UKRIO research integrity webinar: data sharing and ethics 

10:00 am – 12:00 pm, Wednesday 11 November 2020

Overview 

The next session in the monthly webinars from the UK Research Integrity Office on research integrity and related issues.  

The focus of this webinar is data sharing and ethics.

 Kahryn Hughes and Anna Tarrant will reflect on the ethical value of qualitative data preservation and archiving as part of a broader ethical temporal sensibility towards social research data and integrity. In conversation, they consider the re-use of qualitative data in the context of the ‘data turn’ and discuss examples of good practice in a current climate characterised by data protectionism. They also consider how social and qualitative researchers can achieve good practice by attending to questions of data integrity and legacy in the context of data preservation and archiving.

Louise Corti will discuss some of the governance measures used to accredit the research projects and the researchers themselves. Ethics assessment plays a strong role here, as successful projects require a strong public good element, ethical conduct and realistic scope and methodological approach. The excellent new UK Statistics Authority (UKSA) Ethical self-assessment tool and supporting materials will be highlighted. Louise will also touch on reproducibility from research undertaken in safe havens. Access restrictions, as for the DEA data, mean that ‘reproducers’ also need to meet any access requirements. The UK Statistics Authority 'Accredited Researcher' model helps create a trusted network of researchers with the training and skills to both undertake analysis and check and rerun other's code.

Slides from presentations will be circulated to attendees afterwards and made available on UKRIO's website.

If you need advice relating to a particular research project, publication, problem, or allegation of misconduct, please contact UKRIO direct, so we can give you the right level of support: https://ukrio.org/get-advice-from-ukrio/

Programme 

Speaker Biographies

Dr Kahryn Hughes, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds

Kahryn Hughes is an internationally recognised scholar in the field of qualitative secondary analysis, lead editor of ‘Qualitative Secondary Analysis’ (SAGE), and in which I have developed innovative methods training. As a Senior Fellow of the next phase of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), I am responsible for all Qualitative Longitudinal and Qualitative Secondary Analysis research methods training for all UK social scientists for this five year period of its investment by the ESRC. This expertise builds out of my role as the Director of the Timescapes Archive, a world-leading specialist digital data repository for qualitative longitudinal research. Currently, I am Editor in Chief of the BSA/SAGE Journal: Sociological Research Online. I lead the MA Qualitative Research Methods for the School of Sociology and Social Policy.

Dr Anna Tarrant, Associate Professor, University of Lincoln and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

Anna Tarrant's research interests include men and masculinities; family life; the lifecourse; and methodological developments in qualitative secondary analysis. She is co-author of ‘Qualitative Secondary Analysis’ (SAGE). Her current funded study, ‘Following Young Fathers Further’, is a qualitative longitudinal, participatory study of the lives and support needs of young fathers. She is a Co-editor of Sociological Research Online and an editorial board member of Sociology, Gender, Place and Culture and Boyhood Studies.

Louise Corti, Associate Director, UK Data Archive

Louise Corti is an Associate Director at the UK Data Archive and leads the Data Services teams. Her research interests are around approaches, standards and technologies for reviewing, curating and reusing digital social science data (quant and qual). She is an author of the Sage Publications book, Managing and Sharing Research Data; a Guide to Good Practice and publications on data sharing and re-use. Louise helped establish the first national qualitative data archive, Qualidata, in 1994, and has helped many other qualitative archives set up around the world. She is interested in the current reproducibility agenda and tis this relates to qualitative research.

James Parry, Chief Executive, UK Research Integrity Office

James is Chief Executive of the UK Research Integrity Office. Joining UKRIO in 2006, he took up his current role in 2008, overseeing UKRIO’s transition to a registered charity supported by more than 100 research organisations.

He directs UKRIO’s work programme and leads its advisory service, responding to queries and concerns about research practice from researchers and the public. He developed UKRIO’s core guidance publications, such as its Code of Practice for Research, which are used by many leading research organisations.

James works with UKRIO’s subscribers and the wider UK research community to provide them with tailored support on research practice. He regularly speaks on how to sustain and enhance research integrity; audiences have included the Royal Society, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Irish National Forum on Research Integrity, the UK Research Integrity Forum and the World Conference on Research Integrity.

James has collaborated in numerous initiatives to support research integrity. He has worked with the Royal Society and other bodies on initiatives to effect positive change to research culture, assisted with the revision of the UK Concordat to Support Research Integrity, revised policies and systems for research integrity and governance at many universities, and regularly delivers training and discussion sessions at UK research organisations.

Prior to joining UKRIO, James worked as an archaeologist and a university administrator.


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