data managementMalawiLibrary and Information StudiesLibrarianshipHigher EducationDatasethttps://doi.org/10.25379/uwc.9173156.v1