Data Protection, Rights and Access

Course Objectives

This course introduces the issues involved in data protection, rights and access. After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the concepts of privacy and confidentiality and how they apply to the management of research data.
• Be aware of ethical requirements that apply to the collection and management of data involving human subjects.
• Know what Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are and how they apply to research data.
  
• Know how Freedom of Information (FoI) and related legislation affects legitimate access to data.
  

Research Data MANTRA [online course, https://mantra.edina.ac.uk/] by the Research Data Service, University of Edinburgh is licensed under a
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