IQDA Event

There are three upcoming seminars which will be of interest to those hoping to archive their qualitative data.

Title: Ethics review system and researching minors
Date: Wednesday, 24th November 2010
Speaker: Dr Arja Kuula (Finnish Social Science Data Archive/University of Tampere, Finland) hosted by IQDA/NIRSA
Venue: NIRSA seminar room, top floor Iontas building. 4 pm -5.30 pm
Summary: Finland has recently established an ethics review system which will be common to all universities. The presentation will focus specifically on research with children and underage young people. In Finland it is not assumed that researchers should always request a separate consent from a guardian for research involving minors. The difficult balance between the principles of autonomy and protection when aiming to minimise harm to those affected by research will be discussed

Title: Should we reconsider our ethics?
Date: Thursday, 25th November 2010
Speaker: Dr Arja Kuula (Finnish Social Science Data Archive/University of Tampere, Finland) hosted by The Department of Sociology, NUIM
Venue: TBC
Summary: When rejecting the archiving of qualitative interviews, researchers mainly invoke the confidentiality of the interview situation. Researchers tend to define the interview relationship as something unpredictable and private, and interviewees as participants in need of protection. According to the experiences of Finnish Social Science Data archive the interviewees themselves define the relationship as an institutional one aiming to foster science. The participants also value the idea of archiving their experiences for future research. So should we move beyond the ethical impasse of ethical objection to data archiving?
Arja Kuula has a PhD in Sociology and works as a development manager in the Finnish Social Science Data Archive. She is responsible for the archiving processes of qualitative data and information service on research ethics, privacy protection and copyright issues relating to both quantitative and qualitative data. In 2006, Kuula published a handbook on research ethics and legislation regulating data collection
and re-use. Kuula has been a member of the Finland's National Advisory Board on Research Ethics and she chaired 2008 a working group to make a plan for ethics review system in the humanities and social sciences in Finland.

Title: The trouble with sharing: best practice in archiving qualitative data
Date: Tuesday, 30th of November 2010
Summary: The RAcCER Project, a joint initiative of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive and  Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI)
Venue: Centre for Effective Services Services, 9 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2
RSVP: aileen.ocarroll@nuim.ie by Friday the 26th of November
RAcCER Re-use and Archiving of Complex Community-Based Evaluation Research
 
 

A vital record of contemporary Irish life

The Irish Qualitative Data Archive was launched on Tuesday the 22nd of June by Catriona Crowe of the National Archives who spoke about her experiences as a young archivist and the importance of archives. Sound files of her excellent speech can be found here.

Dr Heather Crawford spoke about her experiences in archiving data from her Protestants and Irish Identity project, and Dr Mary Corcran introduced her project on returning Irish Migrants. Professor Sean O'Riain introduced and played two sound clips from the Life History and Social Change Project. Professor Rob Kitchin introduced the two photographic archives housed by the IQDA and Dr Jane Gray, programme leader for the archive introduced the work of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive. She said that "the archive provides a vital record of contemporary Irish life. It tells us who we are today and will provide an important record for future social histories. It will play a significant role in promoting the culture of sharing and reusing social science data in Ireland". Audio from all the speeches can be found here.

Pictured above: Catriona Crowe at the launch of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive, 22nd June 2010
 

Pictured above: Launch of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive, 22nd June 2010
 

Pictured above: Prof. Rob Kitchin and Prof. Seán Ó Riain at the launch of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive, 22nd June 2010
 
 

The second in our series of seminars on qualitative data and social policy will be presented by Liz Kerrins, Senior Policy Officer with the Children's Research Centre, Trinity College.  Liz has 13 years experience in research, policy analysis and advocacy.  She has analysed policy on children and the built environment and child poverty, and has undertaken consultation with children on their views on the local community.  She supports the dissemination and utilization of the Children's Research Centre's research, and is the editor of the Children's Research Centre's Research Briefing series.
The seminar will be held in the NIRSA/NCG conference room in the John Hume Building (third floor) at NUI Maynooth at 4 p.m., Wednesday, February 3rd.
 
Aileen O'Carroll

NIRSA/ISSP open seminar 
The significance of qualitative data in the work of the Tallaght West
Childhood Development Initiative
Dr. Tara Murphy

NIRSA/NCG Conference Room,
Third Floor John Hume Building
NUIM Maynooth
Maynooth
Co. Kildare
Ireland

  2 December, 2009 @ 4pm *

* All Welcome *

The Tallaght West  Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) is one of three 'Prevention and Early Intervention' sites co-funded by the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and The Atlantic Philanthropies. CDI has commissioned a range of service providers to deliver innovative children's services in Tallaght West as well as supporting the development and implementation of a community safety intiative. All services/ initiatives are being rigorously evaluated using a range of research methodologies and it is anticipated that more than 2000 participants will have participated in the evaluations by the end of 2011.
 
This seminar will examine the significant role that qualitative data plays in influencing all elements of CDI's work including service delivery and strategy development. In turn, the seminar will also discuss the role of qualitative data in informing and supporting policy implementation.

Tara Murphy is the Research and Evaluation Officer with the Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI). She has a BA Microbiology and a BSc (Hons) Psychology. Her PhD was in the area of Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) and more specifically, on the provision of parent support at key life stages. She continues to present on this to many audiences. Tara has been a part-time lecturer and examiner on the Behavioural Science course in the School of Medicine (Trinity College Dublin) for the last four years and has also coordinated an education initiative in Clinical Microbiology on Infection Control in Health Care  Professionals. Tara also worked as a researcher on a short project in St. Clare’s Unit (Temple Street Children’s University Hospital) which examined the predictors of the disclosure of child sexual abuse prior to her joining CDI. One of Tara's key roles in CDI is to oversee the implementation of six independent evaluation projects.

 
 
(Funded under the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, administered by the HEA)
 
Aileen O'Carroll