Stage 1. Fill in data processing description.
Stage 2. Inform your research participants/informants/respondents/subjects about data collection.
Stage 3. Store and back up data securely during research in data storage services provided and maintained by Arcada (see Data storage, backup and transferal).
Stage 4. Erase all data no later than 12 months after you have submitted your thesis.
- Researchers can follow the research data management flowchart to complete various RDM tasks:
- Or follow the 5 data management stages described below during their research planning, active research and results sharing phases:
Stage 1. Write and continuously update a data management plan (DMP).
Stage 2. Ethical review
For medical research involving human subjects, the researcher must request an ethical review from the regional medical ethics committee. Ethical review must be requested if the research is covered by the scope of the Medical Research Act, which means that the research must meet the following three conditions:
Ethical review within the human sciences is not regulated by law, but is based on the guidelines drawn up by the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity, which Arcada has committed itself to following: The ethical principles of research with human participants and ethical review in the human sciences in Finland. Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK guidelines 2019 (PDF).
A researcher within the human sciences has to make an ethical review request if:
For more information about ethical reviews in the human sciences, see the instructions above.
Arcada is a member of The Human Sciences Ethics Committee of the Helsinki Region Universities of Applied Sciences. The committee is in charge of carrying out ethical reviews of human science research at post-Bachelor’s degree level. At the Bachelor’s level, the supervisor is responsible for ensuring that students consider ethical guidelines when conducting research for their thesis. More information about the committee can be found on Metropolia’s website. Learn more about ethical review here.
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Stage 3. You need to ask for consent from research participants if you collect personal data from them or if the personal data are received from a source other than the research participants. See Collecting personal data in the section Data collection and organizing.
Stage 4. Organize data, store, back up, and transfer data securely during research.
Stage 5. Describe and publish the metadata of your data. It is recommended to use Fairdata Qvain metadata tool offered by the Ministry of Education and maintained by CSC. See Metadata and data documentation.
Research data are to be archived and opened in national or international repositories when possible. See Data publishing and preservation.
Define an appropriate access type (open, embargoed or restricted) to research data based on the feature of the data, your research process, need for the protection of trade secrets and other confidential data, and intellectual property agreements, as well as funders’ and publishers’ requirements.
Data with personal information can only be opened anonymized. Read more about how to anonymize data on Anonymisation and Personal Data by Finnish Social Science Data Archive (FSD).