Research is dependent on findable, accessible, and well-documented data. And yet there continue to be fundamental challenges in data access equity across disciplines, borders, and even teams. Research data needed for local and regional decision-making can be difficult to find, understand, or lacking altogether. Dr. Sabina Leonelli and Dr. Louise Bezuidenhout will share an overview of their around these challenges and recommend areas where societies can bring awareness and support improvements.

Speakers:

• Sabina Leonelli, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter (bio)
• Louise Bezuidenhout, Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society, University of Oxford (bio)

This series is supported and guided by these collaborating societies and federations:

• AAAS/Science
• American Astronomical Society
• American Chemical Society
• American Geophysical Union 
• American Meteorological Society, Board on Data Stewardship
• British Ecological Society
• Council of Scientific Society Presidents
• Ecological Society of America
• Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
• Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry