Conference session

This workshop focuses on changing understandings of data management responsibilities of researchers to the community members/study participants with whom they are working. Workshop leaders will ground the session in their work to ensure research they have conducted collaboratively is owned, controlled by, and accessible to community members. A series of questions foregrounds the group activity: How do we, as social scientists and humanists, uphold Indigenous data sovereignty principles such as OCAP® and CARE? How do we apply these principles, from project ideation to post-research management and use of research findings? How might a data sovereignty plan transform research planning and funding proposals? What is the researcher’s role in knowledge translation? How are we reconsidering colonial copyright and intellectual property laws which can act as barriers to data access for Indigenous research partners? What are the implications of these questions for research participants in other contexts? What, in other words, are we actively doing to critically transform a historically “extractive” industry (Kovach 2021)? We ask an even more fundamental question: What role does time play in building the relationships necessary to positive data management?The outcome of the workshop will lead to deepening and broadening our understandings of responsible data management. Beyond what each participant will take away from the problems posed and ensuing discussions, a shared, cross-disciplinary statement will be developed.