Data is a major challenge for IRI in STEM. Collecting data of diverse individual human beings comes with at least two major challenges. The first one is being in line with the legislation on privacy and data use. This often includes dealing with ethical issues that might arise. The second one is analysing this data in a meaningful way.

In this podcast we meet Dr. Nikolas Dintzer and Dr. Santosh Ilamparuthi, two data stewards of Delft University of Technology. They share their insights on how to collect and analyse (sensitive) data of diverse, sometimes vulnerable, human beings with you and the host, Dr. Claudia Werker. Nikolas and Santosh demonstrate that there is no size fits it all in data collection and analysis. Moreover, they show important and valuable it is to talk to data stewards very early in your research process. In doing so, you can figure out your way towards a compliant, ethical and meaningful data use in your IRI in STEM project.