The Emerging Applications and Social Statistics Sections are organising a joint Section meeting on 18th June, in Manchester. The meeting will run run 11am-4pm in the Bridgeford St Building of Manchester University, with lunch provided.

In January, the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) organised a meeting on Creating Research Data Policy. Due to interest from members, the RSS sponsored the meeting, and is organising this meeting with NCRM to follow up some further issues.

The meeting will consider the evolving ethics of research using emerging data, from several diferent perspectives. Data types have emerged from administration and linkage processes, as well as genetics. Ethical processes have evolved from legal access and privacy processes to considering public benefit and group stigmatisation. Consent for complex and novel uses presents challenges for alternative methods of public deliberation.

Discussion about ethics such as the Data Manifesto proposed council for data ethics have been dominated by AI and the private sector. This will be an opportunity to consider statistical issues and the role for the RSS in making sure these are heard.