Interest group
International Secure Data Facility Professionals Network (ISDFPN)
International Secure Data Facility Professionals Network is an international forum jointly run by UKDS and GESIS, designed for Secure Data Facility professionals across countries and from different disciplines (social sciences, health, humanities), fostering international knowledge exchange, collaboration on shared challenges, emerging issues, and sector-specific concerns as well as development of new ideas.
Status: Active
Primary contact: isdfpn@ukdataservice.ac.uk
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ISDFPN is free to join and available to those who are involved in Safe Data Facilities around the world. If you would like to join the Network, offer a talk or request more information, please get in touch.
Community charter
From 2022-2024, Network Meetings have been held bi-annually, and, for inclusivity, online. From 2025, ISDFPN will hold Network Meetings three times a year. There are two presentations at each meeting, exploring issues related to quantitative and qualitative secure data. Future plans include working groups, co-authored journal articles, publications, and conferences.
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Beate Lichtwardt
UK Data Service
Sharon Bolton
UK Data Service
Kristi Winters
GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Group events
ISDFPN events connecting professionals globally to discuss emerging issues, challenges and solutions.
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Group outputs
Key outputs from ISDFPN, fostering international knowledge exchange and advancing secure data facility practices.