Secure Research Project

Best practices for social scientists in securing their research

This project is a living document dedicated to providing researchers with information on the best possible tools, techniques, and methods for handling and securing sensitive participant data.

Those with experience in performing field work with participants or with experience in security practices are urged to contribute.

Here are the current focus areas:

• Planning
• Communications
• Preparation
• Conduct
• Analysis
• Publishing

Each SRP guide should be read in its entirety. All parts of this project are open for editing and restructuring. If changes or additions need to be made, contribute your inputs through GitHub by creating an issue or a pull request.

References for tools and other resources can be found here.

The Markdown style guide for GitHub is here.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.