Data and Ethics

Data and Ethics

Sensitive topics: ask your partner what the local risk is, because you will not see it

A topic that is routine in one country can carry real professional or personal risk in another.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Data and Ethics

Community consent: individual signatures do not substitute for collective agreement

In many settings the research is only genuinely consented to when the community, not only the individual, has agreed.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Data and Ethics

Datasets and code as outputs: the fastest way to give partners something that counts

A published dataset with its own authorship is a citable output that does not compete with anyone's paper.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Data and Ethics

Reporting findings: the framing you choose describes a place, not only a dataset

How results from a particular setting are written up affects how that setting is understood for years.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Data and Ethics

Sharing data across borders: decide who is the custodian before the first file moves

Data sharing disputes are almost never about the data. They are about who was assumed to be in charge of it.

19/08/2026 4 min read

Data and Ethics

Ethics and data: approval in your country does not transfer, and neither do your assumptions

Two ethics systems can both be rigorous and still require entirely different things of you.

19/08/2026 4 min read