Qualitative interviews with nine researchers at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) at TU Delft were undertaken in order to get an understanding of data management needs at the faculty in advance of appointing a dedicated Data Steward. The purpose of this was to aid the recruitment of the Data Steward and to define the skills and experience of an ideal candidate, as well as help deciding on the work priority areas for the Data Steward. The results of this research can be also used as a point in time reference to monitor changes in data management practice at the faculty.The main data management challenges identified were: handling personal sensitive research data; working with big data, managing and sharing commercially confidential information and software management issues. Despite the diversity of problems, some common issues were identified as well: need for improving daily data management practice, as well as the need for revising workflows for students’ research data. With the exception of one researcher, who was in opposition to the Data Stewardship project, all other researchers expressed their support for the project and welcomed the idea of having a dedicated Data Steward at the faculty.Additionally, several follow up actions were already undertaken as a follow up of these interviews: the Data Stewardship Coordinator was invited to give two talks about Data Stewardship to two different groups of researchers;a member of the Research Data Support from the Library team was asked to deliver a training course for students;the Data Stewardship Coordinator was asked to discuss the best way of rolling our data management training for PhD students at TPM in coordination with the TPM Graduate School.Given that the financial allocation for the Data Steward at TPM faculty is currently at 0,5 FTE for the first year and 1,0 FTE for the two subsequent years (until December 2020), it is recommended that the first year is spent on continuing and extending this research to better understand the needs of the faculty. It is suggested that at the same time, the Data Steward starts addressing the most urgent data management needs at TPM faculty, in particular the development of a data management policy, as well as the development of solutions and recommendations for working with personal sensitive research data.The two subsequent years could be devoted to developing resources and solutions for the remaining problems and for critical evaluation of the project and its effect on data management practice at the faculty. This approach should provide the faculty with enough resources and information to decide on the best strategy for Data Stewardship beyond December 2020.