Data linkage: Ethical and social concerns (join a waiting list)
Date:
09/07/2015
Organised by:
NCRM and International Journal of Social Research Methods (IJSRM)
Presenter:
Professor Rosalind Edwards, co-director of NCRM and co-editor of IJSRM
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Description:
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The growth of digital information provides social scientists with unprecedented opportunities to access the personal data of citizens globally and, in doing so, to transform our understandings of a range of social issues. Nonetheless, this digital field is fraught with a range of ethical and social concerns.
This one day event will explore the dilemmas that arise between a scholarly concern with social progress and the ethical and social issues that ensue in linkage of data for research purposes (the joining of anonymised or pseudo-anonymised individual records from two or more large administrative or survey datasets). Innovative technologies create new opportunities for knowledge but they also invade privacy and provide new channels for discrimination. The event aims to stimulate informed debate and will be of interest to social scientists, research funders and policy makers.
Programme
09.30 Registration
09.50 Introduction to the event and to the morning. Chair: Malcolm Williams, Professor, Cardiff University
10.00 What is Data Linkage? Peter Elias, Professor, University of Warwick
10.45 Civil Society and Data Linkage Rob Procter, Professor of Social Informatics, University of Warwick
11.30 Coffee/tea break
12.00 Exploring the Social and Ethical Issues in Data Linkage Mandy Chessell, Master Inventor, IBM United Kingdom, Visiting Professor, University of Sheffield; Chair: Christina Hughes, Professor and Pro-VC, University of Warwick
12.45 Lunch
13.50 Introduction to the afternoon Chair: Rosalind Edwards, Professor, University of Southampton
14.00 Civil Liberties and Data Linkage Ian Dunt, Editor, politics.co.uk
14.30 Panel Question Time
Neil Serougi, Independent Researcher
Emma Uprichard, Associate Professor, University of Warwick
Dave Martin, Professor of Geography, University of Southampton
Peter Smith, Professor of Social Statistics, University of Southampton
Rob Procter, Professor of Social Informatics, University of Warwick
15.45 Concluding Overview Patrick Sturgis, Professor of Research Methodology, University of Southampton
16.15 – 17.00 Tea and networking
Cost:
Free
Website and registration:
Region:
Greater London
Keywords:
Data linkage, Confidentiality and Anonymity, Research Ethics
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Data linkage
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