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Target Audience: Anyone involved in social sciences research

This is a live, online event. 

RI&C Week: Making your data open access in social sciences: Opportunities and challenges for qualitative and quantitative datasets 

In this session, we will first give an overview of the benefits of sharing research data at the completion of a research project.  

Marie Henderson (Data Management Specialist, RKES) will explain the steps in putting together a Data Management Plan and tools available to researchers to prepare these.  

Prof Benedict Jones (Department of Psychological Sciences and Health) will present an open data case study (see Jones et al., 2021, in Nature Human Behaviour). This quantitative study is an example of a large-scale ‘team science’ research project that was published using the Registered Report model and that used open-access materials to generate a large open-access dataset that has already been used by many other research groups.  

Prof Daniela Sime (Department of Social Work & Social Policy and Vice-Dean (Research) in HaSS) will share her example of preparing a large dataset for depositing in the UK Data Archive for a study that used a survey and qualitative research with children and young people. You can view or access the dataset at: https://reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/854232/ 

The session will address the benefits of open data, Registered Reports, and preprints and provide tips on how to make open-access data more straightforward for other researchers to use for secondary data analyses.  

Course Outcomes/Objectives

• To promote the benefits of data sharing in social sciences; 
•  To make clear the steps in providing a data management plan and implementing   this; 
•  To show ‘hands on’ examples of projects with available datasets; 
•  To provide opportunities for discussion on the challenges and opportunities provided by an open research agenda; 
• To discuss ethical issues relevant to data sharing in social sciences.  

Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring our events and courses are accessible to all staff: 

• The session will take place on Zoom  
• Auto-captions will be enabled  
• There will be optional audience participation  
• You can keep your camera off  
• You are asked to attend the whole session  
• There will be a short break at 11 am 
• The session is relaxed – this means you can stretch, move around, stim etc.  
• Digital copies of resources will be emailed to participants in advance upon request 
• Please contact osdu-equity@strath.ac.uk to discuss any further access requirements

Related Materials and Useful Links

Research Data Management guidance: https://www.strath.ac.uk/research/researchdatamanagementsharing/datamanagementplans/ 

UK Data Archive- see section on ‘Managing Data’ and ‘Deposit’: https://www.data-archive.ac.uk/

Prerequisites