Research Drive roles

When requesting storage services, you must nominate one person for each of the following project roles:

Project owner

The owner of the project, usually the principal investigator, must be a member of staff at the University. This role makes or authorises changes to the project storage.

Postgraduate research students, including doctoral candidates, must nominate their supervisor as the project owner. This responsibility for the project and data management aligns with supervision and ethics approval processes but is not associated with ownership of the data or intellectual property.

Data owner

A person who owns the data, commonly the project owner or their delegate. Postgraduate research students, including doctoral candidates, are usually data owners for their thesis projects. This role can be held by more than one person. Refer to the Intellectual Property Created by Staff and Student Policy.

Data contact

A person, in addition to the roles above, who the University will contact regarding this service or project (e.g. annual review and survey), commonly the project owner or their delegate. This role can be held by more than one person.

Research Drive access

Drive access

All files and subfolders within a specific Research Drive will be accessible by all members of that Research Drive. It isn’t possible to provide access to specific files or subfolders.

When requesting research storage services, you must define one of the following access levels for each project member:

“Read-only” means a person may view (read) files, and download a copy, but they cannot edit, create or delete files within the drive.
“Read and write” means a person may view, download, copy, edit, create and delete files within the drive.

Add or remove access to a drive

Complete the Request or update storage form.

Provide the name of the Research Drive
Select ‘Change access’
Provide details of request - name, username (e.g. jdoe007), access level

Permission will be sought from the Project Owner of the drive.