Seminars

 
Title: Social Sciences Research Ethics Slam
Date: Thursday, 8th of November 2012, 10.00am – 12.00
Venue: University College Cork 
 
A workshop for social science researchers, hosted by ISS21 and the Study of Religions department. Focusing on:
The Public Use of Private Data?

• Re-use, archiving and/or destruction of data
• Ethical dilemmas and contradictions in ‘best practice’ guidance
• Should empirical data be destroyed on project completion?
• Should empirical data be made available for re-use and re-analysis?

 
Researchers are invited to give very short (max 7 minutes) presentations on the challenges they have encountered in relation to these questions in their own empirical, field-work based research in different social science disciplines. The presentations will provide the platform for an interdisciplinary workshop discussion on these ethical issues and on contradictions in ‘best practice’ guidance and policy.
 
Further info: Please contact Lidia (l.guzy@ucc.ie) and Caitríona (c.nilaoire@ucc.ie) with offers of short presentations for this workshop. It is hoped that this might form the basis for a series of social sciences research ethics workshops on different themes.
 
 

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
 
 

Title: Informed Ethics? A Cross-Disciplinary Roundtable on Ethics in Social Research
Date: 4th November 2010, 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: John Hume Boardroom, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
RSVP: 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

Invited speakers:

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

Timescapes and ESDS Qualidata are hosting a joint seminar in the University of Leeds on 15th 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
 
 

Title: Methodological Muddle, Alternative Research Design, or the Beginning of a New Research Era?
Presented by: Professor Max Bergman, Chair of Methodology and Political Sociology University of Basel, Switzerland
Date: 14 April 2010, 1pm to 3pm
Venue: Theatre G6, DIT Mountjoy Square
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.
Further information and registration: A place will be automatically reserved for you by sending an email to mairead.seymour@dit.ie