Home / RatSWD / Cross-cutting topics Cross-cutting topics The RatSWD pursues long-term goals and works on various cross-cutting topics to further improve data access. Research on societal crises Connecting empirical social science research in societal crises: the Corona pandemic and the Russian attack on Ukraine in 2022. Read more Access to research data Improving access to high-quality data for science is an overarching goal of the RatSWD. Read more Research data management Securing and providing research data sustainably Read more Research ethics Recommendations on observing ethical principles in empirical research. Read more Data from qualitative social research Archiving qualitative data and making it available for secondary analysis Read more Data protection Establishing and consolidating data protection standards in the social, educational, behavioural, and economic sciences Read more