Accessing Sensitive Datasets: Workshop for Qualitative Researchers

Are you a social science researcher interested in accessing or sharing sensitive qualitative datasets and helping shape research ethics training and access to research data for academics, HDR students and other researchers? SOCEY is currently working on the multi-institutional national…

Funding & Support for Digital Archiving of Qualitative Datasets in Education, Youth & Childhood Studies

Do you want to securely preserve and potentially share your qualitative data with fellow researchers? We are currently recruiting more projects for the SOCEY Repository, which offers secure archiving and sharing of qualitative research data. Hosted by the Australian Data…

CADRE

The SOCEY team of Julie McLeod, Kate O’Connor and Nicole Davis, along with ten partner organisations from across the government, non-government and higher education sectors, is part of a new project. CADRE (Coordinated Access for Data, Research and Environments): A…

Doing Research Differently: Introducing the Discussion Paper

Internationally there is growing enthusiasm and expectations for researchers to make their research data openly available for use by other scholars and interested parties, including the wider public. Funding organisations are increasingly introducing requirements for the publication of datasets and…

Workshop: Engaging with Qualitative Data in Studies of Childhood, Education and Youth

On 20 September 2019, we hosted a workshop with members from the community, government and non-government sectors on Engaging with Qualitative Data in Studies of Childhood, Education and Youth. The workshop explored how collections of qualitative research data from studies…

Archiving qualitative research projects in the sociology of education and youth – Call for proposals

An important challenge for qualitative research on education, childhood and youth is how to build on and aggregate insights from individual studies, and related to this, how to maximize the value of the rich and in-depth sources that are created…

Data sharing and the challenges facing educational researchers

The way educational researchers share their research is changing. Across the world, interest is growing in encouraging researchers to make their research data openly available for use by other scholars or interested parties. Julie McLeod, Kate O’Connor and Nicole Davis.…