UC Love Data Week
| Date and Time: | Monday, February 13-Friday, February 17, 2023 |
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Guest Speakers: |
Experts from across the University of California system. |
UC Love Data Week is a week-long offering of presentations and workshops focused on data access, management, security, sharing, and preservation. Whether you're working on qualitative or quantitative data, we've got events for you! All members of the University of California community are welcome to attend. Make sure to register with your UC-campus email.
Previous Research Data Brown Bag Events
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) implemented a new Data Management and Sharing Policy on January 25, 2023, representing the agency's continued commitment to share and make broadly available the results of publicly funded biomedical research.
Attend a Berkeley Library drop-in workshop this fall for guidance on adapting to the new NIH Data Management and Sharing policy.
Learn more through the following webinars.
- A conversation with NIH on understanding the new policy, webinar recording and resource slide deck.
- Diving Deeper into the New NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy, September 22, 10:30am PT.
How the UC Research Data Policy Supports the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
| Date and Time: | Friday, October 6, 2022, 12pm |
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Guest Speaker: |
Agnes Balla, Research Policy Manager, Research Policy Analysis and Coordination (RPAC), UC Office of the President Research Policy Analysis and Coordination (RPAC) | UC Office of the President |
Research data are the currency of the intellectual capital that advance the research enterprise. The value of research data in advancing academic scholarship is increasingly apparent. Many research funders support making research results openly available to stimulate further research, innovation and discovery, and impose obligations on award recipients to maintain and share results of the funding. For example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) expect grantees to submit data management plans for making information available to others.
Both investigators and research institutions have rights and responsibilities with respect to research data. Come learn about the UC Research Data Policy, and how this policy supports the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy.
Agnes Balla is a Research Policy Manager within the Research Policy Analysis and Coordination (RPAC) unit of UC Office of the President. In her current position, she works collaboratively with others across multiple content areas to develop written guidance translating complex regulatory requirements into practical operational terms, particularly on topics related to human subjects research, data access and management, and cannabis research. She has written systemwide guidance documents and produced resources pertaining to the Common Rule, the NIH single IRB mandate, the NIH management data sharing policy, safeguarding information protected by federal Certificates of Confidentiality placed in the medical record, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, cannabis research requirements, and California state laws on surrogate consent and prisoner research, among others. Prior to this role, Agnes worked for the Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where she developed recommendations for the integration of mental health and substance use disorder services into combined behavioral health services. Agnes received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Public Health and her Master of Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University.
Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Industry Alliance Office and Sponsored Projects Office.
Introducing the Secure Research Data and Compute (SRDC) Platform
| Date and Time: | Friday, November 13, 2020, 12pm |
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Guest Speakers: |
Chris Hoffman, Associate Director of Research IT |
In this presentation and discussion, we will describe the SRDC Platform, a new research computing and data management platform for researchers working with highly sensitive data, that brings together high performance computing (HPC), virtual machines, and large data storage and movement. Research IT consultants work with researchers to help determine the security that is required for their research data and project, and can help steer researchers to the appropriate systems and resources, including the SRDC Platform.
Data and Privacy: FERPA and Recruiting Research Subjects
| Date and Time: | Friday, November 6, 2020, 12pm |
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Guest Speakers: |
Scott Seaborn, Interim Campus Privacy Officer |
As researchers in higher education look to capitalize on the vast treasure trove of student data held by universities, it is important to pause and consider the implications of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) on student data sets. In some ways, FERPA is more restrictive than other privacy laws such as HIPAA, and in other ways it is less restrictive. Campus Privacy Officer, Scott Seaborn, will discuss the implications of FERPA on research in higher education and provide some tools to help researchers ensure that their studies comply with FERPA.
How do I Purchase Data, and What is Appendix DS?
| Date and Time: | Friday, October 30, 2020, 12pm |
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Guest Speakers: |
Mike Murphy, Procurement Manager |
For those that purchase sensitive data or may share institutional information with third-party suppliers, this discussion will provide a better understanding of how and when to incorporate the UC Appendix Data Security (PDF) terms and conditions into purchasing agreements/purchase orders with suppliers.
Protecting Your Human Subjects Data
| Date and Time: | Friday, October 23, 2020, 12pm |
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Adrienne Tanner, Asst. Director, Office for Protection of Human Subjects Colleen Kohashi, Institutional Review Board Analyst/Administrator, Committee for Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS-2) Office for the Protection of Human Subjects | Compliance Services |
People who volunteer to participate as subjects in research do so with the understanding that the researcher(s) will protect their identity and the information obtained about them from inadvertent or inappropriate disclosure. All human subject research protocols must have in place an acceptable and documented procedure for the protection of identifiable and/or confidential information before the protocol will be approved. Assistant Director Adrienne Tanner and IRB Administrator Colleen Kohashi from the Office for Protection of Human Subjects will speak about general data security requirements and IRB review. Q&A to follow the presentation.