Seminars

There are three upcoming seminars which will be of interest to those hoping to archive their qualitative data.
 Wednesday, November 24th 2010
Ethics review system and researching minors
Dr Arja Kuula
(IQDA/NIRSA)
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
Venue : NIRSA seminar room, top floor Iontas building. 4 pm -5.30 pm

 
Thursday, November 25th 2010
Should we reconsider our ethics?
(Department of Sociology, NUIM)
Dr Arja Kuula
Finnish Social Science Data Archive/University of Tampere, Finland
Venue : TBC
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.
 
Tuesday the 30th of November

The RAcCER Project, a joint initiative of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive and  Tallaght West Childhood Development Initiative (CDI) would like to invite you to

"The trouble with sharing: best practice in archiving qualitative data"

9.30 am - 1.00 am
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
 
 
 

Informed Ethics?
A Cross-Disciplinary Roundtable on Ethics in Social Research

Invited speakers:
Professor Rena Lederman, Princeton University
Professor Christine Milligan, Lancaster University
Jennifer Schweppe, BCL LLM Grad DIp, University of Limerick

4 November 2010
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
John Hume Boardroom
National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
RSVP to: thomas.strong@nuim.ie

This event is free and open to all.
Organised by the NUIM Working Group for Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Research Ethics with funding assistance from the  NUIM Research Support Office

Informed Ethics?
A Cross-Disciplinary Roundtable on Ethics in Social Research

Invited speakers:
Professor Rena Lederman, Princeton University
Professor Christine Milligan, Lancaster University
Jennifer Schweppe, BCL LLM Grad DIp, University of Limerick

4 November 2010
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
John Hume Boardroom
National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
RSVP to: thomas.strong@nuim.ie

This event is free and open to all.
Organised by the NUIM Working Group for Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue on Research Ethics with funding assistance from the  NUIM Research Support Office

Timescapes and ESDS Qualidata are hosting a joint seminar in the University of Leeds on 15 November 2010 which will be of interested to researchers interested in re-using qualitative data. The seminar brings together researchers who have conducted re-use projects on 'futures' data and will consist of presentations on diverse forms of re-use. The wider aim of the event is to promote the re-use of social science research data and to explore the different ways in which this can be carried out.
Further details including programme and booking: http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/news/eventdetail.asp?id=2597

The Centre for Transformative Narrative Inquiry is delighted that Professor Arthur Frank will present an evening Seminar on Wednesday 9th June from 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. and a Masterclass on Thursday 10th June from 9.30 a.m – 3.30 p.m.

Arthur Frank is Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary in Canada and is author of “At the Will of the Body”, “The Wounded Storyteller” and his most recent book “The Renewal of Generosity”. He has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the role of pain and illness in people’s lives and how people make meaning of these experiences. In particular, he has focused on the role of stories and the importance of the teller and the listener. His unique approach to narrative research has added greatly to our capacity to be present in a more healing way to suffering.

Places need to be pre booked for the Masterclass. It would be preferable to reserve a place for the Seminar but places will also be available on the night. Please contact Mary Corbally in the Department of Adult and Community Education at NUI Maynooth for further details. Phone: (01) 708 3784.  Email: mary.corbally@nuim.ie

Professor Max Bergman, Chair of Methodology and Political Sociology University of Basel, Switzerland will be speaking on the topic of

Methodological Muddle, Alternative Research
Design, or the Beginning of a New Research Era?
The event will take place in Theatre G6, DIT Mountjoy Square from  1pm to 3pm on 14 April 2010.
This seminar is run as part of the School of Social Sciences and Law
and the CSER programme to support research and scholarly activity among staff and postgraduate students.
 

A place will be automatically reserved for you by sending an email to  mairead.seymour at dit.ie