Managing and publishing sensitive data in the Social Sciences: 29 Mar 2017 featured: 1) Dr Steve McEachern (Director, Aust Data Archive) Steve will discuss how the Australian Data Archive manages and publishes sensitive social science data More about ADA: -- The Australian Data Archive (ADA) provides a national service for the collection and preservation of digital research data and to make these data available for secondary analysis by academic researchers and other users. -- The ADA is comprised of seven sub-archives - Social Science, HIstorical, Indigenous, Longitudinal, Qualitative, Crime & Justice and International. -- ADA data is free of charge to all users -- The archive is managed by the ADA central office based in the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods at the Australian National University (ANU). 2) Prof George Alter, (Research Professor, ICPSR and Visiting Professor, ANU) George will share the benefit of over 50 years of experience in managing sensitive social science data in the ICPSR More about ICPSR: -- ICPSR (USA) maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. -- ICPSR collaborates with a number of funders, including U.S. statistical agencies and foundations, to create thematic collections