Working with What’s Missing: Ethical Strategies for Incomplete Data

Missing, inaccessible and incomplete data have long shaped the ways researchers frame studies and understand the limits of their work. Join us for a panel discussion where we will explore a number of questions concerning these persistent conditions of missingness:

• What ethical obligations arise when the data we need isn’t available or may never have existed?
• How can researchers responsibly interpret and represent gaps, silences and absences in data?
• When can collaboration with communities help preserve or reimagine data that is at risk of disappearing?

Together, we’ll consider how the research community can adapt its practices to work ethically and creatively with what’s missing.

This event will be held online and is open to the public.

This event is presented in partnership with the Center for Ethics and Human Values’ CARE Program.