FORS-DaSCH webinar on Informed consent and its implications for data sharing, anonymisation, and ethical research practices in the SSH

Webinar announcement

We are happy to announce the next online webinar of the FORS-DaSCH series about Data Management for the Social Sciences and Humanities:

Topic: Informed consent and its implications for data sharing, anonymisation, and ethical research practices in the social sciences and humanities

Date: December 11, 2025

Time: 2:00-3:30PM

Speakers: Noémi Villars-Amberg (DaSCH) & Alexandra Stam (FORS)

Registration: To attend, register here

Content

The webinar will start by defining informed consent, its significance, and its scope of application in both the social sciences and humanities. It then delves into its contents, be it for collecting personal research data or sharing the data through a research repository. The webinar will then outline the five essential criteria that must be met to ensure its validity: consent must be specific, freely given, informed, explicit, and dynamic.

The second part of the webinar will focus on concrete case studies. Alexandra Stam will highlight common considerations and challenges in the social sciences when obtaining informed consent, while Noémi Villars-Amberg will address data reuse in the humanities, emphasizing how to ensure that initial consent remains valid in this context.

The webinar concludes with a discussion on the topic.

The webinar series

The webinars are free of charge and are specifically designed for researchers in the humanities and social sciences who collect and/or process research data in the Swiss context.

Discover all previous webinars here.