The Library’s Research Data Team is excited to announce our main event for Love Data Week 2025, exploring the theme “Whose Data Is It, Anyway?”

Title: Creating community narratives through research: the ethical use of sensitive data

Date: 12 February 2025

Time: 14.00-17.00

Location: Building 100, University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 Highfield (Hybrid event)

Registration link: https://forms.office.com/e/AaTZuXECxs

During this event, we will have two extended talks focusing on researchers who have hands on experience with handling sensitive data as well as lightning talks from researchers who are working in this area.

BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 first talk features Charlie Knight, a PhD candidate at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载. Charlie, a former Wolfson Foundation Scholar and upcoming Fellow at the Leo Baeck Institute, will discuss his research using the papers of Theodor Hirschberg (archive MS314) and how he integrated the process of handling this sensitive data into his research in an ethical way.

The second half of the event will be led by Ben Jarman, a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Law at the University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载. Ben’s work explores the experiences of long-term prisoners and the moral implications of extreme punishments in the UK. Ben will discuss the ethical considerations of managing open data derived from interviews with imprisoned individuals and how this has informed policy and recommendations.

Register for this event on the ethical practices in handling sensitive data across disciplines.

Contact ResearchData@soton.ac.uk for more information on this event.