The seminar series had its third instalment on Tuesday March 28th to a full house at Niels Henrik Abels hus café. “We’re very pleased with the level of engagement the seminars are getting,” says QualiFAIR leader Professor Kirsti Klette. “Making qualitative research more open goes hand-in-hand with many ethical and legal challenges. I think people see big value in discussing this together, across institutes and disciplines”, argues Klette.
The seminar on March 28th focused on the ‘why?’ and ‘how?’ of sharing of qualitative data, with three presentations from the Centre for Cancer Cell Reprogramming, the Department of Social Anthropology, and the Nordic Centre of Excellence: Quality in Nordic Teaching (QUINT). Discussed issues ranged from legal aspects of data sharing, such as anonymization and informed consent, to questions relating to the benefits and risks of long-term preservation of qualitative data.
“The range of discussed research projects and data types has been quite broad, which I think is an advantage”, says coordinator of QualiFAIR, Dr Agata Bochynska from UiO’s Open Research group. “There is a clear overlap in the challenges these projects face, and we have learned a lot from the ones shared by the speakers,” she adds.
The two first seminars in the series covered consent form solutions that support FAIR principles, and qualitative data anonymization techniques. They included presentations from the Center for Research on Extremism and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion at UiO as well as from the School of Science at Aalto University in Finland.
The most recent Breakfast Seminar on April 18th discussed issues of copyright in research while the upcoming seminar on May 9th will focus on the possibilities for using ‘public interest’ as the legal ground for collecting and sharing data with personal information.
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