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Your research is affected by laws and regulations when it comes to public access and confidentiality, copyright, purchase of products and services and personal data management and more.
On this page, we have gathered information, advice and guidelines that researchers need to be aware of and consider in order to fulfill the legal requirements on their research projects.
Contact the Legal Affairs Office if you have questions regarding legal aspects of your research.
Contact the Legal Affairs Office on universitetsjurist@umu.se
Contact the data protection officers with questions regarding personal data management
pulo@umu.se
Contract review form
Ethics in research
Public access and confidentiality
Purchase of products and services
Copyright in scientific publication
Legal framework at Umeå University
The checklist provides an overview of the rules you need to consider during your research process.
As a researcher, you have the burden of responsibility to conduct research properly.
Before starting a research project that requires processing of personal data, you must report this to the University Data Protection Officer.
Research projects frequently require certain agreements to be drawn up, such as those regulating funding, project implementation and distribution of responsibilities between the participating collaborators. They could also cover personal data processing and other aspects. Learn more about such agreements on this page.
When you are going to process personal data in a research project, you need to make an assessment in the initial planning phase.
A guide for researchers at Umeå University on what considerations need to be taken when sharing research data with collaborators in research projects.
Umeå University is supportive of researchers wanting to commercialise findings from their research. Assistance is available for this process.
