ECR Spotlight on Legal Issues in Research

ECR Network session for early career researchers in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business
ECR FoAHB event
Image credit: Deepdale Duck, courtesy Núria Bonet; 2023 Rae, Collage made from Two Portraits of Soldiers both by Leopoldo Savignac 1940s

  • The Foulston Room, The Box, Tavistock Place, Plymouth PL4 8AX

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Conducting research involving people and their data can raise legal concerns that become evident when the research is underway. How does the researcher deal with this?
In this session two early career researchers, Inés Rae and Dr Núria Bonet , each give a presentation about their research and share the legal issues that arose within these projects. These ‘case studies’ will then be discussed with Emma Wainman and Matthew Shield of the University Legal Team. 
The session will be chaired by Dr Kayla Parker , Co-ordinator, ECR Network for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business.
This event is aimed at all academic and research staff in the faculty who identify as an early career researcher, plus all late-stage PhD students as 'ECRs in transition'. 
Please reserve your place via Eventbrite before Thursday 7 November so refreshments can be booked with The Box.

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Please kayla.parker@plymouth.ac.uk for any queries.
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Dr Núria Bonet, Lecturer in Music

Núria uses her piece Free the Deepdale Duck (2013) as a starting point to think about legal issues surrounding the creation and dissemination of music. As the piece uses numerous recordings made in English Football League stadiums, the use of the sounds is regulated by their ticketing terms and conditions which prohibit the sharing of media taken inside stadiums.
This will open the discussion around the many legal frameworks concerning the publishing, recording and disseminating of music, from the first printed music score in 1476 to Ed Sheeran's recent copyright trial.
Núria was awarded a British Academy ECR grant in 2022 for a project in which she commissioned ten composers to create music to be performed in breweries. 
Núria will talk around legal implications of the use of audio/music recordings and samples – this raises issues round intellectual Ppoperty (IP) and copyright, in addition to recording rights, performance rights, adaptation rights, and so on.

Inés Rae, Lecturer in Creative Media

Inés’ research is a modern pilgrimage to Spain in search of her grandfather, the photographer Leopoldo Savignac Battistini, and his link to Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. Her research journey incorporates conversations with others to explore ideas of place and home and reflect on trauma, loss, and grief – these include accounts from 2nd and 3rd generation members of the post-Franco regime (after 1975), collecting stories around historical memory in Spain and specifically the Basque Country.
In her presentation, Oral histories and Historical Memory, Inés will focus on how far oral history recordings of individuals might be politically interesting to the Spanish government – could the information shared by her research participants be of interest to the authorities, both in terms of individual legal standing, but also if it is related to separatist movements?
Inés is an artist, writer, lecturer and curator. She studied at The Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Leeds. Solo and collaborative works have been exhibited at ICA, London, ImagoLucis, Porto, Cornerhouse, Manchester; Impressions, York; Brighton Photo Biennial; and UCA Farnham. Her Arts Council supported photographic project Portrait of a Woman will be shown at Photomuseum, Zarautz, San Sebastian in 2025. Inés is a Lecturer in Creative Media at the University of Plymouth and lives in Cornwall.

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