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…
Book Launch: Temporality, Place and Space in Education & Youth Research
Join us for the Launch of a new edited collection, Temporality, Place and Space in Education & Youth Research (Routledge 2023) by Julie McLeod, Kate O’Connor, Nicole Davis and Amy McKernan. When: 2 November 2023, 12:30pmWhere: Rm 713–714, Melbourne Graduate…
New Book from SOCEY Team
Recently, some members of the SOCEY core team released a new edited collection through Routledge in the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) book series Local/Global Issues in Education. Edited by Julie McLeod, Kate O’Connor, Nicole Davis and Amy…
Sydney Workshop: Introduction to Sensitive Data & the Five Safes
In September 2023 we hosted a workshop at University of Melbourne to road test the Sensitive Data and Five Safes training that will be an important part of the CADRE (Coordinated Access for Data, Research and Environments). Engaging with a…
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…
Recent Conference Papers
Since late 2020, the SOCEY team have presented a number of papers at conferences and participated in other seminars and workshops related to the SOCEY program of work. The first was the annual Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE)…
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…
Latest SOCEY News
The last six months have seen much change in our way of working with COVID-19 lockdowns worldwide. Digital technologies and access have become increasingly important and, for those working in the humanities, ability to access digitised archival materials online has…
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…