CREATE & MANAGE DATA

CONSENT & ETHICS

OVERVIEW

Much research data about people—even sensitive data—can be shared ethically and legally if researchers employ strategies of informed consent, anonymisation and controlling access to data

  • Researchers obtaining data from people are expected to maintain high ethical standards and comply with relevant legislation. Ethical guidance is provided by professional bodies, host institutions and funding organisations

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  • Informed consent is an ethical requirement for most research. It must be considered and implemented throughout the research lifecycle, from planning to publication and should include making provisions for sharing and future use of data

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  • Before data obtained from research with people can be shared with other researchers, archived or published, data may need to be anonymised so that individuals, organisations or businesses cannot be identified

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  • Sensitive and confidential data may be safeguarded effectively by regulating or controlling access to data or use of them.  As well as securely storing such data, such safeguards enable data to be shared with others for research and educational purposes

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  • Ethical guidelines for research are issued by professional bodies, host institutions and funding organisations. We have collated a number of useful resources on research ethics, consent and anonymisation.

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A QUICK GUIDE TO THE ARCHIVE  

1 of 10: We provide continuous access to the UK’s largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences
2 of 10: We hold thousands of data collections for social science research and teaching, quantitative and qualitative
3 of 10: Each of our data collections has a unique persistent identifier (DOI) that makes it easier to find and cite
4 of 10: We hold the only copy of many of the UK's large national surveys charting social research back decades
5 of 10: We are an established national archive at the forefront of managing, preserving, sharing and delivering data
6 of 10: We are certified to ISO 27001, the information security standard, and helped develop the Data Seal of Approval
7 of 10: We are a collaborative organisation supporting emerging and existing creators and users of data
8 of 10: We provide best practice guidance and training in managing and sharing research data
9 of 10: You won’t be able to find your family records on our site. You should visit a genealogical site instead
10 of 10: We don’t provide ready-made statistics, but using Nesstar you can view frequencies from popular surveys
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