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Archiving and Accessing Qualitative Data:  
An all-island perspective
 
Date: Thursday 26 January 2012 
Time: 10am to 2pm 
Location: TCD School of Nursing & Midwifery, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2 
Cost: €25 
 
Places are limited to members so book now at
www.childrensresearchnetwork.org 
 
 
Event Summary
There is a growing body of qualitative research data being made available in data archives in both Ireland and the UK.  Examples of Irish qualitative data currently available for further analysis include Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) and Life Histories and Social Change in 20th Century Ireland.   The Timescapes Research Programme, at the University of Leeds, hosts a wide variety of economic and social research data relevant to child and family researchers; data which is available to researchers in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.  Access to this data provides researchers with greater opportunities to explore the issues that affect children, their families and their communities and which may ultimately contribute to informing children's policy. In this the second master class of the Children's Research Network for Ireland and Northern Ireland, participants will learn about the various qualitative datasets that are publicly-available for research purposes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
 
Key speakers
Dr Jane Gray from NUI Maynooth will explain the background to the establishment of Irish Qualitative
Data Archive (IQDA). She will look at the processes and procedures involved in lodging and accessing data in the archive and the criteria for assessing access requests.
Brian Merriman from the Children’s Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin will provide details of the Growing Up in Ireland qualitative data available from IQDA, and will discuss his experience of preparing and lodging the GUI data in the archive.
Dr Tara Murphy, as research manager for Childhood Development Initiative (CDI), Tara was responsible for preparing CDI qualitative evaluation data for lodging with IQDA; Tara will discuss her experience of this process. 
Brenda Phillips from the Timescapes Research Programme at the University of Leeds will describe the type of data that is collected and how researchers can access this data.
 

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

There will be a five-day intensive training course in the biographic-narrative-interpretive method (BNIM) at Ballyvaughan College of Art, Ballyvaughan, County Clare, on November 19th, 20th, 23rd, 24th and 25th, 2009.  To apply for a place (there aren't many), please contact Dr. Aine Macken-Walsh, Teagasc Rural Economy Research Centre, aine.mackenwalsh@teagasc.ie.  For a free copy of the most recently updated version of the BNIM Short Guide and Detailed Manual, or other information about BNIM, please contact tom@tomwengraf.com.