2025-05-20 –, Jeanne Roos
BA and MA students need better support and facilities to process sensitive data safely and effectively. This session discusses the cycle of data handling students are stuck in to and how data professionals can assist in this issue. We'll explore the steps needed to ensure the next generation of students can processes sensitive data according to judicial, ethical, and open science standards.
Supporting researchers in storing and archiving their sensitive research data is daily business for data support professionals at universities. So how come that the same type of data collected by BA and MA students can’t be guaranteed the same type of support and makes data professionals wring their hands in frustration?
Based on reoccurring questions at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and multiple respondents from universities across the Netherlands, this Birds of a Feather aims to discuss the cycle in which the issue of sensitive data collected by students gets stuck and how to break out of it. What are some good practices in accommodating data safety and Open Science principles to students, so the next generation of researchers will be prepared in handling sensitive data according to judicial, ethical, and open science standards by default.
In short this Birds of a Feather aims to
- Open up the issue of handling sensitive data collected by students
- Collect a series of good practices and tools which can assist in storing and archiving sensitive data collected by students
- Discuss what changes (in policy) are needed to provide guidance to BA and MA students in collecting data
- Find support in putting this issue on the national agenda
Tycho Hofstra is the community manager of Network Research Data Support at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He also provides workshops and training on data management, writing data management plans and open science.
Research Data Specialist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam