Home / About / RatSWD / Working groups Working groups Working groups of the current appointment period as well as concluded working groups from past appointment periods Status Active Concluded Appointment Period 7th Appointment Period (2020–2023) 6th Appointment Period (2017-2020) 5th Appointment Period (2014–2017) 3rd and 4th Appointment Periods Task Force Law Scientific use and linking of register data Connecting empirical social science research in societal crises Challenges in the scientific collection and use of unstructured data RDM Services for smaller research projects: Guide to cultural change Research ethics in the social, behavioural, educational, and economic sciences Further development of crime statistics and legal data Archiving and access to qualitative data Common guidelines in research data centres Improving access to existing data at research data centres Skills development in research data centres (RDCs) Data access / fee regulation Show all