Data Ownership & Continuous Informed Consent

The archiving and reuse of qualitative data presents difficult consent problems for reusers and the originators of the research. While informed consent may have been achieved in the original research, participants are unable to acquiesce to the reuse of their responses if the research questions of potential reusers are not made clear in the first instance. In debating the issue of consent and data reuse both ethics and law play key roles and directly influence the practice of social science researchers. While the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) outline some of these points on their website the legal and ethical issues outlined next are expanded and take multi-media data as a particular focus.

Next-->