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Research Ethics and Open Data 

This session will be most useful to researchers and postgraduate students.  

Sharing your research data is undoubtedly a Good Thing. It’s also rapidly becoming the norm for all academic disciplines. But what about researchers who work with sensitive data? Concerns about violating ethical or legal obligations often prevent valuable datasets from seeing the light of day. 

In this short session, we’ll discuss some of the key issues around data sharing and research ethics; we’ll discuss the difference between Open Data and FAIR Data; and we’ll consider some ideas for making sensitive data as open as possible while keeping it as closed as necessary.   

Presenter: Dr Simon Smith, Research Data Support Officer, Library & University Collections.

Further information

This session is part of the University of Edinburgh's Good Research Practice Week, which has been organised by a University wide group.

If you have any queries about this event please contact EdinburghResearchOffice@ed.ac.uk and this will be forwarded to the event organiser.