This webinar series explores data security, ethical considerations, and AI's transformative potential in research. Engage with experts on secure data environments, governance, AI applications, and ethical frameworks.
Outcomes:
- Understand secure data environments
- Implement FAIR data management principles
- Handle personal and sensitive data responsibly
- Explore AI research opportunities and challenges
- Explore AI use in imaging for health and biomedical research
- Evaluate ethical impacts of AI and big data
Open to all researchers, postgraduates, and staff supporting research, in particular those working with sensitive datasets.
Key points
What is being covered? Data security, ethical considerations, and AI's impact on research.
What is the format? 30 minutes of expert-led discussions online, including time for questions.
Who can book? Open to researchers, postgraduates, and professional staff across the University.
Who are the speakers? A mixture of professional services staff and research staff with expertise in secure data environments, governance, AI applications, and ethics.
Schedule & Booking Links
Safe Havens & Data Security
- Kostas Kavoussanos-Kavoussanakis, Group Manager Cloud and Distributed Computing, EPCC
- Pamela Linksted, Information Governance Manager, DataLoch
- 3 March 2026, 12:00-12:30
FAIR principles: as open as possible, as closed as necessary
- Jamie McQueen, Research Data Manager, Institute of Regeneration and Repair
- 10 March 2026, 12:00-12:30
Working safely with personal data
- Rena Gertz, Data Protection Officer, Information Compliance Services
- 17 March 2026, 12:00-12:30
AI in Health and Biomedical Research: Opportunities & Risks
- Catalina Vallejos, Reader, MRC University Unit for Human Genetics
- 24 March 2026, 12:00-12:30
Ethics in the Age of AI and Big Data
- Louise Connelly, Senior Lecturer, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
- 31 March 2026, 12:00-12:30
AI in Imaging for Health and Biomedical Research
- Peter Bankhead, Reader, Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine
- 5 May 2026, 12:00-12:30