Authors
Lucy Clague
Publication date
2021/9/22
Publisher
Sheffield Hallam University
Description
From safeguarding and confidentiality to GDPR and online methods: considerations for
Researchers during the pandemic and beyond Page 1 Lucy Clague April 2021 From
safeguarding and confidentiality to GDPR and online methods: considerations for
Researchers during the pandemic and beyond Lucy Clague, Research Fellow, College of
Social Sciences & Arts The world changed for everyone back in March 2020. The transition
to working from home happened overnight, with little time to consider how effectively that
would work in terms of the jobs we do every day. As a mixed methods educational
researcher with a role as an Information Governance Guardian1, I was faced with
immediate concerns around research data - practically, ethically, and also legislatively.
Furthermore, working in the funded contract research world meant that for a while we were
unsure whether our clients would want to carry on with …