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When developing new products, tools or services, one always need to think about the end users to ensure a wide-spread adoption. While this applies equally to services developed at higher education institutions, sometimes these services are driven by policies and not by the needs of end users. This policy-driven approach can prove challenging for building effective community engagement. The initial development of Research Data Management support services at the University of Cambridge was policy-driven and subsequently failed in the first instance to engage the community of researchers for whom these services were created. In this practice paper, we describe the initial approach undertaken at Cambridge when developing RDM services, the results of this approach and lessons learnt. We then provide an overview of alternative, democratic strategies employed and their positive effects on community engagement. We summarise by performing a cost-benefit analysis of the two approaches. This paper might be a useful case study for any institutions aiming to develop central support services for researchers, with conclusions applicable to the wider sector, and extending beyond Research Data Management services.

Presentation of the Turing Way at the Tools, practices and systems for data science and artificial intelligence: scoping workshop. As announced last year, The Alan Turing Institute has received significant new funding from the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund for a research programme in AI for Science, Engineering, Health, and Government. A key theme of this will include a cross-cutting effort to develop tools, practices, and systems to support all areas of the programme and, more broadly, to wider research in applied data science and AI. A user-centred approach will be taken when creating these tools to ensure they are of practical use to researchers with a clear potential user-community among the Institute's challenge domains. This scoping workshop will bring together data science and AI researchers to collaboratively propose and define short, practical projects that will be supported under this theme. Following the workshop, attendees will develop these into more concrete project outlines which will then considered by the management board for the programme.