CESSDA – Stories about Data

The CESSDA podcast series explores the important world of data archiving and sharing and our researchers across disciplines and countries are benefitting from the CESSDA Data Catalogue.

This podcast focuses on cross-disciplinary research on the COVID-19 pandemic as the crisis evolves over time with the insights from Sylvia Kritzinger, Professor of Methods in the Social Sciences at the Department of Government of the University of Vienna. As one of the principal investigators of the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES) and the Austrian Corona Panel Project (ACPP), Prof. Kritzinger explains the fundamental importance of the work being done to track the multi-faceted societal and economic impacts of the coronavirus, underscoring the wider benefits of sharing data, such as making recommendations for policy stakeholders, increasing awareness among citizens and enabling students to re-use the data for their own research. Overall, this demonstrates the added value of trusted repositories like CESSDA in the fascinating field of social sciences and its intersection with many other disciplines as we seek to tackle the grand challenges of our time.

The CESSDA podcast series shines the spotlight on how data providers and researchers are benefitting from data curation and sharing across a broad range of topics in the social sciences and beyond.

This podcast zooms in on how the CESSDA Data Catalogue is shaping research on migration and minorities from both a data provider and user perspective with insights from Dr Dimitra Kondyli, Senior Researcher at the National Centre for Social Research in Greece and Ami Saji, junior researcher at the Centre of European and Comparative Politics at SciencePo in France. They explain how truly valuable research is enabled by CESSDA and national repositories across Europe as certified and trusted data sources. The CESSDA Data Catalogue has over 3000 datasets on migration and minorities, searchable and documented in 14 European languages with rich metadata that facilitates cross-disciplinary research all from a single access point. The Data Catalogue thus ensures that quality data is more accessible and usable by a wide range of users, academic, non-academic, policy makers, not just in Europe but all over the world.