Working with Sensitive Data

Are you working with sensitive data? Explore this guide to the ethical and legal considerations surrounding sensitive data for research.

Working with Sensitive Data

Are You Working with Sensitive Data?

Working with sensitive data requires extra care. Often confidential, it can include identifiable personal and health/medical data, Indigenous data, ecological data, and commercial-in-confidence data.

Explore this guide for best-practice advice on accessing, using, publishing and sharing sensitive data ethically.

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Sensitive Data

Best practice for accessing, using and publishing sensitive data.

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Identifiable Data

In the age of big data and triangulation, how do we completely remove identities from…

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Indigenous Data

Optimising the management of sensitive data for community empowerment.

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Publishing Sensitive Data Guide

Read our guide to publishing sensitive research data so you can make clear, lawful, and…

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CARE Principles

Consider applying the CARE principles if your research involves handling, managing and/or analysing Indigenous data.

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Data Sharing for Human Research Ethics Committees

Confidently assess, manage and share sensitive data throughout its lifecycle

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Data Sharing Agreement Development Guidelines

Read our guide to developing a data sharing agreement (DSA), which brings clarity to what…

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Data Sharing Policy Development Guidelines

Read our guide to developing a data sharing policy (DSP), which can be crucial to…

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Experts Discuss Sharing Sensitive and Identifiable Human Data

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Data Linkage Webinar Series with PHRN

Watch a webinar series on the benefits of using linked data in clinical trials research.

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