[Air-L] Workshop research ethics 29.11. at Utrecht University
Mirko Tobias Schaefer
m.t.schaefer at uu.nl
Mon Nov 14 02:58:18 PST 2016
What:
The Utrecht University's Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) in
cooperation with Utrecht Data School (UDS) is organizing a workshop on
Research Ethics for Data and Digital Methods. The workshop will take
place on 29 th of November 2016 in the Sweelinckzaal from 10a.m - 5p.m.
Why:
New data resources and novel tools for analysis provide opportunities
and challenges for researchers. The use of social media in research
practices, or the disputed Facebook study, the leaked Ashley Madison
data set or the Cablegate database are only few of many example that
pressure researchers to revisit research ethics. In response to the
changing practices for collecting and (re)using data for research, this
workshop will revisit ethical standards for researchers. Speakers from
the field of ethics in general and from the field of data research and
digital humanities in particular will kick-start our discussion on
various ‘ethical minefields’ and how to apply ethical guidelines.
For whom:
You are interested in research ethics, digital methods, digital
humanities and using data, social media or web platforms for your
research, this workshop is for you. If you use any kind of data for your
Ph.D. or post-doctoral research, and if you face questions of research
ethics, you are warmly invited to take part in this workshop.
Participation is free of charge but seats are limited. Please register
through sending a brief motivation of your interest or a brief summary
of the data you use and the immediate ethical questions you have to our
workshop coordinator Aline Franzke: aline at dataschool.nl
Programme
10:00 Doors open, coffee
10:15 Introduction by Nele Heise: “Revisiting research ethics”
10:30 What is a process oriented framework for research? (Nele Heise)
What are the different contexts in which research takes place? What are
the legal frameworks and how to deal with online data? What are the
communication principles that guide academic research? Nele Heise will
present a process oriented, context sensitive approach to research ethics.
11:30 Discussion
12: 00 Lunch
12:45 Group work: Applying the framework to everyday practices
Which ethical problems researcher face? What are the most urgent topics
and themes? Participants form groups according their interest and apply
and discuss the presented framework. For example: One group that is
mostly interested in problems of qualitative/ qualitative research,
reviewing processes.
13:30 Coffee break
13:40 Groups present their results
14:40 Coffee break
14:55 Intervention by Dr. Ingrid Hoofd “How to implement ethical
guidelines?”
Ingrid Hoofd about pitfalls, other concerns and practical experience in
Singapore to implement ethical reflection. Should ethical reflection be
obligatory Does it constitute a culture of surveillance? What does it
mean to be liable as a faculty?
16:00 Discussion: Next steps in revisiting research ethics and informing
policy.
17:00 Drinks
Biographical notes
Aline Franzke is a junior researcher at Utrecht Data School and the
Institute for Cultural Inquiry. She obtained an MA in Applied Ethics at
Utrecht University. Aline investigates data practices in public
management and consults municipalities on data ethics.
Nele Heise is a digital media and communication researcher, working at
the Institut für Journalistik und Kommunikationswissenschaften at the
university of Hamburg. Nele is involved in developing online research
ethics conferences and guidelines. Her Ph.D. project sheds light on the
technological and social conditions of media participation in the
digital age. Besides her academic endeavour, Nele is active in
communicating media research to a broader public audience via blogs,
radio and television.
Dr. Ingrid Hoofd is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media
and Culture. Her research revolves around issues of representation,
feminist and critical theories, philosophy of technology, and
information ethics. She is the author of Ambiguities of Activism:
Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed. Her research generally
analyses the ways in which alter-globalist activists, as well as
left-wing academics, mobilize what she calls ‘speed-elitist’ discourses
and divisions in an attempt to overcome gendered, raced, and classed
oppressions worldwide.
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