Managing and sharing research data, Edinburgh

Date: Tuesday 17 June 2008

Location: 22 Buccleuch Place, Room 1.2 (1st floor), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Course Leaders: Veerle Van den Eynden (RELU DSS), John Southall (ESDS Qualidata)

PROGRAMME

10.00-10.15	Registration and coffee
10.15-11.00	Introduction: data management and data sharing applied to research involving people as participants; legal and ethical aspects (duty of confidentiality, data protection act, freedom of information act, data sharing obligations for RC funded researchers, dealing with confidential and personal data)
11.00-12.30	Group 1. Developing consent agreements for obtaining informed consent from participants  OR  Group 2. Dealing with confidential research information and anonymisation techniques to enable use and sharing of research data
12.30-13.15	Lunch
13.15-14.45	Group 1. Dealing with confidential research information and anonymisation techniques to enable use and sharing of research data  OR  Group 2. Developing consent agreements for obtaining informed consent from participants
14.45-15.15	Discussion and refreshments
15.15-16.00	For RELU researchers: data documentation and metadata